Is Jeff Bezos Gearing Up for a Presidential Run?! | 5/21/26

Summary

The Glenn Beck Program

Episode: Is Jeff Bezos Gearing Up for a Presidential Run?!
Date: May 21, 2026
Hosts: Pat Gray & Jeffy (filling in for Glenn Beck)
Podcast Theme: In-depth discussion and commentary on American politics, culture, and current events—marked by a witty, candid, and conversational style.

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Episode Overview

On this episode, Pat Gray and Jeffy step in for Glenn Beck, bringing their signature humor and directness to the latest political developments, cultural flashpoints, and technological upheavals. They explore Trump’s latest comments on Iran, soaring gas prices, a polling dip in Trump’s approval, the viral LA mayoral race, tech layoffs at Meta, immigration, religious pluralism in Texas, and, most notably, Jeff Bezos’ striking commentary on taxes, education, and the U.S. economy. The episode moves briskly through national issues, vivid anecdotes, and viral campaign ads—capturing the fusion of entertainment and analysis that defines the program.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Trump on Iran & Foreign Affairs

[02:49–09:53]

• Trump’s indecision about Iran (“Maybe. Maybe it might be over.” – Gray, 02:49–2:55).

• Frustration with the waiting game: Pat and Glenn critique the administration’s waffling, suspecting Iran is emboldened by repeated U.S. threats that are not followed through.

• Quote:

  “We’ve threatened them so many times and then not backed it up. Maybe they’re not believing that anything’s going to happen.”
  — Glenn Beck, 05:03

• Discussion about Iran’s military capability and the practical difficulties of eliminating mobile missile launchers.

• Concern for civilian casualties; Trump’s preference to avoid targeting civilian infrastructure (“Bless his heart for that. I mean, I’m glad that he cares about human life.”—Glenn Beck, 07:37).

Ukraine–Russia War:

• Citing CIA casualty estimates: 1.2–1.3 million Russians dead/wounded/missing; 500,000 Ukrainians (08:12–08:31).
• The hosts highlight the staggering human cost comparing it to both World Wars.

2. Trump’s Economic Promises and Israel Connection

[09:13–12:15]

• Trump boasts of economic improvements: influx of international car plants, $18 trillion in spending.
• Playful exchange about Trump’s claim to be the “greatest president who ever lived” (09:53–10:08).
• Trump jokes about running for Prime Minister of Israel, citing a self-reported 99% approval rating among Israelis (10:35–10:54).

3. Texas Senate Race and Political Satire

[11:39–15:57]

• Trump’s endorsement of Ken Paxton and criticism of Democratic candidate James Talarico—deriding him as unelectable in Texas for being a vegan and for his progressive stances.
• Pat and Glenn lampoon “Beto” O’Rourke’s previous Senate run and the so-called impossibility of progressive wins in Texas.

4. Trump’s Approval Ratings & Gas Prices

[17:53–21:49]

• Discussion of recent polling: Trump’s approval now at 39%; Republican approval down to 60%.
• Economic pain points: High inflation and gas prices eroding support.
• Trump’s own assertion of past lower gas prices is critiqued as “too flippant” for the public mood.

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5. The Fat Five: Culture & Tech Hot Topics

[23:27–34:41]
Jeffy’s quickfire roundup of oddities, news, and trends:

• Motor oil shortage: Predicted due to Iran war (23:27–23:45).
• Minnesota bans prediction markets: Felony for hosting/advertising them. Federal lawsuit ensues; worries about the spread of such bans (24:02–25:47).
• Meta’s AI Layoffs: 8,000 jobs cut; morale plummets; some employees wish to be laid off for severance—“I tend to cry in the shower” (27:03). Meta tracks staff to train AI, sparking privacy uproar (28:07–29:35).
• Starbucks Korea Controversy: CEO fired for insensitive marketing campaign tied to a massacre’s anniversary (30:06).
• Colossal Biosciences “de-extinction”: Hatch chicks from artificial eggshells, with hopes of reviving extinct species (31:39–33:20).
• Jackson Pollock Painting Sells for $181M: Hosts debate modern art’s value/historical context, linking it to Communist goals of degrading American artistic expression (33:45–35:40).

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6. Innovative Campaigning: Spencer Pratt’s Viral LA Mayoral Run

[41:59–53:01]

• Spencer Pratt, reality TV star, surges in the LA mayoral race via viral, AI-generated campaign ads.
• Highlights the “everything is awful” Lego-style parody ad, lampooning incumbent Karen Bass and urban decay (Legos segment: 44:46–47:51).
• “I think this guy has changed the way campaigns will run from now on.” — Glenn Beck, 48:36
• Pat and Glenn riff on LA’s issues (homelessness, filth, encampments) and the creative, meme-driven campaign—suggesting Pratt’s approach could reshape political advertising nationally.

Notable Quote:

“Everything gets better when you fight for the seat. Spencer Pratt is rising—he’s going to save LA’s dreams.”
— Spencer Pratt campaign ad, 47:53

• Pratt’s “not that I’m MAGA” ad lampoons the stigma of voting non-progressive in LA (49:00–51:23).

7. Karen Bass’s Record on Homelessness & Urban Crisis

[53:25–57:26]

• Bass’s 60 Minutes appearance; she admits not delivering on the promise to end street homelessness by 2026.
• Offers excuses about “unexpected bureaucratic barriers”—hosts scoff at her assurances a turnaround is imminent.

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8. National & Economic Issues: New York and Taxation

[59:45–76:44]

• NY mayor (Xaron Momdani) backtracks after targeting billionaire Ken Griffin with “creepy and weird” penthouse tax proposals, prompting Griffin to threaten taking his $6B project elsewhere.
• Discussion on the danger of chasing out the wealthy, the vital role of New York City to the nation/world.

9. Jeff Bezos Goes Public: Schools, Taxes, and Capitalism

[67:35–76:44]

• Bezos on NYC Schools: Spending $44K per student with no better outcomes.

  • Quote:

    "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their schools, your packages would take six weeks to arrive...and have the wrong item anyway."
    — Jeff Bezos, 68:13

• Bezos on Tax Fairness: Nurses paying too much in taxes; the bottom half of earners cover just 3% of total taxes.

  • Quote:

    "We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology."
    — Jeff Bezos, 69:57

• Capitalism Myths: Debunks “fixed pie” fallacy; explains investing and wealth are not zero-sum; supports meritocracy.

  • Quote:

    "You can’t hoard investment...investment is more like farming. And you would definitely want to farm in a famine."
    — Jeff Bezos, 71:46

• Bezos on Government & High Prices:

  • “Why is rent expensive? Not Airbnb—government intervention.”
  • Argues zoning laws and constraints are raising prices, not market dynamics or profiteers.

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10. Debates on Religious Pluralism & Immigration: Texas Mosques

[105:09–117:29]

• Discussion of Epic City and other Muslim-centric communities in Texas.
• Frisco, TX, council hears public comment:
  • Joel Timmy (claims descent from Texas icons) rails against new mosque proposals, arguing they conflict with "what it means to be an American."
• Hosts express skepticism over his genealogy claims but affirm his concerns about changing Texas culture and assimilation.
• Jake Lang: Cites 330+ mosques in Texas; questions the scale of religious pluralism.

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11. Capstone Political Showdowns

[82:48–94:05]

• Ted Cruz vs. Mazie Hirono:
  • Cruz’s forceful Senate testimony itemizes the racist, discriminatory history of the Democratic Party—poll taxes, KKK, Jim Crow, and more (84:49–91:21).
  • Hirono responds with appeals to emotion, avoids addressing Cruz’s historical points, insists on not being “lectured.”
  • Pat & Glenn praise Cruz’s performance as a “beatdown,” underscoring persistent myths in party histories.
    • Quote:

      "Just take the beating and leave it alone. But she can't."
      – Pat Gray, 93:39

12. Rand Paul’s Quest for Fauci Accountability

[94:05–98:48]

• Paul details how CIA scientists favored the lab-leak theory for COVID-19 but were overruled by Fauci, whom he dubs dangerously influential.
• Asserts the “convergence of interests” led to widespread cover-up, not a literal conspiracy.

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13. Quick Hits & Lighter Segments

The Fat Five: Meta layoffs, Jackson Pollock’s art, “most reputable companies” poll, privacy concerns, Starbucks Korea’s PR disaster, 3D-printed eggshell chicks.

Closing Banter:

• Satirical talk about U.S. expansion, absorbing Cuba, Mexico, and Canada for national security.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• “We’ve threatened them so many times…” (Glenn Beck, 05:03)
• "Iran is a defeated nation. We’re dealing with some people...with talent, with good brain power..." (Donald Trump, 03:43)
• “Bless his heart for that. I mean, I’m glad that he cares about human life.” (Glenn Beck, 07:37)
• "We need to end the failed policies of the past..." (Karen Bass, 56:54)
• “If we ran Amazon like New York City schools, your package would take six weeks to arrive...” (Jeff Bezos, 68:13)
• “You can’t hoard investment...investment is more like farming.” (Bezos, 71:46)
• “Everything gets better when you fight for the seat. Spencer Pratt is rising...” (Spencer Pratt campaign ad, 47:53)
• “The Democrats, for their entire history...have been a party based on racial discrimination.” (Ted Cruz, 86:48)
• “You can bake your own pie.” (Glenn Beck, 74:20)

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Notable, Memorable Moments

• The satirical breakdown of LA’s decay and Spencer Pratt’s meme-driven campaign ads (44:46–48:47).
• Pat Gray’s mock horror at seeing Beto bumper stickers during the 2018 Senate race.
• Ted Cruz’s extensive, fact-heavy rebuke of Democratic Party history and gerrymandering (84:49–91:21).
• Jeff Bezos’ unexpected populist stance—calling for lower taxes on middle class workers—notably nurses in Queens.
• The extended family lore (and skepticism) around Joel Timmy’s claims of being descended from both Sam Houston and Davy Crockett.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Trump on Iran/Iranian military: 02:49–09:53
• Trump Israel approval/jokes: 10:35–10:54
• Texas Senate race vegan controversy: 11:39–15:57
• Oil/metals/Meta layoffs (The Fat Five): 23:27–34:41
• Meta’s AI surveillance: 28:07–29:35
• Spencer Pratt’s “Everything is Awful” ad: 44:46–47:51
• Karen Bass 60 Minutes/Homelessness: 53:25–57:26
• Jeff Bezos on NYC schools, taxes, and economics: 67:35–76:44
• Ted Cruz Senate testimony: 84:49–91:21
• Joel Timmy’s family claims/public comment on mosques: 107:50–113:44

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Summary Conclusion

This episode crackles with political energy, irreverent humor, and substantial policy debate. With the throughline of Jeff Bezos’ public statements sparking talk of a possible presidential run, the discussion threads through Iran, tech layoffs and AI, the LA mayoral circus, Texas demographics, the intractability of homelessness, and long-standing arguments about American values and economic fairness. Featuring viral moments, pointed Senate exchanges, and media-savvy satire, the episode is essential listening (or reading) for those seeking timely, incisive, and entertaining analysis of U.S. culture and politics at mid-decade.

Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

Save the game.

[Pat Gray]

The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.

[Glenn Beck]

Glenn Beck is on. This is Pat and Jeffy. For Glenn this week, 88727. Beck, great to have you with us. Thanks for being here. President Trump talked about the latest on Iran. Talked about quite a few things yesterday. Talked about maybe becoming the prime minister of Israel as well. Get into that and lots more coming up in 60 seconds. Ask dad what he wants for Father's Day and he'll say something like, oh, I don't know. I'm, I'm fine. I don't need anything. Meanwhile, this is the guy who spent the last 20 years preparing for hypothetical situations that have never actually occurred. He's got flashlights, strategically located, extra batteries, a toolbox that could repair a small submarine. He knows three different ways to shut off the water to the house. And he treats bad weather like it's a personal challenge from God. Because that's what dads do. They want to feel prepared. Which is why I think Rapid radios are actually a great Father's Day gift. They're simple, they're practical and genuinely useful. You don't need a license, you don't have to have, have anything programmed. And there are no monthly fees. You just turn them on and start talking. And whether it's for travel, camping, road trips, family events, or real emergencies, they're the kind of thing a dad immediately understands the value of. Because deep down, most dads are always thinking the same thing. If something goes wrong, I want to be ready. Go to rapidradios.com they ship really fast from their headquarters in Michigan. That's rapidradios.com rapid radios communication redefined. So what is the latest on Iran? Where do we stand? Are we done? Are we going back in?

[Pat Gray]

Maybe.

[Glenn Beck]

Are we?

[Pat Gray]

Maybe it might be over.

[Glenn Beck]

So maybe it might be over.

[Pat Gray]

Maybe.

[Glenn Beck]

Maybe we're going back in.

[Pat Gray]

Maybe. Okay. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, what are we gonna know? When will we know for sure?

[Pat Gray]

That's not specific enough for you?

[Glenn Beck]

No, not really. Two days, three days? Maybe. Right away?

[Pat Gray]

Maybe.

[Glenn Beck]

Here. Here's what he said. You said yesterday you're about an hour away from making a decision. Where does that stand today?

[Pat Gray]

Have you heard anything from them?

[Donald Trump]

Very right on the borderline. Believe me, if we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers. It would have to be a complete 100% good answers. And if we do, we save a lot of time, energy and lives. Most importantly, how long would you wa could go very quickly. Or a few days. Or a few days, but it could go very quickly.

[Glenn Beck]

Very quickly.

[Donald Trump]

Iran is a defeated nation. We're dealing with some people and we're dealing, actually, I must tell you, we're dealing with some very good people. We're dealing with people that are, I think, far more reasonable than the people that are really no longer with us. We're dealing with some people with talent, with good brain power and we're pretty impressed by it. So hopefully those people will make a deal that's going to be great for everybody. But I, I don't know. I don't know. I don't do I get what, I

[Glenn Beck]

never back and forth, I never get tired.

[Donald Trump]

But what I like to do, if

[Glenn Beck]

I, if I can say war by

[Donald Trump]

waiting a couple of days so I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it's

[Glenn Beck]

a great thing to do. Okay, I can understand that.

[Pat Gray]

We have already waited a couple of days.

[Glenn Beck]

That's the thing. Yeah, it's, in fact, it's been a couple of weeks. How long has it been since the ceasefire started?

[Pat Gray]

Many would say too long.

[Glenn Beck]

Three weeks or a month. Anyway.

[Pat Gray]

It's been a while.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, it's been a while. And we keep hearing the same thing from them.

[Pat Gray]

The Strait of Hormuz is still, it's open, but it's closed. No.

[Glenn Beck]

Prices are still getting higher.

[Pat Gray]

Time's up. Yeah, I thought, I thought the clock was ticking, but apparently we've hit the snooze button.

[Glenn Beck]

Seems like that. Yeah, yeah, it seems that way. So, I don't know. I mean, do I want war with Iran? I really don't. But on the other hand, I, you know, we've threatened them so many times and then not backed it up. I, I, I think that they, maybe they're not believing that anything's going to happen.

[Pat Gray]

I don't think that they do. And, and they've looked. This is the game that's been played with them for a long, long time.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Pat Gray]

And we, I was reading this morning where they, it was reported that they have started up their drone making factories again since the ceasefire.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Pat Gray]

So if that's true, which, I mean, I believe it, maybe that's because I, I'm an Iran hater, maybe. But that's because they're not believing what we're saying. And so they just keep putting us off.

[Glenn Beck]

They're not taking it seriously.

[Pat Gray]

They just keep putting us off until they feel that they'll have enough weapons to be able to Fight back a little bit. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's. That's supposed to be unacceptable.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And it really is unacceptable.

[Glenn Beck]

But here's the thing. Their navy is at the bottom of the ocean. It's at the bottom of the water.

[Pat Gray]

What about the.

[Glenn Beck]

And their, Their air force is completely decimated. It's destroyed. It's illegal.

[Pat Gray]

It's over.

[Glenn Beck]

It's over. Except for, you know, a couple of things here and there.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, they keep telling us that.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. The problem is they still have some missiles. I. I don't know how much of their capacity we've eliminated, but they still obviously have some because they keep attacking people.

[Pat Gray]

Right. And hopefully, you know, they keep attacking people. We know where those were shot from, so we can go in and destroy those. Yeah. I mean, I, I hope those mobile

[Glenn Beck]

launchers are really tough to eliminate because you can fire it and then within five minutes, it's back under or whatever, and it's hard to get to.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

So that's been the problem up until now. So I, I don't know how you eliminate all of their capacity.

[Pat Gray]

I do.

[Glenn Beck]

To wage war. I mean, you what? Nuclear weapons. I don't think we want to go that route.

[Pat Gray]

I, I really say that. I didn't say that. You did.

[Glenn Beck]

And I, you know, I don't want to decimate the people. Sure. And I know President Trump doesn't want to either, but that's his deal. He doesn't want to. And that's why he's. He said, we're going to take out your infrastructure, but that's going to hurt the people. So he's really tried to avoid that.

[Pat Gray]

I do believe that.

[Glenn Beck]

Bless his heart for that. I mean, I'm glad that he cares about human life.

[Pat Gray]

Yes.

[Glenn Beck]

He cares about human life in the Ukraine and Russia, too, which is why he's been trying to end that conflict. And the stubborn mules that are Vladimir Putin and, to a certain extent, Vladimir Zelinsky keep that thing going, and they keep the carnage happening.

[Ted Cruz]

Man.

[Glenn Beck]

That. I just. We saw the latest from. I think it was the CIA estimates on Russian casualties was over a million people. Wow. Over a million.

[Pat Gray]

Could that be?

[Glenn Beck]

And it was. I think it was 1.2 or 1.3 million, in fact, dead or wounded or missing. And then. So for the Ukrainians, it was 500, 000. So you're talking about one and a half to between one and a half and 2 million people who've been between Russia and Ukraine.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, yeah. It's just terrible.

[Glenn Beck]

It's Terrible. And it keeps going.

[Pat Gray]

And let's say that. Let's say that report is high. Okay. So 800, 000 to a million.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Still, I mean, the. Whatever way you look at it.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

It's really tragic.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

When you think about the fact that we didn't lose one and a half million people between World wars one and two combined, and they have in the last four years in this conflict.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

It's pretty sobering. You know, that's. That's quite a conflict. But the president also talked about the next three years yesterday. Cut 16.

[Donald Trump]

I mean, you're going to see things that are amazing. You're going to see a lot of amazing things over the next three years for our country. And I'd like to talk more about the economic because we have $18 trillion being spent and no country's ever had anything like that. We have car plants pouring in from Mexico, Canada. They don't want to be there. There's no reason to be there because they want to sell to our market. We have car companies and plants coming in from Germany, from South Korea, from Jap in by the billions and they're being built now. You're going to see things that nobody thought was possible. You're going to end up saying, he's the greatest president that ever lived.

[Pat Gray]

Goodbye, everybody. Everybody.

[Glenn Beck]

You're going to say he's the greatest president that's ever lived.

[Pat Gray]

He was done with them. He gave him a hand. Goodbye, everybody. I'm out of here. I got to go.

[Glenn Beck]

Greatest president who's ever lived. See you.

[Pat Gray]

I already told you, I've taken over Israel. When this job is done, we have to play that clip. But he was done with them there. We're done. I'm out of here. Hilarious.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Here's the Israeli thing. He's got a pretty high. I was looking for the story on his approval rating in Israel. Haven't been able to find it yet, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

[Pat Gray]

He told us.

[Glenn Beck]

He told us. He told us what it is. Here's what he said about his approval rating there.

[Donald Trump]

I'm right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for prime minister. So maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel, run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning. I'm 99%, so that's good. But no, he's a wartime prime minister and I just don't think they treat him well.

[Glenn Beck]

Mr. President, what do you do?

[Donald Trump]

I think they have a president over there that treats him very Poorly.

[Glenn Beck]

You're on the same page.

[Pat Gray]

All right, that's interesting. He was. It was reported also that Netanyahu and I don't know if it was after this or before this that Netanyahu was all wound up, that he didn't want to start bombing Iran again. They had a little.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, a little disagreement. It sounds like they had a disagreement over that. I don't know.

[Pat Gray]

Maybe it was after that. No. Maybe. Go over there and run. Run your country for you, Benji.

[Glenn Beck]

Then he also, you know, he endorsed Ken Paxton on Monday, and he was talking about Ken Paxton yesterday as well.

[Pat Gray]

Busy on the tarmac.

[Donald Trump]

We have a great candidate. I believe in Texas, and I believe the Texas candidate. Who's Ken Paxton, I think he'll win. I think probably he'll win very substantially.

[Glenn Beck]

Hope you're right.

[Donald Trump]

And I think he'll go on to defeat a very defective candidate. A candidate that believes in six genders and he. He takes hits at Jesus Christ and he's wearing a mask six months ago. Where's a guy, anybody wearing a mask six months ago doesn't get it. And he's a vegan. He's a vegan in Texas.

[Glenn Beck]

Vegan.

[Donald Trump]

And you can't get elected as a vegan in Texas.

[Glenn Beck]

I hope that's true. Senate leadership on the Republic. Let's hope that's true.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

That you can't get elected as a vegan in Texas.

[Pat Gray]

Amen.

[Glenn Beck]

That is not the worst of James Talarico. That guy is an absolute nightmare and cannot be the US Senator from the state of Texas. That can't happen. Please tell me that's not going to happen.

[Pat Gray]

It's not going to happen.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, thank you. Appreciate that.

[Pat Gray]

No problem. I'm here for you.

[Glenn Beck]

I just hope it's true. I just hope he can't be elected because you. I mean, you. You wouldn't think it would be possible. Right? It. It would seem impossible in the Texas that this guy.

[Pat Gray]

Possible.

[Glenn Beck]

Ah, man. But he presents himself as. He sure enough does as a Christian minister. And he's out there citing the Bible, or at least his particular. His translation of it, and what it means to him, which is pretty much not what it means to most Christians. And I think he's duped a lot of people. And it's a little scary to me. In fact, it. It's a lot scary.

[Pat Gray]

And he has picking, picked and choose chosen his interviews. And they. They all work to his benefit, which is really interesting. He's done a pretty good job of that.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, he has. Yeah. He wouldn't for instance, he wouldn't come on this show.

[Pat Gray]

Oh, no way. I don't know. That he would pull in the parking lot of this building.

[Glenn Beck]

No, I don't think so. Because none of those kinds of. None of those lefties will ever go on a.

[Ted Cruz]

In a.

[Glenn Beck]

Into a situation that is somewhat unfamiliar and maybe a little unfriendly.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Maybe a lot unfriendly.

[Pat Gray]

Oh, but.

[Glenn Beck]

But they'll stick to msnbc. Cnn, NBC, ABC went on the View.

[Pat Gray]

He went on now what's your Faces, Jamie Lynn's podcast.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah. And he's never. Those aren't going to give him any pushback on anything.

[Glenn Beck]

Nope.

[Pat Gray]

You just get to say what you want.

[Glenn Beck]

They're gonna lap up everything he says.

[Pat Gray]

Yep. And they do.

[Glenn Beck]

So people aren't going to really hear the truth from him. Meanwhile, he's. He's ahead of both Republican candidates in polls in Texas right now. He's. I think he's seven points ahead of Cornyn and eight points ahead of Paxton, supposedly.

[Pat Gray]

You got to hope that that's because the. We haven't decided on.

[Glenn Beck]

That's what I'm hoping.

[Pat Gray]

It's going to be Corn in her. Paxton.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, that's what I'm hoping.

[Pat Gray]

You got to hope that.

[Glenn Beck]

I remember when Ted Cruz was running against Beto Oor. And everybody was afraid that Beto was. Was going to beat Ted Cruz because he was close in some polls. He was ahead. And then Ted pretty much wiped him out. Absolutely. I don't remember if it was nine points. Eleven points. It was. It was a pretty good spread, though. Ted pretty well mopped the floor with him.

[Pat Gray]

Absolutely.

[Glenn Beck]

And I'm hoping that's going to be the case.

[Pat Gray]

And I will say this. I saw. Seen one sign for Telorico in my neighborhood, and that was when he was. I guess that was the Democratic nomination or whatever.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

Is that when that was?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, during the. When it was up against Jasmine Crawford.

[Pat Gray]

Right, right, right, right, right. Okay. So. And I have not seen it since. So during the Beto run, Beta was everywhere. I mean, I saw signs and bumper stickers and it was quite a movie. Some cars.

[Glenn Beck]

Bumper stickers.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

From time to time. And I think, wow, are you stupid?

[Pat Gray]

Accidentally.

[Glenn Beck]

How do you even drive? Seriously? You shouldn't even own a vehicle.

[Pat Gray]

You're not allowed on these roads.

[Glenn Beck]

I almost called the police when I see them. Like, there's a person with a Beto sticker in front of me. Please get them off the road.

[Pat Gray]

They need to be removed from the road.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Pat Gray]

a, there's a new poll here I listened to them talking about on the radio earlier show. It might have been Pat Graham leased, I don't recall. It was A national Survey, though, conducted May 15th through the 18th among 1002 registered voters puts Trump's job approval down at 39. So with his record was 61 approval rating, well, 61% now disapprove of his of his job. Wow, 39% approval.

[Glenn Beck]

39. Well, it's 99% in Israel though.

[Pat Gray]

Correct.

[Glenn Beck]

So maybe a lot of Israelis could come over and vote for him.

[Pat Gray]

The Republican net approval has dropped to 60, down 24 points. Okay. Yeah, that's the Republican.

[Glenn Beck]

Wait, the Republican approval is down to 60.

[Pat Gray]

Yes. Wow. So only 29 because that was in

[Glenn Beck]

the 90s, it seems like.

[Pat Gray]

Correct.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, yeah, I mean like the low 90s.

[Pat Gray]

Well down 24, that would mean 84 according to this poll. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Pat Gray]

So a 29% of voters approve of Trump's handling of the economy, 71% disapproving.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't.

[Pat Gray]

I hope he cares more than he looks like he cares.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, that's.

[Pat Gray]

And that's the problem.

[Glenn Beck]

I think the problem. Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

It is. Inflation is the president's weakest issue. 24% approval. Well, yeah. Border security.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Pat Gray]

Once a strength, is now split 49 to 51. Disapproval. Border security? What?

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, my gosh. How could that be negative?

[Pat Gray]

Because we're with. Against Trump.

[Glenn Beck]

Jeez. Well, yesterday. Here's what's affecting him right now. Yesterday, A reporter said, Mr. President, you've pushed to suppress the federal gas tax. President says, yeah. Then he says, are there other initiatives that you're thinking of maybe trying to lower costs? And he said, well, there may be. It's very temporary. Yeah, there may be anything to keep it down. Look, as soon as this war is over, gas is gonna, you know, I had gasoline down to a dollar 85 in Iowa. I was in Iowa, and the stations There had at a dollar 85 cents, but I was down to, in many cases, less than $2 a gallon. And then I said to myself, this is great. We just hit a new high in the stock market. Everything's going good. But I'm sorry, but we have to go down and take a little journey down to. We have to do something with Iran. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. You want to see the world exploded? You want to see a problem? And this is peanuts. And I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. Won't be much longer. You can't call what's going on right now peanuts. And you can't dismiss it by saying, you know, that you weren't even thinking about the economy because the left uses that against him and beats him over the head with it.

[Pat Gray]

And look kind of deservedly so. I mean, we. This is the thing that he's been

[Glenn Beck]

too flippant on this. He's just too flippant on this issue.

[Pat Gray]

I'm sorry, but we, we see those prices in our face every day. 419 past the stations that I pass coming into work in Texas, and it was down to at least 379, 378, something like that.

[Glenn Beck]

So, well, before the Iranian situation, it was down to what, two? I mean, Trump was talking about 30, something like that. So, yeah, I don't know. He's getting bad advice from somebody somewhere because he needs to take this a little more seriously. I think that would be helpful for him. 88727 Beck. More coming up.

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[Pat Gray]

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[Pat Gray]

A little too in the fat fat type. Well, I don't know. Experts. The industry auto experts are predicting perhaps motor oil shortage that is imminent as prices escalate due to the Iran war. So I would say maybe change your oil this weekend.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh boy, I don't want to have

[Pat Gray]

a run on, you know, yeah changing your oil but be able to think about it at least. Speaking of predictions, Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets, passing a law that makes it a felony to host or advertise them.

[Glenn Beck]

What?

[Pat Gray]

Someone better tell Stu. Really better tell Stu. In response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far reaching crackdown on popular services like Calc and Polymarket. It comes as states confront growing standoff with the Trump administration over how to regulate the industry, which allows people to bet on virtually anything. The new state law makes it a crime to host or advertise a prediction market, which it defines as a system that lets consumers place a wager on a future outcome, sports elections, live entertainment, someone's word choice and world affairs. The prohibition extends to services supporting prediction markets like virtual private networks that would allow consumers to disguise their location and get around the ban. It would force prediction market sites like Calcium Polymarket to leave the state or face possible felony charges. The law takes effect in August.

[Glenn Beck]

Stu, that flashing red light you see behind you right now is the Minnesota police. They're coming for you.

[Pat Gray]

Over.

[Glenn Beck]

They're pulling you over. Yep. Yep, they're coming.

[Pat Gray]

Good luck. God bless. Tried to tell you.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, what are the chances that spreads?

[Pat Gray]

I don't know. Maybe.

[Glenn Beck]

Maybe. I mean, Trump, maybe not.

[Pat Gray]

The administration is going to sue them, is going to shut it down. I don't know that it's constitutional right.

[Glenn Beck]

You know, we'll see. Yeah, yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And it may take a while, so, I mean, it may go into effect. They're going have to put an injunction on the actual state law. Yeah, right. Otherwise, it goes into effect and then you're still fighting it, and they're gonna. They will pull people over. Yeah, they will.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

They will shut you down to make a point. And then if they get called out on and be like, oh, sorry. Yeah, yeah, you're right. They were right. Sorry. I mean, holy cow. The vibes at Meta headquarters right now aren't. Aren't very good. Yesterday morning, waves of emails started arriving and nearly 8,000 employees informing them that their jobs are terminated.

[Glenn Beck]

That's an AI bloodbath, right?

[Pat Gray]

It sure is.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

Workers have been dreading the mass culling since it was first leaked in March, but Meta never addressed it. So these layoffs affect about 10% of the 78,000 people that work at Meta. Earlier this week, the company said in a memo that it would also move 7,000 employees to AI related initiatives and close 6,000 open roles. So those job openings that you saw that you applied for, don't worry about it. Those are gone. Apparently, morale is pretty low at the old Meta offices. Things have gotten so bad, some employers are begging for the virtual pink slip just to get the 16 weeks. 16 weeks?

[Glenn Beck]

16.

[Pat Gray]

Minimum severance.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, that's not bad. That's not bad. Four months, right?

[Pat Gray]

An employee who worked at the company for over a decade told San Francisco, I tend to cry in the shower. Oh, no. I mean, I know you're sad, but. Yeah, come on, don't admit that.

[Glenn Beck]

I know, I know. You know you're talking to a news person, right? You don't want that.

[Pat Gray]

Everything's going on about it. I tend to cry in the shower. Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

All right, all right.

[Karen Bass]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

Zuckerberg said that way back in 2022. Right. I mean, the layoffs were a correction to Covid era over hiring but really, these are Rounds are freeing up funds for AI spending, and the tech giant has pledged to spend as much as 145 billion this year on AI. So they rolled out a new program internally that. Here's. You think you're being followed now. And I want to thank Hulu for, you know, being able to put an advertisement up. Up during the. During the shows that I'm watching and letting me know that that product is available at a place just a couple of blocks away from my house.

[Glenn Beck]

That's incredible.

[Pat Gray]

That was nice of them.

[Glenn Beck]

It's incredible nice of them.

[Pat Gray]

I appreciate. I appreciate it.

[Glenn Beck]

The privacy we've given up as Americans is astounding.

[Pat Gray]

It sure is.

[Glenn Beck]

I remember, you know, 20, 25 years ago in Houston when they. I mean, everybody started getting. I mean, some people had it, but everybody was getting the toll tag.

[Pat Gray]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

And my producer, Keith Melanac, was all up in arms. We're gonna know where I am. I'm not getting a toll tag. I'm not doing the toll tag. Well, I think he has a toll tag now.

[Pat Gray]

Absolutely.

[Glenn Beck]

I think you've got a permanent toll tag on your phone and your iPad and everything else. That's your car. They know where we are every second of every day now, and we don't even think about it.

[Pat Gray]

And I was thinking about that actually yesterday when we were playing the Trump RX speech that they were telling us about. Trump rx.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And he was going through what the website does, and the website is awesome. And the, you know, the drug prices are great, and I love. I love the whole thing. But then he talked about how you just log on and you tell them where you're at and this is where you live and this is where your pharmacy is. And I mean, I. I know. I've already resigned myself to believing that

[Glenn Beck]

they already know that.

[Pat Gray]

They already know all of that. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

You're just making it worse.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

So they already know, and we just have that. I already know that.

[Pat Gray]

So differences. Y. It doesn't matter.

[Glenn Beck]

And we just give up more and more every day because they rolled out

[Pat Gray]

a new program internally. This is Meta now, that tracks employees every move on their computers.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, good.

[Pat Gray]

The company said that it would use the data to train AI models on how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers. A lot of workers didn't like that. They launched a petition urging execs to end the tracking program. The UK workers are attempting to unionize because this damn Meta, they're reporting record profits right now. So. Damn, Zuckerberg. Good times.

[Glenn Beck]

Over at Meta Good times.

[Pat Gray]

Good times. Over at Meta Good times. Boy. Another place that's having a good time is Starbucks Korea. They do have a job opening if you're looking for a good. The CEO was fired after the company launched a marketing campaign called Tank Day on the anniversary of a 1980 massacre of pro democracy protesters. So the. I mean people were all wound up just evoking painful memories of a brutal military crackdown on pro democracy protesters in 1980. So this group that owns all these Starbucks in in South Korea said that it sacked their CEO son Junto Hunt because of inappropriate marketing. So it's a little. It was. Well, I don't know what he was thinking. I mean he put starts a campaign for called Tank Day and called the tumblers on the tagline were put it on your table with the sound of tack. And so on the day that the whole movement was celebrated.

[Glenn Beck]

Weird. Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, really weird. Definitely not a good move. So if you're looking, you know how many people were gigantic back in the 1980s? Did it give a number? It was just says a massacre. I don't know. I don't know how many people were killed.

[Glenn Beck]

Strange.

[Pat Gray]

Probably more than two.

[Glenn Beck]

Probably. Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

I'm just guessing. I don't know.

[Glenn Beck]

I would guess a massacre would probably be more than two. Yeah. Although the Boston massacre was what, five?

[Pat Gray]

See, See it might not be that many. Colossal Biosciences, the company best known for trying to de extinc the old woolly mammoth and other creatures has said now it has hatched chicks from an artificial eggshell. Now the biotech company said that it aims to resurrect lost creatures. They hatched these live chicks in an artificial environment. A development that was, you know, the met with a little bit of mixed reviews from scientists and critics of the de extension mixed in. 26 baby chickens ranging from a few days to several months old were born from a 3D printed lattice structure that mimics an eggshell. Colossal previously announced that it had genetically engineered living animals to resemble something, you know, extinct species. The mice with long hair, which would supposed to mimic the woolly mammoth. And the wolf pups, the dire wolves. So the CEO Ben Lamb, who's been on this program before in the past, said that if the artificial egg technology could one day be scaled up to genetically tweak living birds to resemble New Zealand's extinct South island giant Moa, whose eggs are 80 times the size of a chicken and would be difficult for any modern bird to lay. We wanted to build something that nature has done a Pretty good job of developing and make it better and scalable and even more efficient. Yeah. I mean I just. I would like to say that I don't know about you, Pat, but I've been crying for the return of the south island giant Moa. Man, oh man, do I want a South Island.

[Glenn Beck]

Means a lot. It means a lot, right?

[Pat Gray]

It means a whole bunch.

[Glenn Beck]

Really does.

[Pat Gray]

One of the things that we talked about earlier in my Fat Five, my daily Fat Five on Pet Grand Leashed, the show that airs right before this program on Blaze TV and Blaze radio was Jackson Pollock painting that sold this week.

[Glenn Beck]

Gosh, this is unbelievable.

[Pat Gray]

It's. It's Jackson Pie. It's the painting that finally freed Jackson from the shackles of conventional easel painting.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And produces one of the first truly abstract paintings in the history of art. And I mean I. I don't know what I'd pay for it, but it wouldn't be the $181.2 million that was paid for it.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, just amazing if you could see this on. On video somewhere and you're watching the stream. It's beautiful is the word. He took paint and he threw it at the canvas. I love it. Actually all it is a four year old could do. A four year old has done this.

[Pat Gray]

Not like this.

[Glenn Beck]

My friend differentiates like this from a

[Pat Gray]

4 year old's painting with Jackson Pollock signature on it.

[Glenn Beck]

That's about it.

[Pat Gray]

That is it.

[Glenn Beck]

It's just the signature.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean that's unbelievable.

[Pat Gray]

It's a. It's a big painting and it's a really beautiful. And I would like.

[Glenn Beck]

That is not beautiful.

[Pat Gray]

It is.

[Glenn Beck]

There's nothing beautiful about it.

[Pat Gray]

That's incorrect. But I would. I'm not paying $181.2 million.

[Glenn Beck]

No. And as I mentioned earlier today, this fulfills one of the communist goals for America that was.

[Pat Gray]

Oh, come on.

[Glenn Beck]

That were entered into the congressional record in 1962. Two of those goals are fulfilled in that. What you see right there. Goal number 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings. Substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. Goal number 23, control art critics and directions of art museums. Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive meaningless art.

[Pat Gray]

Oh, well, I'm not a communist and I love it. I think it's. I love the pain.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, have I been all right? They fulfilled their goal here. Am I.

[Pat Gray]

Am I a communist And I don't know it. Yes, that's your fat five.

[Glenn Beck]

But now you know your fat five today. All right, triple eight. 727 back. Oh crap.

[Pat Gray]

Turns out.

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[Pat Gray]

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[Glenn Beck]

It's betting jumpy for Glenn this week we were just talking about Jackson Pollock. This is amazing. Cuz he's selling a painting right now for $181 million.

[Pat Gray]

I mean it's sold.

[Glenn Beck]

It's sold.

[Pat Gray]

Just sold. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Sotheby's was it or Christie's. Okay.

[Pat Gray]

And it's not the most expensive one that he, that you know of. Apollock it's just was set a record

[Glenn Beck]

there at Christie's and the poor guy when he died in 1956 was worth well about $200,000. So that was, I mean the decent amount of money to, to have. Yeah, in 1956 it was.

[Pat Gray]

He wasn't extravagantly but he rarely sold

[Glenn Beck]

a painting for more than $8,000 back then. He sold one in 2006 for what today would be $200 million. 200 million. And again he's throwing stuff at a canvas, just slopping past.

[Pat Gray]

The way he does it, it's the

[Glenn Beck]

Way he does it, he takes paint on a paintbrush and then he throws.

[Pat Gray]

I know, but if you look at that creation that sold for 100, I'm

[Glenn Beck]

looking at it right now.

[Pat Gray]

1 81.2 million.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. What do you want to tell me about it? It's going to change my mind.

[Pat Gray]

How he put the paint on the canvas.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, he. As I said, he threw it, but it's at the direction.

[Pat Gray]

And you can. You can feel all. You can almost feel what he was feeling when he was.

[Glenn Beck]

Incredible rage. Was it a blind rage and he was just pissed in the.

[Pat Gray]

In the right part of it? Yes. But he seems happier on the left part.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't. I just don't get it. I don't know how that's happened. I really don't.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, I would love to have that painting. I'm not spending 181, first of all. I mean, the possible for me to spend something I don't have, but I'm not paying. 181.2 million.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't know. Who would. That's amazing. It's. It's a lot of money. Yeah. I mean, even if you're a billionaire, that's a lot of money.

[Pat Gray]

Sure. But, you know, the wife wants it, so you get it for her.

[Glenn Beck]

I guess so. Yeah. I guess. And where do you put that lovely.

[Pat Gray]

Wherever she wants.

[Glenn Beck]

Wherever. Okay.

[Pat Gray]

Whoever she wants. And you like it?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And you like.

[Glenn Beck]

Except they don't. Except I don't. I guess for that kind of money, I could pretend.

[Pat Gray]

Look, you've got your estate under construction right now.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Pat Gray]

And perhaps there's a place where Jackson Pollock. Once the. Once the remodeling ends.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, there is. In my garbage can. It's outside my house. Yeah, No, I. I got a nice little place for it. I'll even put it in the recycling bin so that they can, you know, take it and grind it up and turn it into something else.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, I think that's nice of you.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I think it is. And environmentally friendly. More coming up, Glenn,

[Pat Gray]

The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.

[Glenn Beck]

Glenn Beck is our. Yep. This week featuring Pat Gray and Jeff Fisher from Packer Unleashed, which tomorrow, by the way. Please tune in. We've got a. A really fun show. Ashton Forbes, who has been really controversial.

[Pat Gray]

He has. But he's.

[Glenn Beck]

But fascinating.

[Pat Gray]

Some remarkable information.

[Glenn Beck]

Smart guy. He's been following up on this MH370 flight which supposedly crashed in 2014. He believes it was teleported somewhere and he's shown that video. Now, some have claimed to debunk that, but he's debunked the debunking, which is interesting. And there's a lot of technology that has sprung from that, if it really exists. Anyway, we're going to talk to him about that for the show tomorrow on Pat Gray unleashed, which is 7 to 9 live Eastern and then right immediately preceding this program or anytime and anywhere you want to see it on, on a podcast, wherever you get your podcast. But we've gotta, we gotta get into this Spencer Pratt Los Angeles situation. He's running for mayor of Los Angeles. He has put out some of the most creative ads for a campaign I've ever seen in my life. We'll get into that coming up. Is, you know, there's a certain kind of person who can't go on vacation without turning it into a full scale logistical operation. Before the car even leaves the driveway, they've checked the weather in three states, mapped out gas stations along the route, packed enough snacks to survive a civilization collapse, and informed everyone that if anybody has to go to the bathroom, you better speak now or prepare to suffer for the entire journey. And honestly, those people might be onto something because whether you're traveling this summer, you're camping, heading out on a road trip, or just trying to keep your pet family connected during the unexpected, communication really matters more than a lot of us realize, right up until the moment you need it. Then you realize that's why I really like rapid radios. They're incredibly simple to use. There's no license necessary, no, no programming and no monthly fees. You just turn it on and start talking. And because they work nationwide, they give you a way to stay connected that feels easy, practical and reliable without turning it into some kind of tech support nightmare. So go to rapidradios.com they ship really fast from their headquarters in Michigan. That's rapidradios.com rapid radios communication redefined. If you've not been following the mayoral race in Los Angeles, it is, it has really heated up. It's unbelievable what's happening with Spencer Pratt. Now they will disparage him by saying, oh, he's a reality star. That's all he's ever done.

[Pat Gray]

Never run anything.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, the guy has run a brilliant campaign with these creative ads that have gone viral all over the place. And it seems like there's a new one every day. It's pretty amazing.

[Pat Gray]

Pretty, pretty awesome.

[Glenn Beck]

He's also, you know, shown his trailer on his burned out house lot in Pacific Palisades. His house burned to the ground. So does this. So did his parents house. It also burned to the ground. And his friends burned to the ground. So he's got this trailer out on an empty lot.

[Pat Gray]

And, and really he, I mean, he believes that that all burned down because of the ineptitude of Karen Bass.

[Glenn Beck]

And he's right.

[Pat Gray]

And her affiliate and her, you know, administration. And he's right.

[Glenn Beck]

Right? Yep. And so he's alerting Los Angeleans that that there's an alternative there. I mean, Karen Bass, I don't know how she has any support at all. And then you know, her like minded council, city council member who's also running for mayor. I mean, they're all responsible for the ineptitude that caused those fires. Maybe didn't cause the fires, but certainly allowed them to spread and wipe out so much of Los Angeles. It's just. It's criminal. It's criminal. Nobody will ever be held accountable for it. But you could hold them accountable in this election. Anyway, here's Spencer Pratt's latest AI ad. This is. I mean this is almost indistinguishable from an actual Legos movie. It's really good. Watch this. Everything is awful. Everything is hell when you're part of the scene. Karen Bass is awful. And burning down our street. Dirty needles, human waste. We just, just name two awful things. A stolen car, a burn down house. You know what's awful? Everything. Moms in shock, hit the locks. A camp of addicts down the block. Lots of tents, a very big mess. Awful scenes are not the best. Camps, Traps and crap, they're awful. Crack, smack and shacks, they're awful. Slums all done.

[Pat Gray]

All done in Legos.

[Glenn Beck]

Awesome.

[Pat Gray]

So good.

[Glenn Beck]

Smell or touch is awful. Karen Bass is awful. Karen Bass is awful. Everything is part overseas. Everything is over and she's killing our dreams. Wait, somebody's fighting back now. Standing up and taking flak Now Brad lost everything. Watch the flames take everything. But instead of looking down, he's exposing this whole town. Calling out the corrupt machine. Somebody's gotta clean this in. Let's go. Truth, woo proof receipts. Not awful.

[Pat Gray]

All right.

[Glenn Beck]

I wanna vote for him.

[Pat Gray]

I know.

[Glenn Beck]

Me too. Not awful. One man, a planet. He won't quit. Not awful. Spencer Brad is done with all of this. Awful. Spencer Pratt is fighting Everything gets better when you fight for the seed. Spencer Pratt is ris way he's going to save LA's dreams. Everything gets better when somebody stands up and refuses to quit. Spend some practice fighting and we're done with all of this. Brilliant.

[Pat Gray]

Oh yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

So good.

[Pat Gray]

Absolutely.

[Glenn Beck]

I think this guy has changed the way campaigns will run from now on. The way they operate, the. The way ads happen.

[Pat Gray]

Right. And look, and they aren't necessarily. Some of these are just. They just release them online.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, that's true.

[Pat Gray]

It's not even.

[Glenn Beck]

That's true. Really inexpensive. And then they go viral.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

And you're getting all kinds of free advertising.

[Pat Gray]

Just post them.

[Glenn Beck]

Phenomenal.

[Pat Gray]

Make them post them.

[Glenn Beck]

I really want to vote for them. And here's the great thing. In Los Angeles, we can.

[Pat Gray]

You may be able to.

[Glenn Beck]

We don't have to show id. We don't have to prove risk citizenship in Los Angeles. According to Karen Bass. We don't have to be citizens at all.

[Pat Gray]

That's for sure.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, we're here legally. So let's vote.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, there's a 60 minute interview with her that I sent in that's really. I don't even. I could barely make it through with her, but.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, wow.

[Pat Gray]

Awesome. I mean, she's really terrible. But there's. There's other Spencer Pratt ad. This AI ad that's here. I don't know if it's the one I had sent in. The one I sent in is the. Maybe it's.

[Glenn Beck]

This one is a song, right?

[Pat Gray]

No.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, it's not.

[Pat Gray]

No, it's three guys outside in the. At the barbecue.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And they're. And they're in la and they're like, you know, we can't talk about who we're gonna vote for.

[Glenn Beck]

Is that this one? Is it?

[Pat Gray]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Glenn Beck]

Clip five. Let's see.

[Pat Gray]

Yes. Okay. Yes.

[Glenn Beck]

This mayor race is really heating up. Who you guys voting for? Haven't decided. Same. Haven't really been following it. Same, same.

[Pat Gray]

Same.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm not MAGA or anything, but the city's kind of gone to, though, right? Oh, yeah. Jessica stepped on a needle at the playground the other day. I'm not mag or anything, though. I'm not mag or anything, but have you been downtown lately? Looks like an episode of the Walking Dead.

[Pat Gray]

Not that I'm mag or anything, though.

[Glenn Beck]

Spencer Pratt seems like he has some good ideas. Not that I'm MAGA or anything. He does seem really angry all the time, though. Well, they did burn his house down. Not that I'm maga. Also, apparently he's staying at the Bel Air Hotel. Not the trailer on his property.

[Pat Gray]

Well, yeah, but they. They burned his house down.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, we're all adults here. How about on three we just say who we're voting for? One, two, Three. Spencer Pratt. Yeah. Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt. You're not alone. Can you imagine if our wives knew we're all voting for Spencer Pratt. Right, of course. Obviously. I wish I could vote like yesterday. That is so good.

[Pat Gray]

Right?

[Glenn Beck]

So relatable. How many Angelenos are thinking that right now? Not that I'm MAGA or anything, and

[Pat Gray]

that was his point in the one interview that I saw of him, is that, look, people are telling me they're gonna vote for me.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. And they're not telling the pollsters. Right. Because they're embarrassed by it. You know, they're probably Democrats, but they're maga, reasonable Democrats, and they know it's embarrassing to be saying that you're voting for a guy who's considered maga. And I don't even know that he is, frankly.

[Pat Gray]

No, he's just wants to change la.

[Glenn Beck]

Although President Trump did endorse him. Said he's behind him 100%. So that's. There's that, there's that, there's that. That's pretty great, though.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, in most places, when an endorsement from Donald Trump means quite a bit. Don't know.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, I don't know if it will in Los Angeles.

[Pat Gray]

I feel like it's the opposite in la.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Probably. And they're using it against him.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

They keep talking about him being the

[Pat Gray]

MAGA candidate, which, you know, and then he leans into it. So. Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't know who he. Who he has on his team, but they're brilliant.

[Pat Gray]

Absolutely.

[Glenn Beck]

He's getting great advice. They're running an incredible campaign. I mean, this guy came from nowhere. He was in the, I don't know, 1% range a short time ago, and now he's battling with Bass for first place. It's pretty impressive.

[Pat Gray]

Sure is.

[Glenn Beck]

It's unbelievable. And I really hope he wins because Los Angeles used to be a beautiful city, a great place to visit. I'm sure it was a great place to live.

[Pat Gray]

Yes.

[Glenn Beck]

But look at it now. I mean, he pointed out some of the issues with the feces in the street and the homeless encampments and my

[Pat Gray]

daughter's crying needle at the park.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. But I'm not that a MAGA or anything. It's genius. Meanwhile, Karen bass was on 60 Minutes. Oh, yeah, Mentioned this.

[Pat Gray]

She.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, she's great.

[Pat Gray]

I think you'll see through this.

[Glenn Beck]

Cut 21.

[Pat Gray]

When you talked to Jake Tapper in 2023, you said that your goal was

[Glenn Beck]

to end street homelessness in LA by 2026.

[Pat Gray]

It's now 2026.

[Karen Bass]

And we haven't ended it.

[Pat Gray]

We have not ended it and we're not close to ending it.

[Glenn Beck]

How are you so off?

[Karen Bass]

Well, basically when I said that it was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal. I didn't anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now. And let me just give you an example. Example.

[Glenn Beck]

So what she is saying is I've really sucked up until this point, but I'm gonna be great.

[Pat Gray]

That's now.

[Glenn Beck]

I know in my next turn now I. I got it. All right. It took me four years to figure this out.

[Pat Gray]

Barriers that I had.

[Glenn Beck]

Who knew?

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Who knew there was anything to go through here? Who knew there was going to be a headwind? I didn't know that. But now, now I'm gonna be terrific. So ignore my track record and just know that Shangri La is coming. Nirvana. Absolute nirvana. Heaven on earth is on the way.

[Pat Gray]

Is that you?

[Glenn Beck]

Pretty much. But there's more.

[Karen Bass]

Was made a decision probably 20, 25 years ago to not address street homelessness, to focus solely on building. And granted, I had have fast tracked 42,000 units of affordable housing, but it still takes years. So basically the policy of LA City and LA county was we could accept street homelessness as long as we were building. We didn't anticipate the problem metastasizing. My three and a half years for the first time, two years in a row, street homelessness has decreased in our city. There hadn't been a decrease. That is a quality of life issue that impacts all Angelenos. Whether you are unhoused or whether you run a business and your business function because tents outside, whether you're a parent that's trying to navigate through tents to get to school or whether it's residents where it has decreased the quality of life. So this is a problem that all Angelenos experience. We have got to have a commitment that this has to end. The city and the county never made that commitment before. And I found something that surprised me. I found a lot of people who work internal in this system who were very resistant to ending street homelessness.

[Pat Gray]

But you promised that it would go away 100% and it's only gone down about 17.6%.

[Karen Bass]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

So why should people trust you that you're going to be able to get to the hundred percent?

[Karen Bass]

Let me tell you, for the first time, we've had a decrease at all. There was not a decrease before at all because there was no commitment to get rid of street encampments. And we had encampments all over the city. So I would ask for people's trust in the sense that we have absolutely made progress. We know what we need to do now to end street homelessness. We need to end the failed policies of the past, which is all we're going to do is focus on. On building, and we are going to ignore street homelessness. That is what the city and the county has done for years. Ignored street homelessness.

[Glenn Beck]

That's insane.

[Pat Gray]

Just unbelievable.

[Glenn Beck]

If you buy into that. Wow. You. You'll get what you deserve. Seriously, you'll get it. It's like somebody's been punching you in the face 100% of the time for the last four years. But here's the thing. In the last one year, they've only hit you in the face. 17 point. Well, no, I'm sorry.

[Pat Gray]

No.

[Glenn Beck]

83.8. 2.4% of the time.

[Pat Gray]

That's it, though.

[Glenn Beck]

They're just gonna keep hitting you in the face now. 82% of the time, not a hundred percent.

[Pat Gray]

So don't shut up.

[Glenn Beck]

Everything's great when you're part of a team.

[Pat Gray]

Thank you.

[Glenn Beck]

Or as Spencer said, everything is awful when you're part of her team. That is incredible. Seriously, how do you. How do you vote for her? You've got to be. I don't know, you got to be a glutton for punishment to vote.

[Pat Gray]

She has all the unions backing her, and I. I don't know about the rank and file, so that may be an issue for her.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, just drive downtown and take a look around.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

How is it better, worse, or about the same? You tell me more. Coming up in one minute. You know, you can learn a lot about a person by just walking through their house. You see the height marks on the wall where they measured their kids growing up, the scratch on the floor from the time somebody dragged a Christmas tree stand through the living room, the back patio where they've had a hundred barbecues happen. A house is never just a house. That's why buying or selling one is a lot more emotional than people sometimes expect it to be. And it's also why the person helping you through that process matters so much. That's why Glenn started real estate agents. I trust he wanted to build a network of professionals who understand that they're not just moving a property around on a spreadsheet. They're actually helping people through some of the biggest transitions of their life. Because for most people, home is one of the most important words in the English language. So please check out real estate agentsitrust.com they've been carefully vetted by Glenn and his team and they'll show you how to sell or buy a home even in a tough market. The name really says it all. That's realestate. Agentsitrust.com 10 seconds, then back to the show. Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the other side of the country, you know, you got the two biggest cities in America that are just battling for their lives right now, just battling for their very lives. Los Angeles and New York City, where you've got a Islamianist in office.

[Pat Gray]

And look, they voted for it. Here you go. That, I mean that. That's the battle, one of the battles. And he won.

[Glenn Beck]

And the tendency is to say, well, you get what you deserve. But the problem is New York City is really important to America and the world.

[Pat Gray]

And the world, I mean, but for sure, America.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. So Xaron Momdani is trying his best to chase rich people, the wealthy out of the city. Pointed out the penthouse of Ken Griffin and that, as you could possibly imagine, kind of upset Ken Griffin, really. He was planning to do a six billion dollar project in New York City that would bring jobs and beautify the town and.

[Pat Gray]

And someone's saying that they were going to tax him more. Yeah, because he doesn't live full time in that penthouse right up there in

[Glenn Beck]

this building that cost, if you can believe it, $238 million. So obviously it's bad.

[Pat Gray]

Right, Right.

[Glenn Beck]

So here's mom Donnie, maybe backtracking a little bit. This is a report on. On the latest in the Xeron Momdani Ken Griffin situation from WINS radio in New York City. Mayor Mamdani confirms a member of his team has reached out to Ken Griffin. And it's part of invitations that I've

[Rand Paul]

made to a number of business leaders across the city.

[Glenn Beck]

And I've appreciated those conversations. Qualifying did not link it to the video he made outside, which he should have Row building promoting the P. A tear tax, a video Griffin called creepy and weird with consequences like moving jobs and projects out of New York. The mayor would like a sit down,

[Rand Paul]

but also I'm there to listen and

[Glenn Beck]

there to have a conversation that goes beyond places of agreement, but perhaps places of disagreement. Hear honest reflection, critique and not put any precondition on the nature of that conversation. He says there would be no preconditions and adds he did not get the sense that Griffin needed to hear a public apology. Oh, I got that sense, you know, Griffin, I'm going to tell him, you know, stick that up your rectal cavity. I'm. No, I'm not meeting with you. In fact, I'm moving completely out of this city.

[Pat Gray]

So if something, if you're in a, in a meeting and you're going beyond agreement, isn't that disagreement?

[Glenn Beck]

It seems like it, yeah. He's just trying to double talk so people understand what's really going on. Unbelievable. 888727 Beck, Pat and Jeffy for Glenn this week. More coming up.

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and Glenn AI perspectives on modern events by joining the Torch community at glennbeck.com torch. Pat and Jeffy For Glenn today, triple eight seven two seven Beck. The Department of Homeland Security announced its identification of more than 10,000 foreign students who allegedly work for dubious employers as part of its crackdown on visa work programs. This is the, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Over the past year we've dramatically expanded our oversight of OPT. According to DH. DHS spokesman many of these employers include NGOs, non governmental organizations engaged in suspicious activities. Huh. We've discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed. Huh. So this gives me an incredibly great idea. Let's invite another 600000 foreign students from China. Huh? Wouldn't that be great?

[Pat Gray]

Well, here's the thing.

[Glenn Beck]

Isn't that an idea? What's the thing.

[Pat Gray]

We have to do that.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, we do. You're right. You're right.

[Pat Gray]

Universities, they'll go out of business.

[Glenn Beck]

It will go belly up just like that.

[Pat Gray]

So I don't necessarily like the way you said that, but.

[Glenn Beck]

But, but it's true, right?

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes, Essentially the thought is good. Maybe not the delivery of the thought, but. Oh, it's ag. I don't understand that particular agenda item by the President either. I don't get it. But he's really committed to it.

[Pat Gray]

He is. He is. He's been and has been. And he doesn't seem to, you know,

[Glenn Beck]

not backing off at all, which is kind of doubled down on it.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, he definitely did. And. And that was one of the excuses, right, that the universities would close. And, you know, we find.

[Glenn Beck]

I believe. Yeah. I just don't. I don't buy it.

[Pat Gray]

And maybe. Maybe we. We need to. Maybe. Look, it was pointed out to me that perhaps he's doing that to bring them in and recruit them as spies.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, okay. So it's 4D thinking on his.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

He's got a bigger, deeper plan there.

[Pat Gray]

And maybe he does.

[Glenn Beck]

I really do hope he does. That would be. That would be good.

[Pat Gray]

Yes, it would.

[Glenn Beck]

Because what we've realized so far is that rather than recruiting them for the CIA, they continue to work for the Chinese government, the ccp.

[Pat Gray]

It seems to be working the other way.

[Glenn Beck]

Send all our secrets back to China.

[Pat Gray]

Maybe. You know, look, look, here's the. Here's the thing, Pat. What's the last time you got your news from a Chinese newspaper? Maybe the same thing is happening there.

[Glenn Beck]

Maybe.

[Pat Gray]

Maybe the same thing is happening there. Maybe they're reporting on all these Americans coming over here to spy on us.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And we need. They need to be out of the country.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, we do have 800Americans in Chinese universities.

[Pat Gray]

Possible that if they shipped all those back to the US Their universities would collapse.

[Glenn Beck]

They just go belly up. They can't. They can't do without that American money in their university system. Speaking of big money, Jeff. Jeff Bezos was on cnbc. And finally, you got a billionaire here. You have a billionaire in Ken Griffin who's pushing back a little bit. And now Jeff Bezos is pushing back on things.

[Pat Gray]

Elon has pushed back, you know, the whole time. Yeah, the whole time.

[Glenn Beck]

All time. And they need to be. Bezos was talking about education spending in New York City. Listen to this example.

[Jeff Bezos]

The New York City school system, right? They spend $44,000 per student per year. 44,000. That's 30% more per student than other big cities like Chicago, Louisiana and Boston. And it's three times more than Miami and Houston. And by the way, New York City doesn't get better outcomes.

[Pat Gray]

Right?

[Jeff Bezos]

So this. Listen, let me, let me just say if, if, if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, right? Your packages would take six weeks to arrive. We'd have to charge you $100 delivery fee. And then when the package did finally arrive, it have the wrong item in it anyway.

[Glenn Beck]

Amazon would be out of business if they ran out the way New York City runs their school systems. It just would. And like he said, it's not equating to really high test scores or graduation rates.

[Pat Gray]

It's not helped at all.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, that whole money argument. Well, you're not spending enough per student. Really. Take a look at New York. Take a look at, say, Washington, D.C. and see what they're getting for their money. Money is not the answer. So I'm glad he pointed that.

[Pat Gray]

Yes, pointed that out to them.

[Glenn Beck]

He also talked about taxes a little bit.

[Jeff Bezos]

So people talk about, you know, making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens not pay taxes? Okay, why is some. Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than a thousand dollars a month, Month in taxes? That's $1,000 a month. That could help with rent or groceries or anything. And so, and by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It's only 3%. We can find 3%. So somewhere else. It's a small amount of money for the government that.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Jeff Bezos]

And really it's. And the more I thought about it, to me, it's kind of absurd that we're doing.

[Pat Gray]

It is, isn't it?

[Jeff Bezos]

You know, we shouldn't be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.

[Glenn Beck]

I wish you'd push that a little bit further.

[Pat Gray]

No kidding.

[Glenn Beck]

By talking about who really does pay the load. Because the richest 1% always get been pounded when it comes to taxes. You're not paying your fair share. Not enough. You're not paying enough.

[Pat Gray]

Not enough.

[Glenn Beck]

You're not paying anything. They accuse him of not paying any taxes, which he's about to debunk here in a second. But the richest 1% pay 51% of the tax burden and the wealthiest 10% pay 90% of the tax Burden, huh? Okay, what is the fair share here? Let's determine that. What is 100?

[Pat Gray]

I think it is 100. Maybe more. It's more because.

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Right.

[Pat Gray]

It's 100. And then when you die, we're going to take that too.

[Glenn Beck]

Which they do, of course. Which they do. But this is great because he starts explaining a little bit our capitalist system does area is talking about the fixed pie.

[Jeff Bezos]

Where does this, you know, kind of this anger come from? And it's. And I said it's kind of of, you know, tale of two economies. And I think that really is what's going on. But there are also some deep misconceptions that are worth people thinking about. And there are a lot of people who don't understand this kind of zero sum fallacy.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Jeff Bezos]

So you know, they think that if, if there's some, a bunch of wealth over here that there's a fit spy.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Jeff Bezos]

You know, we've got one pizza and there are seven people and there are eight slices. Who's going to get two slices?

[Pat Gray]

Me.

[Jeff Bezos]

That is not how economies work. So it isn't a fixed pie. It grows. So, and people get, they. Their mental model is that wealth is like water in a drought or food and a famine. It's, you know, you, you could hoard food in a famine, you could hoard gasoline in an energy crisis, you could hoard water in a drought, you could hoard toilet paper in a pandemic, as people did. But you can't hoard investment. Right. So if you're like, if you have stock in a company, that's not hoarding, that's investing. And investing is more like farming. And you would definitely want to farm.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Jeff Bezos]

In a famine. Do you see what I'm saying? This. The billions of dollars of investment that have come here have come from that Amazon stock.

[Commercial Announcer]

Right.

[Jeff Bezos]

By the way, when I sold that Amazon stock, I paid capital gains on

[Glenn Beck]

it, which is, huh, don't even get me started on that. The double taxation. The triple taxation. Because he paid taxes on the money that he then invested. Then when he gets a return on his investment, he pays taxes again on that. And then when he dies, he pays another tax on the estate tax. They'll take 50% of it. Why? How did we get there when our founders were all pissed off about an excise tax.

[Pat Gray]

Penny a quarter cent or half a cent?

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Unbelievable. You know the stamp, the stamp tax where they paid it on, on not just stamps but paper goods and things? They were upset about that.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

What would they say to what We've got going on now. It's unbelievable. It's. The fixed pie situation is. You know, you don't. I mean, we're not. Well, he explains that, too. Here's what he had to say about the fixed pie. Is that what we just think it is?

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

We talked about the pizza, right? Yes, because that's. That's kind of. I mean, we. You have made this. Made this argument forever that it's not one pie.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Pat Gray]

You make your own pie.

[Glenn Beck]

Exactly. So if you're. If you have a pie and you cut it into sections. Jeff Bezos isn't taking the biggest part because he's got his own pie capital.

[Pat Gray]

But I want some of what Jeff Bezos has got.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, then make your own pie.

[Pat Gray]

That's what you do over there.

[Glenn Beck]

No, you can't have that because he has it. It. He baked his pie, now he's eating it. You can bake your own pie.

[Pat Gray]

I like what I've baked.

[Glenn Beck]

Capitalism is a. Is a bakery.

[Pat Gray]

I don't like what I've baked.

[Glenn Beck]

Or it's a pizza shop. Or it's an ocean where you back up your truck and you put water in the ocean. There's still plenty of water in the ocean.

[Pat Gray]

Right? Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. It's so frustrating. But what about high prices? He. He discussed that as well with cnbc.

[Jeff Bezos]

People sometimes say that. That, you know, I don't pay taxes. So true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes, and it's a perfect. Again, if people want me to pay more billions.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Jeff Bezos]

Then let's have that debate. But don't pretend, you know that this. That that's going to solve the problem. You could. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens, I promise you. This is so you can't connect those two things. Not logically. You know, there. There are more examples. Why is rent expensive? Why is rent so expensive?

[Glenn Beck]

Bnb.

[Pat Gray]

That's right.

[Jeff Bezos]

Airbnb is not the cost of expensive rent. In fact, it's been. Almost none of it's been issued. One sec. It's already been outlawed.

[Pat Gray]

Talking in B.C.

[Jeff Bezos]

new York City, and rents are still very high. So we know Airbnb is a cost causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention.

[Glenn Beck]

Thank you.

[Jeff Bezos]

We subsidize demand with things like tax policy, which is fine, but at the same time, we constrain supply. We constrain supply with things like zoning and permitting. Why does it take so long to get something permitted to build? If you want Rents to come down. Econ 101, really simple. You need to. You can't. You can't sort of subsidize supply. I mean. Sorry, subsidize demand and constrain supply. If you do, prices are going to skyrocket. But this is not anybody's fault other than government policy, and this is fixable. Again, this is a skills issue.

[Pat Gray]

Well, fix it for us, Jeff.

[Glenn Beck]

They should put together an advisory council that he's part of.

[Pat Gray]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

He and Elon and, I don't know, Tim Cook at Apple.

[Pat Gray]

I love. When he was talking, though, CNBC was cutting and he's. Hold on, I was speaking.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, let me finish here. That's great.

[Pat Gray]

He's not used to people talking. He's not usually with Jeff speaks, everyone

[Glenn Beck]

just pretty much goes, yeah, yeah, and you probably should, because he knows a couple of things. But he's right. If, you know, if he's paying, I don't know what his tax bill is, but if he's paying 4 billion a year, you can double that and make it 8 billion. It's still going to the government. It's not going to the nurse in Brooklyn. It's not Queens.

[Pat Gray]

I'm sorry, Brooklyn chick's not getting anything.

[Glenn Beck]

No, neither is the one in Queens, frankly, because the government takes it and they squander it. Now, Jeff Bezos, on a personal level, I'm sure he gives plenty tooth. You know, philanthropy absolutely does chariots and things.

[Pat Gray]

He absolutely does.

[Glenn Beck]

And, you know, all billionaires do, essentially. In fact, some of them have actually vowed that they're going to give away their entire fortune before they die, which

[Pat Gray]

is my kids have to earn, which is kind of bs. I mean, they have already. They've already set up trust funds, I'm sure.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, but that's their money. They should do what they want to

[Pat Gray]

do what they want with it. Absolutely. They can. Jeff has not said that, though.

[Glenn Beck]

No, he has not.

[Pat Gray]

The wife still wants another new yacht or something. He's not giving that.

[Glenn Beck]

But it's his money again. He created. He created a company that has revolutionized the United States of America.

[Pat Gray]

Change the world. Yeah. We expect things.

[Glenn Beck]

He did that. Steve Jobs did that.

[Pat Gray]

Yes.

[Glenn Beck]

And it's. And they deserve a big reward for their efforts.

[Pat Gray]

Absolutely. Especially Jeff Bezos. I mean, his Amazon has changed.

[Glenn Beck]

Sure. Has the world.

[Pat Gray]

It changed the way we expect goods to arrive. It's changed how we get goods. I mean, all of it.

[Glenn Beck]

It.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, that's incredible.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. And in capitalist societies, there's a reward for that. If you don't like it? You know you can, right? Always move to Venezuela and see what happens there. See if you like that a little bit better. Triple eight, 727 Beck. It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn this week.

[Pat Gray]

Likes aren't love. Retweets aren't showing up. Real people still matter.

[Glenn Beck]

Glenn Beck. Back in a moment.

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[Glenn Beck]

and Jeffy for Glenn. Today we don't have time to play the whole thing, but Jeff Bezos also went on to talk about AOC and her claim that there shouldn't be any billionaires. If you are a billionaire, that means you cheated, you lied, you stole your way to it.

[Pat Gray]

And he said, he's like, look, if you make a great service that people love or choose, you make a great product. You're gonna, you're gonna be a billionaire. You're gonna make a billion.

[Glenn Beck]

He made the analogy that you, you, you might start a burger place. It's got to be good.

[Pat Gray]

It has burgers, really good burger.

[Glenn Beck]

And then you had another location.

[Pat Gray]

And there's examples of that, the in and out and, you know, raising Canaan. That's chicken, not burgers. But this, you get the process of it. I mean, I know he was at his plant there in Merritt Island, Florida, and they're doing their Their interview wanting to make it big thing like it says rocket shop. I had enough of the construction inside interviews. We had Trump yesterday banging around Bezos doing the same thing.

[Glenn Beck]

Find a quiet office and do it there. Yeah, exactly. Sam. Spark the flame, pass it on. Crank the game.

[Pat Gray]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Pat Gray]

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[Glenn Beck]

with Pat Grah and Jeff Fiser. This week for Glenn,line-8727 Beck. There was a hearing. We got to share this. This clip from Ted Cruz yesterday going up against Maisie Hirono.

[Pat Gray]

It really isn't a fair fight to

[Glenn Beck]

be, to be honest, he decimates her and the whole Democrat party.

[Pat Gray]

Yes.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Pat Gray]

Really nice. Yeah, it's really nice to hear. This is the best I think I've heard Ted Cruz in quite some time to be in a while.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Check this out.

[Ted Cruz]

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a moment ago, our colleague Senator Hirono said there's a lot more to say and indeed she's right. And in fact, I want to go back to her comments. She Began by saying we have a long history of racial discrimination in this country.

[Pat Gray]

Country.

[Ted Cruz]

That's undoubtedly correct. And then she said, quote, we had poll taxes. We had literacy tests. We even had tests of how many jelly beans are in a jar. Mr. Chamberlain, when. When Senator Hirono says we had poll taxes, I want to ask you who we is and in particular, what party was it that implemented poll taxes. Taxes in the South?

[Glenn Beck]

And I don't want to necessarily speak in every single case, but I'm pretty confident it was mostly the Democrats.

[Ted Cruz]

And what party was it that put literacy tests in place in the South?

[Glenn Beck]

Same answer. Mostly the Democrats.

[Ted Cruz]

And what party was it that had tests like how many jelly beans are in a bottle?

[Glenn Beck]

The Democrats.

[Ted Cruz]

Tell me, what party were the founders of the Ku Klux Klan from?

[Joel Timmy]

I'm pretty sure that was the Democrats.

[Ted Cruz]

Indeed. In fact, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Klan, was a delegate to the 1860 Democrat National Convention. What party wrote the Jim Crow laws in the South?

[Glenn Beck]

The Democrats. Democrats.

[Ted Cruz]

And so on this side of the aisle were members of the Republican Party. Who was the first Republican president?

[Glenn Beck]

Abraham Lincoln.

[Ted Cruz]

The Republican Party was literally founded to oppose slavery. We came into existence because slavery was a grotesque evil. And it was President Lincoln, the first Republican president, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, who won the Civil War. And that resulted in the freeing of the slaves and the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.

[Glenn Beck]

Huh?

[Ted Cruz]

By the way, fast forward to the civil rights era.

[Pat Gray]

Let's do that.

[Ted Cruz]

Bull Connor, one of the most noxiously racist politicians. What party was he from?

[Joel Timmy]

He was a Democrat.

[Ted Cruz]

The Democrats, for the entire history of their party, have been a party based on racial discrimination. They affirmatively embrace it. They support it. Let me ask you, Mr. Grime, is discrimination, is discriminating based on race consistent with the United States Constitution? No. What does the 14th Amendment say about discrimination based on race?

[Glenn Beck]

It's prohibited.

[Ted Cruz]

What does the 15th amendment say about discriminating based on race and in particular, drawing congressional lines and explicitly discriminating based on race? It's prohibited. Now, the Democrats are fond of telling this story. That is, and I wish I could find a kinder way to say it, a flat out lie.

[Glenn Beck]

Yep.

[Ted Cruz]

That without discriminating based on race that no African Americans will be elected and no Hispanics will be elected. Indeed, there was one fellow online who was a vocal left wing spokesperson who tweeted out, if I'm advising anybody to run for president, they sure as hell better have a solution to how you make sure that it's not another hundred years before another black person can represent South Carolina. So that that's a typical Democrat statement, that we cannot elect a black person in South Carolina without discriminating based on race. I want to ask you, Mr. Chamberlain, who is the junior senator from South Carolina right now?

[Glenn Beck]

That would be Tim Scott.

[Ted Cruz]

And all right, I'll tell you what I said online. I said, hey, Grok, who is Tim Scott and why do Democrats think he isn't black? And, and by the way, was Tim Scott elected because of a gerrymandered district drawn only to elect an African American?

[Glenn Beck]

No, he won statewide.

[Ted Cruz]

He won statewide. By the way, the Democrat position is you can only elect African Americans with a gerrymandered district. I will point out Burgess Owens, an African American, is elected the majority white district in the state of Utah. He's a Republican. Byron Donalds, another African American, is elected the majority white district in Florida. He is a Republican. John James, another African American, is elected to majority white district in Michigan. He is a Republican. And my own congressman, Wesley Hunt, who represents me in the House of Representatives, he is elected in a majority white district. He is a Republican. And yet in the Democrats world, you are not black if you're not a liberal Democrat. There is an arrogance to African American voters. By the way, they also have that same arrogance to Hispanic voters. They say you're not Hispanic if you're not a liberal Democrat. Well, I'll tell you, I am proud to be the first Hispanic ever elected to represent the state of Texas in the United States Senate. And Mr. Chamberlain, in my election in Texas, was I elected in the gerrymandered district that could only elect in Hispanic?

[Glenn Beck]

No. You were elected statewide.

[Ted Cruz]

Statewide, discrimination based on race is wrong. Final question. The Democrats are now clutching their pearls that seats drawn to elect liberal Democrats in the south are going to go away. You may get black Republicans instead. Indeed, in Tennessee, they're freaking out that a liberal white guy who's a Democrat is likely going to lose his seat to an African American woman who's a Republican. And they say that's horrible racial oppression. My final question is this. If you look nationwide, which party has egregiously abused gerrymandering for decades? Both parties are guilty of it. But which who has been the worst offender? And in particular, take New England, take Massachusetts, take Connecticut, take Rhode island, take Maine, take Vermont, take New Hampshire. How many Republicans are elected from all of New England in the House of Representatives?

[Glenn Beck]

I think the answer to that is zero.

[Ted Cruz]

Zero. They've drawn every district in a naked gerrymander, and yet they're very upset that their illegal pursuit of power has now been stopped by the Supreme Court that is enforcing the Constitution and prohibiting the racial gerrymandering discrimination their party is built on, Senator.

[Glenn Beck]

Part of personal privilege. I feel personally aggrieved.

[Pat Gray]

Do you?

[Glenn Beck]

To sit here. She's aggrieved. And to be lectured by my colleague from Texas. Well, you need it. And this reminds me of the time when he was first elected to the Senate committee, had a hearing on gun safety and he felt a need to lecture Dianne Feinstein, who was a leader on gun safety legislation. And he took that opportunity to lecture Dianne Feinstein about gun safety. Talk about what he said, talk about

[Karen Bass]

his sense of what she said to him.

[Glenn Beck]

Something along the lines of, I did not sit here on this committee for however many years she did only to be lectured by you. And that is how I feel. So why don't you just stop lecturing the rest of us? Just because you think you are the

[Karen Bass]

smartest person in the world doesn't mean

[Glenn Beck]

the rest of us agree to that.

[Ted Cruz]

Thank you, Senator Hirono. I knew Dianne Feinstein. I served with Dianne Feinstein. And you're not Diane Feinstein.

[Pat Gray]

All right, Senator Padilla, we're done.

[Glenn Beck]

She couldn't address any of the substance of that brilliant eight minute speech. So. Great.

[Pat Gray]

Address it at all.

[Glenn Beck]

No. Well, because she can't.

[Pat Gray]

Sat there and up.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. There's nothing she could say to it. It's all fact.

[Pat Gray]

Just take the beating.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And leave it alone. But she can't.

[Glenn Beck]

She can.

[Pat Gray]

She can.

[Glenn Beck]

Because slavery Democrats, civil rights opposition Democrats, Jim Crow laws Democrats, the KKK Democrats. All of it through the years, the entire existence of this country. Somehow, I don't know, somehow, miraculously, they've turned this around on Republicans, which shows how good they are at deflecting the blame that should be placed directly on their shoulders. And they blame others. But what a great. What a great 8 minutes from Ted Cruz.

[Pat Gray]

Beat down.

[Glenn Beck]

So good.

[Pat Gray]

It was good. Beat down. She deserves it. I don't know that. I don't know that it worked. I know that it matters, especially to her.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. It doesn't.

[Pat Gray]

You know, I don't know that she understood it.

[Glenn Beck]

Probably not. Somebody said she didn't seem to.

[Pat Gray]

No, she did not.

[Glenn Beck]

I must be lectured by you. Well, you just were right. That's too bad.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Tough. Oh, man. Agonizing.

[Pat Gray]

You are. And I will. I mean, Diane Feinstein was a nightmare.

[Glenn Beck]

She was.

[Pat Gray]

Macy is no Dianne Feinstein. No, that's for sure. Ted Cruz is 100 true. I mean, through that entire beat down, everything he said was spot on.

[Glenn Beck]

No question. No question. Then we've got Rand Paul, another really good Republican who is still trying to. He will make justice happen. He won't.

[Pat Gray]

He just needs to, man. Let it out, man. What are you.

[Glenn Beck]

He is a dog with a bone on this Anthony Foushee thing. He's still going after Foushee. Here he is with Matt Kibbe. I think this was yesterday. Watch what he had to say about Foushee. Cut 11.

[Rand Paul]

You know, to us it was extraordinary that from very the beginning, from the very beginning, the CIA scientists that were hired to look at this said it looked like it came from the lab. All of the evidence seemed to point towards that this was a lab leak, in all likelihood accidental, but that it came from the lab in Wuhan, China. And yet they were being overruled by people. Specifically, the whistleblower said that Anthony Fauci came in 2020 and they had a 90 day period in which all the intel was going through the National Intelligence Center. They were going to come up with a conclusion of what everybody was thinking that Anthony Fauci was brought in and basically they took his opinion over all their scientists. And their scientists were nearly unanimous. It was like six out of seven of the scientists that were experts in this field all said it came from the lab. Anthony Fauci comes in and says no. But the one question they never ask, and this is the real sort of conspiracy, and people say, what is the conspiracy? Is it people rubbing their hands together and making money? Were they all in a cabal? It's not really as sexy as that. It's more that they have the same, a convergence of interests. You know, George Carlin said, you don't need to have a conspiracy to explain something where interests converge and the interest is basically covering their tracks because they funded this dangerous research. It was a serious mistake in judgment, maybe one of the worst mistakes in judgment of the last century to fund dangerous gain of function research in Wuhan. They fund it. Now this virus takes off. So what do they do for the next several years? Even people who didn't know each other, they're all doing the same thing.

[Ted Cruz]

Thing.

[Rand Paul]

We don't want any. Anything to link us to funding this and so we'll just deny that it was gain of function. So I think the shocking thing was that how much power Anthony Fauci had even in the CIA. This isn't the nih. This is a CIA that Anthony Fauci's influencing Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Pat Gray]

Right. And he's. And look, Fauci has said. We've seen his testimony. Right. We've heard his testimony that he believes, look, well, we weren't doing gain of function well, because they, you know, through Obama, was the one that shut that down. But the point was, Dr. Foushee, is that you were funding the labs that were doing gain of function. Yeah. So it was. It was. It was all just a front.

[Glenn Beck]

So then he tried to deflect away from the labs that he was funding, which is why he was so adamant about that.

[Pat Gray]

And even if some of that timeline. And I. I don't remember at all, I'm sure Rand Paul does, but some of that timeline also showed that this was Fauci's thing is I was giving money to these people. What those people did with the money, I had nothing to do with. So he was, you know, he was funding one of groups of scientists that would then give money to another group of scientists that were doing gain of function. So he was. I got nothing to do with that.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

Oh, okay. Okay. And then we find out that he was, you know, they were all taking his word for it. He was in control of them all.

[Glenn Beck]

Then somehow they tried to make it a racist situation that anybody would dare even bring China into this discussion. That's where it came from, right? What are you talking about? Why is that racist? How is that racist?

[Pat Gray]

I don't know.

[Glenn Beck]

But to Democrats, like Ted Cruz pointed out, everything is racist.

[Pat Gray]

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

[Glenn Beck]

They practically invented racism.

[Pat Gray]

Sure did. Yeah. And look, they. Then it was the bat, right. It was a lab league and the bad. And they were pushing.

[Glenn Beck]

Somebody was eating bat soup. Yeah, that was tainted with COVID Yeah,

[Pat Gray]

and it was tainted with covered because.

[Glenn Beck]

But that wasn't racist to say that Chinese are eating bats. That wasn't racist because they were.

[Pat Gray]

The bats were being sold out the back door of the Wuhan label and because they were. Had rat bats that had been tested. They were. I heard this is one report, because they were. The bats had been tested. They were already in this scared mode. And when they're in this scared mode, they create this.

[Glenn Beck]

This.

[Pat Gray]

This thing in their body that people shouldn't eat. And then it was sold at the. The market and people were eating. And that's COVID 19. Oh, okay, sure.

[Glenn Beck]

That makes sense then. A cub. Yeah, makes much more sense. All right, Triple eight, seven, two, seven. Back more. Coming up in a sec. When most people think about self defense, they tend to think in extremes. Either you do nothing and hope the situation Just kind of works itself out. Or you're forced into a decision that could change your life forever in a matter of seconds. The truth is, most dangerous situations don't require lethal force. In fact, according to FBI statistics, less than 1/100 of a percent of altercations ever do. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be left. You should be left defenseless, either. You should have something that gives you distance, gives you time, and gives you a way to protect yourself and your family without immediately crossing a line that you can never uncross. That's what Burner is. The Burner launcher fires powerful kinetic and tear gas rounds that can stop an attacker from up to 60ft away. And it does it without requiring a permit or a background check. It's legal in all 50 states, which also makes it perfect for summer travel. Every family should have one, because feeling safe shouldn't depend on, you know, just entirely luck. Well, starting tomorrow, burna is offering 10% off state site wide in honor of Memorial day. So visit Burna.com B Y R N A Berna.com visit right now. Get 10% off site wide starting tomorrow. 10 seconds. Station ID. All right. Triple eight, seven, two, seven. Beck, Pat and Jeffy for Glenn this week.

[Pat Gray]

You know, I was just looking at the 10 most reputable companies in America per an Axio Harris poll ranking on 2026. 100. 100 score based on reputation index. Hey. The 10 most reputable companies.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, per.

[Pat Gray]

So you want 1 to 10 or 10 to 1?

[Glenn Beck]

No, start at. Start at the bottom. What is number 10?

[Pat Gray]

Patagonia.

[Glenn Beck]

Reputable companies.

[Pat Gray]

Patagonia. Patagonia is at 80, and they've gone down. They were at 82 in 2025. Trader Joe's at 80.9. They've gone down a little bit, too. They were 82.1. Athletic Brewing Company, number 8.

[Glenn Beck]

Great. The Athletic Brewing Company.

[Pat Gray]

Food and beverage. Yeah. All right, great. 80. 81. Aloh yoga. That's an apparel company. Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Not familiar with them, but.

[Pat Gray]

Well. Okay, when maybe you should start? You should come to one of my yoga classes.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I should.

[Pat Gray]

Then you'd want to get some aloe.

[Glenn Beck]

You know what? Let me know when your next one is. I'll be there.

[Pat Gray]

Okay. Okay. All right. Honda Motor Company. 81.4. Costco at number five with 81.4. Nvidia Technology. 81.8. Nvidia out of 100? That's what I said.

[Glenn Beck]

Yep.

[Pat Gray]

Isn't it?

[Glenn Beck]

It is.

[Pat Gray]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm just reinforcing it.

[Pat Gray]

Was Nvidia Samsung Samsung 81.8. Toyota Motor Company Number 2.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Pat Gray]

And it Chewy. The E Commerce company. Chewy don't sound like you don't.

[Glenn Beck]

Chewy.

[Pat Gray]

None of these companies got 100. They're all in the 80s. Okay. Huh. I guess that's the best score. 82.5 is the best score this year out of 100.

[Glenn Beck]

And Chewy is.

[Pat Gray]

Chewy is number one. Is.

[Glenn Beck]

What do. What does Chewy do? PJ saying they do pet things. Pet food.

[Pat Gray]

E commerce. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Food.

[Pat Gray]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

E commerce.

[Pat Gray]

And deliver right to your house.

[Glenn Beck]

Chew toys.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

That's great.

[Pat Gray]

Chewy. Most reputable company.

[Glenn Beck]

As long as I've been aware of them I've trusted them.

[Pat Gray]

How long have you been aware of them?

[Glenn Beck]

For a good while.

[Pat Gray]

Really?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Don't concern yourself. How long? I better wear a chewy. All right. That's none of your stinking business.

[Pat Gray]

I apologize.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean that's a little personal.

[Pat Gray]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

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Pat and Jeffy for Glenn today Triple eight seven two seven Beck There is a battle going on right now for the soul of America frankly and we'll see where it ends up. Right now in Texas there are are huge areas of land that are being Dedicated to only Muslims, frankly. Just if you're a member of Islam, can you live in that society? There's one near Plano called Epic City that, you know, a mosque is right in. The giant mosque is in the middle of it, and then there's an Islamic center, and everybody in the community is. Is Islamic. Now is that. Is that legal in America? Can you exclude people of other faiths from moving into an area? They're doing it.

[Pat Gray]

Well, the answer is no, you can't. But. And they. And they will tell you that, right? With the. The one. The one had Muslim guy that we saw speaking somewhere was imam or something. Yeah. Okay, sure.

[Glenn Beck]

Are you talking about the podcast they did where they bragged about it?

[Pat Gray]

Yeah. And he. He said that they can. We don't. You can move in. You can come and look at the house and you can move in, but all your money goes to the mosque. And they're going to make it very difficult. Your life is not going to be one of, hey, there's our friendly neighbors.

[Glenn Beck]

Right? Yeah. They made it clear. So they said they only had Muslims.

[Pat Gray]

Right, right. That's the whole thing.

[Glenn Beck]

And the concern was that they were going to establish Sharia law, which would, of course be unconstitutional.

[Pat Gray]

And they will do that.

[Glenn Beck]

And they will.

[Pat Gray]

They will. And have.

[Glenn Beck]

And yes. And so I assume you're getting the call to prayer and all of those things every morning, five times a day, whatever. And so there's another situation now in neighboring Frisco, which is an upscale neighborhood, an upscale town in the Dallas metropolitan area. And so in Frisco, they had a city council meeting and some people showed up to testify about it because they're considering a Hindu tent, two Hindu temples, and a giant mosque in Frisco now as well. And so they invited comment. And here's one of the people that shows up, Joel Timmy, who apparently doesn't want mosques in Frisco, Texas, or necessarily anywhere in America. But. But check out what he had to say about this. Next is Joel Timi from Iowa City, Iowa. After that, we'll have Kelly Smith from Aubrey Love.

[Pat Gray]

Kelly Smith.

[Joel Timmy]

Good evening, council members. It's a pleasure to speak before you this evening. Thank you for hearing everybody and giving everybody a chance to speak.

[Pat Gray]

You're welcome.

[Glenn Beck]

Nice.

[Joel Timmy]

You may be asking yourselves, what is a guy from Iowa doing here?

[Pat Gray]

I'm asking myself this issue.

[Glenn Beck]

What's a guy from Iowa doing here?

[Joel Timmy]

Well, actually, I come from Texas royalty. My great grandfather was the first president of the Texas Republic. And for a lot of you, that might sound crazy. Wait a minute. Texas was a republic, but. Yes, it was.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes, it was.

[Joel Timmy]

And my great grandfather was Sam Houston.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, wow. Nice. Okay. That's pretty cool.

[Joel Timmy]

Also, another great grandfather of mine was Davy Crockett, who fought in the Alamo.

[Glenn Beck]

Wait, what?

[Pat Gray]

Think about it for a second. Think about it. Okay, wait.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, so his great grandfathers were Sam Houston and David. I mean, give that guy 200. Do not pass code. Go ahead and collect $200. I mean, you should be ruling Texas right now.

[Pat Gray]

And he lives in Iowa.

[Glenn Beck]

And he lives in Iowa. In Iowa. What are you doing there now?

[Pat Gray]

He's. I guess he's preaching there or something with his family, but he's. If he's Texas, he's going to explain it, but he does.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't. Frankly, I don't want to cast dispersions on him. I'm not calling him a liar. I'm just saying I slightly doubt that he is the great, great grandson of both of these men. Wow. I want to see. Wow. I want to see the Ancestor.com family tree. That's what I want to see. I. I want him to print it out and show it to us. Now, he's not going to do that, but that's what it's going to take for.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, Houston had eight children, all right, with his third wife.

[Glenn Beck]

What about Davy Crockett?

[Pat Gray]

Davy Crockett.

[Glenn Beck]

And do they share relatives? I mean, do they come down into the. Into the tree somewhere?

[Pat Gray]

According to. According to Grock, there is no known historical or genealogical link connecting him to Timmy.

[Glenn Beck]

Right. That's what. That's what I'm finding out on the AI Overview on Google as well. It says the claim that Joel Timmy is a direct descendant of Texas legends Sam Houston and Davy Crockett.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah. It says no to this, too.

[Glenn Beck]

Appears to be a personal assertion rather than a widely documented historical fact. I don't know if it's completely out

[Pat Gray]

of the realm possibility, but it seems unlikely. As soon as he said it, I thought, oh, my gosh, me too. I'm another. There's another great grandson of Sam Houston and Davy Crockett.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Pat Gray]

I. I thought I was the only one.

[Glenn Beck]

What are the odds?

[Pat Gray]

I. I know.

[Glenn Beck]

Huh. I'm a little embarrassed now to admit this, but I am the great, great grandson of not just Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, but also George Washington.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, well, my. I mean, along.

[Glenn Beck]

And Abraham Lincoln. I wasn't done yet. If you don't mind. If you don't mind.

[Pat Gray]

Sorry.

[Glenn Beck]

And Thomas Jefferson. Okay.

[Pat Gray]

Wow.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. So top that. If you can.

[Pat Gray]

I can't.

[Glenn Beck]

You can't. Exactly. Right. No one can. I guarantee you that. Anyway, let's. Let's let him continue here. That wasn't exactly the point, but.

[Pat Gray]

No, it was not.

[Glenn Beck]

Here he goes.

[Joel Timmy]

If I go back even further than that, my great, great, great grandfathers fought under General George Washington in the Continental Army.

[Pat Gray]

All right, but he's not a director.

[Joel Timmy]

I was born on Langley Air Force Base. Almost every single one of my family members has served in the US Armed Forces.

[Glenn Beck]

That's cool.

[Joel Timmy]

Me, I took a different route. I went into ministry, traveled to 58 countries preaching the gospel. I was kidnapped and held hostage in 2021 by Islamists in the Middle East.

[Glenn Beck]

This guy's lived a life on a

[Joel Timmy]

missions trip to take care of the Coptic widows and fatherless. If you remember the 21 men that were beheaded on that beach in ice by ISIS in Libya.

[Pat Gray]

I do.

[Joel Timmy]

I was taking care of their families. My children have lived on the mission field, on the front lines. Even my kids. My oldest are 8 years old, and their friends were killed by Muslims. I don't want to bring any mosque to Texas.

[Pat Gray]

Amen.

[Joel Timmy]

We shouldn't have one here. It's incompatible with what it means to be an American. The oldest mosque in the United States actually is about 50 minutes from where I live now, where I raised my family. I'm 29 years old. I have six children. I'm one of 17 children, a Catholic family, most of whom live in this area, by the way. My brother is married to an Indian. She was a Muslim Indian. And when she came to America, she converted to Catholicism, learned English, and married her husband, my brother. And that's what assimilation looks like. When she was looking for a place of worship, she didn't suggest building a mosque. She decided to go to a church because that's where we worship as Americans. In this country, the question is, for Texans, what does it mean to be Texan? This question is very important because as we build temples in this state, we are changing the layout and the structure and the fabric of this beautiful Texas state. So listen, this is not what we want. Christ is king. May God bless America and stay true to your roots.

[Glenn Beck]

God bless you guys.

[Joel Timmy]

Fight for it.

[Glenn Beck]

All right. Thank you.

[Pat Gray]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

There you go. All right. So there's a lot there.

[Pat Gray]

There's a lot there.

[Glenn Beck]

There's a lot there. The family lineage, the life he's led, and he's just 29. Pretty amazing stuff. Anyway, his point is. All right, can we stop? Can we take a breath here? Can we look at what's happening. Because you couple this with the fact that they have told us what they're trying to do. Many of them have said, look, there's going to be. And a Muslim in every household. Every household is going to be Muslim. America will be an Islamic state. I mean, they're, they flat out tell us absolutely regular basis. So at some point you have to stop and listen and say, well, wait, no, no. And things like this, the mosque, the Hindu temples, all of that are leading to that. And so it's a little bit alarming.

[Pat Gray]

It is. And it's a little alarm. Even more alarming in places that are allowing, you know, that's this immigration to move into their areas.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Pat Gray]

And it's very, it's hard.

[Glenn Beck]

We need to pay attention to hard sometimes because, you know, I'm taking them at their word that this is their goal because many of them have told us that's the goal.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

For everybody to be Islamic. And not by choice, by the way. We're going to force you to be either, either you become Muslim or you can die.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Or you can pay a tax and

[Pat Gray]

we don't have to play the clip. But you know, Jake Lang was there and he goes around to all the, all the fires around America and he was there, there in Frisco and he, you know, called the city council spineless

[Glenn Beck]

and they should have some words that they didn't appreciate.

[Pat Gray]

And another Muslim mosque, according to this post from Jake, there are 253 mosques in Texas already.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, we, we had a figure a few weeks ago. We were, we were talking about the mosque situation around the country and I think it was 299.

[Pat Gray]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Or even was it even more so.

[Pat Gray]

He's, I don't know. Let's look it up. That doesn't surprise me. But he, but there's a lot. There is a lot. And Jake goes to, you know, into the Dearborn and he goes around the country and you know, he says things that people, you know, people don't want to hear it.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Pat Gray]

But he's there in the fire, no question. Now, I will say that, you know, he got thrown out. He claimed that, he claimed he got thrown out after his tirade at the city council. But you know, the mayor of Frisco, he, this was just an administrative vote on a decades old zoning thing. So I'm sure that they're going to end up being okay with it with the two temples and the new mosque.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm sure they didn't take either of these guys Seriously?

[Pat Gray]

Well, no, he. Even so, even outside agitators attended and disrupted our council meeting. Those agitators don't represent the sentiment of most of our residents.

[Glenn Beck]

Is that true though?

[Pat Gray]

I feel like the answer to that is no. Our community celebrates our diversity and will continue to do so.

[Glenn Beck]

The actual number apparently according to AI is 330 to 350 in Texas.

[Pat Gray]

Wow. I mean, so that 250 number is. That's way low.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, that's way low. So I don't know. It's an issue.

[Pat Gray]

Do we need 356?

[Glenn Beck]

What? How many do we need?

[Pat Gray]

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what the good number is.

[Glenn Beck]

All right. Triple eight. Seven two seven Beck. More coming up.

[Pat Gray]

Once you recognize Asia or psychological operation, everything changes.

[Glenn Beck]

Stay informed citizens@glenn beck.com.

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[Glenn Beck]

It's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn this week. Triple eight, 727 Beck. This is interesting. Todd Blanche, who is the acting Attorney general just indicted Raul Castro. Check this out. Cut one. Hard to find there though. Nations down to one and their leaders cannot be permitted to target Americans. Kill them and not face accountability.

[Jeff Bezos]

President Trump is committed to restoring a very simple but important principle. If you kill Americans, we will pursue

[Glenn Beck]

you no matter who you are, no

[Jeff Bezos]

matter what title you hold.

[Glenn Beck]

And in this case, no matter how much time has passed. Okay, does that mean we're gonna go get him like we did with.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. It's. He's the former president, he's 94 now, you know.

[Glenn Beck]

Is he really 94?

[Pat Gray]

Murder. Wow. You know, Conspiracy to kill U S. Nationals. Okay, you know, the indictment's cute, but are we going to.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, we've been saber rattling about Cuba as well. Look, we've got, we got Venezuela.

[Pat Gray]

Venezuela.

[Glenn Beck]

We want Greenland.

[Pat Gray]

No, we have green.

[Glenn Beck]

According to you, we've already taken.

[Pat Gray]

Greenland is ours.

[Glenn Beck]

Iran now Cuba, I guess, I guess we're going to take Cuba as well.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, I mean, we could take Cuba before Iran. I mean, let's just make that happen.

[Glenn Beck]

Let's just get done. I mean, it's 90 miles away. Just take it.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, it's our.

[Glenn Beck]

It's taken.

[Pat Gray]

All we have to do is go there and put a flag down.

[Glenn Beck]

Kind of interesting. Are we going to do that? Are we going to go in and grab him too?

[Pat Gray]

Are we still keeping them from getting oil? I mean, are they still going dark in Cuba? Are they, are they, are they still receiving, you know, under the, under the radar tankers of oil to stay alive?

[Glenn Beck]

I think so.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, I think they are, aren't they?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. I mean, it's not a good situation, right?

[Pat Gray]

No, it is not.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, things were bad enough in Cuba as it was.

[Pat Gray]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

So, yeah, that's.

[Pat Gray]

And I mean, do we go get Raul, Send choppers in to get Raul,

[Glenn Beck]

and if we're going to do that, we might as well grab Mexico too, while we're at it. Let's go ahead and take that.

[Pat Gray]

I can guarantee you President Trump probably would be okay with that.

[Glenn Beck]

I think, I think he would at this point. And if you're in Mexico, I mean, Guatemala's right there, so while we're.

[Pat Gray]

That whole peninsula there.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, might as well all the way.

[Pat Gray]

I mean, they like to call it Central America. It should be Central United States. That's fine. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

We just made sure you don't need a passport to go to any of those places.

[Pat Gray]

The Gulf of America touches all of them club.

[Glenn Beck]

Makes perfect sense.

[Pat Gray]

It does, perfect sense.

[Glenn Beck]

And I mean Canada too. We've already talked about it becoming the 51st state. I don't want it to be a state, but a province wouldn't be bad or a territory wouldn't be bad.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah, we're not, no, we're not making it a statehood.

[Glenn Beck]

No, I want to stay at the, at the even 50 number. I think that's a great number. So don't make it a state, but we'll make it a territory.

[Pat Gray]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

While we're at.

[Pat Gray]

It's cute. You're a cute little territory for us. Thank you.

[Glenn Beck]

It's adorable. And you play these cute little games, you know, curling, adorable.

[Pat Gray]

Riding the. Riding the Mounties and everything.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. All right. We will see you back here tomorrow to kick off the Memorial Day weekend. Have a great day.

[Pat Gray]

It.