'It Looks Like Hell': California Fires Teach a Tough Lesson | 1/9/25

Summary

Summary of "The Glenn Beck Program" Episode: 'It Looks Like Hell': California Fires Teach a Tough Lesson | 1/9/25

Introduction In the January 9, 2025 episode of The Glenn Beck Program hosted by the Blaze Podcast Network, Glenn Beck delves into the devastating fires sweeping through California. He emphasizes personal responsibility, critiques state leadership, and explores systemic issues contributing to the wildfire crisis. The discussion intertwines cultural, political, and environmental perspectives, offering listeners a comprehensive analysis of the tragedy.

California Fires and Personal Responsibility Glenn Beck opens the conversation by highlighting the severity of the California wildfires, describing them as almost indescribable akin to a tornado’s destructive power.

Glenn Beck [00:10]: "You cannot describe a forest fire; it is unlike anything I’ve ever seen."

Beck underscores the importance of personal responsibility in disaster management, suggesting that individuals must take proactive steps to protect themselves and their families amidst governmental shortcomings.

Criticism of California Leadership: Focus on Mayor Karen Bass A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to critiquing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Beck accuses Bass of inadequate leadership during the fire crisis, pointing out her alleged absences and funding cuts to essential services like the fire department.

Glenn Beck [26:08]: "Have you nothing to say today, standing in the airport?"

Beck draws parallels between Bass’s actions and historical radicalism, referencing her past involvement with the Venceramos Brigade and connections to Marxist ideologies. He argues that Bass’s priorities are misplaced, funneling resources to NGOs rather than directly supporting frontline responders.

Forest Management and Policy Failures Beck attributes the recurring fires to poor forest management practices in California. He criticizes the state's neglect in clearing underbrush and dead vegetation, which serve as tinder for wildfires.

Glenn Beck [12:45]: "Californians manage their land and resources and their votes. They've been playing with fire literally for a long time."

Beck contrasts California’s approach with countries like Sweden and Finland, which prioritize sustainable forest management, thereby reducing fire risks while creating economic opportunities through biomass energy.

Insurance Companies and Their Role in the Crisis The discussion shifts to the role of insurance companies in exacerbating the wildfire situation. Beck labels insurance as "legalized gambling," highlighting how insurers are retreating from high-risk areas like California, leaving residents without coverage just weeks before disasters strike.

Glenn Beck [46:14]: "Insurance companies are gambling that you are going to pay them more money than they have to pay out collectively."

He contends that without proper insurance, homeowners are left vulnerable, contributing to the spiraling exodus from the state and undermining economic stability.

Historical Comparisons: The 1906 San Francisco Fire Beck draws lessons from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires, illustrating how collective resilience and determination led to the city's remarkable rebuilding.

Glenn Beck [79:25]: "San Francisco raised their hand... to host the Panama Pacific International Exposition. It was a declaration saying, we're not only still here, we're strong and we're going to lead into the future."

He contrasts this historic response with the current state of California, questioning whether the state possesses the necessary leadership and community spirit to rebuild effectively.

The Future of the Internet and the Impact of AI Expanding beyond environmental issues, Beck discusses the transformative and potentially perilous impact of artificial intelligence on the internet. He expresses concerns over AI-driven curation leading to centralized control and censorship, likening it to a digital forest fire that destroys the free flow of information.

Glenn Beck [94:43]: "The Internet as we know it will feel more like a centralized, streamlined knowledge platform controlled by a few gatekeepers."

Beck warns that this shift could undermine free will and historical record-keeping, as AI prioritizes certain content over others, effectively "cleaning out" the internet in a manner analogous to forest management gone wrong.

Conclusion: Rebuilding and Moving Forward In his concluding remarks, Beck remains cautiously optimistic about California’s ability to recover. He likens the state’s potential resurgence to San Francisco’s post-1906 rehabilitation, emphasizing the need for visionary leadership and community solidarity.

Glenn Beck [119:18]: "When you come together, we can rebuild the cities, we can rebuild the lives, the communities, the future for our children."

Beck calls for a renewed sense of responsibility among Californians and urges political action to address systemic failures in land management, insurance, and governance to prevent future catastrophes.

Notable Quotes

• Glenn Beck [00:10]: "You cannot describe a forest fire; it is unlike anything I’ve ever seen."
• Glenn Beck [26:08]: "Have you nothing to say today, standing in the airport?"
• Glenn Beck [12:45]: "Californians manage their land and resources and their votes. They've been playing with fire literally for a long time."
• Glenn Beck [46:14]: "Insurance companies are gambling that you are going to pay them more money than they have to pay out collectively."
• Glenn Beck [79:25]: "San Francisco raised their hand... to host the Panama Pacific International Exposition. It was a declaration saying, we're not only still here, we're strong and we're going to lead into the future."
• Glenn Beck [94:43]: "The Internet as we know it will feel more like a centralized, streamlined knowledge platform controlled by a few gatekeepers."
• Glenn Beck [119:18]: "When you come together, we can rebuild the cities, we can rebuild the lives, the communities, the future for our children."

Conclusion This episode of The Glenn Beck Program offers a critical examination of the California wildfire crisis, attributing its severity to inadequate leadership, poor forest management, and insurance industry practices. Beck intertwines historical insights and futuristic concerns about AI, presenting a multifaceted narrative that urges listeners to advocate for responsible governance and community resilience.

Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

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Burna down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Gotta face the dark and embrace the fire the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Today we're gonna talk about fires and responsibility, taking personal responsibility. I don't want to make it about politics, but in some ways, because in America today, everything is political, even responsibility. We're gonna have to cross those streams. But I pray that I can do it in a very compassionate way because people's lives are at stake. People have. But they are the right kind of people. You know what I'm saying? They're the people that everybody cares about. And that really bothers me because we were still, in fact, we're still in Lahaina. Mercury One is, we're in California. So you know that we're in California and doing everything we can there. But we're also still in North Carolina where people are shivering in tents, not able to get any help really from the government. And nobody seems to care about those people. But because I've seen this person in a movie or on TV or on Netflix, all of a sudden we're supposed to care. They are the people that have the most resource. They're not the people that just couldn't find a hotel. They're not the people who are looking for FEMA to give them their $700 so they can try to live on that. No. These are the people who have millions of dollars and can go and stay at, you know, the peninsula of Beverly Hill Hills. It's a, it's a tragedy, but it is an inconvenience. It is not life, life threatening for these people after they get out of the way of real danger with the fire, which is no small order. We're going to talk about the fire start to finish in 60 seconds. First, Leslie wrote in about our dog's experience with ruff greens. 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And my heart is truly heav for those people who have families in California, the people in California that have lost their homes or still fearing that they might lose their home. You know, this is a ra. If you've never seen a forest fire, you can't really describe. It's almost like a tornado. Unless you've been in a tornado or seen the. The damage afterwards, you really don't know what you're talking about with a tornado. It is unlike anything I've ever seen. Same thing with a forest fire. We had a small forest fire here up in the, up in the mountains of Idaho last summer. It was just about, I don't know, two miles down the street from me. Luckily, the winds weren't there. But if the winds had kicked up, it probably would have burned my house down. I mean, it is. You cannot describe a forest Fire it is. When it's out of control, you have no chance. Just get out of there. And my heart breaks for people who are going through this right now and breaks for the people of California. I. Let me address that person right now. If you happen to be in California, know that you're not alone. You may feel like the flames have stolen everything from you, but, and I was thinking about this. Well, this summer when I came back from that forest fire and thought all of this could be gone. The things that you have in your house, they are just things. But there are certain things, memories, pictures, things that you have collected over the years with your family that you know can't be replaced. And I know what that must feel like. But two things. One, you're alive, you have your family, and help is on the way. My charity, Mercury One, is, along with the Red Cross and everybody else, is working tirelessly to bring relief and comfort and assistance to those who are affected. Right now, we are, we are doing what our government is asking us to do. We don't want to get into the way of forest or firefighters. They have enough trouble. But I, I, I want to talk to you first with compassion about why this keeps happening and what California needs to do about it. This is not my state. This is their state. But if you're asking for our help. You know, one of the hardest things I've ever had to do is I had a friend I went to church with, and he called me one time and he said, glenn, I really need, I don't remember what it was. Let's just say thousand dollars, because I, I gotta get, I gotta get home. Some family stuff. And I, I was about to say yes, but in my, in my faith, we, it's the largest welfare program, I think, in the world. And we take care of, you know, not just our own, but anybody who lives in the district of that particular church. The bishop is responsible for them, and we have to take care of our neighbors. And so with that, it's very orderly. You know, when you have a problem or if there is a problem with a neighbor or something, you go to the church and say, hey, my neighbor who's not a member of the church is really in trouble. Can, can you help? And they usually will. But with that, there are certain things that you have to do. You, like, you just don't get free money. You know, you, you have to change your life. You'll take classes on how to, you know, manage money or whatever the thing is. And so I said to this person, I was Just about to say yes, and I said, hey, have you talked to the bishop yet? And he said, no, no, I haven't. Now, that's unusual in my faith. If you have a big problem, especially with money, you normally would go to the bishop. And I said, okay, let me call you back. And I called the bishop and I said, hey, so and so just called me and I can do this, you know, is there anything I'm missing here? And he said, clan, I'm so glad you called me. He said, yes. He said this. This particular individual is struggling and we've been helping him for a while, but he won't connect with the problem and correct the problems. And he said he's doing this from time to time. He'll call people and they'll just give him money. And then that hurts it. He said, so I'm going to ask you to do the thing that is probably going to be the hardest thing you've ever done. I know you have the money to help. Please don't, because it will set him back and not let him feel the full ramifications. And I said, okay. So I had to call my friend back and say, I can't right now. And I felt awful. I felt absolutely awful about it. But if we don't talk and face the problem, you're never going to solve it. Now this, again, is not my problem. California, you're not my problem. Okay? I mean, I want to help. And as, as a citizen of America, you're another citizen. You are my neighbor. I want to help. I want to help people all around the world. But first you have to help yourself. You know, natural disasters, most times are out of our control. The extent of the destruction in California, you know, could be mitigated if we made smarter choices about how, you know, Californians manage their land and their resources and their votes. California has been playing with fire literally for a long time. Their forests are full of underbrush, dead trees, dried vegetation, which is kindling for those flames the material builds up on the forest floor. It's a perfect condition for fire. If you're going to start a fire, go to California because that, that's perfect condition. I'm not saying that literally, by the way, but it doesn't have to be this way. You know, you go to places like Sweden or Finland or Austria, countries that have large vulnerable forests. They understand the importance of forest management and they prioritize the clearing out of the underbrush and the dead trees. And they, because they're a little socialist in nature, they do it In a sustainable way. They partner with local industries that will take that material from the forest floor and they use it as biomass energy for other products. So it doesn't just reduce the fire risk, it creates jobs and a healthier ecosystem here in America. Some states do it right. I mean, Florida has fires, but not like California. Why? Because they do controlled burns, forest thinning, routine practices. You know what, honestly, God, does this lightning before, before we would put forest fires out or could, lightning would strike and that would burn the forest down and it replenishes the soil and everything else. Well, we don't want to do that because our houses are now surrounded in, you know, by trees and forest and everything else. So we have to either do a controlled burn or we have to go in and take all of that stuff that lightning would have taken out to replenish everything. But California's won't do that. Why? The answer lies in bureaucracy and priorities and, and really, honestly, eggheads, you know, these people from the cities that want to manage our forest have no idea. It's common sense. The environmental regulations, the lawsuits that block or delay any kind of forest management ideology has gotten in the way of the practical, the life saving solutions. And this has to change California. It has to. You see devastation every year. And you know, honestly, I, I really don't like insurance companies. Um, but insurance companies, what they do, it's honestly, it's legal gambling. They are gambling that you are going to pay them more money than they have to pay out as a collective, somebody's house might burn down, you might have something catastrophic cancer or something that costs a buttload of money. But they're betting that all of the people in their community, they're sharing the risk and not everybody's gonna get cancer at the same time. That way they can make money. It's legalized gambling. Honestly it is. Well, that's the way insurance works. And I don't like insurance companies because many times they're, you know, scamming people or hurting people. However, let's not blame the insurance companies for getting out. If I'm a company and I have to make a bet I'm pulling out of California, it's landslides, it's fires, it's floods, it's every year whole swaths of the state are, are, are burning down to the ground. What kind of bet is that? How do you keep a country? Now what they'll say is they'll do what they did when you couldn't get flood insurance on the coastlines. We used to say well, then don't live there. Or if you live there, accept the risk yourself. Okay. Instead, we didn't think that was fair. So we came up with government funding. If you couldn't get flood insurance, no longer was it. Don't live in a flood zone. Build your house somewhere. I don't know if you've seen the country, but there's lots of open space. Don't build in a flood zone. Instead, we wanted to help everybody live their dreams. So now we pay as a federal government for insurance for the coastlines. Why? Okay, the other issue is water. And let me tell you what the problem is in California now we know what the immediate problem is. They don't have firefighters, don't have water coming through the fire hydrants. Why is that? Next. First, let me tell you about Cozy Earth. Normally I don't use the word luxury and affordable at the same time. But when you're talking about the kind of products that you will find in, you know, rich people's homes, celebrities homes, it's usually luxury and it's usually not a price that is comfortable or comfortable for you paying most of the time that's true. But occasionally a company like Cozy Earth comes along and revolutionizes the game. Cozy Earth's bedding, their pajamas, their bath products are designed specifically for you. 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And that is a major issue in California and has been foreign forever. However, California take responsibility for the fires to some degree. You haven't built a new major reservoir since 1979. That was four decades ago. Now, I don't know if you know this, but 40 years ago, the population of your state was not the population that it is now. So the reservoirs that you had 40 years ago is way out of step with your population and your needs. Today, your water storage capacity is exactly the same as it was almost half a century ago. And on top of that, and this is something Trump has addressed recently, billions, with A B, billions of gallons of rainwater flow straight into the ocean every year. Because you don't, you haven't built the infrastructure to capture and store the rainwater. Now, imagine what could be different if you had reservoir and aqueducts and desal desalination plants to store and provide water for all of the dry seasons. Water is life. California has spent decades neglecting its water infrastructure while prioritizing projects that make no meaningful impact on people's lives. This is not a failure just of government. It is a failure of vision. When the, when the, the, when a leader is not around, when the people lack leadership, there is no vision. And without vision, people perish. That's what's happening now on leadership. I'm sorry to make this about politics, but you have to learn the lesson. It has to be said how you vote matters. Look at Los Angeles. The progressive mayor cut the fire department's budget to fund other programs to give money and housing, they say, for the homeless. But it's also illegal programs, and she gave it to NGOs. Now these NGOs, they're not fighting fires in the, in the, in comparison of the cost of lives, homes and communities that have been lost in these fires, those NGOs, there's no comparison. Dollar for dollar, you have to have leadership that prioritizes the safety and the well being of the citizens over their political agendas. And that's not happening in Los Angeles. Okay, it wasn't happening in Lahaina either. Same goes for the environmental policies. Progressive leaders block sensible forest management practices because they're more concerned about pleasing activists than protect. They're more concerned about the dead trees in the forest than they are about the live animals who live in that forest. It's not compassionate. It's dangerous. Mercury one. We help everybody. I don't care where you come from, I don't care who you voted for. We are there for you. But we're also in North Carolina and other areas reeling from the hurricanes. We're also still in Lahaina, and no one's talking about those guys. And they will be out of a home for years. They're not the Celebrity influencers who can afford to stay in a luxury hotel. 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[Glenn Beck]

I want to take you back to November 7, 1983. Ronald Reagan is in office. Do you know the date? November 7, 1983. It's a night that echoes in the halls of American history. It is the date that a radical group known as M19 bombed the North Wing of the United States Capitol. They bombed it. It went off. You don't know that date? November 7th, 1983. I mean, isn't that the day that democracy almost died? It was worse than the, worse than the Civil War. Oh, no, Sorry, that was January 6th, which all of us know January 6th. Why not November 7th, 1983? Now, the group that did it, M19, claimed they were fighting imperialism. What they really were fighting for was the threat to the foundations of democracy. These were radicals. Now, why am I bringing this up today? Because if you're going to understand today and the future, you have to understand the past. And one name is out right now that people are talking about that you need to understand who this individual is. This individual is currently the mayor of Los Angeles. Her name is Karen Bass. Now, this is the same mayor that was over in Ghana. Uh, and when she got back with the fires, she was asked, you know, do you have any comment? You were over in Ghana. Is this dereliction of duty? What were you doing? You have any message to the people of Los Angeles? Listen to this exchange.

[Stu Burguiere]

Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department.

[Glenn Beck]

Budget by millions of dollars? Mad Mayor, have you nothing to say today, standing in the airport?

[Stu Burguiere]

Absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position.

[Glenn Beck]

Madam Mayor.

[Stu Burguiere]

Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? No apology for them.

[Glenn Beck]

Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home? Now she's standing. You know that part that. You know where the. It bends to go right into the. Right into the airplane. You know, right as you're going down the ramp, and then it bends into the airplane. She's standing right at that bend. She was actually looking through the window of the glass at security because she gets special treatment. She gets to not go through the airport. She can just go down those stairs, and a car will pick her up and whisk her away. So she's standing there looking at security, like, open the door. When are you going to open the door? Finally, she just looks through and shakes her head and gets instruction. Just go the other way. So she leaves. Now, what does she. What does she have to say? Well, not a lot. Not a lot. But let's understand who she is and why she doesn't have a lot to say. Karen Bass built her career as a community activist. Oh, there's a code word. We now understand what it means. The activism is a polite term now for her history. She's an activist. Well, okay. Her history is tied to radicalism, Marxism, and a dangerous ideology that bled from the fringes into the mainstream here recently. So let's start with the facts on her. Back in the 1970s, Karen Bass was not just a casual traveler to Cuba. Were there any. When she went to Cuba, many, many times, she was a devoted participant in what's called the Venceramos Brigade. What is that? I never heard of it. Well, it's a Marxist training program directly tied to Fidel Castro's regime between 1969 and today, this group has sent hundreds of young Americans to Cuba. Not for a vacation, not for cultural exchange, but for radicalization. You don't join the venceramos brigade because you want to learn. You know, what is that? What is the emoji with the salsa dancer? Can I use that if I join the venceroma? That's not what that's about. It's not about good Cuban coffee. You join because you're a confirmed Marxist Leninist. A Los Angeles police investigate testified before Congress about this group. He said members were trained in guerrilla warfare, sabotage and bomb making. These are not idealists. They're insurgents in training. Karen Bass, she wasn't just a participant. She was a leader. She visited Cuba repeatedly. They say every six months. We could verify eight. She praised Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba who was imprisoning dissenters. Left a legacy of poverty and fear. In fact, this is not just her youth. She's still there. When Castro died, she was one of them who called his death a great loss to the people of Cuba. Really, a loss to the same people who risked their lives freeing his regime, trying to get out of Cuba. This is Karen Bass. She's the Los Angeles mayor, one of the largest cities in the United States of America. So let's fast forward to the president. Four million people, a city on fire, literally and figuratively. Wildfires raging across the city, firefighters begging for resources like water. Mayor Bass had other priorities. Instead of supporting her own fire department, she cut their funding. Where's the money going? To NGOs, non government institutions that will be understood. NGOs, non governmental institutions or organizations that will come to know you'll. That's code for leftist activists most times. And she gave the firefighting money to homeless NGOs who are fighting for the rights of illegal immigrants. Oh, now they're packaging that as she gave money to fight homelessness. Okay, well, homelessness is a crisis, but let's not kid ourselves. Uh, Los Angeles has poured billions of dollars into solving this problem, and it ends up in tent cities, open air drug markets, streets lined with garbage and human waste, chaos spreading. And, wait, what does she do? She defunds the pe. The people who are fighting fires. That's not. You don't take money away from the firefighters in an area of the country where it's known for firefighting. They don't even have enough firefighters. Okay? First responders, the people that run into buildings. Instead, she's in a different building in a different hemisphere. She's in Ghana, attending the swearing in ceremonies of The. I guess the president of Ghana, who I don't know anything about, Stu. I asked to look it up. Who? Maybe give us an update here in a second. So her city is burning, and Mayor Bass was thousands of miles away rubbing elbows at a presidential inauguration in Ghana. Is that leadership or is that dereliction of duty? I mean, you know, you can go, but was she on taxpayer funds going to Ghana? Why was she there? Anyway, let's go back to the radical history for a minute. Because it didn't end with the Venceramo's brigade. M19, the same group that bombed the Capitol in 1983, had direct ties to Cuba and the Brigade. Remember, she's a leader in this. Now, Susan Rosenberg, she was one of the women that traveled to Cuba and returned as a domestic terrorist. Shared the same ideological roots as Karen Bass. I'm not saying Karen Bass planted the blot bomb or anything, but let's be clear. She was part of exactly the same radical network. She called Fidel Castro charismatic. She praised the dictator who was brutalizing his people. She aligned herself with a movement that believed in revolutionary violence, including the bombing of the Capitol. Now, she hasn't reformed. She hasn't come out and said, oh, my gosh, have I learned my lesson? That was all really bad. I was a stupid kid. No, no, she's held onto those things. And in fact, she was considered a front runner for the vice president under Joe Biden. Her record was so toxic, so troubling, that even the Democratic Party said, well, I don't. Can we do that? When your Marxist roots are too bad, too heavy for the Democrats, the progressives in Washington, D.C. today, that says something. So here we are, 40 years since the Capitol bombing, something that people just don't remember because, well, the media didn't make it into a big deal. And the ideology that fueled that bombing is alive and well and sitting in the mayor's office in Los Angeles. Karen Bass is just doing. Using new words. She's fighting for justice, for equity. She's fighting for the people. But what has her leadership actually brought? Homeless encampments, not housing, tent cities. Fires burning out of control, Fire departments stretched to its limits. Millions are funneled to political pet projects. And all the while, the city is spiraling deeper and deeper into chaos. November 7, 1983. I want you to remember that date. Because the seeds of radicalism planted then are still bearing fruit today. And Karen Bass, well, she's not just a relic of that radical past. She, in many ways, is a torchbearer by the Way I got tipped off by this by a short documentary I saw on Karen Bass from Errol Weber. Errol Weber is a, is a very smart guy who did a great, great job on this. We tried to contact him to get him to tell this story on the air today. We didn't get a recall back. He lives in Los Angeles and we hope and pray that we just missed each other. And it's not because he is in jeopardy or his family is in jeopardy or his home and neighborhood is in jeopardy because of these same fires. Back in a minute. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's Lear Capital. Donald Trump has said he will not allow the creation of a central bank digital currency. And thank God for that. But that's just one step of what we need to see happen. Step two is getting gold back to legal tender status. Right now, Texas is working towards this by trying to develop a token backed by gold that can be used in all transactions. You can use a dollar or you can back that dollar and use a token that is backed by gold. Florida is joining the movement. 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A report from 2022 on the fire chief. Listen to this.

[Stu Burguiere]

I am super inspired. She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future. One that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.

[Glenn Beck]

People ask me, what, what number are you looking for? I said, I'm not looking for a number.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's never enough. Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women.

[Glenn Beck]

Right now.

[Stu Burguiere]

She's Already looking at ways to change that. She's quick to point out that doing so has a greater purpose. Attracting the best and brightest for the job.

[Glenn Beck]

They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part of a cohesive team.

[Stu Burguiere]

The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department. She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community.

[Glenn Beck]

So by the way, she just was looking for new fire people and, you know, but diverse fire people, they still don't have enough fire people. They still don't have everybody covered that they need. But good that we have a diverse team there, especially today. Here's James woods, the actor, talking about his home and describing what it was like in this fire. Listen to this. I posted this on Expo, but Sarah was on with her 8 year old niece last night. She came out. I'm sorry, just, you know, one day you're swimming in the pool and the next day it's all gone. But she came out with her little yeti piggy bank for us to rebuild our house. Oh my gosh. James woods, we all hope that you will be able to rebuild your house, maybe starting with that little yeti piggy bank. And we're just glad that you, you're okay and your wife is okay. Have your lives. Yeah, no, I mean, this is real and it's raw.

[Stu Burguiere]

I'm stronger than this.

[Glenn Beck]

You don't. You are. You know what? Strength is not measured by whether, you know, you hold in crying or not. Strength is what you are doing now and helping your neighbors and shining a light on the great, amazing work of all those firefighters and emergency crews out there. James Woods, a friend of the program. We wish him the best and our thoughts and prayers are with James woods and all of those people known and unknown that have lost their homes. If you would like to help Mercury One be there not only in Los Angeles, but also we are still on the ground in Lahaina helping them rebuild. And we are also still in North Carolina and all of those places that were deeply affected by the hurricane. You can join us and join the [e-mail] that's mercury1.org this is Glenn. Becky, first let me tell you about real estate agents I trust. Oh, it's Jace. Okay, sorry. Jace Medical. Jace Medical is, is something that will provide the medicine that you might need for your family in your own home. We've been talking about things. Last night I did a special on my predictions and a couple of things that could happen. And unfortunately, the odds were kind of good. Unfortunately from From AI When I gave my prediction we ran it through AI and it gave the percentage of those things happening. There's going to be some trouble. And if there is international Trouble, China makes 80% of our medications. So please get yourself an emergency medication kit from Jace Medical. It starts with just the five most important, important and essential antibiotics and you can expand from there. Get the Jace case now at jace j-a s e.com Enter the promo code BECK at checkout for a discount. It's Jace.com promo code Becky. Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello America. Well, California is on fire again. We want to to talk about the insurance. We want to talk about the fires itself, who's lost their homes. But I want you to know that Mercury One is collaborating with our partners to provide food and supplies to those on the ground, including those firefighters. I'm sure we're assisting in delivering a truckload of supplies to some of the most severely affected areas right now in California. This, this disaster is different due to its magnitude and the ongoing fire. We can't interfere with the efforts of the first responders. And many partners are now determining the best location to put camps up. So we're still the early hours of helping out. Mercury One is on the ground with local churches and non profit organizations. We're looking for requests what people need. We'll send supplies ongoing to support. If you'd like to Donate to Mercury1, 100% of your donation will go directly to the relief efforts, excluding credit card fees. But you have the option you could pay those as well. But every dollar goes to the cause. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated. It'll be part of the ongoing cleanup process similar to what we've witnessed in Lahaina and North Carolina. Together we can restore the human spirit. Go to mercury1.org mercury1.org and give to our disaster relief fund. Okay, we're going to talk a little bit about what's going on with the fires in just 60 seconds. First let me tell you about our sponsor. It's real estate agents I trust dot com. This is my company. I'm going to just, I'm going to cut this short because I'm paying for the commercial so I can do whatever I want. I just want to tell you if you're looking to buy or sell a home, it is a great company will line you up with the right real estate agent. I don't charge you a Dime. All you have to do is go to Real estate agents I Trust dot com. That's real estate agents Agents I Trust dot com. All right, let's. Let's talk here a little bit about the fires. Let's go back to some of the audio. Here's a woman who has just been kicked out of her house and she's gonna lose her house. But home insurance also was taken away, all of the coverage just a few weeks before cut three. They've lived in this house for 75.

[Stu Burguiere]

And they've had the same insurance.

[Glenn Beck]

And these insurance people decided to cancel their fire. And we're going through this, and it just happened.

[Stu Burguiere]

And they have no fire insurance. So thank you, California insurance companies supporting.

[Glenn Beck]

Residents who pay taxes and love California. And they wonder why people leave California. I don't know what insurance company she was talking about in. And she would lead you to believe that it was some state insurance. But I'm not aware of any state fire insurance that is run through the state. I know that Allstate was one of those companies that about a year ago. Right. Stu. Decided they were going to start cutting insurance in California.

[Stu Burguiere]

There's several. Yeah, several different stories like that. But yes, one of them was within the past, you know, year, actually, a few months in some cases.

[Glenn Beck]

So, you know, look, let's say some unpopular things here, but they have to be said. Insurance companies are at times monsters. They're horrible to deal with because of federal regulation and because of Obamacare. Now you have bean counters making decisions instead of doctors. Your doctor is not making the decision. Your insurance company is making the decision in many, many cases. And that's monstrous. But that's because of federal regulation. Okay? That's because that's. They've been incentivized to do all of those things. It's. It's a horrible, horrible thing. You want to fix insurance, you can fix it in by getting government out of it and stop with all the restrictions. It is a private company. Most of these are private companies or, you know, publicly traded companies. And the point of a company is to make money. Now, insurance, the insurance game is if I get a big enough pool, I can cover people's tragedies. You know, nobody says anything when they write a $5 million check for, you know, Joe Blow's cancer treatment, because Joe Blow will say, well, I paid for it. Well, no, you probably paid $10,000 over your history, and they're going to pay out $5 million. So if you want to look at this as gambling, they lose or do they, because while you paid $10,000, so did everybody else in the plan. And in the end they're banking on the fact that they'll have some profit left over from that if they, you know, if the numbers play out the way they are intended to play out through actuaries. So here's the, here's the real problem with this. If you live in California and you're living by the beach mudslides, you got a high up on the hill, I don't think you should be able to get insurance or your insurance should be. So I bleed expensive because that's posing a greater risk. If you're living in California fire. Until they change the, the laws and start actually cleaning out the forests and doing the things with water like building reservoirs, there's no way you're going to, you're going to keep these fires under control. And so me as a business person, I don't want to be in California, okay? Me as a business person, I'm not even in insurance. It's California is too big a risk to my company to move my company to California, so I don't do business there. Well, insurance companies have the same right to do that. Where the, where the rubber meets the road here is they did it five weeks ago. If you bought a house in a place where all of a sudden insurance says I'm not going to cover this, I don't think they should be able to give you, you know, five weeks, maybe a year, they should say, look, we're going to cancel your insurance in six months or a year. You've got to find either get out of that neighborhood because you're going to probably have to self fund your insurance or you're going to find somebody else to do it. And I don't think five weeks is a reasonable amount of time to turn that around. Do you still?

[Stu Burguiere]

No. There has to be some sort of cushion. I know a lot of legally there is in many cases. I don't know all the specifics of the California law. You'd think there, if anything they would be overprotective in favor of against the companies. But who knows? There has to be some sort of rational thing. You can't, you know, shouldn't you just be able to cancel something, you know, as the fire rolls in?

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's not exactly fair. Usually it comes at the end of a term though, right. You come to an agreement and like you have a year long policy, Right. And that policy ends at some point and they can choose not to renew you. They should give you some sort of notice on that notice.

[Glenn Beck]

But if we're thinking about getting out in California, you shouldn't be notified of that, you know, at the end of the term.

[Stu Burguiere]

Right. And. Right. It shouldn't just be like, by the way, your policy's over next week and we are not going to renew it. There should be something built into that obviously to protect people, but, like, you know, it's a tough balance.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu Burguiere]

Like we are. Are building really, really expensive houses in areas in this particular case that are very prone to fire. But also on the coast of all.

[Glenn Beck]

Floods and landslides and earthquakes, prone to everything. Yes.

[Stu Burguiere]

And not to mention every disaster movie goes through la. You never know when if there's going to be a sharknado, you know, it's hitting there. Correct. And then of course, all over the country, though, this is Florida. This is all over the place. We're putting really expensive homes in. In areas that are threatened by hurricanes and every other natural disaster. And that doesn't always like something like this is. How does an insurance company even come close to handling it? I saw a picture of. It was an overhead of one of the communities that's been totally wiped out by this fire.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu Burguiere]

And it was a Zillow page and every house on the page was 5 million, 3 million, 8 million, 7 million. I can't even imagine the destruction.

[Glenn Beck]

No.

[Stu Burguiere]

And the cost of it. I don't know how any insurance company could handle it after that.

[Glenn Beck]

No. Let me just. If you happen to be watching the blaze, let me show you a video and Stu, maybe you can describe it. This is the view flying into Los Angeles into LAX yesterday. Watch this. It's cut seven. Yeah.

[Stu Burguiere]

I mean, you see one of the typical hills you see out there in la and, and it's just half of the mountain is just covered in flames. It just, it looks like, you know, the entire. Looks like hell is on fire. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, it does looks like hell. Looks like you're flying into hell.

[Stu Burguiere]

It looks like one of those old coal mines that catches on fire and they can't put it out and it just lights on fire for like 50 years. That's what it looks like from the US from the air. Incredible.

[Glenn Beck]

It's. It's remarkable what's happening in California. And, you know, you don't want to do the blame game, but I certainly do want to talk about common sense. I mean, look, the fire, the insurance companies, they've always covered, you know, and if you want to say this is about global warming, fine, then why are the banks still writing, why are they still writing mortgages for those homes that are, for instance, by the sea, by the forests? Why are they still writing mortgages? They're writing mortgages knowing that if you can't pay, they get the property. Well, that's a really bad investment for them. That's a really bad deal for them. They're, they're fiscally irresponsible for their own shareholders if they're writing policies where they know those areas are going to be unlivable, that you're just. Because people will just walk away from those houses. If the sea levels really do rise and those beaches erode there in Malibu, if you're so close to forests and it's going to burn your house down in California, it's unlivable, why would the banks continue to write the mortgages? Answer, because global warming isn't serious. It's not real. Otherwise you would see these banking institutions saying, we're not going to do anything on the coast. That's it's bad business for us. And so, you know, when you look at what's going to happen in these cities, first of all, I want to tell you in a few minutes, I'm going to tell you the story about the, the great San Francisco fire. The, the facts on that one compared to today is remarkable, absolutely remarkable. But this time in the rebuilding, what do you think's gonna happen on the rebuilding? Do you think that's gonna be an easy process? I mean, if I want to just talk politics and I don't, I hate it when people do this. But I mean, just to make the point on how bad it's going to be, these are the bluest people of blue people. These, this is like Smurf City, okay? They're all blue and they soon will be red because they're now going to have to deal with the laws and regulations themselves of rebuilding there. And do you think the government's going to exped, the California government going to expedite the permitting process? Do you think they're going to make it easier to build houses and rebuild in that area? Or is a group of elites going to get together and say, well, we can redesign this whole thing. Wait, wait, wait, it's all been burned to the ground. Let's think of what other regulations would we like? That's what's going to happen. Yeah, I think you're right.

[Stu Burguiere]

And they are to your point earlier as well, they're going to blame climate change for every little bit of this fire. And the reason they're going to do it is because it's the only excuse that doesn't point the finger at them. Every other thing they have to say, it's SUVs. They have to say it. They have to say it's your fault in Indiana for driving an SUV too many miles. Because if not, everything points at them, every little point of the management is their fault.

[Glenn Beck]

But do they mat? Do they. Does it matter to them? Listen to this cut from cnn. This is Newsom talking to Anderson Cooper. Listen to how Governor Newsom answers this question from Anderson. Cut nine.

[Stu Burguiere]

What is the situation with water, obviously in Palisades?

[Glenn Beck]

Ran out last night in the hydrants. I was trying the firefighter on this block.

[Stu Burguiere]

They left because there was no water.

[Glenn Beck]

In the hydrant here. The local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean, just when you have a system that is not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires. Maybe one fire you have something at this scale. But again, that's going to be determined by the local. Okay, so it's not the state's fault. He's. He can't help you on that. The local people have to figure out the water situation. But wait, isn't the state involved in every water decision made in California? Some real issues there. Uh, all right, let me take a quick break. Come back in just a second. Listen, very soon, maybe, maybe very soon, we might own Greenland and the Panama Canal, will come back maybe Canada. You know, I don't know if I want. All of. They can keep Quebec, you know, keep that. Hey, I tell you what, you keep that. And for this deal, we'll also throw in Minnesota for free. Anyway, there's also gonna be the new Gulf of America. My point is we got a lot of things that we're gonna. Well, you're gonna want to make phone calls to your liberal friends, honestly. But do you want to do it using a phone and a phone service that you know is putting money back into their causes who are like, don't buy Canada. What would you consider switching your cell service over to Patriot Mobile today? They are a vital part of the parallel economy that we've been building. They're America's only Christian conservative mobile phone company. They are a huge, huge sponsor of Mercury One. They are there for Mercury One. Absolutely. Every time we need something. They offer nationwide dependable coverage with access to all Three major networks. They are part of the family, fighting for the same things that you are fighting. You're gonna get the same coverage, a better price, and people who are spending their money doing the things that help us make America great again, quite honestly. Go to patriotmobile.com Beck patriot mobile.com Beck or call 972-patriot972-patriot patriot mobile.com Beck 10 seconds. Station ID so there's a couple of things here. I just want to go through some of the audio and video of what it's like in California. Play cut six. This is a local news report from KTLA showing how bulldozers are now being used.

[Stu Burguiere]

The cars that I'm looking at right now, there are Mercedes, there are Teslas, there are cybertrucks here. Very nice vehicles. But the owners decided to take their keys and just take off. So emergency officials once again said, you can't do that. You shouldn't do that. That causes more of an emergency situation for them to try to get to these homes and the condominiums because they're not exactly sure if up that hill, if there are people up there.

[Glenn Beck]

It is kind of a remarkable scene to see. I mean, but wouldn't you do that if you're freaking out? You know, you take the keys, you put it in your pocket because that's the last thing you're thinking of. You're just saying, I got to get out of my car and get out of here and run. But people are taking their keys and so nobody can move the car. So they're just bringing in bulldozers and they're just bulldozing very expensive cars off to the side.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah. What are you going to do? You got to get them out of the way. Did you see the clip, Glenn, the local news clip where the guy came up and he's talking to some resident and he's like, well, I just want to tell people if you happen to be out on the roads and you got to abandon your car, please leave your keys in your car because we need to move it out of the way for the fire trucks. And the host is like, yes, that's a great advice. Thank you so much. What's your name, sir? Steve Guttenberg, the actor from the Police Academy movies. But it's just such a weird thing because, look, obviously these people, as you point out, very, very politically opposed to us. And they're elitists and we complain all the time, but they're people and they're losing their lives, their livelihoods, their homes, their, in many cases, their Children grew up in these homes and they have memories in these homes. And just like it could hit anywhere else. It's just weird. It makes it weird. It's like those disaster movies. They put them in New York and LA for a reason. Because people, they're big, familiar cities with giant homes and giant buildings, and that's why they're there. And this is kind of happening here at the same time.

[Glenn Beck]

You're probably not old enough to remember the name Irwin Allen. Do you remember him?

[Stu Burguiere]

No.

[Glenn Beck]

Irwin Allen was the guy who was the brain behind the Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno, earthquake. All of those big disaster movies were Irwin Allen. I think Airport 77 was Irwin Allen. And Irwin Allen movies were known for one thing, disaster. And all of the celebrities you could possibly fit into one movie. This is like an Irwin Allen disaster movie in real time. It's got like all the celebrities in it.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, that's exactly it.

[Glenn Beck]

It's.

[Stu Burguiere]

I. They don't want to be in this one, but.

[Glenn Beck]

No, they don't want to be this one, but. But they're in it. You know, you're just like, oh, my gosh. I know. He's in this too, huh? Yeah. Wow. They got everybody.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's weird.

[Glenn Beck]

It's really amazing.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, it's like. It's like if you're watching a news broadcast and you saw like, a friend of yours from high school. You know what I mean? Like, it's just weird to see familiar faces in this because luckily most of the time these things aren't hitting you. You're watching it hit somebody else. You know, just statistically that's gonna happen here. It's hitting these guys. And, you know, I mean, you think about some of these homes, Glenn. There was one of the fires in the Hollywood Hills. These are some of the most expensive homes in the world we're talking about.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. And when you say that, it's. I am conflicted on it because I. I have compassion for them. Because you're losing your house, your family, everything else is gone. So you have compassion, but you're also like, yeah, but you have the money that the people in the hurricanes did not have to just go to some. You go to Fiji for a few weeks. All right, let me talk to you about preborn. Hopefully, in the not too distant future, people are going to look back on this time and be shocked that we not only tolerated abortion in our society, but we actually embraced it. I want to be listed as one of those who stood up against it. I think this is the modern day abolition movement. I really do. I think someday it's going to be viewed and people are going to go, they did what? And it will be nice to be part of a group that stood up and said, no, life is life. The abortion pill now accounts for over 60% of all abortions, which is a real problem because it's abortions happening now 24, seven a day. And it's happening, you know, it's happening in maybe your own bathroom with your daughter. It's bad. Help save babies. Help save moms. We want you to go to preborn.com preborn.com and make a donation. They've saved 300,000 babies and moms. £250 keyword baby. To donate £250 keyword baby or preborn.com.

[Stu Burguiere]

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[Glenn Beck]

Or hear the ever utter the phrase, will they ever learn? Will they ever learn? You might say that about your kids from time to time. Are you ever going to learn this lesson? We learn from disaster, usually our own, usually created disaster, or something terrible happens to you, somebody dies, tragically, something happens. Your life turns, you know, on one moment. And you can either take that and learn from it, or you can wallow in what's happened to you and that leads to your own destruction. And that's where I think God says, will they ever learn? Will they ever learn? This isn't bad. This. Yes, change their course, but it's not bad. It doesn't have to be. Take the bad and now find out what you want to do with that. How do you grow from that? Let me tell you a great story about this. It relates to the fires in California. Early, early in the. In the morning, it was April 18, and people were jolted out of bed. They were. They were on their feet. They. They could feel the. The earth beneath them trembling. Not a shudder. It was violent, relentless earthquake tore through buildings, streets, lives. Merciless power. But it only lasted 42 seconds. But in 42 seconds, everything, everything changed. The ground rippled like waves. It split open streets. It swallowed homes entirely. Buildings crumbled as if they were made of paper. The Great Palace Hotel, which was a symbol of the city's wealth and prestige, collapsed, smoldering ruin. People were screaming in terror for those 42 seconds. But they scream and ran in terror in the minutes and hours that followed. The earthquake was only the beginning. In 1906 in San Francisco, what followed there was an inferno unlike anybody had Ever really seen it reduced the entire city to ash. Firefighters back then with the steam powered pumps, they were brave, they were desperate. They tried to battle the flames, but just like today, no water. The water lines back then were severed because of the quake. No way to stop the blaze. Last ditch effort. They decided to dynamite the buildings. Can you imagine this? They decided that they had to take dynamite and blow up all of the buildings, everything to create some sort of a fire break. And so they did. It didn't work. By the time the fires burned out, 80% of San Francisco was gone. 80% of the city. Nearly 500 city blocks, 28,000 buildings were destroyed. 3,000 people were dead. Half of the population of the city, 250,000 men, women and children homeless. Now what we're looking at is bad, but it's not this. They were living for weeks and weeks and weeks in makeshift tents. They were living in parks, on the beaches, in the streets. And for a long time, the air that they were breathing was filled with smoke and ash. And it wasn't just the city that burned. It was the livelihoods, the futures, the dreams. People came to San Francisco at that time because it was a new fresh start. Well, when you're faced with those times, you have a decision. I'm not living here. I mean, I don't know if you saw the, the TV show 1882, is it 82, 83. And it's about the beginning of Yellowstone and what it took for the pioneers just to cross over to get to a place like Montana. It was insane. Insane. Anybody who tried to do that, I mean, we don't give our pioneers enough respect what they face to get across the mountains. And the west was nuts. Well, that's the kind of people that were out in California at the time, in San Francisco. They didn't just rebuild. First of all, they didn't wait for the government, the federal government to come in. They didn't wait for everybody to tell them what to do. They weren't. I mean, it was bad. It was really bad. And they did have people that came in and help, but they had to do it themselves. Now think about this. They decided that they were going to rebuild. They refused to give up. There was such devastation that it would have broken the spirit of most people. But the city did something extraordinary. All of the citizens refused to give up. Almost immediately, they began to rebuild. Not just their homes and their businesses, but their entire way of life. There was nothing. So the first thing that had to happen with all the citizens of San Francisco needed To clear the rubble, brick by brick, they had to get all of it out. Then they began laying the foundations for a new San Francisco. Engineers, architects, all came together to create plans for a stronger, safer, safer city. And one that they hoped could withstand future earthquakes. But it didn't. But they tried. And they didn't just rebuild. They reimagined. Now, this happened in 1906. How long do you think it's going to take before you're going to be able to go in the Pacific Palisades, you're going to be able to go into California, and you won't see anything from the fire. How long before that's a new and just magical thriving area again? That place is different because of all of the money that is there. Think about Appalachia. Think about what's happening in the Carolinas. Think about what's happening in Hawaii right now where they're still trying to rebuild. How long? They don't. They're not building houses there yet. How long is that going to take? So within nine years in San Francisco, in 1906, by 1915, San Francisco had completely rebuilt. They stood ready to show the world what determination and hard work could accomplish. They were part. They had already been signed up for the Panama Pacific International Exposition. This is like a world's fair, but it was. It was in honor of the completion of the Panama Canal. And it was to show what the American spirit could do. Do. And so San Francisco raised their hand. Remember, there's nothing left. They raised their hand. That we want to host. That we want to host that. Now think of this. Where ashes nine years before covered the ground, there was new breathtaking architecture. The palace of Fine Arts. It's still standing in San Francisco. It is a landmark. It is stunning to see in person. It was the symbol. They built it as the symbol of the triumph of the soul. They said, we're going to create beauty out of this, out of these ashes. And it wasn't affair. The Panama exhibition of 1915 was not just a fair. It was a declaration. It was saying to the world, we're not only still here, we're strong and we're going to lead into the future. This is the thing that really is exciting me about what Donald Trump has been doing lately. We're not talking about just survival anymore. Have you noticed that? I said to my wife last night, I'm beginning to love my job again. She said, really? And I said, yeah, because I'm not. I. I don't have to just give people bad news all the day. I don't have to just say, here, put your hole in this or put your finger in this hole, because that's going to help hold the dike together just a little longer. Knowing that we're all going to be wiped out. We're actually talking about building a new future that is exciting. That's what happened in 1906. California once again is, is facing challenges and it's going to feel overwhelming. But the question is, does California have the leadership to have vision? Do the people have it in them anymore like the people in San Francisco did, that they're not going to be wiped out, they're not going to sit down, they're not going to wait for somebody else. Does the city and its citizens have it in themselves to create something better? I, I come at times like this and I look at tragedies and I know how dark things can seem. But I, I always pull out of this and I'm, I'm watching California for this and I think you're beginning to see it to some degree. But I know I saw it in North Carolina. The human spirit is stronger than any disaster. When you come together, we can rebuild the cities, we can rebuild the lives, the communities, the future for our children. May the people in California have the courage and determination that their forebears did in San Francisco and rise as a Phoenix from the ashes. The moment some of some piece of your personal information ends up on the Internet, say bye bye from removing it forever is pretty much out there just waiting for some cyber criminal to come along and take advantage of your information. Now lots of things you can do to protect yourself, but if you really want to have comprehensive identity protection from cyber criminals, not to mention real peace of mind, what you do is you get LifeLock because LifeLock offers advanced empowering monitoring of your identity and personal information. It alerts you to the criminals that are trying to use your personal information, tracking hundreds of millions of data points per second to detect and alert you to a wide range of threats. They have professional, dedicated US based restoration specialists. 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Now, this has happened many times before, but this particular story and this particular strata fortress is one of the reasons why Denmark doesn't really want the United States to have Greenland. And it all stems from what happened in 1968. And I'll tell you that story a little later on in the program today. There's a lot going on. Boy, are you excited for the. The inauguration in a couple of weeks?

[Stu Burguiere]

I mean, what I am excited for is Donald Trump to become president of the United States and not Joe Biden. That's what I'm excited for. I don't care about the circumstance and the parties and all that.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, no, I don't care about that either. I just want him to be president. Can we play the coverage on the wildfire? Biden was speaking about the wildfires yesterday, apparently. I haven't heard this. Have you heard this clip yet, Stu?

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, here he is addressing recorders. I'm a great grandfather.

[Stu Burguiere]

Tough to make out, but they're asking about the fire. They're talking about the fires, the response and everything else. And he just blurts out that he's a great grandfather as of today, which is.

[Glenn Beck]

He said that's the good news? Yeah, that's the good news. Right. Wait, what? Can you make something not about you?

[Stu Burguiere]

He can't.

[Glenn Beck]

He really is. All, all the corruption isn't about him. All the disasters about him.

[Stu Burguiere]

So all the things his family has done, that's got nothing to do with him whatsoever. But, no, it's true. I mean, he always does this. He does this famously with, you know, families that have lost a loved one in the military. And every time he goes and talks to them to supposedly soothe them, he talks about how his son died in Iraq, which he didn't die in Iraq, but.

[Glenn Beck]

But California. Here's the good news. Here is the good news. I don't know where that story came from. What he didn't say yesterday was California. I know you're suffering. I had a kitchen fire in my house in Delaware once.

[Stu Burguiere]

Don't put this Past. It absolutely could happen.

[Glenn Beck]

So I know what it's like to live through a fire.

[Stu Burguiere]

I know you. I know you're dealing with a hurricane. North Carolina. I had a fan that I could not get off high. It was only stuck on high all night long.

[Glenn Beck]

By the way, can I ask you, where is Kamala Harris?

[Stu Burguiere]

Who?

[Glenn Beck]

She's the vice president. This is her home state.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah. Nothing.

[Glenn Beck]

Where is she? I mean, I guess she's just resigned at. You know, I'm never going to hold public office, so I hate those people anyway. They didn't vote for me. Is that. Is that what's happening here?

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, they did vote for her in California.

[Glenn Beck]

No, I know, but not in great enough numbers, of course. Stu, apparently, she doesn't have to serve the public anymore. So, I mean. I mean, you would think she would be out in front on this just because she could.

[Stu Burguiere]

Let me ask you this. I don't know if you put any thought into this whatsoever, but what's the path forward for Kamala Harris?

[Glenn Beck]

Well, I would buy bonbons and fuzzy slippers, maybe a bathrobe. How do you think the path is? I mean, she'll probably sit at Boeing or, you know, some, you know, McDonnell Douglas. Something. Something that is going to give, you know, give her money and pay her to become part of the military industrial complex. Something that she's never been a part of, per se, but now the money will be there, so she'll take that job and she'll start, you know, saying we should have more war.

[Stu Burguiere]

She'll get on a board somewhere, right? Like. And she'll make a bunch of cash that way. I don't think she's getting necessarily Netflix podcast special, you know, $40 million deals. That doesn't seem like. Like it's a. She's in between. She's not hated by the left, but she's still lost.

[Glenn Beck]

She's. She's. She's done. She would. 10 years. We will be going. Kamala, who. Who was that vice president that was running against Trump again? It was down the road. Where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Gotta face the dark and embrace the fire the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Last night on tv, I. I did a prediction show where I take the top 10, 15 items that I think we have to watch and look out for and prepare. Prepare for, and I put them all together in a show last night. And then my chief researcher took all of my Notes and then put them into chat GPT and had the AI look at them and to see what, what the AI thought would be the, the odds of those things happen. And it was a little eerie because, because it's one thing when it's coming from me and it's another when AI starts to almost quote word for word what I said was gonna come. It was a little freaky last night. That show's gonna be on YouTube. We're gonna cover a little bit of that and so much more here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about Lear. We have a tremendous opportunity now that Donald Trump is going to be back in office to try to fix a lot of the damage that has been done to the American economy. We, we don't want to get back to where we were. We want a new vision. We, we, we want to be working on something that means something and something that will promise our kids a brighter future. Now isn't that worth working on? Well, with the inflation, by the way, Janet Yellen yesterday said, okay, you know, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, you know, what I did with the stimulus played a little role in inflation. A little role in inflation. You're the treasury secretary. You played the role in inflation. All these people. Anyway, the government is possibly going to be at $51 trillion of debt in the next four years unless Musk and Ramaswamy and Trump can get this thing under control. I want you to call Lear Capital. Invest in precious metals, protect yourself and also possibly grow your wealth. A great deal. Lear Capital. 800, 957 gold. 800, 957-gold. Get your free gold ownership kit and special report $4,400 gold ahead. And when you call, ask how you can get up to 50, $15,000 in bonus gold with qualifying purchase. It's 800957 gold. 800957 gold. All right, so let's see. Stu, you said a minute ago that there is a story about the death of the Internet because that's, I mean it's cleverly worded here, but that's what I predicted on last night's show. And you said two stories came up about that last night.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, I saw. I kind of went into a little bit of a rabbit hole on this last night because I think it's fascinating, but I hadn't really heard that much conversation about it until hearing your prediction from the show last night. And it's basically you were talking about the death of the Internet that basically we're going to lose whatever we had in the Internet. While that might sound appealing, I'll give.

[Glenn Beck]

You the whole prediction here in a minute. Let's hear what they were saying.

[Stu Burguiere]

Oh, okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Let's hear what you were, you were saying.

[Stu Burguiere]

Got it, Got it. So the news story is from the Guardian. AI generated slop is slowly killing the Internet. Why is no one trying to stop it? And it goes into the fact that like, you start, you know, you start going through social media, you start going through searching in Google and you, you wind up finding basically nonsense. I find this all the time when I'm reading stories. Like I'm reading stories, I'm like, there's no way a human wrote this.

[Glenn Beck]

This.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's just terrible. It's like you can tell it's bad. And it's written in a format that is really familiar from AI stories like these short paragraphs with new headlines a lot that kind of. It doesn't really give you any information. And I started going down a sort of a rabbit hole in that. And they're now people who are basically mastering the skills of almost taking the Internet into a time machine to 2023 and figuring out ways to search on Google to exclude everything from 2024 on, because the second AI started the Internet, results get worse and worse and worse and worse. You look for pictures of things, you can't tell if the pictures are real pictures or not. And AI is now improving to a level that, for example, they have these stories that kind of pop up every once in a While of like AI model is making millions of dollars on OnlyFans or something. It's this some completely ridiculous, over the top looking, buxom AI figure. Then the new generation of these apparently are AI people made that look kind of, I don't want to say frumpy in comparison, but like real. Like the type of picture that an actual woman would look like. You know what I mean? And they're doing this now and, and just funneling this to people and they're taking in a world that doesn't even exist. So you have to now kind of retroactively go into a time capsule and say, hey, I want to search Google. But only giving me results from 2023 and previous, because that way I'll know it's actually at least somewhat real.

[Glenn Beck]

So that kind of touches on some of the things that I was predicting last night and ChatGPT. Jason ran all my predictions through ChatGPT and said, what are the odds of this happening? This one came back with 90%. Okay, listen to what I was talking about. Last night, the Internet will be. Whoops. The Internet will be destroyed and reborn in 2025. I know that sounds absolutely nuts, but it's actually not. It's something that we have talked about and people like Elon Musk have talked about it. It's just, it's not as bad as you think it is. It's actually something that has to be done. It's a, it's a little understood reality that you, you don't really have access to the Internet. What you get is access to a little sliver of the Internet that the, it kind of brokers. It's an index and it brokers what the Internet will give to all of us. The Internet has been dying a slow death for a while now and everybody's been aware of it. And what the problem is is that have you ever done, have you ever gone on the Internet and you're reading some great article and then you're like, oh, it says click here and watch the video. Or click here and see this study. And you click there and you get a 404. You get, you know, there's nothing, it's just been removed. And you're like, oh crap. Well, that's because about, Let me look in here. What is it? Recent study found a thousand peer reviewed research papers published as recently as 2015. More than 35% of those are now dead links. So 35% of what you're clicking on from those things that have been published since 2015 now dead because somebody moved them, somebody took them down, they've, they weren't valid. Whatever it is, it's no longer linked there. So what happens if we don't? Well, let me put it this way. Do you want the Internet to appear like California appears today? The reason why California keeps catching on fire is because they refuse to clear the underbrush, all of the dead stuff. And that dead stuff catches on fire and then burns down all the good stuff. What this would do if we don't start cleaning it out is it will make it impossible. You'll spend so much time just going to dead links. So we have to do this. The problem is, is that the reason why we haven't done it before is because it requires individuals to do it it and that just is time consuming. But now AI can go and find all of those things and remove all of the dead stuff or the stuff that's not relevant. So as we give the Internet kind of a digital enema, if you will, you're going to the good people at Google to clear it out scour the active web to let AI find and store what it determines to be relevant, con content and live links. I don't trust Google, nor do I trust AI to do this. It's a little frightening to think that the record of history, you know, this is like going into a library and having, you know, one person who has been trained by a group of people that you don't know or you don't necessarily trust. Go in and go, you know what, let's go into the library. There's some few pages and a few books that we just got to rip out. I'm not comfortable with that. So you're kind of in this situation where it's necessary, but also a little terrifying because of the power we are now giving to AI to be our memory. Not necessarily good with our research. I always tell the guy who prints all of our stories every day that puts it together for a morning newsletter that you can get in your email box. I tell him I want you to take get those stories and download them and burn them on a disk because I know they're going to disappear at some point. They'll become irrelevant. And we want the original stories, not just the story of us quoting the story, but the actual story. That's going to become harder and harder now. But we can just trust AI, right? So what does ChatGPT say about this?

[Stu Burguiere]

From ChatGPT, the probability of this happening. Glenn's prediction, 90% probability. They say specifically AI driven tools will continue to restructure the Internet. Dead links, outdated content and paywalls will give way to AI curated summaries and dynamic updates. The Internet as we know it.

[Glenn Beck]

Ooh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. AI curated summaries?

[Stu Burguiere]

Yes.

[Glenn Beck]

That doesn't sound good.

[Stu Burguiere]

No, they go on. The Internet as we know it will feel more like a centralized, streamlined knowledge platform controlled by a few gatekeepers. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI. This change will be seamless to users, but will raise concerns about censorship and bias.

[Glenn Beck]

You think?

[Stu Burguiere]

Glenn?

[Glenn Beck]

Wow. Wow, that is, that's terrifying. I'm not freaked out by mine. I'm freaked out by ChatGPT. So that's, you know, that kind of plays into what you're talking about of letting AI come in and generate things. You know, what was the story we were talking about the other day? Stu? And I said, get that, get that from Chat GPT. See if you can verify that through Chat GPT. And remember that the story came back and part of it, it was very, very accurate, except parts of it were like starting to say, you Know like, well, but that's really kind of Donald Trump. Do you remember this? It was so skewed to the left, left. And it. But it was subtle enough to where the average person may not catch it. All they have to do is delete all of the things that are no longer relevant and you can't find it anymore. I don't know. I want to find. I want to find the work of the people who said, no, it's a flat earth. I think those are important things to have. It's not relevant flat earthers. But you know what? If you don't know it, you're going to come around to it. And we're going back around to flat earthers again.

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, first of all, I'm looking at the window right now. It looks pretty flat to me. So I don't know what you're talking about.

[Glenn Beck]

I know. Well, you can't see the curve when you're up in an airplane.

[Stu Burguiere]

That's right. Thank you. No, but I think that's true. And I don't remember that particular story, but that's going to be a massive problem. We talked about an example of that with CNN the other day where CNN started a story with one of the most amazing political comeback ever has started with Donald Trump. And by the end it was like, how did Donald Trump get power when his people invaded the Capitol? And it was the same story with just a different headline every few hours. None of those were archived, by the way. There's no archive of what those were. They're only archived because we took screenshots of them as the day went on. And this is a massive story. I mean, a lot of people would say like, well, I don't want to use AI, I don't want to use ChatGPT, I'm not going to do it. Well, all this stuff is built into these systems. I mean, Google, for example, and you search Google and now the first thing that pops up every time is an AI summary of what you're looking for, right or wrong. It's just AI is the first thing you see and they put it right at the top for you to take in. And then under that there are some. The little question section and then the actual links that we're all kind of used to when it comes to using Google. What does that mean? Well, they're now instead of. It's not like we've always talked about how Google can deprioritize links, put them on page three instead of page one and that affects people. Imagine when they're writing with their own AI. The same company that was, you know, when you tried to make a knight from the medieval times would have black and an Asian and LGBTQ character pop up in their photo generating software. That same company is now writing the summaries of everything you search for.

[Glenn Beck]

Mm. I will tell you, I will tell you I considered putting on the list this year, but it's far too early. But it will be coming, you know, probably in the next five years. And that will be. This is the year that historians will look back and say that was the beginning of the end of free will. But we are approaching that because of things like that. You won't be able to access the information and the acts and the information that is being given to you is all curated to shape you one way or another. And if you add advertising budgets into that, you're not going to know what you know and what you don't know. What you chose, if it was your idea or somebody else's idea or AI's idea. And you will eventually end up with a death of free will. You, you'll still have a choice, but they've nudged you exactly where you need to be for them and so you'll still feel like it, but you won't have it. It's coming soon to a theater near you. My Patriot supplies are sponsor this half hour. Trump administration's coming in. I feel pretty good. I feel really good. I like the fact that we're not talking just about stopping something. We're talking about about something new, something better. The last thing we should do though, is let our guard down. The election of Donald Trump promises a lot of good for our country, but it doesn't mean that nothing bad is going to happen ever again. Cyber attacks, invasions, God forbid, forbid a nuclear strike. Who knows what's possible. We have to be prepared for the worst while hoping for the best. Storing American in emergency food in your home is the right thing to do. We live in crazy times, you and I know that your family needs to be protected. That's your job. Right now my Patriot Supply is offering $100 off on their 3 month emergency food kit. 2000 calories per day. The whole, the whole thing. You can get plenty of food, 2,000 calories a day for a prolonged emergency. The food kits last up to 25 years. They come in big rugged weatherproof buckets. So go to my patriotsupply.com my patriotsupply.com get your three month emergency food kit. Emergency food from my patriotsupply.com 10 seconds station ID. All right. I gotta tell you the story of. I've got to tell you the story here in a minute of, of Greenland. I kind of found an interesting little, little tidbit of history that kind of will inform you of how smoothly relationships are and how smoothly things would go with Denmark if we actually were serious about Greenland. And I think we are dead soon, don't you think? I think Donald Trump is dead serious about that. And the Panama Canal.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, Trump is definitely serious about it. I mean, he, he wants it. And it's something that, that a lot of people in America have wanted for a long time. It certainly makes sense that it would be part of our country as opposed to Denmark. It doesn't make much sense that it's part of Denmark. So I do think he's serious. Do I think it's going to happen? I would say no, I don't think it's.

[Glenn Beck]

I made a prediction on that last night.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah? What did you think?

[Glenn Beck]

You'll have to watch the show to find out. I made a prediction on that Panama Canal, the P. Diddy and Epstein thing. Made a prediction on all those, on what's going to happen this year. It's pretty interesting.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Watch it tonight on YouTube or it's available for Blaze TV subscribers whenever you want it. On demand. There's another story out that maybe we should pay a little attention to, and that is the fact that we have a new speaker of the House in Texas. We're voting on the speaker of the House and the Democrats and the rhinos are doing exactly the same thing. We just got rid of a guy who, you know, was a bipartisan pick. And in Texas, for some reason, they keep allowing this to happen. They'll get a bipartisan pick. And then even though the Republicans control the House and the Senate, they'll give half the committees to the Democrats. Why would you do that? Um, because Democrats, these Rhinos, those are the, quote, Democrats and they're Republicans. Otherwise you don't get elected here. The ones that actually run as Democrats, they are, they're. They're Democrats on steroids. You know what I'm saying? So we give the Democrats rule over some of the committees. It's ridiculous. And the Republicans are trying to do it again. We just got rid of failing a really bad guy. And, and everybody, you know, the Republicans put up a really good, honest conservative. And now the Democrats and about 15 Republicans are floating this other guy who is a, I think, best friend with the last Speaker Phelan, and is going to do exactly the same Thing. Republicans, you better learn your lesson. We'll have more on this coming up, but I think that vote is Tuesday.

[Stu Burguiere]

I think it is Tuesday. Please, we can't let that happen. It's just, it's Texas. It's embarrassing. This shouldn't be a problem in a place like Texas. Right. Like you'd understand in, I don't know, Illinois, you know, Maine.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu Burguiere]

You know, some, maybe even like a purplish state. You might even take something like this. But in Texas, this should be easy. A real conservative should be leading each, each little tiny piece of the government.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. If you, I mean, look at what happened to our country. You start going down this road and you see where it leads. You can't allow that to happen to Texas. Republicans. Learn your lesson from the last election. This is Glenn back.

[Stu Burguiere]

I'm basically in all out panic because this weekend America's team, the Philadelphia Eagles, play host the Green Bay Packers. And you know, this is. As a big Eagles fan, I get to these moments in the playoffs where I just start panicking and you know, if they lose, it will be basically uninterrupted sadness. However, I found a way to try to reverse this, which is Prize Picks. Prize Picks is, it's America's number one daily fantasy sports app and you can win up to a thousand times your money. And that's what I plan to do. If the Eagles lose, I plan to have a ticket with more on the stat projections for a bunch of packers and less for a bunch of Eagles. And if that happens, the Eagles will probably lose the game, but I will win. And it will at least subside a little bit of the utter pain I will be feeling. They have over 10 million members. I don't know how many of them use it like this, but it's just gonna make me happy. That's the only way I can use it. It's a great easy app to use. You'll love it. And they have a flex play, so I don't even have to nail every one of your picks to collect. They have MasterCard for quick and easy deposits now. So check it out. Download the app, use the code Stu, get fifty bucks instantly. After you play your first five dollar lineup with Prize picks, run your game.

[Glenn Beck]

Hey, make sure you see the show tonight on YouTube or you can get it anytime you want on BlazeTV. Glenn. Stu, what are the odds that we're gonna have the super bowl with you rooting for the Eagles and me with the Chiefs? I mean, this would be the first time I actually would care about The Super Bowl, I mean, a little bit last year, but I'm, like, really a. I'm. I'm a Kansas City Chiefs fan now.

[Stu Burguiere]

You're into it. You're into it.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm in.

[Stu Burguiere]

You didn't care the last Eagles, Chiefs, Super Bowl a couple years ago.

[Glenn Beck]

No, I didn't. I didn't. I was. I was quietly rooting against the Eagles for you.

[Stu Burguiere]

You weren't quietly.

[Glenn Beck]

You were.

[Stu Burguiere]

You were outwardly, but I. I got a sense it was more of just you trying to torture me than the actual football.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't care about the game. I just wanted to torture you. Yes, but this. This comes with double pleasure. My team would win and you would lose.

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, that's what theoretically happened in 2022. But, you know, you apparently weren't that big of a fan at that point. Point.

[Glenn Beck]

I wasn't. I wasn't.

[Stu Burguiere]

You've been watching football, though, a lot. Like, you come in with actual details of games. It's weird. It's.

[Glenn Beck]

It's. It's. It's. It's like a little unsettling.

[Stu Burguiere]

It is very. A little. It's very unsettling. It's very. Ending my entire worldview. I don't even know how to. How to pronounce.

[Glenn Beck]

I decided I really like football.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's great.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Yeah. It's freaking great.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's great.

[Glenn Beck]

I love it.

[Stu Burguiere]

I. I love it. And I am very excited to watch the playoffs this weekend. I think the. You know, there's a lot of really good teams this year. I mean, I think there's four or five in both conferences that could go to the super bowl, so. But I would put the Chiefs as the favorite in the AFC and the Eagles as probably. I mean, they're the two seed. I think that's probably the right place for them. Like, they're probably the second behind maybe the line.

[Glenn Beck]

I have to tell you, I was so bored with your answer there, I just typed it into ChatGPT. The odds are 12%. Okay. Odds are 12%.

[Stu Burguiere]

12%.

[Glenn Beck]

Chat GPT.

[Stu Burguiere]

For a guy who criticizes AI a lot, you do seem to be using it quite a bit.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, I use it over Google, you know. Have you tried Grok yet?

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, I played around with it a little bit. It's the one on. Yeah, it's there. It's another version.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I don't Google things very much anymore. I use ChatGPT because you get answers like this. The odds suggest the Chiefs have an implied probability of approximately 20.4% to win. The Super Bowl. Eagles have a 12.5. To estimate the likelihood of both teams reaching the super bowl, consider the probability of each team winning the respective conference. Chiefs have 40% chance to win. The AFC. Eagles have a 30% chance to win the NFC. Combined probability is about 12%.

[Stu Burguiere]

That sounds about right. That sounds. I'm comfortable with that answer now. A lot of the other answers you're getting from chat GPT, God only knows, but.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I know, I know, I know.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah, it sounds right.

[Glenn Beck]

I. I double check anything that matters. This doesn't really matter, but.

[Stu Burguiere]

How dare you?

[Glenn Beck]

This is the only thing other than the fact that you might lose and my team might win, so.

[Stu Burguiere]

But have you considered the alternative? I mean, what does it feel like with you and your new. Your new bandwagon? Taylor Swift team comes and loses.

[Glenn Beck]

No, that.

[Stu Burguiere]

I know, I know. You're just a big swifty, and that's how you. That's how you got on board.

[Glenn Beck]

Right, Right.

[Stu Burguiere]

But, like, what happens if they lose to America's team, the Philadelphia Eagles? What happens then?

[Glenn Beck]

That would be fun.

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, that's a, That's a fun.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, there is assisted suicide in.

[Stu Burguiere]

Canada and you're pretty close. You're already in Idaho, so.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, right there. So, you know, what's the problem with that?

[Stu Burguiere]

Trudeau, by the way. Trudeau will do that one personally. He'll take care of that euthanasia personally.

[Glenn Beck]

You know what, what's. You know what's. What would make that worse is your team losing and you're in New Orleans.

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, that. I will be there. And I mean.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. I mean, New Orleans is. I love the food. I really actually like many of the people. I, I'm, I'm, I'm a little hesitant on the voodoo stuff that happens. Yeah. It has a spooky feel to it at times, you know, and it's like my least favorite city, I think, in, in the country because of that. Maybe. Maybe even the. I mean, I haven't been to Calcutta, so I'll just leave it at the country. So.

[Stu Burguiere]

Hey, we might have to go. Sorry.

[Glenn Beck]

New Orleans. No, sorry.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's a fun city. You're right. I'm like, I'm. And I will say I'm not a fan of the food. I'm not particularly a Cajun. I'm not a gumbo guy. I'm not a Cajun food guy. So. I'm not even in love with the food.

[Glenn Beck]

Food.

[Stu Burguiere]

A lot of people are.

[Glenn Beck]

But, like, I'm also not a party guy or a drinking guy. Yeah, like so it's like. It's not much Bourbon Street. I mean, seeing that, you know, I'm trying to avoid Bourbon, I might want to avoid the whole street here, too.

[Stu Burguiere]

I said, as a recovering alcoholic, you shouldn't be allowed in the city limits. I will say, I know, but, like, I was there a few years ago and was walking down Bourbon street, you know, at night, and I was thinking to myself, like, if I was 22 and single, this would be incredible, maybe, right? Like, I bet I would love this. As a. An old person. All I was thinking about is if another freaking person bumps into me, you know? Like, it's just. You know, it's people everywhere. They're bumping into you. It's, you know, it's. Look, especially that area is supposed to be dirty and gritty and, like, you know, that's what it's supposed to be. And it's like, I'm just too spoiled in life now. I want to be in a bubble. Like, I. What, do you never want to escape the bubble?

[Glenn Beck]

Right?

[Stu Burguiere]

That's the whole point. I want to be in a bubble where people aren't. You know, there aren't, like, homeless people bumping into me and. And drunk people throwing up on my leg. I want to avoid those circumstances.

[Glenn Beck]

It's funny. I grew up in a small town and couldn't wait. I mean, you know, I. All I want to. Since I was a kid, all I wanted to do is live in New York City and been there, done that, and. Cannot believe I'm at the place to where, you know, I never thought I would want to live in a town of 400. And I. I still don't. I'd like my town to be about 200, maybe. Maybe 150, you know, and we're a thousand miles away from another city. I. That would be ideal for me. It's like, I can't get away from all of that crap fast enough.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

But I think that comes with age. Maybe. I don't know, you kind of been, you know, seen that, done that. All right, let's move on, please. Let's find something real. Last night, I was having dinner with my wife at a restaurant. It was our 25th anniversary last night. And it's weird getting to a place to where you have a, you know, 25th wedding anniversary and that's your second marriage. It's very, very strange. And I said last night, I said, I want to make a pact with you. And she said, okay, what this time? Last time we made a pact, I got stuck with you as my husband forever. And I was like, what? Anyway, I, I said, I want to make a pact. I want. Because I remember my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and it was cool, but they were generally, I mean, at the time they were old, but it was like, you know, 65 years old. Our 50th would, I'd be 87. And I'm like, I want to make that pack, but 87, man, I'm gonna probably be pretty cranky by 87. You know, I, I. Are you a little afraid of what you're going to be like when you're old and tired? And I mean, because I know already, I say whatever I'm thinking. And I remember my grandfather, he'd always be like, yeah, my grandpa just kind of says what he wants, you know, so, yeah, that's funny. Grandpa, you know, he kind of get into that situation where there's no filter anymore and probably should be a filter at some point. And I'm wondering when I lose that filter. And honestly, if anybody would know, if anybody would notice, it might happen slowly.

[Stu Burguiere]

I was gonna say if this is you filtered. I don't, I hate to see what unfiltered looks like.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah.

[Stu Burguiere]

By the way, I just, I just asked ChatGPT a question as well, which was Glenn Beck just had his 25th anniversary. What are the chances he makes it to his 26th? And they think it's almost 90% there's a chance.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, there's a chance that my 26th.

[Stu Burguiere]

You're 26. Because I think, because there's two factors, people are like, oh, well, I mean, he'll live another year. And that's possible. They think that chances in the high 90s, but then you got to combine it with the chance that she might leave you. So I think we're at 89% on that.

[Glenn Beck]

Hang on just a second. I'm going to ask it something too.

[Stu Burguiere]

89% chance. So that's good, Glenn, that's. Honestly, it's higher than my, I take that bet. I'd take the other side. Take the other side. A little bit of odds. I mean, I think that's appropriate. So, I don't know. I mean, was she into it? Do you think she's in for another year or what was her vibe? Do you think she's.

[Glenn Beck]

She, yeah, yeah, she was, she was into that. She was, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stu Burguiere]

Interesting.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah. Wonder why.

[Stu Burguiere]

I'm just curious as to what the reasoning was. Why would she want to stick around for that's 50. She tell her it's 52 full weeks, and that's a long time. Imagine all she has to deal with to get through those.

[Glenn Beck]

I asked her about the 25 years. I didn't ask her about the year. And she was like, that's hard for me to comprehend. Okay, that's not a good answer. She said, oh, wow. Okay. I'm getting actual odds of what it would. What? Oh, my gosh. Current age of Glenn Beck. So I asked ChatGPT, what are the odds Glenn Beck makes it to his 50th wedding anniversary? Predicting somebody's odds of making it to a specific milestone like their 50th wedding anniversary depends on several factors, including current age, health, lifestyle, and genetics. Like, can't provide specific odds for Glenn Beck without detailed information. I can extend some general context. Current age. Glenn Beck was born February 10, 1964. He's 60 years old. To reach his 50th wedding anniversary another 25 years, he'd need to live to be 85. Okay, life expectancy. I thought I was 62, but I am 30. 60, I guess. Life expectancy for us males. Don't ask. I don't. You lose track of your birth years.

[Stu Burguiere]

Two years there. That was sad.

[Glenn Beck]

Anyway, last year was a very long year.

[Stu Burguiere]

It was, it was.

[Glenn Beck]

According to recent data, the average life expectancy for males in the US is 77.

[Stu Burguiere]

We're not that far away.

[Glenn Beck]

17 years.

[Stu Burguiere]

Now remember, though, that's. That's life expectancy at birth. When you get to. You make it to 60, your life expectancy is higher than 77. When you, when you get to 60, you've. You've eliminated all the deaths you could have had in your first 60 years, which are included in that average of 77 overall.

[Glenn Beck]

So wait, when I'm at 77, then I've.

[Stu Burguiere]

Right. Your life expectancy.

[Glenn Beck]

If I'm at 78, I've. I've conquered all of the deaths that were possible in my life.

[Stu Burguiere]

And when you make seven.

[Glenn Beck]

So when you make it forever.

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, when you make it to 78, your life expectancy is like probably 88 or something. Because you've eliminated the possibility of dying between 0 and 78. This is. This.

[Glenn Beck]

There's math involved.

[Stu Burguiere]

I can see him.

[Glenn Beck]

No, here's the bet. No, no, no. Here's the bad news. Positive factors. He has, as a public figure, probably has access to excellent healthcare, wealth and resources. Financial stability can provide better nutrition. Is there a waste management?

[Stu Burguiere]

Is there a weight section?

[Glenn Beck]

Support system? Strong family and community can enhance both mental and physical health. I got that one potential concerns. High profile careers, particularly in media and politics often come with stress. Nah. And that Inca impact long term health if not manage well health History Glenn Beck has spoken publicly about health challenges in the past, including neurological issues. These factors may play a role in his future longevity. Conclusion While there are some uncertainties, reaching his 85th birthday is achievable, especially with proactive health measures and lifestyle adjustments. If Glenn Beck continues to prioritize his health and well being, celebrating his 50th continues is within reason.

[Stu Burguiere]

They won't give you odds. They just say it's theoretically possible.

[Glenn Beck]

Theoretically, maybe it's possible. But then again, so is the transporter on Star Trek.

[Stu Burguiere]

They didn't even include the chances of her just ditching you, which is still far more likely. I'm much more confident in your long term health than that.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

You know, Glenn, part of the defeat of communism happened in a grocery store in America when Boris Yeltsin came over and saw the plenty that we had in our regular grocery stores. And he was amazed by it. Do you remember this? And he couldn't help himself but praise the incredible situation Americans found themselves in. And it wound up weakening the case to hold on to communism. There's another story that's similar to this, which is a Cuban immigrant going for the very first time to a Costco in America. There's video.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah. Watch this. Close your eyes. That's him reacting to the meat freezer fridge there. He's going crazy. Just huge sides of like beef or something. He's holding them up.

[Glenn Beck]

Imagine that.

[Stu Burguiere]

Just thrilled to see this. He says there's so much more here. I can't believe people can just buy meat.

[Glenn Beck]

I can't believe people could just.

[Stu Burguiere]

He looks, look, it's apples. Amazing apples. Just can't believe there's coats and clothing and everything else in this one store. He says it's just like it is in the movies. I mean, that's incredible.

[Glenn Beck]

And they're so close to the United States and have no idea that that stuff is real and attainable for them as well. Notice how he was really excited at first and then he kind of got almost a little reflective. Yeah, like, you know, I think it would be an overwhelming experience.

[Stu Burguiere]

Really would. I mean, it's a life changing thing that we celebrate every single day and don't even acknowledge. Maybe we should.

[Glenn Beck]

A little bit more. Yeah, maybe we should celebrate it a little more. At least recognize our blessings. This is Glenn, Becky.