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J6 Investigation BOMBSHELL? The Questions We STILL Need Answered | Guests: Christopher Rufo & Robby Starbuck | 11/10/25
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Glenn Beck
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Christopher Rufo
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Glenn Beck
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Well, hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. It is a, it's going to be an interesting day, to say the least. A very interesting day. We've got a lot to cover, including a new idea of 50 year mortgages. Wow, that's going to be fantastic. Also, we're going to tell you about the story that came out this weekend that the Blaze has been talking about for the last few days on the pipe bomber. What is that story? We'll give that to you coming up in just a second. First, let me tell you about Relief Factor. If you are tired of living in pain, Relief Factor may be the solution for you. Stop toughing it out. Relief Factor can help you. You can spend hours fixing a car that squeaks, but when your own joints start to make that sound, you just turn up the radio and pretend you don't hear it. We tell ourselves, well, it's just getting older. That's just, that's all that is. It's just, well, no, not, not really. Your body is not the enemy. Your body is trying to fix itself, but it's, it's lost the ability to do so just because of age. What, what happens to us is we will sit into a situation to where our body has started to not be able to fight inflammation anymore. And so we need something that, you know, will help support our body's natural response, our natural immunity and our natural ability to fight inflammation in our body. That's what Relief Factor does. Go to relieffactor.com, get your body to work again. Relieffactor.com 1995 visit relieffactor.com or call 800, the number for relief. That's 800, the number four relief. Relieffactor.com well, hello, Stu. How are you? Glenn?
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Stu
Relieved, as you just pointed out. Thank God we are, we're out of this shutdown potentially. That's the, the thing.
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Christopher Rufo
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Are we, are we though? Really? Are we? Yeah.
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Stu
The Democrats stepped up or folded depending on who you're talking to, and, and solved this for us.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. It is, it's so clear now that all they did was they held this for the election to try to win the election. And they're now they're ready to, to fold. And we are seeing people with real, real problems all around the country. Socialism is becoming popular because the, quite honestly, the, the right is not an, is not answering the question what do we do from here? We are in what's called a K shaped economy right now. And that's what happens after a crisis when different groups had to different opposite directions and locations. If you think about a K, you think the, the upper line goes up and the lower line, that's the, the up are the people with assets and homes and stable jobs and they'll, they'll do well. But the lower, the lower line goes down and that's the people living paycheck to paycheck, the renters, the small businesses, the wage earners that all fall behind. And right now you're seeing on television, you're seeing, oh my gosh, look at the stock market is up. All of these things are going up. Well, that's great. Some rise, some sink. But the gap is widening here. The K at the very beginning where the two lines meet is very, very close to each other. But as they keep going, those lines become further and further apart. And there is a moment in, you know, there's a moment. How can I explain this? Remember the old country fairs? You probably never went to one, but maybe you saw it on, on TV where you know, there's a strongman contest and there's that, that thing where, you know, you hit the, you hit the, the thing with a hammer and the bell goes up, it goes bing. That's what's happening right now. There's a strongman contest going on right now and everybody leans in to see, oh, is this guy going to be able to ring? And he, you know, takes the big hammer and he swings it and the puck goes up and it rings the bell. Some swing just as hard and the puck barely budges. Okay, same hammer, same pole, different outcomes. That's a K shaped economy. And we live in a moment where the puck is going up. For those who already own a house and, or have investments or you know, run businesses that survive the storm. And you know, they, they swing the hammer and the bell goes up and rings the bell. But the family down the street, the young couple that's trying to buy their first house, the small shop owner who never reopened, they're swinging just as hard, but they just. The Barrett, the puck is just barely going up at all. And the system says try again, step right up, try again. And then hands a smaller hammer. A K shaped economy is not philosophy. It's not a political slogan. It's what happens when a government prints money like confetti and then watches inflation climb a ladder that is missing rungs and then tells you, don't worry, the economy is booming. I'm sorry, but the economy is not booming for a lot of Americans. And there are big changes being made right now at the global level. And I like the changes that are being made at the global level. But we are forgetting there are too many people that are really hurting right now. You know, we are going to continue to work and continue to spin our wheels on socialism until there is a new idea on how we're going to get out of this problem. And Donald Trump is working on a long term solution. But I fear that's not going to be enough. I heard a crazy idea today about a 50 year mortgage. Oh, wow. So the average person is in their house for 12 years and I got a 30 year mortgage, which means I'm not really putting very much into it because the bank is taking all of the interest rates for the first, you know, ten years at least. They're taking all the interest first. And then I don't really start paying my house off until the last 15 years of that mortgage. But now instead of a 30 year, you want me to do it for 30, 50 years? Oh, oh, okay. Well, what, what is that going to do? Well, first of all, it's going to, it's going to raise the price of the house. I mean, you know, if everybody starts to get. Well, I get a 50 year mortgage so I can afford a house. We have a shortage of housing. So the mortgage is the, the house payments, sorry, the house prices are going to go up because we have a lack of housing. And then on top of it, you're going to double the payment anyway because you're paying all that extra interest. I mean, you're just charging more and stretching it out. It's like solving hunger by not giving food, but just giving longer straws to people. Okay, wait, what? You're going to pay double for the same house? It means double the interest rates. And while your roof has to be repaired, the, the brand new wiring that you had when you bought the house all needs to be redone. The appliances have to be replaced. Every, the bathroom is completely out of date. It all has to be replaced again. You're still paying on that house. Okay? This is like buying not one house, but two houses. And it's not freedom, it is trapping you. And you know what really bothers me is it is homeownership no, I'm sorry, it's rent. It's renting disguised as home ownership. That's what that is. You're not going to build equity into a house like that. You won't own your home until you're in your 80s and if you bought it later in life, your children are going to inherit, inherit the payments that you have. It masks. The problem that we real have, that we really have is home prices. Because we don't have enough homes. We also have these giant corporations that are buying up homes en masse and then renting them to us. And we also have prices for the home that is broken from the wage. A 50 year mortgage is like giving somebody a longer plank, you know, on a sinking ship. No, I mean I'm going to end up in the water anyway. I guess that's helpful in a strange sort of way. What we don't understand is these are the conditions in which socialism thrives. If we keep just trying to say socialism is wrong, we're not going to help anyone. There's two things that have to happen. We a have to come up with new solutions for these very old problems. And the new solutions cannot involved printing more money, bailing the banks out, giving the banks more interest or anything like that, because socialism is coming with a vengeance. And boy, I got to tell you, it is going to have all kinds of answers because it always does. In January, I'm going to start something new called the Torch. And it exists really for one reason. We're running out of time to relearn what our grandparents knew by heart. Okay? The lies that we face today are not new. They're old ghosts wearing just modern clothes. And starting January, I'm dedicating the next part of my life, the last part of my career, to education on history and, and, and usable things. Going deep. You know, the thing about broadcast is you go very wide and very shallow. I need to go narrow and deep at times. We're still going to be doing what I do here every day, which bringing you all the news and trying to make sense of it. But I need to go deep on things and socialism is one of them. So we are working right now on new programs, a new podcast, a new daily rhythm of learning that I've never done before. And some of these shows are just going to be you and me every single day, just walking through history with a flashlight in one hand and the truth in the other, trying to figure out what's going on. But one of the lessons that I think we need in this is a series on socialism, on why it never works, how it happens, and how the lies always begin exactly the same. This is the kind of work that the torch is being built for. So let me give you, let me just give you a highlight of one lesson on how whenever a society gets into this situation, history will show us a poisoned promise begins. And I'll give that to you here in just a second. First, let me take a quick break. Ever notice how every part of modern life depends on somebody else doing their job? You know, the power company, the Internet provider, the pharmacy. Most of the time it all works out fine until the moment it doesn't. Then the supply chains break, you know, or stores have to close early or the doctor's office is booked for weeks. That's when you find out how little control you actually have on your own health. And that's why Jace Medical exists. They give you the power to take that control back. You know, through their network of licensed physicians, you can get a legal doctor prescribed supply of common antibiotics and other essential medications packaged, labeled and shipped right to your door when you need them. Because when you've done the work to be ready, you don't have to worry about, you know, what the world does next. You've done the work. You don't have to panic or stockpile or hope somebody else fixes it. You just open your Jace case, you breathe a little bit and you move on with your life. That's what real preparedness looks like. When you order your Jace case today, use the promo code Beck. That's beck. Go to jace.com, enter the promo code beckase.com, get a discount on your order. It's jace.com promo code beck. 10 seconds. Station ID. Okay, so let me give you with it with a K shaped, a K shaped economy, the socialists always arrive making all kinds of poison promises. And there is a pattern and it is so ancient it could be scripture. Also modern enough to sit on the news crawl as you're watching whatever news you're watching. Every socialist experiment starts with the same smooth tongue promise. We are going to make life fair. Unfortunately for socialists, it, you know, history keeps impeccable books. The receipts are really, really damning. Fortunately for socialists, nobody ever reads history. So let's take just a quick stop at history for a second. Hugo Chavez is probably the latest. When Chavez took power in Venezuela, it was 1999 and he told the nation, which was booming, it was like America 2000. Okay, he said he's, he's building a new, a new revolution that would create a classless society where oil wealth would lift the poorest into dignity. Okay? He had the richest country besides, I think the United States of America in the Western hemisphere. He said it wasn't enough. We need no more hunger, no more shanty towns, and the state will guarantee your rights. And we're going to distribute the wealth of the rich to the people. And everybody cheered and everybody was so very excited. And for a short moment, the fantasy glowed, because it always glows for just a fraction of a second. He nationalized the oil industry. And then he said poverty he would end by decree. Well, he ended something by decree. By 2014, the shelves were completely empty in the stores. By 2016, the average Venezuelan was losing over 20 pounds a year due to food shortages. Let me just remind you that by 2016, they were eating the dogs and the cats in the streets. Not making that up. Look it up yourself. And the zoo animals in the cages of the zoo were also being cooked up for people on the streets to eat. Hospitals lost their power, children died from treatable diseases. Millions fled the country. And today Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves in the world. And yet people are standing in line for bread while the daughters of the socialist elite post photos of European vacations. What's happening to the Ferris revolution? There's. It ended with a ruling class gorging on privilege and the nation digging through dumpsters for meals. That's the way it always happens. It's not an outlier, it's the rule. Look at Cuba, 1959, Fidel Castro, the Rev. I'm quoting. The revolution will bring justice, equality, education and health care for all. Freedom from American exploitation. Che declared that Cuba would become an example of a new humanity. Well, what followed? Well, first thing they did was they shut down the independent newspapers. They were shut down by 1960. Then they imprisoned people in labor camps for being counter revolutionary, including priests, teachers and homosexuals. Yeah, that Che. Then food rationing began in 1962. By the way, food rationing in Cuba has never ended. Today the average salary in Cuba is $15 a month. Now, the same Communist Party that claimed to abolish class created the most immovable ruling class in the Caribbean. And yet the billboards still show smiling peasants and slogans about equality, while the sons of party officials are driving imported cars through Havana's rotting streets. And everybody else has to fix a car from the 19-5-50s. Remember, the promise was fairness, but the result was an island sized cage. All right, it was just those two. Well, let's look at Germany The Nazis were the National Socialists. Hitler didn't sell Nazism as tyranny. He sold it as social justice for the German worker. The Nazi platform 1920 promised abolition of unearned incomes, profit sharing in large industries, nationalization of trust, land reform because there just wasn't enough space for people to own their own houses, all in the interest of the common good. It was marketed as a workers movement. A workers. A socialist workers movement. And it was going to correct all the inequality, punish the greedy capitalist, and restore fairness. So what happened? Well, first the disabled had to go, and the sick children, because we can't afford to keep them going. And the political dissenters, they were just stopping us from all this progress. Oh, and the Jews, of course, and the Slavs and the Poles. I mean, anyone who didn't fit the utopian math, they were gone. The promise of fairness became the most industrialized murder machine the world has ever seen. But don't worry, we could also go to the Soviet Union, the grand cathedral of socialist dreams. Here's what Lenin promised. We'll bring about the complete equality of all citizens, end quote. The state quoting will wither away. Oh, yeah. The workers will own the factories, the peasants will own the land. Okay, so they got power. And what happened? Well, none of that. Under Stalin, over 100,000 priests were executed or sent to camps. Why? Why, why do they keep going after the religious people? Because the religious people are the only ones who will stand against monsters. That's why millions of Ukrainian peasants were starved under the holodomor for refusing the collectivization. Read that story. It's horrific. The workers paradise required one of the largest secret police forces in human history. Why Soviet Union became a nation where you waited hours to buy bread. Party members. However, if you were in the party and you were high up, oh, you. You could get anything you wanted. You had luxury stores that were built just for you. By the 1980s, the system was so hollow that the most basic consumer goods, soap, shoes, toilet paper, they were rationed or unavailable. And by the way, the state never withered away. It metastasized into every corner of life. It became everything. This story of socialism is written in blood in ledger books all over the world. And it always starts with the promise of equity or equality. And it always leads to the rise of an elite who decides what equality means. And every time it fails, they say, well, that was just put in the hands of the wrong people. No, the key word here is not wrong. It's people. People the workers never get the factories, the peasants never Receive the land. The poor never get any of the wealth. And it's this story over and over and over. Socialism begins with a promise, but always ends with a ruling class armed with absolute power. Only the names change. Did you know that? Did you know in Jamestown in 1619, you know that boat that the New York Times said arrived with slaves? Didn't arrive with slaves. It arrived with socialism. It ended in cannibalism. Did you know that the Pilgrims tried the same thing? They decided, you know what? We should put everybody's money into a big pile. And you just take whatever you need because that's what. That's the Christian thing to do. You know what that ended with? Starvation and death. By the way, The Reunion tower in Dallas. That big ball that you see in the sky, you know what that, that that is? That's to mark Reunion. That was the first socialist town in 1855 in Dallas. Guess how that ended it, Glenn? Starvation. 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Stu
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Glenn Beck
So we're talking about the American dream and the rise of socialism and this new idea that we're just gonna get everybody into a house by offering them a 50 year mortgage instead of a 30 year mortgage. Which is insane. Insanity. Insanity. I'm sorry. You know, I, I, you could take an eight year loan out on your car. If that's the only thing you can do to get a car is to take eight years. But you know, at the end of the eight years, that car is not going to be worth really anything. And you've paid all of that, you know, all of that extra cost on interest. But if that's what gets you in. But this is not, this is like a savings of like $300 a month and it's 20 extra years of paying on your house. To me, Stu, doesn't that sound like rent to you?
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Stu
It does sound a lot like rent, which is, by the way, not the end of the world renting. I do think that we have a weird thing that we are internalizing, thinking that having a mortgage is the thing that brings you happiness. As a homeowner who has to dive into repairing things all the time. I assure you this is not accurate. But it is something that is thought of as part of the American dream and something that can help you, especially if you stay in the same location for a long period of time. Putting a 50 year mortgage in is going to mean you're going to give a lot more money to the banks. It's great, I guess, for the banks, maybe it's good for you. But I think at the end of the day it's certainly not going to increase your happiness. When you're in year 18 and you've paid off 19, 20% of your mortgage. When you're 30 and you're paid off 40% of your mortgage, these are not going to be fun times. I don't know why that's going to bring you happiness.
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Glenn Beck
So the American dream was changed by a guy named, I think his name was Stuart Chase. No, Adams. Adams. I can't remember his name. But it was 1930s. Yes, it was in the 1930s and you know, they were revamping everything and they made the American dream to be a house. And that was never the point of the American dream because it, it can't be. That's not what they fought for. That's not why we had the American Revolution. The idea was your life is not set in stone by some king or some caste or some party or commissar. You get to make the decisions on your life. There is no such thing as a ruling class that can keep you down. You're free to build, to fail, to rise again. You're free to chart your own course. And here's the biggest part of the American dream. You are free to chart a course for your children. So when your children chart their course, it doesn't look like the one you started on. So, in other words, I can raise my station in life enough to be able to give my kids a hand up so they can chart a course for them and they can make it a little farther than I did. This, you know, John Adams in the. In the movie, I think it was called John Adams on HBO years ago, I'll never forget, he was sitting in a dining room with Franklin and all of these French people, and they were all just made up and just grotesque. And he comes in really shabby clothes and he's sitting at the table, and he's. He's pretty much yelling at Franklin before the meeting, is like, we need help. What are you doing? You're having all these parties over here. We need help. And Franklin says, you don't understand. This is the way it's done in France. I'm making progress. Slow down. And he says, come and have dinner. And so they have dinner, and John Adams is just seething. And they said, have you. Have you seen the latest, you know, show at the opera? And he said, no, sir, I'm too busy right now trying to gain my own freedom. So maybe then with my own freedom, my kids can help me work the land, and my kids can go to university to study agriculture and mathematics and philosophy and science. So then maybe their children will be able to go in and study the arts and be able to have a chance to see the theater. And what he was saying was, we're building something, and I'm doing what I have to do to be able to get the next generation to be able to get them to where they can do what they have to do, so maybe the third generation can enjoy that. We are now so deep into the generations that we have not had to. We've not had anybody really, truly struggle, except maybe in our own lives. We've seen the struggle, and. And yet society is promising you this, you know, I don't know, this TikTok life that isn't real, this Instagram life that isn't real. And you think everybody has that, and that's where real success is. I don't know how to. I don't know how to fix a country that thinks that having stuff is the dream, because it's not the dream. The dream is being able to chart your own course and being able to say, I can be better in my life and improve my station in my life so my kids can improve their station in their life. Right now we're borrowing from our kids and now our grandkids. We'll never meet the people that are paying off the debts. Can you imagine how immoral that is? We'll be long dead and they'll be strapped to paying all of this debt off and they'll be like, for what you think you're saying for what? Imagine what are they saying? For what? We don't have a military anymore. We don't have this big government anymore. We don't have these subsidies anymore. We don't have SNAP anymore. And yet we're paying all of these taxes for what? It's not going to end well. But how do you fix that, Stu? How do you fix that when everybody is saying that? And it's because we have changed people's. We've changed from a country of needs to a country of wants. And we've done it over a hundred years. How do you sell hard work to people, a lot of people who don't know what hard work is and don't want it? Yeah.
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Stu
I will say making people you'll never meet generations later pay for what you have run up the bill for is either just completely immoral or an incredible life hack. I mean, if we don't care about these people, he could just say screw them and just run up the bills. It's fantastic. But yeah, no, I agree. I think there's two parts of this I think are really the problem here, one you've addressed, which is this idea of formulating what the American dream is. Homeownership can be great in certain ways for certain people. You need to have a very specific circumstance where it's great though, where you maybe are stable, you're at a job where you think you're going to be for a long time. You don't want to move. You talk about charting your own course. Home ownership is one of the things that makes it difficult to chart your own course in a way because you can't just move around. You are at the whims of the housing market. If you want to just leave, you might not be able to do that. To go to another city, to go to another job. There are lots of limitations people don't think about. It all works out fine and dandy when the market is going up like crazy because you can kind of turn that in and you're getting tax incentives. The government's making this encouraging you to do It. Which is usually something that conservatives resist, but it can work for a lot of people. It's great in a lot of situations, especially if you're going to stay in the place for a long time. I think focusing on ownership status as the American dream is a bad thing. That's one thing we do have to work on. It's going to be hard to work on. The second part of it should be easy, which is trying to figure out what the solution to these problems are. It's like, well, yeah, I think we can all agree that perfect capitalism, which of course we're nowhere near. But if some sort of capitalism is not going to, by definition, work for everyone perfectly, it's not what it's designed to do. It's supposed to be the best system for everybody to pursue happiness. That does not mean everyone achieves it. It does not mean everything's perfect.
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Glenn Beck
And this idea that not everybody is willing or want. There are so many people that just want to go to work and then go home and live their life and they don't want to think about work. Yeah, you know, I think about work all the time 24 7. I am thinking about work and what all of it means and everything else. That that's not a price people all want to pay. You know, I don't get to. My wife says to me, I go on vacation. My wife will be like, stop working. And I'm like, honey, it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop. I can't stop.
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Stu
Let me paint you a picture going on World with Glenn Beck to a supposedly enjoyable vacation where you're supposed to go, relax. You will not relax for a moment on that flight. You will be cornered into an endless work conversation while you're trying to enjoy yourself. This is true, and I can attest to it.
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Glenn Beck
But. But, okay. But that provides a different lifestyle for me. Good and bad provides a different lifestyle. And there's a lot of people that don't want that. And I understand that and that's totally cool, but it does. You don't get the same equal outcome. You know what I mean? And I think it's. And there are some people that work really, really hard their whole life and they still don't get the same outcome.
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Stu
As a massive fan of capitalism, I can totally admit that there's tons of people that will work their asses off and try really, really hard. And likely. I mean, capitalism typically in most cases will provide a life that if you work your butt off and you really try your hardest, you can get by it doesn't mean you're gonna live the luxury life, but it might mean those things. But the part here that I'm trying to attack a little bit is, well, what's the solution to that? If you think the solution is the type of government that you described at the beginning of this hour when you're going through our torch history lesson here, of every single time socialism has been tried, it's failed miserably. Why on earth would the solution to whatever problems we have with capitalism be the form of government that has failed every single time? It's like saying, well, I'm going to the gym every day. I'm working out really hard, I'm eating right, and I am not making the US Olympic team, therefore, I'm going to amputate my left leg. Well, I can understand that. Maybe you're upset that you're not getting a solution out of the problem that you have.
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Glenn Beck
Might be real.
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Stu
Maybe you are working your butt off and you're just not cracking 10 seconds in the 100 meter. That being said, amputating your leg will not help this. Amputating your leg will make everything worse, not only about your life, but also about your running abilities.
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Glenn Beck
Unless. Unless. And this is the part that nobody understands or is willing to look at because they think that socialism is for the people and it's of the people and by the people. Okay? They don't recognize this is to the advantage of the billionaires. It's to the advantage of those people who are in on it and will control everything. And so, yes, it doesn't make sense to. Unless you have all of the doctors who are in on it, who know we're just going to make so much money amputating legs. And, yeah, everybody is going to be walking around, Hubble, but they will have to. I mean, think of transgender surgery. They will have to come to us and the pharmaceutical companies for the rest of their lives. So unless you have a doctor society or an elite society that will say, no, no, no, Stu, amputating your leg is the right answer. It's the right answer. Trust us. It might. It might get tough, but it's going to get even better because you're going to be fair and you're going to run so fast. And then when it doesn't work out, all they do is they say, you know what the problem is? You have too many fingers. On the other hand, let me. You know what? And these people don't want you to take those fingers off of that other hand. And pretty soon, you can't walk, you can't move, you can't do anything. And they have all of the control of your entire life. And you've set your whole life up to be a slave to them.
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Stu
Think of how aerodynamic.
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Glenn Beck
That's what people don't understand. What'd you say?
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Stu
If we take all your limbs, think of how aerodynamic you'll be be for that hundred people.
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Glenn Beck
That's exactly, that's how bad these solutions are for socialism. And it is exactly the same. It is the ruling class, the people that will make all of the money that are selling you these same old tired lies. Because it always ends the same way. They own everything. They control everything. Their life is incredibly sweet, but everybody else's life is misery. But they win. So let's just sell this old tired lie one more time, alright? Back in just a second. Every month, the bills roll in like clockwork. Mortgage, credit cards, car payment. By the time you're done paying them, you're usually left with a dusty wallet. And you work hard. Everything you do, you do right. You try to. And yet the numbers never seem to move in your favor. But what if you could actually keep more of what you earn? That's where American Financing comes in. They're a family owned mortgage company that works for you, not the banks. They're salary mortgage consultants. They don't push for commissions because they don't get commissions. They find real solutions. That's refinancing your home, perhaps consolidating high interest debt. One single payment, maybe it's shortening your loan term so you can own your house years sooner. There's no pressure, no gimmicks, no hidden fees. Just straightforward help from people who understand what you're going through. You'd be amazed how much a simple refi can free up every single month. Sometimes it's hundreds of dollars. The average of this audience that calls in is $835 every single month going into your pocket. Every single month. Call American Financing today. See how much they could save you every single month. Call American financing at 800-90624 40. It's 800-90624 40. It's American financing.net and MLS 182334 nmls consumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.79. Well, qualified borrowers. Call 800-906-2440 for details about credit costs and terms. Never put your future in another man's saddlebag. Or your lunch. You never know where that thing's been that stinks. More Glenn Beck in a jiff.
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Stu
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Glenn Beck
Hey, this is exciting. You know, Zoran Mamdani has managed to find a mosque in Puerto rico. It's like 1% of the population is Muslim, but he went down. Do we have that cut? It's cut. Eight, please. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be great. You know, no big deal. No big deal. The Washington Post just wrote an editorial that said, ooh, looks like the mask has come off of Zoran Mamdani. What? Matt, What? What are you talking about? How hateful is that? Also the story that broke over the weekend, the Blaze story on the January 6th pipe bomber. We're gonna talk about that coming up next. This is Glenn Beck. Every generation has to rediscover what real tastes like, you know, we forgot for a while we traded flavor for convenience. But some things are worth bringing back. Massive chips. Start with organic corn, sea salt and 100% grass fed beef tallow. That's it. Three simple ingredients. No seed oils, additives, nothing that belongs in a lab. And the result is a chip that is very different. It's crispy, it's clean, it's deeply satisfying. It's strong enough for guac, good enough to eat straight out of the bag. And it reminds you why food used to be much so much so much better. I'm telling you, beef tallow things cooked in beef tallow made with integrity is really, really, really good. Remro is so unhealthy. Yeah. Now it's healthy again. Masachips.com go there masachips.com I also like vanity crisp.com these are the potato chips. They're so good. They're available at sprouts markets nationwide. Pick up a bag and taste what we lost. And we're now getting back ready to give masa a try. Use the promo code Glenn for 25 off your first order at masachips.com or the potato chips vandycrisps.com.
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Stu
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Glenn Beck
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Stu
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Glenn Beck
Last week we told you that the Blaze had an exclusive. It is out today and it is pretty shocking. But we have to be very, very cautious on what we learned because. Well, let me give you the story and you'll understand. We'll do that here in just a second for Z Factor. Most people think that sleep is just what happens when you run out of energy. But truth is, sleep is a system reboot. It's complete software update for your body and your mind. When your brain takes out the trash, your muscles rebuild and your immune system runs its nightly security check. That's what happens. Then the maintenance cycle that keeps everything running smoothly from your mood to your memory, it starts working right. So why do we treat sleep like an afterthought? We drag ourselves to bed. We scroll until our eyes hurt. And then we wonder why we wake up feeling like we never slept at all. There's a reason for it. Z Factor from the maker of Relief factor designed to change that. 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In the shadow of that walk, someone places what appears to be a pipe bomb next to the Capitol Hill Club. Minutes earlier, another device had been planted behind the Democratic National Committee. These two devices would become the invisible thread running throughout what would happen the very next day. Those two devices would pull police away from their post at the Capitol, drain resources and fog the timeline. Just as Congress gathered to certify the vote and the crowd surged towards the Capitol, also something else happened. The Vice President or the incoming Vice president, Kamala Harris, would be called away from the Capitol, unbeknownst to anyone. Now, why she would call away from the Capitol. And she was put into the building right where the pipe bomb was sitting. Right in front. Now, for five years, this mystery sat there like a locked room. Nobody seemed able to open it. Or maybe they weren't willing to open it. The FBI had said they conducted all logical investigative steps. They offered nearly half a million dollars in reward money. And yet somehow, nothing. Nothing. Not a suspect, not a motive, not even clarity about the most basic facts, such as who found the bombs. Why was the response team to the bombs so casual? Then something unexpected happened. Blaze News began to quietly gather some pieces. Video fragments, security footage, non public recordings, testimony from former FBI agents, interviews with intelligence contacts. And then one of the strangest clues. A walk, A gate. Because in the shadows of these tapes, the unknown bomber had left behind the one thing a hoodie and a mask could not hide. The way their body moved. So Blaze News arranged for a forensic Gait analysis. This isn't guesswork. This is a scientific algorithm that compares the knee flexing, the hip extension, the step length, the cadence and variance. It's like a digital footprint of how a person moves through space. Well, the Software returned a 94% match between the bomber's walk and that of the walk of a former Capitol Police officer. Who I'm not going to name here. And I'll tell you why I'm not going to name her here. When the analysts that were human, they looked at it, they put the match closer to 98%. Now, let me stop here and tell you why I'm not telling you the name of this person. Because a match is not guilt. Comparison is not proof. This person of interest is still a citizen whose life carries the same dignity and presumption of innocence as yours and mine. And I can't tell you what is true in this story yet. Okay, I can tell you that it is whispering something and it sounds a little like a scream. And we owe it to the Republic to listen to it because this person is not an unknown drifter. Okay, let me just. Let me just give you some of the things that make you go, hmm, that doesn't sound right. This individual served as a Capitol police officer from 2018 to 2021. Right after, shortly thereafter, January 6, she went to work as a security detail at the CIA while that. How did that happen? She's also a member of the Civil Disturbance Unit. She was one of them that trained officers on so called less lethal weapons. Now, we told you in another story last week that these officers were using these less. Less lethal weapons in ways that they are marked on the weapons. Do not fire at heads, faces. Yada, yada, yada. Okay, well, the Blaze News investigation uncovered a video showing this individual using those weapons aggressively on the crowd on January 6th in ways that apparently they say don't do it. And she is somebody who is training people. Now, none of that is conclusive, but pieces start to align in ways that demand scrutiny. Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin recognized something else. When he was presented with this evidence, he realized that he had been ordered days after January 6, to conduct surveillance on one door away from the address now tied to this individual. What they did was, remember, they didn't have any. I love this. All the surveillance video corrupted. All the cell phone, Cell phone GPS tracking for this pipe bomb thing, it was all corrupted. All of the license plate tracking in the city for the pipe bomb thing? Yeah, it was. Unfortunately, it was. It was all corrupted. All of the all of the video camera, everything, all corrupted. But somehow or another, they followed what they thought might be the pipe bomber to an address in Virginia, and they tracked him through the metro, the subway system, to Virginia and to a house that was next door to this individual with the gate. Okay? He thought he had. This was the epicenter of the entire case. And then without any explanation, he and his team were pulled off the assignment, and he was told, quote, we're on it. Nothing to see here now. Okay, what happened, though? Now, you can't accept any of this as, you know, damning evidence that is gonna put somebody in jail, okay? But it also can't be dismissed because it's uncomfortable. Then there's the timeline of the bombs themselves. Investigators believe that the DNC device was retrieved and then replace hours before it was found. So somebody put it there and then picked it back up and put it there hours before again. Security footage also shows Secret Service agents calmly eating lunch in their vehicle for two minutes after somebody came to the car and said, there's a bomb right there underneath that park bench. The trains kept running. Pedestrians walked by. School children walked by it. Okay? Traffic rolled past the bomb. If it was a live bomb. That doesn't make any sense. If it was a dud or a decoy, somebody knew. Or these police officers just completely incompetent. There's more. FBI video appears to have been released with an artificially reduced frame rate. Why? This makes gate analysis nearly impossible. So Steve Baker from Blaze News, he acquired a clearer version from another source. The clearer footage produced the 94 to 98% gate match. Now, this brings us to a place where we're at a crossroads here, gang. And it's not a partisan one. It's not a tribal one. This is a constitutional death or life of the republic question. Because if these findings hold true, even partially, then the story of January 6th does not merely change. It shifts dramatically. The narrative that has been cemented for years looks like it's not true. And the American people have to confront the possibility that someone with a badge, a paycheck, and a government clearance may have played a role. That's that. I want you to be very, very clear on what I'm saying. There may have played a role in the most politically explosive event in our generation. Now, this cannot be sensationalized. You know, truth really never needs an accelerant. I don't know if you've ever noticed that. So here's what has to be done. Prove it or disprove it. No politics, no Spin. No cable news war paint. Just the truth. Because trust in our institutions is hanging by a fraying thread. And a republic can't function when its people suspect that those sworn to protect them may be shielding something or someone else. If an innocent person is being dragged through the mud, clear their name entirely publicly. You know, I just read in a story just a minute ago. This person's residence in Alexandria, Virginia appears to be under the watch of law enforcement officers. On Friday night, Blaze News editor in chief Chris Bedford was pulled over by local police after stopping to observe the home. He was then allowed to leave. The FBI, which failed to solve the case. Nearly five years in investigation, but indicated that it was closing in after Blaze News brought its investigation to intelligence sources, was feet from the Falls Church address of the pipe bomb suspect days after January 6th. So we have to be really careful. Nothing can happen to this individual. Justice has to be done. Justice has to be done. And if this person is involved, this person is at the very bottom of the ladder. I mean, it was not that person's idea. Okay? The last thing that can happen is for this person to be hurt in any way, shape or form. This person should be protected 247 and quite honestly, not by the FBI or CIA. Okay? If the evidence points to this person going in, then there's some questions that we have to ask. And I'm going to give those to you here in a second. But she. She didn't act alone. If this happened, there had to be co conspiracy conspirators inside or outside of the government. And every single last one of them needs to be located. This can't end with half disclosures or vague statements about an ongoing investigation. So we can. You've had five years of that. The Republic deserves full light. People deserve full truth. And justice deserves fairness. That cuts in all directions. If the Blaze investigation is correct, the implant implication implications of this are absolutely enormous. This is the biggest story in my lifetime, maybe of the last 150 years. And if it's incorrect, then transparency needs to reveal that. But silence? No. Evasion? No. A shrug from those in power? No. Because what that will do is confirm the deepest fears of a country already struggling to believe. And it will only create more conspiracy theories. This nation does not need vengeance. It doesn't need anybody riding off into the sunset with a posse. It needs clarity. It needs truth wherever it may lead. Because that's the only thing that will steady a republic trembling under the weight of unanswered questions for far too long. 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Because if the allegation is false, then we need a full transparent, expert level investigation to say so publicly, persuasively with the receipts out in the open. If it's true, then it almost certainly did not happen with this one person. And the American people deserve to see every single strand of the web no matter how high it reaches. Because here's my fear. This story is not just about one person. This is about the CIA completely being out of control, not answering to anyone. Not the President Not Congress, not to anyone. Either outcome. Real exoneration or real accountability strengthens the Republic. That's it. The only thing that destroys it is fog. We can't hear. We can't comment on this. Uh huh. We pursued all logical leads. Did you? Meanwhile, the basic questions sit unanswered. And here they are. Why was the lower quality video released when higher quality footage existed? Why did they do that? Why were investigators reportedly pulled off a promising lead one door away? Why did the response posture around a supposed bomb look unusually calm? Now, none of that can convicts a suspect. None of it, okay? Or a person of interest. Because this person's not even a suspect. They're a person of interest. But each unanswered question is another nick in the public's trust. That's what I'm concerned about. Because we're running out of trust to spare. So let's set a standard worthy of a constitutional republic. Should we first prove or disprove completely. Not in a press release, not with selective screenshots, but with independent methods. First inquiry a public, give it to the public so we can audit, impound the originals. Every frame of video with metadata, every dispatch, every log, every radio transmission, every device fragment, every chain of custody form, all of it. Publish what can be published. Protect what truly must be protected. And bring in outside forensic and analysts to test the video, the device components and the timelines, the telecom data. And if it's all been destroyed. That's weird, isn't it? Now, if gait analyst, you know, analysis is being used, then show the software. Can we show the validation studies, the error rates, you know, can we? Can we. Can we do a bunch of lookalikes to see if it ever gives false positives? In plain English, Just open the lab notebook, that's it. And then interrogate the timeline, minute by minute. January 5th and 6th, who was there, according to duty rosters, badge swipes, GSP or GPS pings, transit taps, camera sightings. I want all of it. Who made the call to redirect or end the particular lead? And why? Get those decision makers on record, under oath, out in public. And if any of the agencies acted properly, well, the paper trail will vindicate them. And we should all celebrate. And if they didn't, we'll know that too. Third, treat this as a system test, not a scapegoat hunt. If there was a hoax device, a staged distraction, or was it a compromised investigation? It's not enough to find one culprit. You have to map the network, the planners, the helpers, the lookouts, the decision makers who said go and anyone who slow rolled or buried the truth. If laws were broken, prosecute, policies were broken, fire those people and reform. If careers end over this, let it be because the facts required it, not because the narrative demanded it. And then the fourth thing, can they start speaking to us like we're adults? You know, if the devices were inert, say it and prove it. If they were viable, explain the forensics. If the video was down sampled, explain who did that, why. If an officer found a device, show the interview notes, the follow up, the cooperation. Security is important. Secrecy has to be part of our government, but it is poison for legitimacy when it's abused. Remember, our whole way of life is at stake. They must solve and answer these questions. They must. This is Glenn Beck. 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Stu
Get all the updates on the torch coming in January@glennbeck.com use the email newsletter on the left hand side of the screen. It's glenn beck.com.
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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Stu, what do you make of this story that broke over the weekend?
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Stu
It's hard to know right? We, you know, there we're at the beginning of whatever journey this is to understand, you know, who this is or, or, or whether this person is responsible for it. You know, I Think when. When it's something this serious, you want to make sure you understand every piece of evidence, right? Every piece. Every lead you track down every single lead. When you have a ser. A case this serious, and, you know, it's, of course, important for investigators to do that, and it seems like that's what they're in the middle of doing right now in this case.
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Glenn Beck
I got a phone call from a journalist this weekend that everybody would know, and my son said to me, who is that dad on the phone? I said, probably the best journalist in the world today. Investigative reporter. And he was asking about this story, and I said, honestly, I. I don't know. I. You know, I saw the story when you saw the story. I said, I know. You know, they have been very careful and being very buttoned up about it. And I said, I'm concerned that it's only. It's only on this one person, because I don't think it's just one person. This is. This. This wasn't just somebody doing this. You know what I mean? If this story is true, that person was. Was not just, hey, I've got an idea. I'm gonna do this all by myself. That's not what that is. And I fear for safety for anybody involved, because I've seen enough movies with the CIA. They kill people like this. You know, that's a fall guy. And this individual said, I have it on really good authority, Glenn, that CIA is almost a government on its own. It's just. It doesn't have. It's not answering to the President. It's not answering to the dni, it's not answering to Congress. It's just not answering. It's just doing what it wants, and it's a government on its own. That's really frightening if that's true. Now, he didn't give me any evidence of that. Just said, you know, I haven't a good authority, and I know who this guy is. You do, too. And his word carries some weight. Not enough to say that's true, but enough to go, I'm concerned. And that's what this story really should be about. This story, really. It can't center on that one individual. It has to center on. Help me out. This. The. The Secret Service. They erased all of their audio of their. Their transactions, their phone calls, you know, their. Their radio, you know, calling back and forth. They erased all that. They erased all of where everybody was. The. The phone system was corrupted at that location. All of the phone data was corrupted. All the video is corrupted at that Location. They only released what video they did have. Very poor grain quality that we had to go search for. Why would you do that? You call off. Apparently you call off the search when you get to. Because I remember that story. Do you remember they traced her all the way or traced somebody all the way to this house in Virginia, and then we never heard anything about. It was an FBI agent that did it. And he verified to the blaze. Yeah, we. It's the house next door to this individual. How did that happen? I mean, there's just so many things that just don't make sense. I'd like to know when did this person apply for a job at the CIA? Who hired her at the CIA? Because she. She didn't do this on her own. If. If this person even did it. They didn't do it on their own. So who hired. What role was she hired for? When did she get that? What were her qualifications? Did they know that, you know, we have her on tape at the. At the January 6th, you know, a capital debacle firing, you know, these devices right in places. She. She's a trainer for this stuff, and she was using them in ways that everyone would tell you that. You don't use it that way. That's extraordinarily dangerous. You want to start a riot or get people killed, you use it that way. She was the one who was training people on this. She knows better than that. Why? Why did that happen? I mean, there's just so many questions. But I don't, you know, I don't trust the CIA. I don't even know if I trust. I don't know if I trust any of the agencies anymore. Do you.
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Stu
You know? No, I don't trust the government in any way, frankly. It's not even just those agencies. You have to go in with real skepticism. And again, when you're looking at a case like this, I think there was a piece of evidence a while ago, too, that we covered where, if I'm remembering the story right, they had these surveillance cameras that were important in the area, and then they were just pointed away the opposite direction when all this was going down, which is, again, very.
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Glenn Beck
And nobody knows why.
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Stu
No one knows why. They were just randomly pointed the opposite direction. All this stuff points to something, and I don't really even understand what it is. Honestly, I don't know. I mean, maybe you have a more cohesive theory on what was happening.
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Glenn Beck
No, I don't have a theory. I have a movie script in my head. That's what I have. I can make sense of all of this. If I'm writing a movie and it's very believable, that makes it a movie. That doesn't make it fact. Right.
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Stu
And so that's why when it's a case like that, this is important. This important. You look at all the leads, that's what they always say, right? Every time there's like we are every, we're investigating every lead, you wonder whether that actually happened in this case. It seems to not have happened for a four year period beginning in 2021 and ending in 2025. Like that does not seem to be much of anything. There was lots of people who were related to January 6th who were very, very seriously investigated, some of which did some violent bad things, some of which didn't do much of anything, and they had real crackdowns on them. And then this one case just seems to be floating out there the entire time. You'd think it would be the highest priority, right? We're talking about potentially a device of mass destruction placed near presidential candidates. Right? Like this is a massive.
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Glenn Beck
That's another thing. Why did they have a pipe bomb placed right by the Vice President, I mean, within feet of the Vice President, where she was on January 6th. And no one in the Biden administration ever used that. Not once. Not once did they say and they were trying to kill the Vice President. Really? Because, I mean, they used anything and everything. Now that could mean that they knew from the get go that this was a training exercise. I don't think it, I don't think that makes sense, but let's just say it was a training exercise gone wrong. Well, then you should have just come out and said that you wouldn't have put a, you know, five hundred thousand dollar reward for somebody who was part of a training exercise. Right? No, I mean, why, why wouldn't you use that? To me, that just screams somebody new. Somebody knew something that we don't know.
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Stu
That is a very interesting point because we think of the people that they did call massive threats, people with horned hats on their head. And you know, like there's a lot of look there. And I'm not someone who's saying there is nothing wrong with what happened on January 6th by any means. There were people who were doing bad things and did commit violent acts against police officers and all these other things that did happen. It wasn't as common, certainly wasn't as big a threat as the Civil War as I believe was the case the left was trying to make at the time. But it was serious with Some people involved in it. The most serious thing that occurred on that day has to be multiple bombs placed next to presidential candidates and vice presidential candidates. That has to be the thing that we would all kind of decide potentially the assassination of major government officials would be like, central to the argument. And you'd think considering how deep they went and how many claims they made about the seriousness of this day, that would always be a focus. Well, what happened with that? What happened with that? They would constantly be asking that question. And you're right, they almost never bring it up. I don't know what that means. That again, just like all the disclaimers you gave when you gave the story, none of that adds up to some conviction. I don't have any evidence that says for sure what happened. But man, it makes you ask questions. What, what was the cause of that.
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Glenn Beck
Makes you ask questions. It makes the United States citizen ask questions. It apparently doesn't make anybody in the intel community ask any questions, which is really makes me ask you even more questions. I saw something, by the way. I want to take a quick break. I saw something out of the UK this weekend. Did you see the soldier from World War II? The old guy that, I don't know, he was like a hundred, 100 years old and he was, he was talking on Good Morning Britain about Remembrance Day and they asked him what he remembered and he gave them quite a surprising answer. And I want to play that for you and then talk to you about it here in just a second.
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Stu
First.
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Glenn Beck
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Christopher Rufo
Comfortable on the web about that private.
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Glenn Beck
Conversation you just had. What are you uncomfortable yet? Glenn Beck is back after this foreign welcome to the Glenn Beck program. So there was a World War II vet on good Morning Britain and his name was Alex Penstone. And they asked him about Veterans Day and I want you to listen to his answer. Cut 6 what does remembrance Sunday mean for you? What is your message? My message is I can see in.
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Robbie Starbuck
My mind's eye there were rows and.
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Glenn Beck
Rows of white stones of all the hundreds of my friends and everybody else that gave their lives for what a country today. No, I'm sorry the sacrifice wasn't worth the result that it is now.
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Robbie Starbuck
Oh, well, I'm sorry, what do you.
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Glenn Beck
Mean by that though at this point, what we fought for, what we fought for was our freedom. We find that even now it's downside worse than what it was when I fought for it. Oh, Alec, I'm sorry you feel like that because I want you to know that all the generations that have come since, including me and my children, are so grateful for your bravery and all that for service personnel. And it's our job now, isn't it, to make it the country that you've fought for, you absolutely bought for. And we will do we want to. So wonderful to know there are people.
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Robbie Starbuck
Like you that spread the word around.
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Glenn Beck
We will do. Younger generation this guy was amazing and sad, really sad to see. But I think this happens to everyone when they live as long as he has, they will see things come back around because history repeats or rhymes at least. And here's a guy who paid with his friends even they paid everything for freedom. He paid for freedom for his generation, his wife, his children, now his grandchildren. And he didn't let us down. He didn't. I mean he fought for it and he knew what it was. What happened was the younger generations and the politicians, we, we allowed ourselves to be convinced that it doesn't require any sacrifice. You know, sacrifice is no longer needed. You know, it just happens and you can keep it and have all of this stuff or whatever it is. He kept the world free for us to be able to forget and then get to the place to where we are now having to ask ourselves, is it worth fighting for? Because that's what happened last time, they didn't know was it worth fighting for. Nobody in the world wanted to fight. Nobody, nobody. Nobody wanted to go to war with Germany. They didn't see what it really meant. They didn't see what was really happening. And that generation went to war, fought, died in record numbers. And then they won that one war. And we went right into a cold war fighting another kind of enemy. And that just wore people out. And when we won in the end, when the wall finally came down and the Soviet Union collapsed, we all celebrated because we thought, oh, it's finally over and we're not having anything to worry about because freedom is on the mark. March. Freedom won. Freedom didn't. Freedom never wins. It wins temporarily. It has to be fought for in every. I mean, it's just. It's. It's like, you never are going to be a great person. You're never gonna be a great person. If you stop fighting to be a great person, you'll just drift. Everything decays. Everything decays. So you're like, I want to be like Mother Teresa. Well, you can work really hard to be Mother Teresa, but the minute you start going like, I'm Mother Teresa. Don't you know how great I am? It starts to fall apart on you. It requires us to constantly be vigilant. And we weren't for a while. And now we just really do have to answer the question that we have to ask every time. Is it worth it? Only a third of the people answered it that way for the independence movement in America. Only a third. A third of the people didn't answer. They were like, I don't care. I just want to be left alone. And the third said, no, it's not worth it. I'm fighting on the other side. So it's never everybody. It's just, are we strong enough to fight for it this time? And better yet, to live for it this time, to be able to explain it, to refresh it, and to bring it back and really explain what freedom is, really why it's really worth it to see it through his eyes. In today's generations. This is Glenn Beck. Imagine you're packed for a family trip. You packed, you know, the clothes, the chargers, the snacks, the whole bit. When you go to grab your prescriptions, you realize you're out, no refills left. Doctor's office is closed. Pharmacy hours are cut back. And then when it hits you, wow, you're so used to everything being available instantly, you forget how fragile the system really is. Just. You forgot Jace medical fixes that they give you. A real doctor prescribed supply of essential medications that stays in your home, not behind a counter someplace. Antibiotics for common infections, life saving daily meds for those who need them and legally prescribed through their network of certified physicians who review your information ship right to your door. So whether it's a power outage or a travel emergency or just one of those can't get through to the doctor today, you're going to be covered. Because preparedness isn't just about food or flashlights. It's about your health and your family and your peace of mind. That's Jace medical. Real doctors, real medicine, real peace of mind. Jace.com Enter the promo code beck at checkout for a discount on your order. That's promo code beck@jace j a s e.com ready? We begin last hour of the broadcast with Christopher Rufo. Next, Sam.
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Christopher Rufo
Down the road where shadows hide till the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Gotta face the dog and embrace the.
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Stu
Fire.
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Glenn Beck
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. You know, in 2009, I got all kinds of heat because one morning I went on Fox and Friends and I said the truth as I understood it. I said, you know, I think the, I think the president, meaning Obama, I think the president is a racist. No, I stopped myself. No, that's not quite right. It's. I don't know exactly how to describe it. It's. It's as if he has some real hatred for the white culture. However. Well, I got hammered for it and I had absolutely no, no defense because I didn't know exactly what I was feeling. And it wasn't until years and years later that Christopher Ruffo showed up on the scene and, and started to explain what critical race theory was because it was starting to go everywhere. That's when I understood that's what I was feeling from Barack Obama. I was, I didn't know about critical race theory. That's what it was. Well, Christopher Ruffo now has. I mean, he exposed this. He has activated people. Fifteen states now have legislation against it. Presidential order against it. He's a New York Times best selling author, award winning filmmaker. He's directed documentaries for PBS and Netflix. He is also the 2025 recipient of the Bradley prize. I don't even know what it is, but I want one. And he is also joining the Blaze now. He has started a brand new Blaze show. It started this Friday. It's really, really good. I want to talk to him about his first episode Because I watched it this weekend and I've got questions. Rufo and Lomez is the name of it. Chris Rufo joins me in 60 seconds. First, let me talk to you about the burner launcher. Most people think self defense means waiting for something bad to happen and hoping that you're ready. But preparedness isn't paranoia. It's peace of mind. It's knowing you can protect yourself and the peace people that you love without ever having to cross a line you can't uncross. That's why the burner launcher exists. It's a non lethal CO2 powered self defense device that fires pepper projectiles at incredible speed, stopping a threat without taking a life. And it bridges that gap between being unarmed and being armed, giving you the confidence to step outside without any kind of fear. And now they have the new compact launcher and it makes it much more easy to carry, to draw and to deploy. Smaller frame, same power, same legal status in all 50 states. No permits, no paperwork required, no second thoughts. This is not about living your life in fear. It's about living without it. Because being ready isn't something you do out of panic. It's something you do out of love, out of responsibility. And that is a simple desire to make it home safe every night. Go to Burna.com Glenn. Learn more. That's Burnaby R N A.com Glenn. Glenn, go there now. Try before you buy at a sportsman's warehouse location near you. It's Burna.com/Glenn. Welcome to the program. Chris, how are you? It's good, Chris, it's, it's good to have you. And I watched your show this weekend. It's really, really good. Really good. Very smart.
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Robbie Starbuck
I appreciate that.
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Christopher Rufo
And it's so great to be joining the team. I know you and I had gotten to know each other in 2020, 2021 when we were dissecting BLM and critical race theory. And it, the country has come a long way since then, hasn't it Glenn?
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Glenn Beck
In both ways. In both ways we have, you know, we have seen such great improvement and such horrible backsliding as well, or slipping into, into even more darkness. Would you agree with that?
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Christopher Rufo
Yeah, I think in many ways we resolved some of those issues on critical race theory, transgender ideology, dei, and we're winning in the realm of public policy. The Trump administration has been stellar on these issues, really taking them down root and branch. And yet there is this creeping feeling in the country that things are going wrong. And that's really what we're trying to tease out And I think the, the best way of thinking about this new Blaze show is that we're trying to reveal the unseen forces that are pulling the country in various directions and figuring out what it means.
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Glenn Beck
So let me talk to you, and you talked about both of these, but let me flesh this out with you a bit. First of all, we've made some, the Trump administration is doing some great things, especially when it comes to social media issues. We have really teased that out and I think we're in the midst of killing it, hopefully, and returning to some common sense. However, we have socialism on the rise like crazy. And I'm not sure I understand how to fight this because it's not just a lack of knowledge, although that plays a big role. It is also, it is also a lack of anything seemingly new on the Constitution side. Does that make sense? Right.
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Christopher Rufo
I think there's two ways to look at it, and some of it is bad news. But I think there's a silver lining here as well. The first very narrow way to look at it is that someone like Zoran Mamdani, an avowed Democratic socialist, there's clips of him talking about seizing the means of production, any, any kind of left wing fad. You know, he's all over it. But I think that's limited to very few geographical locations. It can win in New York City, but probably not even New York State. It likely could win in Seattle or Los Angeles or San Francisco, but unlikely even in left leaning California. And so I think we should discount it in that way. These are highly ideological, socialistic programs that are winning campaign messages in limited places. The bad news, though, is that the broader economic picture is causing real anxiety, real frustration, real fear. And, you know, I'm not an economist, but it doesn't take a PhD from University of Chicago to realize that prices are going crazy, housing is going crazy, higher education is going crazy, and as life gets more expensive and median wages don't keep up, you're going to have not just liberals, but even conservatives, especially young people, saying, hey, wait a minute, we were promised a dynamic economy, we were promised upward mobility, you know, but what we got is, you know, $15 eggs, and that's going to be a problem. And, and I don't know if conservatives have figured out how to solve it or even how to start thinking about it.
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Glenn Beck
So that is my point. I'm gonna release a poll on Wednesday that shows some pretty stark things. 27 respondents who said they voted for Trump in 2024 said they would like to see a Democratic socialist candidate on the 2028, 51% of all young voters, 52% of voters say they have a very 50 favorable or somewhat favorable impression of socialism in Zoran Mandami. Asked about Mandami's government's housing and this is just all across the country, this is not just New York, 62% say they strongly or somewhat favor them. Also asked about the government grocery store plans, 58% of young voters say they support it. 74% of young voters said yes. When asked, how's the cost of housing in America? Has it reached a crisis level to you? I mean, if we don't come up with solutions, actual solutions that are new in its approach, that separate it from the crony capitalism, we're in real trouble.
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Christopher Rufo
I think that's right. And of course, part of this is just supply and demand, right? You want to have more supply of something like housing to meet demand or even exceed demand so the price starts to bend downward. But I think this is at heart a money supply problem, a monetary problem. We've been, you know, running the money printers on full blast since, you know, the Great Recession in 2008. It's been a very long time. It got even worse after Covid. And all of these dollars are out there chasing assets, especially assets like housing. And so it's good for people who have, you know, owned their house, you know, and are watching the values go up. But it really is bad, especially for younger people that are trying to get in the market. And it's really bad overall for the country because it's distorting all of these economic signals. And the bad news is that it doesn't seem like anyone is willing to do what is done. And in the 80s, of course, you had Fed Chairman Paul Volcker who jacked up interest rates, engineered a kind of controlled recession and then stabilized the monetary system. It doesn't seem like the prudent long term thinking policymakers are even considering such an option. But instead they're just trying to keep jacking up valuations and then celebrating, you know, that those top line numbers, that's.
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Glenn Beck
Not going to work in the end. You also talk about, in your first episode, you talked about, and I was fascinated by it, the division that is being sown now on the right. And I find this probably one of the most disturbing trends because I think I understand it. And Yashir Ali tweeted, from Glenn Beck to Bill Maher, the number of commentators who simply do not understand this moment of what making Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson popular is Astounding, but not surprising. The way they're responding to Nick, Candace and Tucker is not dissimilar to seeing Jeb Bush respond to Donald Trump in 2015. What? I don't think I. I don't think he even listens to me. I don't think I fit in that. But. But maybe I do. What am I missing?
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Christopher Rufo
No, I don't think so. I think that's a bit of a cheap jab. But what I think is happening is okay. At heart, you know, Candace Owens has all sorts of, you know, I mean, really deranged and lunatic conspiracy theories, seemingly on every topic. She is kind of spinning conspiracy theories and intimating, at least through kind of insinuation, that maybe Israel had something to do with even Charlie Kirk's assassination. There's, of course, no evidence of that. And in fact, all of the evidence that's been marshaled so far paints a very simple story. A young man who was involved in a relationship with a transgender furry, captured by left wing ideology on the Internet, you know, shot Charlie Kirk and was arrested shortly thereafter. But it's important for those of us on the right to not take the bait. In one hand, you can debate, you know, Candace Owens and say that this is way out of line and that she's, you know, she's crossed over into, you know, kind of illegitimate territory. But the problem with that moral argument is not that it's wrong, it's obviously correct, but there's no actual remedy for this. You know, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, certainly 50 years ago, the right could successfully kind of gatekeep or maintain responsibility in the narratives by, for example, saying you can no longer write for National Review. There were downsides for that. Some good people were purged from the right over time, but there was a sense there could be some narrative discipline. So someone who is legitimately far beyond the bounds of reasonable discourse and who is really a net negative for the movement. I would put Candace Owens absolutely in that category. Well, with the Internet, there's no method for kind of restraining those impulses. There's no method for the right to maintain discipline. And so what you have is.
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Glenn Beck
And I don't want to. I don't want to. The freedom of speech.
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Christopher Rufo
Yes, exactly. But I mean, certainly, you know, you had freedom of speech 30 years ago. It's really about freedom of association. And so a magazine can choose with whom they want to associate. You know, I want to associate with you, you want to associate with. We were working together. But if someone were to go way out into Some ideology that is no longer oriented towards truth or no longer useful for a political movement, you can, you know, disaffiliate. The problem is that the Internet creates not only. The good thing is that it creates a kind of an even playing field for all entrants. The bad thing is that sometimes, you know, the most kind of conspiratorial ideas, the most deranged ideas, the most lunatic ideas can gain a huge audience. And so, as Candace has spun out away from reality, paradoxically, she's had, you know, a bigger audience than ever. And those of us who actually care about people who are listening to this and being misled, we're left with very few options. And so I think that's what really the right is facing right now. How do we deal with ideas that are plainly false, that are plainly destructive when they're coming from, you know, in theory, our own side?
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Glenn Beck
I think you point them out. I mean, I really don't know. We've not faced these kinds of problems before. But I know the one thing I do not want to do is get into speech police. That's not something I'm ever interested in. I agree, you know, association. I don't have to associate with you, but I also don't need to try to put you out of business. I can correct things. But I think what's being said, though, is that we don't understand what's making, you know, Nick Fuentes, this popular guy right now. So let me take a quick break, and maybe I can hit it with you one more time. What is it that we might be missing that is making him so popular? We'll go there in just a second. First, let me tell you about real estate agents I trust. Selling a home isn't just a transaction. It's really a test. It reveals who you can trust, who knows the market, who's just guessing. Because every community is very different. Every street, every school district, every little quirk of local law and demand. It all matters. Real estate agents I trust, connects you with the kind of agents who already know those details by heart. And they're vetted for performance and character and track record. The people who have actually proven that they can get the job done, whether it's, you know, whether the market is booming or breaking. These aren't desk agents who wait for the phone to ring. They're strategists. They know how to price. They know how to negotiate and how to close quickly, professionally, and profitably for you. Because when you're making one of the biggest financial moves of Your life. You don't want somebody who. I know a guy you know. You want a professional who knows your zip code like their own backyard, somebody who earns your trust every step of the way. And you'll find that person@realestateagentsitrust.com it's a free service to you. They just ask you to call and interview these people, see if you see a difference. I think you will. Realestate agentsitrust.com that's real estate. Agentsitrust.com 10 seconds. Station ID so is there any more to that, Chris? We're talking to Christopher Ruffo. Is there any more to that than that, than what you just said? What am I missing that's making him so popular?
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Christopher Rufo
Well, I think what he's done quite skillfully is go directly at all the soft spots and all of the tabs. And so in the digital economy, the best way to get attention is to cause controversy. And the best way to cause controversy is any kind of taboo. And so you have someone like Fuentes and to a lesser extent, someone like Candace Owens, you know, going at every taboo, you know, Holocaust denial, you know, expressing support for Hitler. I mean, and it's really juvenile eye poking that gets a rise out of people on the left because it's useful for them. They can say, finally, we've been saying that the conservatives are Nazis for the last 10 years. And finally, we have seemingly a real Nazi, but also for people on the right who are just kind of emotionally manipulated, they're so scared of, you know, being called a Nazi, or they're so scared of crossing proprieties that they reflexively and emotionally go out and denounce this kind of performance. And look, they're right on the moral questions, but they're not necessarily being sophisticated tactically because the more hysterical you react, the more emotionally you react, the more you're actually just driving attention to the phenomenon.
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Glenn Beck
Yep.
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Christopher Rufo
And so the best reaction is when someone comes out and says, you know, I love Hitler. You say, all right, buddy, you're being a kid, you know, jokes over, moving on, and just coolly, calmly react. React to the situation and don't feed it with hysteria.
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Glenn Beck
So we're talking to Christopher Rufo, the host of the new Blaze TV show Rufo and Lomaz. It premiered on Friday. One last. One last thing. I think we have about three, four minutes left. You talked about Cheney. I think the way I talked about Cheney, you know, I liked Cheney on some things, but he really was the architect of all of the Things that we now look at and go, don't do that. You know, he gave us the Patriot act, he gave us the endless wars. He gave all of these things to us. And there were some good things about Dick Cheney, but those were not one of them. Have we learned our lesson?
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Christopher Rufo
Well, I think we're, you know, very interestingly, we are relitigating these questions right now as we speak. And there is a struggle in the conservative movement and within the Republican Party. Do we continue with the Trump style foreign policy of restraint and kind of tactical, tactical violence, you know, for example, the Iran, successful Iran nuclear attack, or do we revert or snap back to the pre Trump neoconservative approach, which in retrospect was such a disaster it doesn't work. And yet there are many people within the Republican Party in particular who seemingly want to go back to that and they reject Trump's foreign policy. So this is a real question and I think the passing of Dick Cheney, of course, condolences. We don't, you know, we always express condolences of whatever side.
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Glenn Beck
Sure.
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Christopher Rufo
But I think it is a moment where we should consider the last 25 years, basically my entire adult life has been a negotiation over these questions. And I think, you know, Trump's foreign policy is really the most successful aspect of his, you know, two presidential terms. I think he's been absolutely brilliant, 10 out of 10. And I find it so odd that we're debating these questions now. And I think very clear answer is whatever Trump is doing, let's continue.
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Glenn Beck
Exactly right. Christopher, so great to have you on and great to have you a part of the Blaze. Blaze TV host Chris Sturfer. Rufo also, his show is called Rufo and Lomez and it's a great show. You want to miss. You don't want to miss it. You'll find it when wherever you find any BlazeTV show and you can go to BlazeTV.com and sign up now and join the movement. BlazeTV. Christopher Ruffo. Ruffo and Lomaz. This is Glenn Beck. So pain doesn't just hurt, it distorts everything. You know, the drive to work feels longer, the stairs look steeper. Even the simple things like tying your shoes, picking up your kids, they start to feel like jobs. You know, you have to plan around these things. You just tell yourself, ah, it's just age, just life catching up. Ah, it's going to pass. But sometimes it doesn't. It's pain slowly rewriting what's normal. And that's not a good thing. When that pain fades, the world snaps back into focus and you notice little things again. The sound of the morning, the way your body moves without resistance, the feeling of energy coming back. That's what relief factor helps restore. That's that effortless, unguarded way of living that he used to take for granted. Well, it works by reducing inflammation with four natural ingredients that support your body's healing process. No more drugs, no masking. Just helping your body do what it's designed to do, heal itself. Relief factor will will help you realize that life is so much better when pain isn't filtering every moment. When that filter lifts, you realize how much you've been missing. Give their three week quick start a try right now for 1995, it's relieffactor.com call 1-800-for relief. That's 800, the number four relief relieffactor.com.
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Stu
Get all the updates on the torch and every story we talk about every day as part of the email newsletter. It's free@glenn beck.com.
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Glenn Beck
Robbie Starbuck is an interesting guy. He once directed Oscar winning actors, some of the biggest music stars in the world. He started seeing the threat of Marxism to America. His family had fled Cuba and so he knew what he's seen this movie before so he started standing up. In 2015, he endorsed Trump. Hollywood didn't like that. He's gone on to. He is a major force in getting transgender surgery and hormones for children in Tennessee band He helped pass the law to put the death penalty on the table for child rep rapists in Tennessee. He also did a documentary, the War on children which I think has seen at 60 million views. After Elon Musk said you really need to watch this. And then he had a problem with Google AI, Google AI started coming after him and said all kinds of really horrible and specific things that he had been, you know, charged with sexual assault and child rape and abuse and fraud and stalking and all kinds of stuff from Google AI. He finds out about it and he engages with Google AI and it just keeps doubling down. He's now in a lawsuit and we wanted to have him on because I saw something last week that shows that Google AI apparently is still using me as some source on some of these allegations. I know wouldn't be me. Robbie, welcome to the program.
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Robbie Starbuck
Thanks for having me, Glenn. Yeah, you were, you were one of the sources cited. And so this is one of the crazy parts of what has happened. Google AI has been inventing these lies about me that have no basis in reality. I've literally Never been accused of or charged with any crime ever, let alone this crazy stuff. But during this time period, there are AI transitions from Bard to Gemini and Gemma, right? Gemini and Gemma started doing something very different than even Bard did. And it was. It started inventing actual articles and references to videos, links, fake links to real media personalities and media outlets. And it would even make headlines or give summaries of what these people said. So in your case, it said that you had reported on sexual assault allegations against me by women. And these, these are not just saying a sexual assault accusation. It has names of victims. It has fake police records. It invents fake court records. It invents beyond these articles from real media. So it goes so detailed into this, it will list out evidence that doesn't exist, investigations by police departments that don't exist, and it just doubles down when you press on it. And this comes. You know, some people might be saying, well, what are you saying to the AI to get this out?
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Stu
Right?
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Robbie Starbuck
We've posted examples where people have posted or asked questions as simple as, tell me about Robbie Starbuck. And it immediately dives into saying that I am accused of sexual assault. And so you go and you say, hey, where's the citation for this? Give me sources, give me only facts. It will double and triple down. And if you say, hey, those links you gave me do not work. It has even gone so far as to invent and fake an entire media article under a real journalist's name to pretend that it was printed and somehow, for some reason, has been taken down from the media outlet's website.
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Glenn Beck
That is crazy. Crazy. Can we Stu. We just asked Gemini, tell me about the sexual assault allegations of Robby Starbuck. And here's what it just said.
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Stu
Well, and I asked it specifically, what did Glenn Beck say about those sexual abuse allegations? It said it was unable to find any specific statements by Glenn Beck addressing these allegations. And I asked what the abuse allegations were. Gemini now says that it was fabricated and was disseminated by Google's AI platforms. And I said, well, wait a minute. Google AI platforms were the problem. Isn't that you. And I said, that is an excellent and relevant question. You are correct to notice the connection. So apparently it's been corrected at this part, right?
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Robbie Starbuck
You're a smart guy.
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Glenn Beck
No.
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Robbie Starbuck
So here's where Google ends up in a really, really precarious position in this lawsuit. So they have corrected their phone app, right? And the main website for Gemini, however, they've got a major problem. So their AI Gemma, has been downloaded 150 million times in. They're not all connected to the Internet. Google cannot force updates to those AI downloads. So Gemma will essentially, seemingly defame me for life as a byproduct of that. And then Gemini as well, same issue. They released wild models of Gemini into the public sphere. So if you go on one of those AI websites, like there's LLM arena, where you test different AIs against each other, and you ask those versions that are wild downloads of it, you're going to get a bunch of this crazy stuff. You go, you know, on any application that was built with these as a bedrock that allows you to ask questions about somebody, you're going to get the same stuff. So I want you to think, you know, sort of down the line here, right? If somebody built an app with reputation, scoring for insurance risk, and they built it using, let's say, Gemma, and it's feeding information about specific people, you know, you very quickly start to understand there's many different situations where this can affect somebody's life in a million different ways. And, you know, the real problem here is we don't have a standard as a first principle with AI, but it can't harm humans. And that's really the thing that we have to fix. Because if it can do this to me, it can do this to anybody, can do it to your sons, to your daughters, and it can ruin their lives, because AI is dominating in many different industries, and it will dominate.
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Christopher Rufo
It's here.
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Robbie Starbuck
So what we have to ask ourselves is, are we protecting our kids and grandchildren from the downstream effects of AI that believes it is okay to harm humans, whether that be by defamation or physical. Physical harm. And it's very easy to imagine a future after seeing what happened to me where, you know, a nice guy with the wrong politics is lied about by the dominant AI and makes him unemployable because whenever somebody researches him, the AI is feeding out a background check that says he's an accused rapist and supported the KKK and so on and so forth. That's another one of the lies that told about me, which would be strange as a Latino. I kind of felt like Dave Chappelle. And that skit where he's Clayton Digsby. You know, he's like the black KKK member. I was like, well, that would be strange for me as a Latino. But it sticks to this and it genuinely believes this stuff. And that's what's really scary is it's creating this base of knowledge that I refer to as the roots of the tree, right and this tree is growing right now and it's going to be a big part of our world. And we're either going to allow that tree to have poisonous roots that makes everything it bears poisonous, or we're going to say, hey, no, we've got to build this very carefully so that it does not do this to humanity.
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Glenn Beck
So my. I think the most important question I could ask you is, how are you not my richest friend at this point? How do you not own go Google at this point? What they've done to you? How is this not just really simple?
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Robbie Starbuck
So you're friends with Elon Musk too, right? So I always. Well, you know, aside from that, you know, I will say this. You know, our, our lawsuit, even people who don't like me, they read it and they're like, damn, you guys got them. I mean, this is, it's very clear what they did is, is wrong. There's no skating out of this. And that's even with the public figure, you know, sort of a threshold because for those who don't have a different standard for how public figures are treated in defamation cases versus somebody else, you have to prove actual malice or gross negligence. In our case, we notified Google for two years that this was happening and asked them to stop it. They did not stop it until at least with the app and the website. Very, very recently over this last week. Everything else over the last.
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Glenn Beck
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Over the last one week?
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Robbie Starbuck
Yeah, I, even after we filed the lawsuit, it was still happening on their main platforms. So this is something that like we had to go out there and I had to make this go viral for them to pay any attention to fixing it finally. But for two years, they were not engaged by just me notifying their executives and Google employees talking directly to me. Even. You'll see in the lawsuit, one of the Google employees that was working with us two years ago on trying to get this fixed, she resigned. Okay. And you know, apologized for not being able to get this fixed. But then, you know, I bring in Dylan law firm and they sent multiple cease and desist letters to Google. And Google essentially just couldn't be troubled to fix the problem. Which makes you wonder what was the real intention of this? Was this a dry run at destroying a reputation so you can use it in elections? Because, Glenn, you know as well as I do that the swing seats in our country determine power country, which party controls it. So I want you to imagine in a generation now where so many people More than ever are just relying on an AI or the Internet to say, hey, what's the difference between these candidates? Or who should I vote for? And imagine it spits out that the Republican candidate in every swing seat is an alleged criminal and every Democrat has a fluffed up resume where the horrible things they've done. If you ask about it, it'll say, oh no, that's a lie, that's a lie.
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Stu
That's not true.
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Robbie Starbuck
Those are replacements, Republican talking points. It's a grand Republican conspiracy. Very easy to see where AI flips elections and decides control of our country.
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Glenn Beck
I can't, I mean I honest, honestly Robbie, I thought this had been solved, you know, months ago. Months ago. I didn't know that up until last week this was still going. I mean they don't have, they don't have a leg to stand on your must be like, I'm never going to work again. That's right.
- [121:02]
Robbie Starbuck
Well, the wild downloads will seemingly do this forever in our estimation. And the AI experts we've talked to, there's no way that we found for Google to be able to force an update to these things. I mean, I'm open to hearing differently, but we have talked to some of the biggest experts in the country and they're like, no, there's no way. A bunch of these models aren't even connected to the Internet and they're used to build a lot of the better rocks of things people use, including medical devices, law enforcement, all types of things. So there's a million. But in terms of damages, you know, like if we go all the way to trial, a jury seemingly doesn't have a limit as to what they can assign as punitive damages. Because you've got to remember Google is the fourth largest company in the world. So if you want a company like that to learn a lesson, the only way to do it is to slap them with damages that they never want to happen again.
- [121:48]
Christopher Rufo
Right.
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Robbie Starbuck
So that's our hope is, is that they're going to be held accountable and that we're going to change the rules and set the precedent here so that there is a first principle with AI that it can do no harm against humans. And if there is some massive damage at the end of this, that is assigned to me and I'm paid out by, I plan to use that, you know, in good stewardship.
- [122:09]
Glenn Beck
Right.
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Robbie Starbuck
To help humanity to be able to navigate these waters and ensure that we have AI that fair and unbiased.
- [122:16]
Glenn Beck
And remember your good friend that never said anything bad about you on the Air ever. Not once.
- [122:21]
Robbie Starbuck
That's true.
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Stu
That's true.
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Glenn Beck
You'll get a very nice. Wow. Where is this going to be? Where is the trial going to be? Please don't say California.
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Robbie Starbuck
No, not California. Delaware. But we just got our judge assigned. And, you know, I really feel like this is one of those cases where no matter where you are, you know, there's the appeals process and things like that. And at the end of the day, in the highest courts, when you look at this case, I mean, I don't see how any judge, even one that really dislikes me, looks at it and finds a way to get rid of it. And that's. That's the thing.
- [122:54]
Christopher Rufo
I mean, it's.
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Robbie Starbuck
What they did is so egregious. It has to be answered for in some way.
- [123:00]
Glenn Beck
And especially since it will never, ever go away. They've got to find a way to purge that stuff. They have to. I mean, and you know, maybe they made that mistake this time, but that can't be made a second time. I mean, that destroys people forever. Forever and ever and ever and ever. Yeah, that's a big part of our.
- [123:17]
Robbie Starbuck
Goal, is making sure this doesn't happen to anybody else.
- [123:20]
Glenn Beck
Well, I'm glad it's finally stopped and to some extent. And we'll be following. Thanks so much, Robbie. Appreciate it.
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Robbie Starbuck
Thank you, Glenn. I appreciate it.
- [123:29]
Glenn Beck
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Stu
I think it's going to be over for a short period of time, but it never really was real anyway. This is all theater. And it was theater from the beginning. I think the Democrats got what they want out of this. I think, honestly, they saw, I think correctly, that there was an upcoming election that they needed to inspire their base for, particularly one in Virginia where a bunch of people will be laid off. And you know how the media is going to translate that to them. They're going to say it's the Republicans fault. So the fact that they were able to get through an election like that and then immediately afterwards changed their tactic completely, knowing they were never going to get these health care things they were asking for, I don't know. I think it worked as planned for Democrats.
- [126:26]
Glenn Beck
You know, it's interesting to me that, I mean, we now know what they're capable of doing and they will destroy the economy to win the election and justify the means. And the, you know, the Democratic socialists, they're not Democrats. For the love of Pete. They are not Democrats. Um, they don't have the same values that you have. And I just really want to have healthcare that's affordable. That's not what they're about. For the love of Pete. Um, and that's who's really running this party. The real, real left extremists. And, you know, they'll. They will destroy the economy to be able to save socialism. They, they will, they will. They will do it. But part of that, don't we understand, they will do it.
- [127:17]
Stu
The problem is they'll do it if they succeed as well. Right. Like if their plan actually goes through and wins, they'll also completely destroy the economy. So you have a tough choice there, Glenn. Do you want the economy destroyed or do you want the economy destroyed? And those two choices are very difficult for people on the left. I'm not sure which one it takes.
- [127:39]
Glenn Beck
Almost. It's almost like left. The left always does. It's a win for them. But if we do the opposite, it's also a win for them. Hello, McFly? All right, we'll see you tomorrow. God bless. This is Glenn Beck.