The REAL Reason Your Electric Bill Is SKYROCKETING | Guests: Rep. Marlin Stutzman & Carol Roth | 10/28/25

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The REAL Reason Your Electric Bill Is SKYROCKETING

The Glenn Beck Program
Date: October 28, 2025
Guests: Rep. Marlin Stutzman & Carol Roth

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Overview

In this episode, Glenn Beck dives into the shocking rise of electric bills across the United States. Bringing together economic, political, and technological perspectives, the episode explores how the surging demand for electricity from AI server farms is colliding with green energy policies and infrastructure limits—forcing Americans to choose between contradictory visions for the future. With guests Carol Roth and Rep. Marlin Stutzman, the conversation expands to the broader consequences: everything from global power realignment to food imports, government shutdowns, and religious freedom abroad.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. The Real Reason Behind the Skyrocketing Electric Bills

• Data Center Demand: Glenn highlights how the explosive growth of server farms (especially for AI, crypto, and cloud computing) is the primary, underreported driver for higher electricity bills.
  • “Each one of these data centers, which is feeding artificial intelligence, crypto, cloud computing, they consume as much power as 50 homes all the time.” (25:42)
• Utility Strain: States like Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia are experiencing grid strains, leading to warnings of blackouts with any excess demand.
• Global Examples: Countries like Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Singapore have begun restricting further server farm construction. Beijing already rations power to keep data hubs running.

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2. Power, AI, and the Coming Great Realignment

• Shifting Climate Narratives: Bill Gates’ sudden softening on the urgency of climate change is tied to tech sector energy demands.
  • “Bill Gates has just come out and said… global warming is not as bad as we thought it was. It’s so laughable because it is so transparent." (25:41)
• AI Job Losses: Amazon’s layoff of 30,000 workers due to automation and AI is only the beginning—a precursor to further economic upheaval.
• Energy Dilemma: If you want green energy, you must accept no AI/server farms; if you want AI and digital infrastructure, you must build more (especially nuclear) power plants.
  • "These two realities cannot coexist… The climate cult is going to run headlong into artificial intelligence. And when that happens, lights go out in your house.” (34:18)

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3. Chalkboard Breakdown: The False Choice Ahead (12:18–18:00)

• Glenn introduces a mental “chalkboard” with two emerging sides—not ‘good’ vs. ‘bad’ but divergent and contradictory value sets:
  • Side 1 (Growth/Tech/Globalism):
    • Drill, baby, drill
    • AI/tech-driven, big business
    • Digital ID, globalist, anti-Marxist
    • Growth/abundance/energy
  • Side 2 (Local/Anti-Tech/Marxism):
    • Global warming, degrowth
    • Pro-workers, anti-AI, anti-capitalist
    • Real food, local/maha, free (but not always fair) trade
    • 15-minute cities, local farmers market, digital skepticism
• Warning: Both sides will contain facets people find appealing; the real threat is the U.S. Constitution and individual rights being left off the table.
  • “Which way do you go? There is a third way and it’s the US Constitution. That’s not on the board because right now, that’s not popular.” (18:30)

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4. Truth, Conspiracies, and AI Distortion (46:31–66:42)

• Glenn discusses the proliferation of conspiracy theories, “deepfakes,” and AI-generated misinformation (i.e., Google’s AI fabricating criminal histories), warning listeners to be vigilant.
• Loss of institutional trust and inability to distinguish fact from fiction is becoming the “real pandemic.”
  • “If you no longer believe in anything, you will believe everything. That’s what’s happening.” (53:45)
  • “You are going to see deep fakes and you’re not going to know what to believe… The truth has become fragile.” (59:45)
• Advice: Know what you are “for,” anchor yourself to core values, and do not share speculative or unverified “if this is true...” content.

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5. Interview with Carol Roth: Argentina, China, and Trade Policy (87:30–106:00)

• U.S.-Argentina Currency Swap: The U.S. recently supported Argentina’s economy (under libertarian President Milei) via a currency swap using the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund, aiming to stave off Chinese (Belt & Road) influence.
  • “We gave the Argentinian Central Bank dollars… meant to support the peso and help to stabilize its currency… what is unusual is that it wasn’t done with the Fed, but through the Treasury.” (89:37)
• Beef Imports: Trump’s green light to Argentinian beef imports is part of a bigger security chessboard, though it hurts domestic ranchers.
• Broader Economic Trends: Debate over tariffs, the relatively small share of imports in the US economy, and tricky calculations in inflation numbers.
• Shutdown Effects: SNAP benefits, air traffic delays, and looming pressure on Congress—illuminating the unsustainable growth of government dependency programs, especially among immigrants.

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6. Interview with Rep. Marlin Stutzman: Redistricting and Global Religious Freedom (108:34–122:01)

• Religious Persecution in Nigeria: Stutzman and Sen. Cruz introduce a bill to sanction Nigerian officials complicit in violence against Christians and to designate the country as of “particular concern.”
  • “Since 2009, Boko Haram has killed 125,000 Christians… hundreds of churches each month.” (109:11)
• U.S. Redistricting: Indiana considers redrawing its lines to counterbalance Democrat-leaning sanctuary states that gain House seats by counting non-citizens.
  • "You have states like California, Illinois, [that] count the illegals… so they probably have like five or six extra districts that they shouldn’t even have.” (115:05)
• Shutdown & SNAP: The Democrats see shutdown pain as a “leverage” tactic, risking their own base’s well-being for negotiations on healthcare for illegals.
  • "They’re willing to make their own constituents hurt… so they can negotiate in DC.” (117:13)
• Indiana Server Farms: Major facilities (e.g., Google) will strain the grid unless required to build their own nuclear power sources.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "You are going to be so far ahead of all of your friends on being able to explain what’s going on in the world and what’s coming next." – Glenn Beck (02:00)
• "These two realities cannot coexist... The climate cult is going to run headlong into artificial intelligence. And when that happens, lights go out in your house." – Glenn Beck (34:18)
• "If you want green energy… probably [you are] fine with this: no bitcoin, no AI, and no modern digital economy. It doesn’t exist." – Glenn Beck (33:30)
• "Global warming is now starting to be, you know, a no-go zone. It’s going to be changed, and it’s going to become pro-people, anti-tech, anti-big tech corporations, real food... and a lot of things that you probably go, I’m kind of for that stuff." – Glenn Beck (15:40)
• "It’s going to be very difficult to see the difference of right and wrong because everything’s going to blur on you. Things that you think you’re for, they’re suddenly going to be for." – Glenn Beck (15:50)
• "Know what you’re for, not what you’re against... start drawing those up right now." – Glenn Beck (43:59)
• "If you no longer believe in anything, you will believe everything. That’s what’s happening." – Glenn Beck (53:45)
• "For the first time, I thought, I think AOC could possibly win in 2028. She could win." – Glenn Beck (75:21)
• "The reason we did this [Argentina currency swap] is to secure our interests… China has the second largest reserve of lithium as well as other rare earths that we need access to." – Carol Roth (91:04)
• "Since 2009, Boko Haram has killed 125,000 Christians, and jihadist groups are destroying hundreds of churches every month." – Rep. Marlin Stutzman (109:11)
• "They're willing to make their own constituents hurt… so they have leverage in DC to negotiate." – Rep. Marlin Stutzman (117:13)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 00:00–03:00 — Glenn’s introduction, theme preview
• 03:00–12:00 — Climate change narrative shift, Amazon layoffs, energy as core issue
• 12:18–20:39 — Chalkboard: False dichotomies and the coming Great Realignment
• 25:15–34:52 — Glenn explains server farm impact, the electric bill crisis, and energy grid constraints
• 46:31–66:42 — The conspiracy era: AI, trust erosion, and the crisis of truth
• 87:30–106:00 — Carol Roth interview (Argentina, China influence, economic ramifications)
• 108:34–122:01 — Rep. Marlin Stutzman interview (Nigeria, redistricting, Indiana's grid/energy policy)
• 125:00–End — Political media bias, AOC/Mamdani candidacies, commentary on present/future politics

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Conclusion

In this information-packed episode, Glenn Beck connects the dots between skyrocketing energy costs, the ambitions of tech giants, the shortcomings of current political alignments, and the deep uncertainty pervading American—and global—life. The episode closes with urgent warnings: about truth, about choosing what you stand for, and about the next wave of political, economic, and cultural battles on the horizon.

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Transcript

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[Stu]

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[Glenn Beck]

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This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. You know, sometimes it's weird. Sometimes, you know, something will happen and it will all just start to click in your head. Well, I don't know exactly what happened today. But I've been dancing around some things for a while, and I think I see the future. I think some things have just happened in the news today that when I read them, it just went click, click, click, click, click. And it's like the tumbler just landed and the vault can open, and I can see what we're going to face, and it's going to be a very confusing future, and we need to know it now. You're going to be. I'm telling you, after this first hour, you are going to be so far ahead of all of your friends on being able to explain what's going on in the world and what's coming next. It's. It's worth the price of admission, which, by the way, if you're listening on radio, is free. So stop bellyaching. We begin here in just a second. Stand by. 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It'll be the greatest challenge the world has ever faced. We must take it on. We must reach net zero emissions by 2050 to avoid a climate disaster. 2021, to avoid climate disaster, we need to eliminate emissions from the ways we create electricity, grow food, make things move around, blah, blah, blah. No one will be hurt more. From climate change to the world's poorest people, it's already worse than most models predicted. To prevent climate change scenarios, we need breakthroughs in key areas. He's now put billions of dollars behind the climate change movement. Now he says, not so bad, not so bad, not so bad. What the hell just happened? Okay, what just happened? On a completely unrelated note, let me give you another story today. Amazon, the first company to say $30 an hour, you come on in and work at our warehouse and it's $30 an hour. 30 is an interesting number because they just Yesterday laid off 30,000 people. Why? Because they're going, AI okay, it's all going to be automated. Everything. This is the first, this, this warning. This is the first, what do you call that? Aftershocks. When you get the, get the rumbles before the big earthquake, you know, it's like a pre shock. It's, you know, the, just the, the quick, quiet, very low on the Richter scale rumble and you're like, what, what was that? What was that? That's an earthquake coming. Things starting to shift just a little bit. Not the big one yet. Just a little bit. Just a little shift.

[Stu]

Then she always used to use the term birth pangs.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes, birth pangs. Yeah, it's birth pangs of the things yet to come. You're just having that first birth pang. 30,000 people laid off now, remember? Gosh, think of the money they're saving because they were paying everybody $30 an hour because they were such a great company. They were just. They care about people until they could replace all the people. Now why am I bringing that story up next to the Bill Gates story about climate change? What do those stories have? What do they have in common at all? Power. And I don't mean just political or economic power. Absolutely. That goes without saying. I mean, energy. The world is starving for energy. I've got a story for you next hour, and I'm going to show you exactly where you have to be, whether you're for climate change, you know, you're. I w. We got to go all green or we got to go all in on, you know, server farms. One way or another, I will tell you what you have to do, and it is imperative that you do it next hour. But here's what snapped together today. We have been seeing this movement, and I know that the world is about to change, and our system doesn't work. The two parties don't work. It doesn't cover everything. We have been fighting over communism or fascism. Both of them are wrong, okay? They don't work. And they've been sold exactly the same way over and over, except global warming. Global warming has been the one thing that has not been out and out Marxist until it had to be. And then you're like, okay, yeah, all right, we want people to die. We want people to die because it'll save the Earth. So we're absolutely, you know, anti growth. Okay? Pretty easy to see what side you're on, at least for me. Pretty easy to see what side you're on. I am for growth. I am for technology. I am for an end to this global warming nonsense. Except I am also pro Earth. I think we have a. We have a responsibility to make sure we do things that are right for the Earth. I am absolutely pro pharmaceuticals until I'm not pro pharmaceuticals because I think the pharmaceutical companies have gotten out of control. I am absolutely for doing everything we can with our farmers to be able to have them grow and grow food to feed the world until we start screwing with the food so much it's not really even meat anymore, and we don't really know where it's from. So am I for Big Ag or against Big Ag? Because I like parts of it I don't like. Am I. Am I for the pharmaceutical companies or against the pharmaceutical companies? Because I like the pharmaceutical companies Until I don't like the pharmaceutical companies. Am I. Am I for the planet or against the planet? I like AI, but I'm also terrified of AI Am I for AI or against AI? I am for jobs. I am for people. So how can you be four people if you are four AI? Do you see how none of this works? You see how you are? You are literally we are already dividing ourselves into. We're being pulled apart. We don't know. I've got another thing I'm going to do next hour after I tell you the other thing. Next hour. Hope to get to this other thing where you don't know what the truth is anymore. We are pulling ourselves completely apart. Right? You don't know what the truth is. You don't know what to believe anymore. Did Erica kill her husband, Charlie? Kirk, please. But there are a lot of people who don't know. They don't know the truth. Why? Why don't they know the truth? Because people who don't believe in anything will fall for everything. And we don't know what we believe anymore. We gonna elect Mamdani. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. New York is going Marxist, maybe Islamist to some degree. That's going that way. It's gonna happen. So how is that gonna work?

[Marlon Stutzman]

Hmm.

[Glenn Beck]

I brought in a chalkboard because I was explaining this to Stu. And Stu, I want you to help me with this because as I was laying this out for you, it's. Because it's there. I want you to know I've divided this chalkboard into two categories and they are not good or bad. They just are. Okay. Because there are things that I like on both sides of the chalkboard. But I'm going to show you what you're going to be asked to choose from, because these are how these two sides are going to end up in the end.

[Stu]

Sort of like a great realignment.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes. Okay. So on one side, we're going to have the global warming people. Well, I'm not for the global warming people because that's all de growth, right? Not for that, but I am for workers. And I am kind of anti AI. I don't want AI to take over everything and control everything. Correct.

[Stu]

Right.

[Glenn Beck]

Right. But at the same time, I am AI and tech driven. I just announced something yesterday with AI. Okay, But I'm for ethical AI, global warming and degrowth. No, I'm for drill, baby, drill. But I'm. I am big business, but I'm not big business. I believe in capitalism. I believe in ethical capitalism, but I don't mind big business, but I have a hard time with, I don't know, some of these AI companies like Google and everybody else that now seem to be getting into bed with our government. I don't want them in bed with our government. I am.

[Stu]

No, I was going to say. I say, like you mentioned Amazon. Right? Like, Amazon's a good example of this. Right. It is a company that obviously is very much big business, but also seen as, like, capitalism.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu]

And like, so do you like that? Do you not like it? I mean, there's things I love about Amazon.

[Glenn Beck]

There's things I don't like I don't like the fact that they are the government server farms. I don't like that. Okay, Big pharma, there's lots of it. I like lots of it. I don't like. I don't like control and digital IDs. I'm anti Marxist. That drill baby, drill side, that's anti Marxist. But it also leans globalist. I'm against that. But it is for abundance, growth, growth, growth, growth, abundance. Right on the other side and I'm showing you how these things are going to line up. The other side is global warming and degrowth. But it's also going to be pro workers, anti AI, anti capitalist, Marxist, but it's going to de emphasize degrowth and Marxism. It'll be for real food, it will be maha, it will be local, it'll be free trade, but not really fair trade.

[Stu]

Maybe they call it maybe trade. Yeah, it'll be this classic free trade seems to align more with the other side.

[Glenn Beck]

In the end it will be a local farmers, a local farmer's market. In the end it'll be your ability to trade with one another the way you want to trade. Okay, that's what, that's how it'll be sold. And it'll be 15 minute cities. It'll be 15 minute cities because the rest of the world is going to be AI digital IDs, globalism, tracking everything. And this will become the anti that. And so they'll say I'll live in the 15 minute cities. Remember, it'll be degrowth and Marxism. But it will be packaged in such a way we don't want to be that. We don't want to be that. So I'll live in my 15 minute city. I don't need all of that technology. I don't need to self driving cars. I'd rather know my neighbor. I'd rather walk down the street, get my food that I know I, I know I get. But I'm not going to be able to do those things. But I don't want to do all those things because I don't want to have the digital id. Okay. What you're going to get on one side it is in the end going to be globalist and fascistic global fascism on one side. The other side will be Marxist degrowth. These what I'm presenting to you is pretty much especially on the Marxist degrowth side, the global warming side, that's going to be a utopia that will never survive. It will never survive. But that's the utopia that people are going to be offered they are now going to. Because global warming is now starting to be, you know, a no go zone. It's going to be changed and it's going to become pro people, anti tech, anti big tech corporations, it's going to become about anti pharmaceutical companies, it'll be about real food, it'll be about health. And Maha, it's going to be about all the things that you probably go, I'm kind of for that stuff. And the other side is going to be the other side of you that you're for. Well, I'm for capitalism, I'm for progress, I'm for abundance, I'm for, you know, having energy. This is the split that is coming. And I believe the Marxist global warming side is going to be extraordinarily appealing to a lot of people. You may even have a right now, you'll hear this and go, I'm never going there. Mark my words. It's going to be very difficult to see the difference of right and wrong because everything's going to blur on you. Things that you think you're for, they're suddenly going to be for, but are they actually for that? And that goes to both sides of this issue. Because what's not on this chalkboard is the U.S. constitution. This is the way the world will split. These are the choices you're going to make. Which way do you go? There is a third way and it's the US Constitution that's not on the board because right now that's not popular. And no one's talking about it more in just a second. Let me go to relief factor. There's a certain rhythm to life when your body works the way it's supposed to. You know, you see a sign, you know, go. You see a sign come down, you know, somewhere, you know, in the middle, the family moves. But anyone who has actually been through that process, you know, they know, they know it is really, really hard. Every step, every reach, every bend, everything. You don't realize how much matters until one day you do. When that discomfort settles in and that sign says go and you're like, okay, I got to hold on just a second, you know, start. The small moments start to feel like obstacles. Think about, you know, think about little things like tying your shoes. Tie your shoes. Easy until you start to feel your back a lot. And then you like have to sit down, you got to stand up. You think about getting in and out of the car at times if your back is killing you, if your body is aching, it's tough. But what relief factor does is help you get back to that effortless part of living, you know, not through numbing, not through masking or ignoring anything but, but, but supporting your body's natural response to discomfort. So that movement feels like movement again, not calculation. There's a difference between getting through your day and actually living it. Feel the difference that relief factor can make at their three week quick start. Give it a try now 1995. Visit relief factor.com or call 800 for relief. That's 1-800-the-4 relief relief factor.com 800 the number four relief. 10 seconds and back to the show. Okay, Stu, you follow that? Did I explain that well enough?

[Stu]

I think so. You know, the visuals help but for, you know, is there, I mean, we need category names almost to, to make this more simple. I don't know exactly what the category names are.

[Glenn Beck]

I think overall, you know, in the end it'll be fascism, Marxism. But that's not the way it's going to be presented.

[Stu]

Right. And what's frustrating about growth.

[Glenn Beck]

And growth.

[Stu]

Yeah, what's frustrating. That's interesting because what's been, what's frustrating to the, to trying to explain all this stuff over the years is often you went to the, was it the train track analogy with the European left and right?

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Stu]

And that was always, it's always confusing to Americans because it's, it's not a traditional American left and right situation. But the, I think people can feel a realignment going on. A lot of the things that, that were to kind of together at one point are now not. And when you look at this sort of split, I look at it and I see things that I like on both sides and things that I hate on both sides.

[Glenn Beck]

Correct. And so AI and job loss is going to be the catalyst. That's the thing. You just saw the first little tremor today. Amazon letting go 30,000 people. That's the beginning. When people start to lose their jobs en masse, this split is going to become very, very important.

[Stu]

And I don't know, we didn't. Maybe we're going to talk about it more, more in depth later on. But, but the thing that sort of caused us discussing this today was a story about Bill Gates where he was talking about global warming. Maybe it's not so catastrophic.

[Glenn Beck]

What?

[Stu]

That's the guy who's pitching this the entire time.

[Glenn Beck]

Billions of dollars.

[Stu]

Right. Maybe it's not that big a deal. And it seems like that global warming. Hey, we, that global warming attitude. Right. Can line up well with some of those people. Right.

[Glenn Beck]

And so why Is that, why is that all of a sudden? Why is global warming not so popular with all those very, very, very, very wealthy and powerful people?

[Stu]

Because they want server farms.

[Glenn Beck]

They want server farms.

[Stu]

They need energy.

[Glenn Beck]

It was not good enough for you to just need heat in your house to build a nuclear power plant, right? But the minute we started talking about the need for server farms for these giant corporations, all of a sudden, oh, we're going to take all the regulations off of nuclear power plants. It's the safest energy in the world.

[Stu]

So for a very long time, those people like Bill Gates, those big business guys were very much aligned with the global warming people. And is there a split there now? Like we're like a Gates who is saying we need the air, we need, need the infrastructure. They're going to have a split with those people who are like, you know.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu]

Get details on the torch, everything that's coming in the newsletter@glenn beck.com.

[Glenn Beck]

Hey, make sure. You get your no king but christ [e-mail] our, our glennbeck.com store is open. I'm wearing the no king but Christ polo shirt right now. This is an old colonial symbol with the skull and crossbones and a crown floating above the head, meaning the king. Kings are human. They die. But the crowd, the crown is eternal and it only belongs on the head of Christ. No king but Christ. You can get them now@glenn beck.com Let me, let me move something up. I was going to talk about this next hour, but I think this will help people really understand what is coming and why. I put this chalkboard together to show you how this is going to shape out, shake out in the future and, and, and why you really need to pay attention to the things that are happening right now. Forget Donald Trump going to run in 2028. He's trolling. Don't you get it? He's trolling. So can we talk about real issues? Let me tell you about the coming blackout right now in the last few days. There is a group of lawmakers in the mid Atlantic, in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia. They're all sounding the alarm. And they're sounding the alarm because they believe, and I do, too, that the worst power bill crisis in a generation is happening right now. Skyro rocketing bills and strained grids. How is it this is happening? We've drilled, baby, drilled. We've put new power plants online or old power plants we brought back online. Well, they're saying that part of the problem is all this new green energy crap. And everybody is still saying we got to have green energy. Got to have green energy. I just want you to hear me out here for a second. So I'm going to give you the, the reality of what's going on. Green energy is wonderful, I guess, but it's, it is absolutely a thing that will set us back 100 years plus. Okay. Green energy does not work for the America of 2000. It certainly doesn't work today. Every single month, a new server farm is breaking ground somewhere in America once a month. That means 12 new server farms this year. That is going to snowball by the end of 2026. You will be seeing them built and breaking ground maybe one a week. What we have so far, not building things small here. Each one of these data centers, which is feeding artificial intelligence, crypto, cloud computing, they consume as much power as 50 homes all the time. Told you at the beginning of the hour, Bill Gates has just come out and said, you know what? You know, global warming is not as bad as we thought it was. It's so laughable cuz it is so transparent. It's so evil. Uh, it's not as bad as everybody thought it was. We gotta get off this global warming bandwagon. We gotta do some things, but we need power plants. I'll tell you that right now. Why? You know who Bill gates partner is? OpenAI chatgpt. Okay, that's his partner. So we know why he's off this bandwagon. Because they're struggling right now to find enough electricity for what they're currently running, let alone the next generation of systems. You have Google, Meta, Amazon that are buying up land in every next to every major substation that they can find because they know what's coming. But wait a minute, they're building it near substations. Wait, wait, hold on. Are you taking the power from my home? In many cases, yes. Listen to this. This is from the International Energy Agency. This is something they just released. Global data center power will double by the end of 2026. That is equivalent to adding another Japan to our energy demand. Okay, another Japan. And that's just for computers and server farms. Adding Japan. What? What are we building to be able to serve that? Not enough. Ireland has just begun restricting the new data centers. Now here's what's going to happen. You're going to restrict them and it's going to leave you in the past. Now maybe you want to be left in the past and that's what that chalkboard is about. Maybe you want to be left in the past, but Ireland has just said no more server farms. We can't do it. Parts of the Netherlands, Singapore, Singapore, Sweden, they are freezing construction now on all server farms because their grids can't handle the demand. Already Tokyo's grid is so strained by the server farms that they have. Blackouts have already occurred in Tokyo during peak hours. China, which is building a new coal fire plant every week, is rationing power to factories so they can keep the AI data hubs running. So what happens when we shut down coal and stall nuclear and depend on sunshine and windmills? What happens? Who's powering the cloud? Pjm, this is Mid Atlantic grid. PJM is one that runs it, one of the largest in the world. They say their grid in the Mid Atlantic is already at the breaking point. They have warned quote of critically tight capacity, meaning one bad storm, one bad heat wave, one bad cold spell and you've got rolling blackouts. Okay, why? Because the last administration retired reliable fossil Fuel plants faster than we could replace them. We didn't replace them. So we're already behind the eight ball. And now the surge. And the search for power is on. In Maryland alone, energy production has dropped as consumption has surged. Why? Because of the data centers. Virginia's data center corridor, which is, you know, the economic crown jewel of, of Virginia, this giant data center corridor that happens in Virginia, it now consumes. Now today you're still figuring out what AI does. Okay, it now consumes 1/5 of Virginia's total energy output. 1/5 today. Why is your electricity price going up? Why have eggs gone down? They're back to over a dollar a dozen. Why is gas gone down? It's now back to the price it was in 20, what, 18 or 19. Why are these prices going down? Yet your energy costs are skyrocketing. Chachi, PT, AI, all the things that Amazon just fired 30,000 people because they're going to replace them with electric robots and machines and AI. That takes power. Imagine, you know what happens to your price of housing when you import 10 million people. The price of housing goes through the roof and nobody can afford a house. What happens to electricity when all those people are not powered on food or you know, have to live in a house but just need electricity? When you have all that electricity demand for these AI systems and bots, of course the price is going to go through the roof. Especially if we are at the same time that the, the demand is going up. We're saying limit the number of power plants. Let's go all green. If you want green energy and you've known this, we've said this, it's anti, it's de growth. But listen to me carefully. I am not throwing you under the bus. If you want green energy, then you have to recognize and maybe you're fine with this. Probably are no Bitcoin, no AI and no modern digital economy. It doesn't exist. If you want AI and the server farms and the EVs and your self driving car digital infrastructure, you must start building power plants in your state right now. The problem is these two realities cannot coexist. So we're going to see a split in the country. Okay, the climate cult as they're calling it, it's going to run headlong into artificial intelligence. And when that happens, lights go out in your house. So what do you do? Let me give you two options. If you live in a state and you want to go net zero, you now have to demand right now that they stop approving new server farms in your State because that is in direct conflict with your green agenda. You cannot live in a state that is building new server farms or is supplying power to server farms across the border to another state.

[Marlon Stutzman]

State.

[Glenn Beck]

You must pass laws right now, and I'm not for this but I just giving you the option. If you're for a green energy revolution, you must stop all server farms being built in your state or they will bleed you dry. And you must also pass a law saying we are not selling our electricity over state lines for a server farm. Got to do it. Got to do it. Now you cannot run a trillion, a trillion parameter AI model on fairy dust or solar power or wind power. It doesn't happen. Now if you believe in innovation, if you believe in the free market, if you believe in progress, if you believe in AI, you gotta call your state reps right now and demand new stable, high output energy plants. The president is saying that all of these companies that are building these server farms must be responsible for their own power. They must build their own power plant. You don't get anything from the grid, but that's not happening. So you need to go to your state rep and say they cannot take the grid power, they cannot take the power from the people. They have to create their own power. And I would say, and in fact if they want to do it in the state, they must put some excess power into the grid because they're the ones that are going to be able to build the nuclear power plant, not your state. They will gas, nuclear, hydro, whatever it takes. You need to call your state and say we want power and we want the grids and we want the server farms. But if you are apathetic on this or if you are ignorant on this and you don't begin to act now, you are going to be, you're going to, you're going to be, you know, at the whims of whoever it is that's running your state, California, we know which way you're going. But are you building server farms as well? Because if you are Utah, you should pass a law. We are not going to sell any more power to California because they will take your power to fund their server farms, not the people, their server farms. They will buy more power from you. Which if they're buying it from you, do you have enough for your server farms and your people in your state? Most likely no. Unless you are doubling down on energy building right now. This is the near term problem. Believe it or not, by the end of 2026, everybody will be very well aware of what energy is costing them and what server farms are doing to the stability of our grid. Unless people act right now. And you know, it's one thing to act at the federal level. This has to be at your local level. And quite honestly, I want the energy in Texas. I am not. I do not want to ship our energy someplace else for somebody else's server farm if they're not pulling their own weight on electricity. Because Texas is going to have server farms out the wazoo. We are building the power plants. We're not building them fast enough, but we are building them. And until we know our population, which is growing exponentially, our population can have the power they need to live, survive and work. And the power player, the server farms that we are building, they have their power as well. There shouldn't be any. There shouldn't be one kilowatt that is going across our border, especially to states who are green. But this one's going to be up to you. All right, back in just a second. Simply SAFE Imagine a night when the wind is howling hard enough to move the trees. And the world outside your windows just feels a little less certain than it did earlier in the day. And you hear something outside. Maybe it's a branch, maybe something else. You don't know. You feel your shoulders tense up. That's the. That's when the motion sensor clicks on and the camera captures the image. The system that knows what to do before you even have to think about it. 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[Marlon Stutzman]

Sam.

[Glenn Beck]

Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire. The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. I spent some time online last night. Wow, was that a mistake? I'd like to talk to you a little bit about, I don't know, the madness of if true. We'll do that here in 60 seconds. First, let me talk to you about Cozy Earth. The world outside your front door can be loud and demanding and relentless. Email, emails don't stop. Schedules stack up. The news never takes a day off. But your home should be the place where all of that, you just let go. Where the air feels softer, the light feels a little warmer. And your bed becomes the quiet center of your universe. Something where your kids can pile on the bed and you're all there together, reading or doing whatever it is. You know that that's what Cozy Earth tries to create. Their bed sheets aren't just soft. They're the kind of soft that makes your slow down without even meaning to. The kind of soft that you notice the second you touch them. And you keep noticing. Night after night, they regulate temperature in a way that makes sense for real life. Warm when you're cold, cool when you're hot. And they are listening to your body and they adjust accordingly. You spend a third of your life in bed asleep. And it's more than sleep. It's repair. It's a reset. When you wake up, you need to be ready. Visit cozyearth.com Use my promo code, Beck. You'll save 20% off. Get your post purchase survey. Tell them that you heard it from me, Glenn Beck. Because home isn't where you live. That's not it. How you feel. So let's go home together with cozyearth.com.

[Marlon Stutzman]

So.

[Glenn Beck]

When'S the last time you just found yourself scrolling online stuff? It.

[Stu]

It does happen to the best of us.

[Glenn Beck]

It does happen to the best. And I did last night. And I found myself in crazy town quickly. Crazy town. My gosh. Conspiracy after conspiracy after conspiracy. It's. It's like falling down a staircase made of madness. Every step you're hitting, you're like. I don't know if you know this, but Trump is secretly planning to run in 2028. Oh, he's not. He's trolling you. What is wrong with you? I don't know if you know this, but Eric, Erica Kirk is in league with Donald Trump. And the Jews, they killed, they killed Charlie Kirk. Erica was behind it. She knew. She called off the police. It's madness. This is literal insanity. You know, I was watching some of these things and I thought, this is. I mean, this honestly is making the most alcohol fueled days of Alex Jones seem like Walter Cronkite's most credible moments. What is happening? It's because it's, it's everywhere. It's everywhere. And the bad news is some of it's being laundered by credible hosts. I don't know if you saw the Robby Starbuck story. This one's horrible, because this is what's coming. Have you seen the Robby Starbucks story? So rob Robby Starbucks. This story is one we should all learn from Robby, an actual public figure, a husband, a father, is now suing Google and Google AI because it fabricated entire stories about him for two solid years. Now we've talked to him about this. It invented fake police records. It wrote fake timelines. For two years, Google's artificial intelligence said he was on Jeffrey Epstein's list and had been arrested for unspeakable crimes and just made it all up. No arrests, no real record, none of it. No truth to any of it, but just AI. The machine that we're told is going to save us made it all up and it was relentless. Scroll up Next, the death of Charlie Kirk. One of the most public executions in America. We all saw the footage. We all saw it. We wish we could unsee it, but within hours, the Internet had already decided it was the Jews in league with his own team. And Israel was paying for it and covering up the truth. Oh, now, you know what I love about this is, you know, most of the accounts are anonymous. A source close. Oh, who is that source? An anonymous account. A screenshot now of headlines that never existed. And they, they, many of these things either began or ended with the phrase if this is true, it means. Well, if it's true, I guess it changes everything. If the sun is actually a giant light bulb and it's 25 miles in the sky, if that's true, then everything we know about space is wrong. But it's not a light bulb 25 miles up in the sky. Oh, that. If. If, if is becoming the gateway, it's the gateway drug to paranoia. Okay, now I have to tell you, there'll be many on the left who are like, I can't believe Glenn Beck, the chief conspiracy theorist is out there saying about conspiracy theory. I wasn't a conspiracy theorist. My mind were based in facts, documents. I would hold the document on the air, read it, read it for yourself, go to blah blah blah.gov and find it yourself. I would show you the money trails, the real quotes from people saying, you know what I'm going to do? If I ever get my way, I'm gonna make sure this country is communist. You know, if I ever get my way, I'm gonna kill all those people. I showed you those quotes. Not, you know if he said that. If that's true. No, I showed you what was true. You start with what people actually are doing what what you call can prove. Not what if I told you somebody says they're going to overthrow the west, believe them, take them at their word. Let's start there. Not with the, the missing piece, you know, the missing piece that I don't know. If we could just find this piece, then it would all fit together, wouldn't it? Yeah, well, it would. Let me explain to you the danger of this and what you need to understand. All of this is predictable. In fact, I predicted it in about 2006, and I used the moonshot as an example and I used George W. Bush and the lies of weapons of mass destruction and as an example, because these things were not true. If our government doesn't start correcting these things, having people pay for the crimes of. I lied. Yes, I lied. I shouldn't have lied. Maybe you go to jail for that lie, but you at least pay a price for that lie. And unless those things are cleared up, I said right now, the, the number of people who believe we went to the moon is 93%. 7% don't believe we went to the moon. You get 7% to believe just about anything. But mark my words, if we don't correct that, you will see it in the number of people who no longer believe we went to the moon. This is in 2006. Have you met people who say we never went to the moon, we never went to the moon. That was all a lie. I met lots of them. Lots of them and a lot of them. I think I thought that's a pretty intelligent person. You know, I've been watching this thing on the Internet. Oh, really? Really? Anybody who gets their news from the Internet is dumber than somebody who doesn't get their news from anywhere. Just don't get news over than getting your news from the scrolling Online, I get all my news, you know, from Facebook. I get everything I need to know from X. Oh, really? You're a moron. Here's the problem. Our government has lost all of its credibility. Our institutions, their trust has evaporated. And this madness is only going to grow because if you no longer believe in anything, you will believe everything. That's what's happening. You can't argue with this stuff because you'll say, that didn't happen. Wait, you mean that if Erica did it and the Jews did it, that means that Donald Trump is in on it? That's right. Oh. Oh, my. Okay. Your whole world has just fallen apart. Everything that you thought you believed is gone. Now we are drowning in digital rumors because we stop trusting our own ability to find what's real. Let me ask you, and this is an honest question, is there a public voice that you trust today that will tell you it's not as bad as you think it is? Is there anybody in that you trust that is saying, you know what? Don't, don't, don't, don't go there. Please don't go there? Is there anybody that you trust that will say, you know what? I used to think this, but I don't think that anymore. Because if they can't say that, then they're not a thinking human being. If they're exactly the way they were 25 years ago, they are dead inside. They're not searching for anything. Because everything in the world has changed. But that doesn't mean you throw everything. We didn't go to the moon. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. Yes, we did. I don't trust the media. I don't trust Congress. I honestly don't trust the FBI. I don't. I don't know who to trust. I don't know who to trust. And I'm not alone. You're not alone. According to Gallup, trust in newspapers has dropped 18%. Who knew newspapers were even being printed? Television News is at 14%. That's an all time low. And when nobody believes anything, everyone starts believing everything and anyone. People that you've never. I know people who have listened to me for years. I've trusted you for a long time. But I just saw Bozo. Bozo the. The Nose Clown. You mean Bozo the Clown? No, something entirely different. I've never even heard of this guy, but I heard him say this, and I believe him over you. Really? Bozo the Nose Clown. You've never seen him before. You don't know anything about him, but somehow or Another, he's earned your respect in that 47 second video that disproves to you all my credibility is gone. Who you've listened to for years. Wow, you're a thinking human being. We are weeks. I don't believe years. We are weeks away. Months probably more accurate from you no longer being able to believe your eyes at all. Okay, that has always been the test. I'll believe it when I see it. Well, you're going to see deep fakes and you're not going to know what to believe. I mean deep fakes already fake. Major newsrooms, they fools newsrooms. Last year the Pentagon had to issue a correction because a fake AI generated explosion photo near the White House caused a brief dip in the stock market. It wasn't true, but act on it. Act on it, act on it. That's how fragile the truth has become. And it's only going to get worse. Some of the conspiracies that are floating around right now say that foreign money is infiltrating groups like Turning Point usa. Maybe. Could be, could be, wouldn't doubt it. I think foreign money is trying to influence everything. We're vulnerable right now. But here's the question I don't hear anybody asking. Is there any foreign money funding the conspiracy themselves? Troll farms in St. Petersburg, the Chinese bot networks amplifying division on both the left and the right. I mean we have the facts. According to cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, Russia and China run coordinated campaigns every single day pushing disinformation design designed to make Americans hate each other. Let me ask you this question. Who benefits when we tear ourselves apart? Who gains when we can't agree on anything? Not even reality? I'll give you a hint. You don't win. I don't win. America doesn't win. So I thought of this. How do we solve this problem? Let me go there in 60 seconds. First, you know the funny thing about cell service? We carry these little devices that connect us to the people we care about most. But the companies we're paying every month, you know, they don't seem to care about us at all. They're busy funding causes and campaigns and cultural movements that you know, we'd never support in a million years. And it's a strange feeling realizing that you're out pushing the country in a direction you don't believe in just because, you know, everybody uses this. 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You just have to have the spirit with you. You have to have something that will testify to you of truth when you can't find it, it. Okay, second thing is know what you're for, not what you're against. So many of these conspiracies are are built on what you're against or you're supposed to be against. Look for the things that you're for. What is it that you're for? Because when everything becomes a conspiracy, when everyone becomes the enemy, when every if this is true becomes your next truth, you're standing up against everything. And you're not standing for anything. You're standing for nothing. And that's how civilizations fall. How many people do you know that are standing for something? Not against. Civilizations fall not through invasion but through infection. Infection of the mind and the spirit and of the truth itself. Know what you're for before you share that. Next breaking post. Say stop and ask yourself who does this benefit? Is this for something or against something? Before you say if this is true, stop yourself. Who benefits if just I believe this because the real conspiracy here, the one that is really sweeping America, the one our enemies and I mean that spiritually and temporally, the real enemies of the truth, the real conspiracy is the one that convinces you to stop believing in truth altogether. And we are close to that. Find the things that you know are true and build on those things. It's really scary. It's really scary. But it is so freeing when you'll just clean out everything that you think you believe but you haven't earned that yourself. I started with religion. I was taught, I listened to other people. I didn't find God Myself, I didn't search myself. It was taught to me. Well, you can't live on somebody else's testimony. Is your testimony of this country? Is your testimony of why you believe in the free market system, if you do, or why you believe in Marxism. Because you've torn it apart, because you've looked at it from all sides? Most likely not, but that's the only way you can actually defend something. Otherwise, you're just going to be blowing in the wind. And that's what's happening. We're all blowing in the wind. What was true today suddenly, because Bozo the nose is on all of a sudden? Nope. I don't believe any of that stuff anymore. Because there's something in you that tells you you're being lied to. And you are being lied to. You are. But go deeper. Look for the things that are true. You cannot find the truth. If you don't have some sort of rock you're standing on, you will be blown apart and lost at sea. Find the rock first and build on that rock. Then you can go online and go, that's true. That's not true. That's true. That I should investigate some more. There's lots of things that I don't believe are true that I'm investigating. I want to know. But you can't do it if you don't know who you are and what anchors you. Please anchor yourself and then anchor your family. Back in a minute. 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[Stu]

The torch is coming. You can get all the details about how to get [e-mail] and the email newsletter. Glenn beck.com.

[Glenn Beck]

Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I'm glad you're here. Thank you for listening. Sorry I let the. I let the worst part of me out of its cage here, you know, and I said, you believe all these things. You're a. You know, it's not right of me to say that. If you're doing your own homework and you are really investigating and you're questioning with boldness the things that you believe and the things that are new in your life, that's healthy. That's healthy. So continue to question, but just be very aware of all of the things that are at stake. And don't go down the road before you have put the rock at your feet. You've got to have something stable to stand on before you start just knocking the pillars of everything in our society away. You've got to have something you believe in that you can stand on that is true, and that will hold you and our society together. Yeah.

[Stu]

One of the things I always think about when people, a lot of times who haven't necessarily thought out a particular issue or that's totally normal and you have to start somewhere, Right. But it's like walking up to a forest and then you kind of look around and you see paths, right? Someone's already built a path. They built a path to the thing they want you to believe. And a lot of times we just kind of, generally speaking, will like, whoa, there's a path over there. There's a path over there. These are the two presented to me. I'm going to pick one of those two. Not always that. Always the right answers. You know, there might be a totally different direction to go.

[Glenn Beck]

We just told. We just told you the paths that are going to be laid out in front of you because of AI and everything else. Exactly. Last hour. Listen to the first hour. Today's podcast. And I said, these are the two paths, but that's not the right path. There's a missing path here. So don't don't the road less traveled.

[Stu]

Yeah, like we always, we often find this with issues that we all talk about on the show all the time. Like you go up to that, you know, issue forest there, There is a path built to what Zoran Mamdani thinks is the answer. Right. And whether that particular answer for Zo Ron that day is capitalism is responsible or Jews are responsible, those seem to be the only two places he goes. But like, he's got a path. There's always a path built to one of those two things for a Zoran Mamdani. And so if you walk up there and you start researching like, oh, gosh, well, this person saying this and this person, well, that path's already been pre cut. It is leading you down that road. And it oftentimes for that crew seems to be one of two answers or maybe both of those answers.

[Glenn Beck]

You must read the things. Think of yourself when you're looking for truth as a, a juror. Don't, don't rule when you've just heard the defense or the prosecution. And if you're, if your defense lawyer is a really bad lawyer, don't just write that off. You don't need to stick with that lawyer. Find another lawyer that you can read and follow the path and go, okay, they say this. The other side says this. Find the best, not strawman arguments. Find the best arguments on both sides. Then as you go down that path, you will see intersections. You will see things where they both will say, yes, the defendant was in the house at the time. We know then both sides are saying it. That is true. We know the defendant was in the house at the same time. Now what is the defense reason for him being in the house? What is the prosecution's reason for being in the house? Is there anything else that correlates that all of a sudden there's an intersection where they both go. Yep. And he opened up the knife drawer. Okay. You look for those things that both sides that are pitted against each other are saying is true. If you can't find the person who is saying any of that stuff is true, any of it, then you're dealing with an absolute fabrication or you're looking for the wrong defense attorney. Okay. You've got to be able to find somebody. There's got to be, you know, for instance, I'm not going to get into it. There's. It's just. Because it's just gonna so tiring. But there are things in everything that are true, both sides. But you cannot just abandoned especially don't be the person that sees the new sexy, you know, blonde. And you're like, I want to be with her. Well, no, she might be sexy, but she might also be a psycho. Get to know her for a while, sit down, have some coffee with her, do some non sexual things with her. Okay.

[Stu]

Speaking of you New York City voters.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu]

This could absolutely be exactly what you're talking about with Zohra. Right?

[Glenn Beck]

He's saying all the things that are sexy to them.

[Stu]

Yeah. They'd love to believe you can just control the rent. They'd love to believe everything can be free. Free childcare, free buses, free everything.

[Glenn Beck]

They'd love to believe that you never.

[Stu]

Have to put anybody in prison because it's mean.

[Glenn Beck]

And you know why that that happens is because. Well, look at him. He's young, he's good looking, he's smiley. He's smiley.

[Stu]

All this is said with a smile.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu]

You notice that. And how many times the Bernie Sanders approach, that angry old guy screaming at you and shaking his fist at the cloud approach to socialism. The policies are the same as Zohra. Mamdani comes in a totally different package. AOC. It's funny. AOC's younger, but not a different package. She's the same package in a way that Bernie is. She's the same thing. She's angry all the time. She's kind of. That's not what Mamdani's doing here. And it's working on voters because he's saying these things with this giant smile on his face. No matter what I keep thinking, I don't know what the. Help me with this, Glenn. There's a pop culture reference that I can't exactly figure out of what he's doing here. The closest I could come up with was the. The host of the Hunger Games.

[Glenn Beck]

Remember the guy super smiling.

[Stu]

I love it. He's smiling all the time. He's describing people murdering each other.

[Glenn Beck]

But what's the love story?

[Stu]

He's got that sort of smiley approach and presentation to all this, and that's what's winning. And then you go up against the other people. I like Curtis Sliwa a lot, but he's obviously a Republican. Very difficult uphill battle. And then you got Cuomo, who's very dour and he's awful in a million of his own ways.

[Glenn Beck]

Killed a bunch of people.

[Stu]

Killed a bunch of people. And the ones he didn't kill, he groped. So those things are negatives.

[Glenn Beck]

But he never groped somebody. He killed.

[Stu]

We don't know that at all. By the Way again, don't just believe what Glenn said there. Check it out for yourself. Did he grope the people he killed?

[Glenn Beck]

Killed?

[Stu]

We don't know. But, you know, like, there's a reason why Mamdani's winning that election outside of just generalized socialism, which is obviously popular with a certain set of New Yorkers. But the way he's presenting it, the way he's coming about is the approach that you're gonna start seeing around the country. It's not gonna just be there.

[Glenn Beck]

No.

[Stu]

If this works in New York, you're gonna start seeing this in a lot of different places. These same proposals, these same policies, these same terrible ideas that have failed over and over and over and over again are going to be presented with this giant. There's a term that people put before grin that I would need.

[Glenn Beck]

I will tell you that for the first time, I thought, I think AOC could possibly win in 2028. She could win.

[Stu]

There's absolutely a scenario where she could win.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu]

I just don't think that her approach. I mean, you watch. Did you watch her at the Mom Donnie rally the other day?

[Glenn Beck]

No.

[Stu]

Do you remember the Hillary Clinton. Clinton rallies where she would scream.

[Glenn Beck]

The most annoying sound ever heard by most people?

[Stu]

That she's there. She's. That she doesn't have control.

[Glenn Beck]

He.

[Stu]

He has control. That's what's scary about him.

[Glenn Beck]

He's a performer.

[Stu]

He is a performer who is a controlled performer. Now, you look back in his past before he learned these things, and there's all sorts of mistakes, but he's not making those mistakes now. He's saying things like, I haven't come out with a position on that yet. You can't say that.

[Glenn Beck]

What do you mean?

[Stu]

That's not an answer in a campaign. But he's able to do that with a smile and kind of.

[Glenn Beck]

Nobody's asking. They want to feel good. They want to feel good. You know, by the way, isn't. You know, they keep saying that Cuomo should. I mean, that Sliwa should drop out. Doesn't he have higher. A higher chance of winning if Cuomo drops out?

[Stu]

There's certainly an argument. I mean, like the. One of the latest polls that just came out had, if Cuomo drops out, Zora Mamdani, 49, Curtis Lewa, 41. So Mamdani's up by eight. If Sliwa drops out, Mamdani, 49, Cuomo 39, Mamdani up by 10. So he's a larger lead against Cuomo than he does against Sliwa. Now, There is an argument to be made that New York City generally is a Democratic leaning place. They're not going to vote for a Republican no matter what. But at least Cuomo is a Democrat.

[Glenn Beck]

And maybe he has such high negatives. Yeah.

[Stu]

What people I thought understand is how many never Cuomo people there are.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes, there's a ton of them. Yeah.

[Stu]

You become never Cuomo when he kills your relatives. You don't care about Mamdani's policies. Now when Mamdani gets hit and other relatives wind up dying for other reasons, you might not like Mamdani either. I think it'll be a catastrophe. But people can't stand this man. Andrew Cuomo is a terrible human being.

[Glenn Beck]

There's a brand new poll that just came out. Cuomo cuts Mamdani's lead by 10 points. So now he is within 10 points.

[Stu]

Yeah, that's what this poll was in. 10. Within 10 points.

[Glenn Beck]

No, no, no. I mean, not with anybody dropping out with Sliwa. Sli was down 11 points and he's up.

[Stu]

I mean, the. Again, maybe some there ha.

[Glenn Beck]

I will say Lamadani 44, Cuomo 34, SLI.

[Stu]

Okay, so. So some, I guess of the Sleewa sleep was only. I mean, that's not that much of a difference. I think Cuomo was at 29, so he's up a few points. A few. And Sliwa was about 16. So in that one poll, the movement is there. In this poll, the movements the opposite way or telling a different story. My point is not necessarily that Sliwa has a higher percentage chance of winning the election. I, you know, but I think they're about equal, which are, you know, pretty much long shots. They're both, they're both long shots in that race.

[Glenn Beck]

Isn't it interesting that the world's least effective, not speaker, but, you know, minority leader of the House came out last, what was it, Monday or Hakeem Jeffries. Yeah. Came out last week or Monday and said, you know, I'm gonna endorse him. They're like, why? Why did it take you so long? We're busy with the, you know, with the spending bill. You're not. No, that's not true. And it's taken that guy, taken that guy that long to endorse the, the, the, the system does not want him, which I think would actually go to his favor, especially in places like New York. They're done with us. They're done with the Democrats. I really believe they're done with the Democrats. They're done with the same Old, same old. They want something new and it's not going to be a Republican. And, you know, when you look at the number of foreigners that were foreign born compared to those who are American born, Mamdani just crushes, just crushes with the foreign born. It's like 68% of those who are foreign born New Yorkers that can vote are for Mamdani. 34% are for Mamdani. If you were born in New York or born in America.

[Stu]

Yeah, no, that's true. And there is a.

[Glenn Beck]

That's what you get when you import the third world. That's what you get.

[Stu]

I mean, there's always been a lot of immigrants in New York City. Of course, going back through history, you can still find a pretty high percentage. It's getting higher. And of course, God only knows how many people you wonder certainly about registration policies for those not eligible to vote in particular.

[Glenn Beck]

I bet they're worried about that one. But they're like, he shouldn't have done that.

[Stu]

I just wish. I just wish that, you know, look, I like Curtis Lebo a lot. I really hope he would to win. And, you know, it's just a tough road there. I just wish there was somebody other than Andrew Cuomo. That was the other option. It's like this would be a perfect time to have a, you know, pro business, moderate democrat type of person available.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Marlon Stutzman]

Becky.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Come up with any names.

[Stu]

We're out of time, Glenn.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm sorry, I'm just looking for pro business Republicans that could. No, Democrats, I mean, Democrats that could run, run in New York like that.

[Stu]

Could be essentially step into that Cuomo position and actually win this particular election. Not that I want to vote for it, but I'm just saying go for it. So, I mean, the model for this is probably what was Bloomberg, right? Bloomberg did this. Except he ran as. Even as a Republican and pulled it off.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu]

However, obviously he has baggage. I'm not saying he would be now the guy to step in there. Also, I can't stand him. That's a whole separate thing. There's a couple people like, you know, you think of someone like a Josh Shapiro or Jared Polis, maybe he's a Western, doesn't really have that same vibe.

[Glenn Beck]

He would probably have to live there.

[Stu]

No, I know. I'm just saying the guy, the one maybe might be the best one, would be Howard Schultz, the Starbucks guy. You know, that type of person who could step in and be like a pro, not a.

[Glenn Beck]

Not a Marxist, not a Marxist, maybe.

[Stu]

From, you know, friendly to some business. But, I mean, Schultz obviously isn't eligible or anything there. But still, it could have been time for that type of person. He does not accept, unfortunately, they have Andrew Cuomo. He's awful.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Marlon Stutzman]

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[Glenn Beck]

Down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get down Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I want to talk to you a little bit about what's happening in Argentina. Malay won in a, in a landslide. Did really, really well. And I don't understand because student, they were in a little poll saying, oh, he's, he's probably not going to win this one. I mean, it looks sketchy.

[Stu]

They said they were going to turn on him and, you know, they, they were revolting against this purchase of currency.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu]

By the U.S. yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

And that didn't happen at all. And so that means good things for Argentina and good things if you are a small government person. It is, it's changing, it's changing the, the South American continent. And it is part, I think, of The Monroe Doctrine 2.0, which I told you, I think that's why we're actually bombing those boats in Venezuela. This is Monroe Doctrine Stuff 2.0, Donald Trump's version of it. And I want to talk to our, our good friend Carol Roth, who is an economist and can tell us exactly what's going on in these currency swaps. And quite honestly, the one thing Donald Trump did do that I really don't like is he just quadrupled the amount of beef that can come in from Argentina. Argentina has good beef. But, but we need American ranchers. What are we doing importing all this? He was trying to shore up their economy and also make beef cheaper here. But that hurts our ranchers. We're going to talk about that with Carol here in just a second. First, let me tell you about preborn. Every day somewhere in this country, here's a child, a heartbeat for the very first time, decides that she's going to choose life instead of death for that child. And each time it happens, it's a quiet miracle. One made possible by people who believe that love can be louder than than fear. And that group of people is the Ministry of Preborn. Preborn helps expectant moms hear that sound for themselves by offering free ultrasounds, compassionate counseling and practical support long after their appointment ends there. You're not going to convince anybody with arguments. They're there to let the truth speak in the most human way possible. Right to mom's heart. Since the overturning of Roe vs Wade, abortions have have spiked rather than gone down. The situation has got much worse. We have to change that. Preborn is expanding their life, affirming care in the darkest corners of our nation to help more hurting women and save more babies. If you have the means, would you consider a leadership gift to save babies in a big way? Your tax deductible donation of about $15,000 will place a machine in a needy women's center that will save countless lives for years to come. Dial pound 250, say the keyword baby or go to preborn.com beck sponsored by preborn. Carol, welcome to the program.

[Carol Roth]

Hi, Glenn, how are you?

[Glenn Beck]

Good. Can you tell me what's going on in Argentina? First of all, the currency swap. We didn't make a loan to Argentina, we made a currency swap, which, you know, I'm not really. I'm not really fond of the. What is it? The peso or what is their currency down in Argentina?

[Carol Roth]

The Argentinian peso. You don't have a bunch of those in your vault with all your gold and silver?

[Glenn Beck]

No, no, I don't.

[Marlon Stutzman]

I don't.

[Glenn Beck]

But we do now because we. Currency swapped, right?

[Carol Roth]

Yes. This is not just giving money to Argentina for its government to spend. This is a financial support, which by the way, currency swaps are not something that's unusual. We do this all the time with our allies, with Japan and Canada and whatnot. What is unusual in this particular situation is how it's affected. So basically what happened is that we gave the Argentinian Central bank dollars. We took as collateral the paper and that is meant to support the Argentinian peso and help to stabilize its currency. And a couple of things of note, one is how it was done is interesting because normally when we do currency swaps and we have these lines, it's done through the Federal Reserve, our central bank. This time it was not. It was done through the treasury, through something called the esf, the Exchange Stabilization Fund, which is sort of a black box fund. That allows treasury to move quickly. You don't need Jay Powell, you don't need the approval of Congress in order to do these things with.

[Glenn Beck]

And that's what it was built for, to stabilize currency in friendly countries and.

[Carol Roth]

In the U.S. by the way, we've used. I can talk about the history and how we've used it in the US before, but just to kind of get to the archives, continuum point. We did this before the election to help stabilize things for Milei so that his government could win. But we didn't do this because we think Milei is a good guy and we didn't do this because we think he has fabulous hair. Even though we do think that the reason we did this is to secure our interest. Because you know who has been making a play in Argentina and throughout Latin America? Do you know who's had a long term currency swap line and plays with Argentina? It's another country. And I'll give you all a hint, it rhymes with China. So China's influence all around the world with their belt and road initiatives where they're trying to dominate traditional infrastructure, digital infrastructure, financial infrastructure, we are trying to kick out their influence for national security reasons. Also, it just so happens that Argentina has the second largest reserve of lithium as well as a smaller set of reserves of other rare earth elements that we need access to for our economic and national security. So that is what is underpinning all of this. It's because we don't want to be speaking Mandarin one day.

[Glenn Beck]

It is amazing how Donald Trump, people just don't understand this. Everything he's doing in South America, he is realigning the globe. He is doing his own version of America first great reset. And he's just doing it by himself. I mean, it's pretty incredible, isn't it, Carol?

[Carol Roth]

It really is. And this is why. Remember when we first had the discussion about Scott Besant? Is he the right person for Treasury? And I eased everyone's concern. You know, Scott Besset made his fortune on foreign currency exchange. There is nobody who understands the machinations of how you use currency to support countries and also, you know, the impacts on political influence like Scott Bessant. So he has been side by side with President Trump who has said, you know, China's influence in South America is a national security issue. It's a priority. And you know, at this time when we're seeing a reset of the global financial order and you have China making this very big play, at the same time when we really have a serious issue with our fiscal foundation, at a minimum, we need to make sure that we have our hemisphere, you know, locked down before we can do anything else. And China has really been focused on making inroads in Latin America. And that is what this is all about. And it's not just about the currency swap you talked about, the importation of Argentinian beef. That is a piece of it as well. And we have to support us ranchers, we have to make it easier for them to do business, we have to remove regulation. But this extra piece from Argentina, this is a long term play. And I know that it's hard for people who are ranchers and who are dealing with this day to day, but this is a long term play for national security because otherwise it's not going to be Argentinian beef. It's going to be China that owns everything.

[Glenn Beck]

So I'm, I'm looking at Venezuela, what's happening there? And I don't think that's about drug running. I mean, you know, it is about drug running, but it's not, it's about again, taking control of this hemisphere. True or false?

[Carol Roth]

Absolutely. I mean, and this is a, this isn't even, you know, you or I guessing about this. This has been a stated goal of the Trump administration. One of the great things about the Trump administration is Trump, whether he intends to or not, is incredibly transparent. He will tell you what is coming, he will tell you the things that he is going to do, even if they're couched in, you know, a different wrapper. You can look through that wrapper and see what that candy is on the inside. And he tells us about that candy. So he is been very clear that, you know, in addition to the commodities and the rarest elements and all these things that are very plentiful in South America, we need to make sure that we have within our allies control so that we can have access to. You do not want China to have, you know, military relationships and other very strong relationships within South America because we know what that means long term for the United States.

[Glenn Beck]

How is Trump doing overall?

[Carol Roth]

So I think overall I think he's doing quite well. I think from a foreign policy perspective, and I've said this during the last administration, it's funny you think of him as a business guy, but from a foreign policy perspective, he's been absolutely just killing it, crushing it. He's been doing a great job in terms of, of securing the borders. Obviously we'd like to see more deportations, but they're certainly trying and have some roadblocks. And I think from an economic standpoint. The fact that he has this long term lens, even though some of the machinations I don't agree with, these are the important things. I mean, this is finally an administration who goes, wait, our military stockpile is at risk because we do not have the capacity components in the supply chain to be able to make products. We're dependent upon products from other countries and assume that they're going to sell us those products so that we can have missiles to defend ourselves against them. That doesn't make any sense. So finally we have people who are addressing the long term problems. And I think the most important thing for our country right now is that we have the Runway because we cannot, you know, in three years or three and a half, half years, turn over the reins to another set of people who want to undo all of this, who hate the United States, who want to walk that back. We need people like President Trump, like the people he's developing, who understand the long term issues that we face that have been built up over many years from this broken fiscal foundation from both parties. But that's where we are today. And he, he is doing the hard work to try to fix that. And it's not necessarily apparent to everyone who doesn't understand at this level, but it is so critical for this very important reset that we're going to have.

[Glenn Beck]

So I know that you're not a fan of tariffs. I'm not a fan of tariffs.

[Carol Roth]

Correct.

[Glenn Beck]

However, the things that have been happening, the tariffs are not doing what everybody thought they would do. Why is that?

[Carol Roth]

Well, I don't necessarily agree that they're not doing what people thought they would do. I think that there's been a bit of overhype on how things are presented. So do tariffs make it more expensive for businesses and consumers to buy certain goods and services? Yes. And that has happened. And I've seen that with my own eyes, with my own company and joint venture partners and other small businesses across the country. There are small businesses that have had major burdens. These are the things we thought would happen. And they're not, they are happening, you know, in terms of creating runaway inflation. I don't think anybody said that at the levels they are. They said that when he kicked him up to 100%, which he walked back. But we also know when you look at inflation data, that the way that that's calculated, there's a lot of picking and choosing and substitutions. So of course, when you say, oh, well, if you know this particular product is being hit too much, someone's going to substitute into this. Of course it's not going to show up in the same way in the numbers as it affects people in their day to day lives. So again, I think it's that nuanced understanding. It's the same thing, you know, when people said, hey, why am I at the grocery store? And everything's 30% higher and they're telling us inflation under Biden is at 4%. We know that that has to do with the calculation. So I think that tariffs are causing some issues and some pain and hopefully that can be sorted out in time. But you know, absent that particular strategy, I think other things that he's doing on the American front to shore up our security from an economic and national security standpoint make a lot of sense.

[Stu]

Carol. I think a lot of people lose sight because it was just such a big issue. Look, trade is important, but it is also not a huge part of our economy. Am I right that it's imported goods are about 10% of our economy? Does that number sound about right?

[Carol Roth]

It's a small percent. I would want to go back and verify the number because I have so many things rolling around my head today and that's not one that's top of mind. But it's not a meaningful percent of our direct economy. But where it does impact is that there's componentry that then flows through the economy. It affects domestic goods and services. So even if on a headline basis it doesn't seem like it's that important, it can flow through the rest of the economy and create a drag and create some issues there.

[Glenn Beck]

I want to take a break and Carol, I want to come back. Carol Roth is the economist that I trust. She's a former investment banker and really has a clear eye on not Wall street, but Main Street. I want to talk to you about the shutdown. We're about to start to see possible delays now at airports as our air traffic controllers snap is about to expire. What happens here? When does the average person begin to really feel this shutdown? And is there a. Is there a line where it just has gone too far? We'll go there in just 60 seconds. First, there's some heroes you just don't see in a movie. You know, they don't have agents or autographs or action figures. They just show up to the fire, to the crash, to the call that nobody else wants to take and they run towards everything everybody else is running from. And when that moment ends, hopefully they go home if they're lucky. But too many of them don't go home. And when that happens, the families are left behind. They carry the weight. The mortgage still needs to be paid every month. The skill the kids still need to go to school. Life doesn't pause for grief. And that's where Tunnel to Towers steps in. Every day they are helping pay off mortgages for families that are fallen, first responders or military families. They're building smart homes for veterans who came home with life altering injuries. Tunnel to Towers. They exist because gratitude should be more than a word or a thought. It should be something that we do, something we build, something we pass forward. And that is exactly what they're doing at Tunnel to Towers. Never forget the sacrifices of our country's greatest heroes. Donate $11 a month at tunnel to towers2t.org $11 a month changes so much. Tunnel to towers t2t.org 10 seconds. So Carol, tell me where we are on the shutdown.

[Carol Roth]

Well, it's tough. As I think I've said to you before, Glenn, as somebody who would love to see many parts of the government be shut down permanently, there's part of me that goes, this is fantastic and I hope it goes on forever.

[Glenn Beck]

Me too.

[Carol Roth]

Obviously there are people who, you know, we want to make sure get paid, we want to make sure the military gets paid, we want to make sure that air traffic controllers get paid. And so, you know, there's a little bit of give and take. Probably the most surprising thing that has come to light is how many people are on food assistance in this country when we have something that's supposed to be a safety net. It's almost in my mind supposed to be like the, under the tightrope, that trampoline, under the tightrope, that net. Right. It catches you if it falls and then it pushes you back up and it's a temporary solution. I feel like we've turned that net into a hammock where people are just taking a nap and you know, sleeping in it long term. And you know, that is something that even though devastating for the families who can, who truly need to be on it, the fact that this is getting some light on it, I think, you know, net net could be a small silver lining here and I think think has got to put pressure on the Democratic base. You know, the Democrats are holding out for a bunch of insanity for illegals over trying to feed the people who are actually in their base. So I'm hoping that puts enough pressure for everybody else though. I think when this really starts to flow through the economy and becomes a drag on Numbers and becomes a drag on the stock market is where you're going to see a little bit more.

[Glenn Beck]

Any idea when that happens?

[Carol Roth]

It's hard to say because, you know, as we know right now with the government shutdown, we're not even getting numbers on a regular basis. But we cannot afford for GDP to contract. We cannot afford for the consumer, which is 70% of the economy, to feel like they cannot spend because that flows through tax receipts. And if we have lower tax receipts, it's going to blow up the deficit. If we blow up the deficit, we can end up in a debt spiral. So that's the big issue here, the food stamps.

[Glenn Beck]

You know, if you look at the stamp program through ethnicity, 45.6% of Afghans who have been imported here in America are on food stamps, 42% of the Somali community, 34% of the Iraqi community and 23% of the Haitian community. That just can't happen. It just can't happen.

[Carol Roth]

You know, in terms of, you know, those numbers, they think there's a common sense approach that we need to take here in terms of immigration, which, you know, I've raised the question with AI, you know, how much immigration do we actually need? But to the extent that we do invite great people into our country who share our values, we need to means test that. And you should not be allowed to come here and then be dependent on the government. That should be a condition of coming to this country. And I think that's something that seems like it would be an 80, 20 or 90, 10 issue.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Carol Roth]

So again, shining a light on these things at the point in time when we have people who are actually willing to do the hard work and address the problem is a net benefit is the silver lining. Even though the backdrop. You know, we don't want people who actually need this to go without food. But, you know, it brings into question the system. You can get people beans, you can get people rice, you can get people staples and have them be well fed at a fraction of the cost that it's currently costing. And, you know, keep out the sodas and the candies and the people, you know, who just arrived here, you know, to take advantage of the system.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Carol, thank you, as always.

[Marlon Stutzman]

God bless you.

[Glenn Beck]

Bye bye. Carol Roth, she is just. I just love Carol. I mean, I looked for somebody like Carol for a long time that understood Wall street, understand the banking, and then also understood Main Street. Carol Roth.com. you can find her at the website. Carol Roth or you can follow her on X at Carol J. S Roth. All right, when we come back, we are going to talk to Representative Stutzman in Indiana. He wants to talk a little bit about what's happening in Nigeria. And I also want to talk to him about redistricting in Indiana. We'll do both of those things when we come back. This is Glenn Beck. You know, I don't know about your family, but every family, I think, has that one person who thinks they're practically a doctor because, you know, they watched a medical drama for a while, all of the seasons, you know the type you mentioned your back hurts. And they say, oh, that's probably your L4 vertebrae acting up. You know, meanwhile, they're eating, you know, a corn dog and haven't touched a treadmill since the Bush administration. Then you have the other fresh who swears they can fix with ancient, you know, ancient stretches and ancient medicine from that they found on YouTube. And next thing you know, you're upside down, stuck in a position, you know, named after a bird, wondering, how the hell is this all gonna end? It's not the best way to spend your day. You know, look, everybody's got advice when you hurt, but relief factor isn't advice. It's something that has actually helped real people find relief from their aches and discomfort. And so you get back to doing the normal, normal things. You know, human things like walking and sitting, not being compared to a yoga crane. Because sometimes you don't need a guru or a back whisperer. Sometimes you just need something that works. Give their three week quick start a try. It's only $19.95. Visit relieffactor.com or call 800, the number four relief. 800, the number four relief. It's relieffactor.com 804 relief.

[Stu]

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[Glenn Beck]

You know, when you're looking for good guys in Congress, good guys on Capitol Hill, one of the really good guys is Marlon Stutzman, and he is a congressman from Indiana, and he joins us now. Marlon, welcome. How are you, sir?

[Marlon Stutzman]

Hey. I'm doing great, Glenn. Great to be with you.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. I wanted to talk to you. You and Ted Cruz are introducing something today, and it is to protect the people in Nigeria, the Christians in Nigeria. Before you get to the building, explain to America what is happening that very few people are even aware of.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Yes. No. You know, we've been focusing a lot on the Middle east and there's obviously, you know, Christians and Druze and other sectarian groups in Syria that have been killed, of course, the conflict in Gaza. But here in Africa, In Nigeria, since 2009, Boko Haram has killed 125,000 Christians. And the jihadist groups that are there are destroying hundreds of churches every month. I mean, it is. This is bad. I don't know if you had a chance. There's a video that's been floating around social media with a pastor that's standing over some dead bodies in an open grave, and he's just pleading for help, and especially particularly America. And so there's been a real genocide of Christians in particular in Nigeria. And it's just a tragic situation that's going on there right now.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, I know that the Nazarene Fund has been trying to get there for a while, but it's one of the most dangerous places in the world. You know, Boko Haram is really, really very dangerous. And it's not just this. I think in just since Trump has gotten into office, 7,000 Christians have been killed and almost 8,000 Christians, women and children have been abducted and they've been sold into slavery. So, I mean, the problem is just ungodly. Ungodly. What does your bill do to stop.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Yeah, so the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability act, which is also sponsored by Senator Ted Cruz in the Senate, it targets sanctions on officials in that country who enforce Sharia law and would also facilitate any sort of or allow for any sort of violence against Christians. It also designates Nigeria as a country of particular concern for the administration to focus on this. And I think, you know, this has really has gotten some attention lately in a really fast way. And my hope is we just keep building this momentum. You know, one of the things, Glenn, you know, I was, you know, really glad to see you in Fort Wayne at Auburn a couple weeks ago, and as we talked a little bit about religious freedom, I think this is the issue that we all need to be focused on here in America as well as around the world. Because if you don't have religious freedom, you don't have economic freedom, you don't have all the other freedoms that we enjoy, because if you're going to allow jihadists to come into the country and just extinguish those they disagree with, this is not the way humanity should behave at all. This is not civility at all. And so that's why this is going to target those, hit them in the pocket and hit them hard. I don't want to see us using the United States military as a police force around the world, but we don't have to. We can hit them with financial consequences. And that's what this bill does.

[Glenn Beck]

And I know that. Well, I don't want to give out any information until it's time to give out information. But we're getting involved as well, and I hope to be there in the first place, first quarter of next year, bringing the story to America firsthand so you can see what is going on. Because I just. I'm very concerned with everything that is happening around the world, including in Europe. And what I think is. Is coming here. I mean, Texas people, people in Texas have no idea. We are leading the. The nation on. On Sharia law, building, you know, communities here in Texas. And the state government is finally getting serious about it, and they really need to. But I think this Sharia law thing, it is going to be the next big battle of the West.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Yeah, yeah. No, I think you're right. And that's the thing where, you know, with the Muslim countries, countries in the Middle east, like the uae, they have religious freedom. That's the model that we should be following. That's why Syria is so critical right now. Syria is on this edge where it could go one way or the other, and it really needs to. We're pushing very hard for the new president there, Alshara, to allow for religious freedom because it's a very diverse country. But if you look at Africa, Africa. I mean, Christianity is growing in Africa. And I'm good friends with Daniel Ada. He's running for president of Benin in Africa. Wonderful Christian man. And, you know, there are leaders that are stepping up in Africa saying we've had enough, and they're speaking out. But now, you know, the jihadists and the extremists are coming in and trying to, you know, put the fear in them by killing them and extinguishing them. And that just should not be allowed. The global. I mean, the global community needs to come together and say, not in Africa. I mean, if we all know Africa's struggles for centuries, there are people there that are really trying to build up that continent. And if this is allowed to happen, it just can't happen.

[Glenn Beck]

I have to tell you, I've seen more real Christians in the Middle east than I've seen anywhere else in the world. I mean, these people know what their faith is because they're threatened. Their life is threatened. All the time. All the time.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Can we talk about two other things? First of all, the redistricting in Indiana. Your governor is now looking at that. Are you going to do it in Indiana?

[Marlon Stutzman]

So the governor has called a special session and there's a lot of momentum. I think, you know, people are starting to understand, you know, right at first when redistricting was talked about, everybody like, dude, we shouldn't have to do this. You know, in Indiana, we're, we're a strong conservative state. We've had good governance, you know, for the last couple of decades. You know, we're balanced budgets. It's a good place to, you know, raise a family. And we're. But now you have states like California, Illinois. I was just talking to former Congressman Rodney Davis from Illinois a little bit ago. You know, they're squeezing out all the Republican districts in those states and to give the Democrats an advantage. And it's like, well, why do we have to do this? Well, we're not a sanctuary state. In Indiana, there's a lot of other conservative states that aren't sanctuary states. So states like California, Illinois, New York, they all have an advantage because they count the illegals in those states, they count the non citizens in those states. So they probably have like, like five or six extra districts that they shouldn't even have. Glenn, it's, and so there's an imbalance and that's why I'm supporting this. And I believe that this is an issue that needs to be addressed because we're just, you know, the standard is the lowest common denominator and that's California, sadly. And so that's why Indiana is doing it. Hopefully we get the votes in the state Senate. We, we need the state Senate to be supportive of this. So that way, you know, people really do have equal representation in the House of Representatives from Indiana.

[Glenn Beck]

Last thing you know, I'm all for government shutdowns. I'd like to see him shut down, you know, and maybe open just a third of it back. But we're now starting to face problems with, you know, the Democrats got so many 40 million people addicted to SNAP, and you can't just pull that away. You're going to have all kinds of problems, problems. And we're also not paying. Now our military going to come up to another payday. We've got our air traffic controllers that are not going to be paid. How long can this go on? Where, where did the Democrats stand? What, what's the mood on Capitol Hill?

[Marlon Stutzman]

Well, it, you know, it's interesting, but the, the fact that the Democrat leader in the House, she, he said that people are going to have to feel the pain because this is their only leverage that they have over Republicans and basically saying, hey, my constituents are going to have to go without. That way we have leverage in D.C. to negotiate. And that's just, to me, unfathomable because it's like you're willing to make your own constituents hurt. And Catherine Clark, she's been a Democrat leader for quite some time, and she just literally said that. So I think this pressure is going to start building. You know, staff on the Hill are not going to be getting paid soon. I think they'll have some influence over the senators in the Senate side, on the Democrat side. I mean, this is ridiculous. I mean, we could have not even been in this situation by passing a clean cr, continue the negotiations. But what I believe is here the Democrats are willing to cut their own constituents food benefits so that they can negotiate for health care for illegals. Make sense of that.

[Glenn Beck]

What's crazy to me is it's not like they're hurting the average person even. They're hurting the person, the lowest person on the ladder, the one that they always say Democrat or Republicans are trying to starve. They literally are okay with starving those people and not giving them any benefit for food. And they are the ones who enslave them in this. I mean, it's crazy to me what they're willing to do. That's the ends justify the means.

[Marlon Stutzman]

That's right. No, and you know, they all voted against the big beautiful bill which cuts taxes for families, working families across the country. They're willing to let you know those taxes go up. They voted against, you know, no tax on tips. I'm gonna tell you what, I was in the restaurant business. I know how hard, hard restaurant staff work. And, you know, that's, that's a couple hundred bucks that they're going to be able to take home because they don't have to pay taxes on it. No tax on overtime is another one. When people are trying to make ends meet and they can keep some extra money, it goes a long way. And yet Democrats are against all of that.

[Glenn Beck]

How's this going to end Wednesday?

[Marlon Stutzman]

I think next week? I mean, this is, that's Marlin Stetsman's prediction, because I think, you know, once the staff don't get paid on the Hill, once, you know, SNAP benefits aren't being paid out, I think the pressure builds. They're going to want to get past the longest shutdown. So that way they can tell their base that they held out longer than anybody else. And I think also the election in Virginia and New Jersey, they're trying to find Some momentum to shut down or, you know, kind of call a timeout on President Trump because Trump has such momentum. And so I think we're getting close. But if they want to go longer, they're only hurting their own folks as well as the rest of the country.

[Glenn Beck]

Can I ask something? When I was up in Fort Wayne to change the subject, I heard that you are building a giant Google server farm up there. Are they being required to provide their own electricity? Are they going to build their own power plant? Because, I mean, electricity all over the country is going through the roof because of these server farms.

[Marlon Stutzman]

It is. And there's actually. We have probably five to six server farms being built in Indiana, and the utility rates have gone up. They do not. They are getting their power from a nuclear facility out of Michigan, but everybody knows that. It's. We're at our capacity. And they have Google. Actually, when I visited there, they actually offered to have the conversation about, you know, building an smart, small modular reactor to, you know, to power their own facility and others. I mean, I think that's the.

[Glenn Beck]

It is.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Is these small modular reactors where we have nuclear power, but we don't have to build the monstrosities. We can build these. These smaller ones that still produce a ton of power for cities across, you know, the country, and they don't melt down.

[Glenn Beck]

There is no China syndrome. I mean, they're. They are so say. I mean, nuclear power is still the safest energy ever produced in human history, but now these small reactors are, like, 10 times as safe as anything ever was.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Yeah, we actually build them in Southern Indiana that go into the nuclear submarines that we use in the military. So these guys are sleeping right next to them on a submarine. Green. And, you know, we've never had any issues. And of course, again, I think that the whole green energy phase is hopefully, you know, gone, going away. But I think people are starting to realize if we're going to really meet our energy demand, nuclear has got to be at the head of that.

[Glenn Beck]

Marlon, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. God bless. Thanks for everything you do. Representative Marlon Stutzman from Indiana. All right, our sponsor this half hour is American Financing. It's funny, all the places your money just. Just vanishes. You know, your, your credit card balances. You know, sometimes the interest on a car loan, it gets a little. Gets a little dicey. Sometimes it's the mortgage that looks normal. You know, until you realize, wow, how much of your monthly payment never actually touches the principal. That's the moment when you start wondering where's all my hard work actually going. American Financing specializes in finding that hidden money and putting it it back into your hands. Because the truth is most people are paying much more than they need to and they don't even know it. But the good news is there's usually a way to rebalance things. You get your household back under control. And when you work with a team that treats you like a person, not a file number. Financial freedom isn't a dream, it's math. When it's done right, American Financing, they understand when you stop letting go of your interest control you, you start living your life. It'll actually work for you and your family. They'll find a plan for you. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to call American Financing. 8009-0624-4080-0906, 2440 call them now. It's American Financing.net nmls182334nmlsconsumeraccess.org APR for rates in the five starts at 6.799% for well qualified borrowers.

[Stu]

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[Glenn Beck]

Here's a friendly tip. Always drink upstream of the herd. If you know, you know Glenn.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Becky.

[Glenn Beck]

So on msnbc, Nicole Wallace was, was on and yesterday she, she said this. I haven't suggested that, that Donald Trump is Hitler.

[Stu]

I, I, I wouldn't suggest, I don't.

[Glenn Beck]

Think any Democrat has. Let's deal with Hitler.

[Marlon Stutzman]

Okay. Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Trump's affinity for Hitler was always covered.

[Carol Roth]

Under an umbrella of his stupidity.

[Stu]

In the early days of the Nazi.

[Glenn Beck]

Regime, they started slowly but surely taking away people's rights.

[Stu]

And what we're seeing now is the very same thing.

[Glenn Beck]

Hitler in 1933 was talking about his designs on America haunting. And that's what, that's what Hitler himself wants explained. He is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin or to become an Adolf Hitler.

[Carol Roth]

Me disagreeing with you, me calling you, you know, I want to be Hitler. All those things are like, not necessarily saying go out and hurt somebody and.

[Stu]

To be praising Adolf Hitler, it's dangerous.

[Carol Roth]

And it's also disgusting.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't even know what to call him.

[Carol Roth]

I've called him so many things. But this wannabe Hitler for sure.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, she might have missed some of those. And there's, there's many, there's many more, there's many, many more.

[Stu]

But we should be clear that when she calls him Hitler, she doesn't necessarily want someone to go out and and hurt someone. No, not necessarily. I mean, now, if you. If you were to choose that, it's. I think she'd be very open to it. But she does not necessarily say, you have to go out and hurt someone, because that's good.

[Glenn Beck]

And there's no history of people saying, if I could go back in time and kill baby Hitler. Oh, no, no, no, no. This is Glenn Beck.