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The REAL Story Behind the San Diego Mosque Shooting | Guests: Ryan Mauro & Sharrell Shaw | 5/26/26
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Okay, I want you to think of the seal of America here for a second. When you. When you look at the seal of America, you have the eagle. And in, in one claw is what. It's the. It's the. The olive branch. And in the other claw is the arrows. That's war and peace. And the eagle is clutching both of them. Which. Which one is. That's why the Olive branch is always in the right claw as the one that always is offered first. We always offer peace, but we want you to know we'll stick arrows in your head if we have to to get to the piece. That's what was happening this weekend. Okay. There are stories swirling around about how President Trump missed part of his son's wedding this weekend because of, you know, the war planning and negotiations. Some reports treated it seriously, others mocked it. We don't. We don't know the full truth here. And that is the key here on this story. Let me just say it again. We don't know the full truth, but let me tell you this. If the Pentagon believed another round of strikes was imminent, the President would absolutely stay close to the Situation Room. And the reason the strike may have been called off or delayed is probably pretty darn simple. I think Trump believes that Iran has blinked, not surrendered, but just heard enough and isolated enough, economically squeezed enough, military, exposed enough to finally start to talk about things seriously. Now, the podcasts that you're going to listen to today are going to declare victory or betrayal. One of the two. It's either absolute victory or this is a betrayal. Oh, can we stop this, please? My first day back from vacation, I'm already exhausted from hearing it. Nobody outside of a very small, small circle actually knows what this deal is going to look like. Even the people in the circle don't know what the final product's going to look like. And anyone telling you that this is a victory or a betrayal is lying to you. They don't know. Now, we can tell you what we appear to know. What. What it looks like. We know this. The talks involved the Strait of Hormuz sanctions relief. I don't like that. Frozen Iranian assets. Don't like that. Uranium enrichment, insp. Regional militias, broader normalization of the Middle East. And that one brings me to something really important. This is probably the most important report that is out. President Trump is now demanding something much larger as part of this deal. An expansion of the Abraham Accords across much of the Sunni Arab world. This is a massive deal. Very big deal. The Abraham Accords were not about diplomacy. They were about rewiring the Middle east entirely. What is the old Middle East? What was Dr. What drove what. What. What was the old Middle east built around? The organizing principle, hatred of Israel. Okay. Trump's vision appears to be something completely different. A regional, economic and security bloc stretching from Israel through all of the Gulf states, with countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, possibly even Turkey tied into this. This new this new order built around trade and technology and intelligence sharing, energy routes, collective opposition to what? Extremism coming from the Shia world of Iran. Think about what that means. That means the entire Middle east will have direct investment in each other. Integrated energy infrastructure, shipping, security from the Mediterranean to the Gulf. Intelligence cooperation against terror groups, new trade corridors that will bypass all the instability. A Middle east that is less dependent on endless American troops and dependent on mutual economic survival. Now, for America, if that works, fewer wars, stable oil markets, stronger trade influence against China, and lower long term military cost in the region. That will matter directly to, to what's sitting on your kitchen table every night. That'll matter to your wallet and your food and your family. Because when you hear other people talk about Iran, it sounds distant and geopolitical and yada yada, and every flare up in the Strait of Hormuz shows up where, at your kitchen table or your gas tank, every time a tanker is threatened. You know, diesel prices, groceries, airline tickets, inflation, all of it. And Donald Trump is saying, we got to stop looking at it like this, okay? Because these peace talks are not separate from what's happening at home. The cost of instability in the Middle east always finds its way into your family budget every time. So what are we negotiating for? I don't know. I mean, there's some clear, I think, obvious red lines from the American side. The deal dies immediately if Iran refuses meaningful, meaningful nuclear restrictions or uses negotiation chips simply to buy time while they're built rebuilding their, you know, military infrastructure. If Iran keeps enriching uranium at near weapons grade levels without transparent oversight, there's going to be pressure again for military action, and it's going to be over. Another breaking point would be attacks through the procurement, the proxies, Hezbollah. If that, you know, escalates. If US Ships are hit, if, you know, militias strike American bases again, if the Strait of Hormuz is threatened, then all of this collapses overnight. Again, from Iran side, I think the red lines are just as clear. The biggest one is the regime cannot appear to publicly surrender. It can't. It cannot look like it handed over its sovereignty under pressure from America. It can't. And that matters enormously inside the Iranian system because the regime survives on revolutionary legitimacy. And what was the whole revolution about killing Israel and killing the United States? Okay. If its own hardliners believe the government capitulated, then that thing fractures from the inside and becomes very, very dangerous. Which brings me to the Iranian people, because this is the thing that I'm not hearing anybody talk about. They are the forgotten part of this story. And they're the part of the story that at least touches me the most. When Americans hear Iran, we imagine the regime, the ayatollahs, the Revolutionary Guard, the chants, the flags, blah, blah, blah. But millions of Iranians are exhausted by this point. They are exhausted. They're exhausted of their own regime. They're exhausted economically, politically, spiritually. Most of them don't want a war with America, but they also don't trust their own government. They're trapped, some of them, in their own house. Some of them have been dragged out in the streets and shot or beheaded. They have sanctions, repression, inflation, corruption, blackouts, fear. I mean, can you imagine life being an Iranian right now? The Iranian people might lose no matter what happens. And if the negotiations fail, they're going to suffer through war and economic collapse. If. If the negotiations succeed poorly, the regime could survive longer without fundamentally changing. That's really bad. If the regime fractures internally, chaos follows. I mean, they lose every time. This is why I think anybody who is serious about judging any of this, you should hold back. Hold the whole judgment back for right now. I want you to know. I know I get. Everybody says, oh, Glenn Beck, he's just. He's on the bandwagon for war. I'm not. I'm not. I wouldn't have picked this war at this time. I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't have done it. My whole point is we're in it. So now what does it mean? How do we get out? The most effective way. Because one of the most. The most effective thing to do is definitely not just pull out. You give them a wi. It's horrible. So what's the least horrible way of ending this? I don't know. But let me just give you perspective on. We don't know if this is Munich. We don't know if this is Camp David. We don't know if this is Obama 2.0, Nixon to China, or just another pause before we start pounding them again. We don't know. Nobody does. But let me give you a few things you should watch for. Watch the military posture. If American carriers quietly reposition away from a strike range, that's a big signal. If bomber deployments slow down, another big signal. If missile defense systems remain fully surged, that tells you that Washington still expects instability. Watch oil prices, watch shipping insurance rates in the Straits of Hormuz. Markets will detect the fear before governments admit it publicly. Usually watch what Hezbollah and the Houthis do. Proxy silence might tell you more than speeches do watch whether Iran allows inspectors or monitoring mechanisms back into the disputed facilities. This is where all of this talk will becomes reality. And watch the language. If both sides start to use phrases like framework or confidence building or phased implementation or temporary agreements, that usually means nobody got everything they wanted. But both sides believe they bought time. And unfortunately, I think that's what this is really all about. Okay? I think the. I think if Donald Trump can get the peace accords to go over the entire region, that's a really big deal and maybe worth everything we've gone through. I don't know. But everybody's buying time right now. Time that has been bought by threats, time that was bought by fear. Time bought because both sides may have looked over the cliff and realized, oh, holy cow, that's a cliff and we're going to go over it. And if we do, the entire region's on fire. I don't know. And again, that's the point. I don't know. And neither, you know, who knows? God, at this point? God knows. We just have to do our best to understand what's coming, not to freak out by it. Be very well aware of what's over our horizon in a good way and a bad way, because I can't tell you if it's going to end well or poorly. It has got to say, equal chance. Ending both ways probably has a better chance of ending poorly. But I don't know. I mean, remember, one thing I learned in 2020 is I'm not going to second guess. I think. I think God. I know God is in charge. I think we don't pay attention enough to that. I know that we have to do what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to stand up, we're supposed to vote. We're supposed to have our voices heard. We're supposed to do all the things with our family that we're supposed to. But then we gotta let it go. We've only. We can only do so much, let it go because we all went out and voted in 2020, and we thought the end of the world was happening. When that happened, when we lost that election in 2020, we thought, there's no way. This is the end of the Republic. And what happened? Look at where we are. Do you know what life would be like? I just got back from Europe. I know what life would be like if. If Kamala would have won. Holy Mother, is Europe in trouble? We would have been there. So I'm not going to second guess and tell you that's what I did in 2020. I said, this is the worst thing that could possibly happen. No, as it turned out, it was actually probably one of the best things that could have happened to us. I didn't have that longer view. Nobody does because I'm not God. And neither are you, neither are the other people on podcast or on radio or tv. So let's just recognize who we are and then do the best we can. That's the best I can give you. On Iran. Now, I read something over the weekend that I thought was really, really good. If I have time, I'm going to get to it. Another perspective on what is really happening inside of Iran. But also, there was something that happened last week in San Diego and I want to talk to you about here in just a second. Standby. First, let me tell you about Real Estate Agents I Trust dot com. You know, there probably was a time when buying, you know, a house felt simple. You know, you found a place you love, you shook somebody's hand, you sign a few papers, and, you know, you started moving boxes in that weekend. Maybe Now, I don't know, it feels like you need a law degree and a therapist. And the stress tolerance, tolerance, you know, of a bomb disposal technician just to make it through the inspection process. Everything is so complicated, which is why you want to work with somebody who really knows what they're doing. It matters so much. It's why I started Real Estate Agents I Trust. 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Let me bring Jason in. Jason, your thoughts on my analysis of what's happening with Iran. What have I missed?
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Pretty much right on. I Was very frustrated as I was catching up with the news on the negotiations because it's even confusing. It seems like some US Senators and Congress people about what the details of this negotiation are right now. Basically my thought process on the negotiations between US and Iran is no matter what I hear leak out through the media or even come out in rumors, I just immediately switch off. Now if they're like, oh, there's a 12 point plan, okay, just stop it, just stop it. I'm not really believing any of that at the moment. And your analysis on the, the Trump's proposal or his truth social post about all the different Gulf Arab countries coming into the Abraham Accords, Glenn, I believe that post will go down in history. If things progress the way that I hope they go, will go down as one of the defining moments in US Foreign policy. It is that huge.
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Because what I, from what Iran has been doing here, the president, if he's negotiating or pushing in that direction to basically unite the entire Middle east, all the Gulf countries that used to be, I mean, they obviously were not allies with Iran, but they would, you know, quietly let them do certain things like in places like uae, other countries where they would allow them to hide money there, do other things, they would turn, you know, turn their backs and allow. These things would be completely over. And then eventually, if there is a military, let's say the regime does not topple, let's say they stay in power, eventually, as they continue to get aggressive, the rest of the Gulf kingdoms will have no choice but to start defending their own area, start pushing back with their own military, with that greater coalition aligned with Israel. So we would not have to be the policeman over there. We would not have to be the first responders. It would be the countries that are aligned in the Abraham Accords. This is huge, Glenn. And I don't think it's, I think it's being understated actually in the media right now.
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I think so too. I think so too. I think your analysis is spot on. And they can afford their own defense. And if we can get them to not be, you know, not before regimes like Iran, we, we can withdraw a bit. I mean, we can't leave a vacuum, but we can withdraw. And we don't have to be over there and be the world's policeman. You know, I sat down with, I sat down and had dinner with the prime minister of the Czech Republic and the vice prime minister before I left there last week. And I have a, I, you know, I don't think that Europe, well, I know they can't afford the 5% to protect themselves. They can't. They've gutted themselves and it's in much worse shape than anybody really understands. But, you know, sorry, gang, we're. We're not going to be funding your military over in Europe either. We can't afford. You can't afford it and neither can we. It's. It's time you wake up to the re the real reality and quite honestly, stop charging your people a $5 a gallon gas tax so they can start their tractors so you can buy food. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the burner launcher. If you've heard me talk about the burner launcher before, you haven't gotten yours yet. You need to head to burner.com right now. They're running a special on their LE Gen 2 launcher. They're taking $100 off the cost while supplies last. The FBI's own numbers show that less than 0.01% of altercations actually require a lethal response. You know, but that doesn't mean you should be, you know, left defenseless. Burna gives you a way to create distance, stop a threat by yourself sometime using a powerful kinetic or tear gas round that can reach up to 60ft away. It's legal in all 50 states. It doesn't require a permit or a background check. And it's practical for summer travel because you can fly with in a checked bag. And honestly, whether it's for your spouse, your parents, a kid living away at college, or, you know, whomever there is a ton of peace of mind knowing that the people you love are not completely helpless if something goes wrong. Burna offering their hundred dollars off the Berna Le Gen 2 visit Burna.com Secure yours while supplies last. It's by R N A.com Byrna.com Torch is more than a platform. It's a modest mission to get back to founding principles. Connect with other Americans who get it by becoming a Torch insider today@glenn beck.com torch. If I have time. Today, I'm going to talk to you about the five families. The five families, the mob families that are actually what we should all be fighting against. The. The system that we have now in the west is so corrupt. It's like a mob family and there's five different families. I'm going to, I'm going to break those down for you. One of the five families is the media. And it does everything it can to silence anybody who's coming against anybody in the families. The Five families. And the five families, you know, they work together, they protect one another, but they're not on the same page for everything. But they'll work together. And, you know, one of the five families will take out the other five families. If again, it just. It's. It's every mob movie you've ever seen. So I want to give that to you. If I have time, I'll give it to you today, maybe tomorrow. But an example of this happening is the San Diego mosque shooting. Now, I was on vacation last week, and so I avoided the news, but I would check the news from time to time. I would check what was happening on X, et cetera, et cetera. And this story happened so fast and was gone so fast I didn't even know about was the San Diego mosque shooting that happened. So I wanted to bring Ryan Morrow in because I read the article@glenn beck.com and I'm like, okay, I didn't even know the story happened. And B, this is the best information I think anybody who could give on this particular situation. So Ryan is with us. Take us through what happened last week and then the analysis of what's really going on. Ryan, sure.
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So you had two basically white supremacists, anti Semitic, anti Muslim terrorists. I mean, it fits that definition. Shoot up the Islamic center of San Diego. Three people were killed. And there's been so much news going on that it kind of. Kind of faded. But what I was disturbed by, even more so than the shooting, was the reaction by some people, particularly on social media, to it. Some saying, I condemn violence, but I kind of get why it happened. They don't get my sympathy. And then other people outright justifying it. And that's what prompted me to write the article for you@glennbeck.com because what I realized from studying the literature of jihadists, especially isis, was that these attackers, without realizing it, committed the jihad they claim that they're stopping. I mean, they fulfilled the plan. They fulfilled the plan of isis. This is exactly what they want to happen. They're no different than the 911 hijackers in that regard.
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Okay, so explain this, because you get, you. You have access to ISIS magazine, who knew they had their own magazine. And most of us don't want to be on that list. But you do, because of what you do for a living. Talk about what you've said in the article for glenn beck.com of what. What they are openly saying has to happen.
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Sure. So what I just said sounds like hyperbole, but it's actually very literal. So there's an English language magazine that ISIS at least used to put out. And this is going back to like 2014, 2015. And in the seventh issue of it, for 12 whole pages, they go on about their strategy called the extinction of the gray zone. And what they're referring to, destroying the gray zone, is the Muslim middle ground. They basically say, there's the people who are engaged in jihad, they're on our side, they're either part of ISIS or they're at least part of the jihad overall. We can work with them. Then there are the pro Western, the pro American Muslims who they've basically given up on. So when people say, oh, there's no such thing as a patriotic Muslim, well, the jihadists disagree because they basically said, we're not even going to try to convince them anymore, it's not working. And then you have the middle ground. So those are the most that they think they just have to kill. And then there's the middle ground where it's Muslims, particularly those living in Europe and the United States, who like the systems, they're comfortable, they like the people, but they don't fully identify with the West. They may not agree with the foreign policy of the west, certainly don't like Israel. And so that's the gray zone that ISIS calculated. If they could radicalize them, then that was the game plan. Just as much as building the caliphate. The other goal is extinction of the gray zone by radicalizing those Muslims in the Muslim middle ground so that they come to their side. And the key to doing that is enraging and terrifying the west so much that Muslims who were once loyal to the west or in, or in that middle ground, become radicalized because they have no other choice. Their belief in democracy, the love they felt from Westerners, they realize it's an illusion. They actually hated us the whole time. And then when they question everything that they believed about the west being good, even if they don't fully identify with it, then leads them to say, for the sake of my safety and the sake of the rebirth of how I look at everything, you know what the Islamists were, right? And that's the ISIS game plan. And so shooting up a mosque, that to them is essentially an act of jihad, that's what they want to happen.
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So how is this mosque the gray zone or the middle zone? When I saw reports that said this mosque is a breeding ground for Islamic radicals, right?
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So a lot of these, even the radical mosques won't preach radicalism 24, 7, they address all sorts of issues in Life. And then when the political stuff comes in, then that's there. And not everyone that goes to these mosques, and I've really only come to understand this from dealing with Muslims, a lot of them will go. These mosques that are radical, because it's a community as a minority, it's a very tight community. And so the imam might say some crazy things. They don't really talk about it like that. That's like kind of your crazy uncle. And you listen to them on other. About other things. And then also you don't know of the other people, by the way.
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By the way, anybody judging and anybody judging and saying, oh, see, that's. You can't accept. Have you ever been to a church like that? I mean, look at. Look at how many people went to Jeremiah Wright's church and didn't say anything. You know, this happens in all of our faiths. We'll have somebody say some crazy things, and we'll just be like, I will blow them off. So, I mean, that. That makes an awful lot of sense. But anyway, go ahead.
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Yeah, I mean, the relationships with people, what. We will focus on the jihadist element and think that that's the entirety of the relations. These are people that knew your kids growing up. It's a much deeper and broader relationship. And so they may stay, but they're not into the political stuff. Others may not know about it. So the middle ground can include some people that are even at a radical mosque and don't know it's radical or they don't care. They could be informants. For all. You know, the people that you're targeting were the Muslim informants, of which there are many, that would foil the next terrorist attack. So. So the middle ground is kind of hard to define geographically. You can't just put a circle around a mosque and say everyone in there is in the gray zone or the good guy zone or the bad guy zone. And ISIS understands it. And so the solution to them is to get governments and citizens. They call them the enraged crusaders. You know, bloody is so bad. They become enraged crusaders to actively destroy the gray zone themselves by increasing persecution against Muslims in western lands. That's an exact quote from the jihadist magazine.
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That is exactly the same strategy that was used on Hungary that I've talked about forever. For the communists to come over and take over hungary in the 1950s or 1940s when they. It was top down, bottom up, inside out, they caused so much chaos that the people who didn't want communism or a big government would cry out for Anyone make it stop. And that's when the tanks rolled in. So it's the same strategy. It says, I'm going to talk about, you know, this intersectionality that is going on and how we keep dividing ourselves and how that is now spilling into the right. It's not just on the left anymore. I'm going to talk about that here in, in, in just a second. But this all is the same strategy on. And it's now on all sides. So it, I guess maybe it's a little easier to understand what's happening because it's happening to all of us. All of us. It is happening. So tell me, you know, the. What is the media's incentive for making this go away so fast? Was it just a rapid news cycle or was there something else bigger that I'm, I'm missing?
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I think it was a mixture of. I mean, they would make more money from the other headlines going on with Iran. And then depending on which audience you're going to, people will care about it. But will they care enough to tune in and want to learn more versus something else? Maybe not so much. It kind of depends on which part of America you're coming from, what that's going to resonate with you, you know, to what degree. But, but more broadly, the. I hope Americans hear this and understand that every time you put out a tweet, every interaction you have with a Muslim or talking about Muslims, according to their perspective, that's an ideological battle. You have a choice in that moment whether you're going to help the seditionist and jihadist cause by how you treat other people, or you're going to hurt it by making our civil society healthier and more loving and stronger. And that's a choice I hope every American takes very seriously. Understand you really are on the battlefield.
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That's a little, that's strike. That's striking to me. I've said for a long time there's not going to be anybody in the stands. Whether you know it or not, you are on the battlefield right now. You're on the field. And if you think that I can just stand here and not choose a side, it's not going to work that way. You're already on the battlefield. So which side are you on? And, and I think most people think that they're still in the bleachers and they're not. They're not. But every day we act or don't act in a certain way, we're making our choice. You know, I was, I was asked to speak at Tommy Robinson's thing. And I spoke and, you know, they said, you know, you may not ever be able to come back to the United Kingdom again. And I thought, my first thought, just quick thing, it was, I really like England. I want to come back. This isn't my fight. And immediately what washed over me was, this is absolutely your fight. If you don't fight this now, it's going to be left to your children, and it's going to be a lot harder to fight when, when we let a few more years go by. It's. It's. It's going to have to be guns, you know, in 10 years, it's going to be an actual hot war if we don't stand up and do the right thing right now. And I appreciate, Ryan, the message here that the right thing is not to pick up guns, because that's exactly what they want you to do. And it's no different than what we've been saying about the left the whole time. They want you to strike. Just think of the emperor in Star Wars. Yes, Pick it up. Strike me down. You know, it's. It's that scene. That's what they all want. Yeah.
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Ryan, thank you so much.
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They all say this. I mean, they'll say this in their plans and their statements, but there aren't many people aggregating it and putting it all together. So everyone sees it. I personally define the enemy as the global seditionist movement at this point, because I think everything is being recalibrated and realigned to where, just like you said, there's elements on. I call it the seditionist left and the seditionist right, and then the Islamist that are really just so common now. I don't even call it a horseshoe theory anymore. I call it the Oval theory.
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And what's interesting is everyone is saying the other side is trying to destroy it. You know, being in. Being in England with Keir Starmer, talking about how, you know, all these people like me going, they just want to destroy our society. No, no, I don't want to destroy your society. I wanted to help build your society. I'm, I mean, I, like, I'd like you to restore your society. What they're doing is destroying the society. They, all of these movements are, one way or another, taking out the pillars of Western civilization. And they are, they're, they're just kicking those pillars out from underneath Western civilization. If you are around somebody who is talking about, yeah, well, you know what has to happen? We have to destroy this or destroy this or we have to destroy this or we have to forget about our principles because we have to do this first. You're, you're, you're a pillar kicker. You're, you're on the wrong side. You're absolutely on the wrong side. And hopefully, Ryan, I think you'll enjoy my monologue coming up here in a minute. Hopefully I'll make that a little clearer on what's happening on our own side here in just a few minutes. Ryan, thank you so much. From the Morrow Institute. He's the president of encounterterrorism expert. Why the San Diego mosque shooting handed ISIS exactly what they want. You can find that@glenn beck.com you can also support Ryan at Ryan Morrow. All right. Let me tell you about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. It's really easy. I mean, it's not comfortable, but it's easy to watch suffering from a distance. You see a headline, you scroll past the video and you forget it. You know, you hear about an attack somewhere across the world. Before you can even really process it, the next story's already pushed it out of your mind. That's the reality of today's world. But people who are living through it, it doesn't disappear when the news cycle moves on, then they feel absolutely alone. For Jewish families in Israel and all around the world, the fear is real. The uncertainty is real. There are people who have gone through this before, never thought they would see it again. This kind of hatred that is rising again in their lifetimes. It's deeply personal. This is why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is doing some work that is absolutely vital now. And they're inviting people like you, like me, to send a personal prayer or message of encouragement that will be delivered directly to somebody who needs hope right now. A simple prayer, a few heartfelt words, can lift the spirit of somebody facing fear and uncertainty and isolation. It's more than support. It's standing with Israel and the Jewish people when they need it Most. Go to prayforifcj.org prayforifcj.org submit your prayer today. Pray IFCJ. Most of us just want to work hard, raise a family and live in peace. That's not political, that's human. Glenn Beck will be right back.
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Just so you know, this Iran deal is absolutely the worst thing ever, or it's the best thing ever, or whatever. You know, they're in the Senate. The GOP is now treating Donald Trump like he's a lame duck. That's really frightening. But the GOP is arguing over his anti weaponization bill. You know, you don't like it. Guys, stop arguing. Why don't you come up with something? There's an idea. Why don't you come up with something? The. The Republicans and the Democrats are both telling you the other side is completely falling apart. Today is election day in Texas. Really important that every Republican gets out and votes today. Make time. If you live in Texas, go out and vote. It's really important that you do that today. But we're tearing each other apart. And I want to explain why this is happening in a way that I think is the most universally understandable. You know, people have been saying what is happening to the right. Why are this. Why is this person, this podcaster, doing this or this podcaster doing that? I can explain it in a way that I've not been able to explain before. You know, vacation gives you time to think. And so let me explain this because it's really important that we all understand it so we don't fall into the trap, which we are in the trap right now. We got to get out of this trap. I'll explain that here in just 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about chapter. Turning 65 is a weird experience, or so they tell me. You're Thinking about retirement, grandkids, whether, you know, your knees that make that sound every time you get up. You know, maybe you're trying to figure out exactly what you want your next part of your life to look like. Maybe you're excited about having more freedom. And right in the middle of that, somebody hands you Medicare paperwork, and suddenly you're trying to understand part A, part B, part C, D Advantage plan, supplement networks, enrollment windows. What the hell is all of this? Am I missing some deadline here? It's going to cost me money for the rest of my natural, natural life. Yeah. Look, it has to be done. And this stuff matters, but it doesn't mean it has to be miserable. That's why I like chapter. Chapter says, make this next phase of your life the best chapter of your life. And they will help you compare plans from all of the insurance companies so you can find coverage that actually fits your doctors, your prescriptions, your budget. And they do it with real human advisors who can walk you through the process without making you feel like you're trying to decode some ancient legal document and hieroglyphs. Give him a call. The call is free. Just dial. £250. Say the keyword chapter. £250. Keyword chapter. So there's an old trick that revolutionaries have always understood, and because most of us are not revolutionaries, we don't even understand it. And so we see things and we're like, wow, what does this mean? How are we getting here? What is happening? How much of your life do you spend looking at the news and everything else, looking at your friends or your family and saying, how is this happening? What the hell is going on? Why is this changing? Okay, first thing in a revolutionary understands that you may not is you don't start by getting everybody to agree on everything. You start by convincing completely different people that they share the same enemy. That is the key to a revolution. This weekend, Bernie Sanders was up with, you know, Nazi boy up in Maine talking about revolution. And no, you don't want a revolution. You don't. You don't understand what that even means. But once you understand this one principle, that you gotta get a bunch of people who don't believe the same thing onto the same page, everything will make a lot of sense. Right now, people are looking around and asking, how are these people on the same side? How is a guy who's clearly a Nazi on the same side with Bernie Sanders, who's not a Nazi? What the hell? What's happening? How is this. How is this billionaire, you know, Suddenly in bed, you know, with the Christian nationalist that's a transhumanist billionaire, with a Christian nationalist. What? How does the populist podcaster end up with the worldview of a Marxist academic? How does a Muslim activist, an atheist, a conspiracy theorist, and a Silicon Valley futurist and nationalist all end up pulling in the same direction? That doesn't make any sense. Here's the answer. Revolutions don't require agreement, they require alignment. Let me give you some history so you know this is true. Go back to the French Revolution. The people who helped destroy the monarchy were not all the same. They weren't even close. Some wanted liberty, some wanted American liberty, some wanted revenge, some wanted power, some wanted a secular utopia. Some were just starving, some were intellectuals, some were old, some were young, some were just playing with ideas in salons that they barely understood. And for a brief moment, all of them marched together until they toppled the monarchy. And then revolutions do the same thing every time. They start eating their own children. That's what they do. Ask the Marxists that marched with the Iranian clerics in 1979 in Iran. Well, you can't, because you know, they found common ground, then destroyed the regime. And then the Islamists arrested, tortured and killed tens of thousands of their so called allies. The Bolsheviks did exactly the same thing. Lenin united the factory workers and the intellectuals and the radicals and the anti war activists and the peasants and the criminals and the idealist people who fundamentally disagreed on all kinds of stuff. But they all could agree that this regime is bad, okay? In the revolutionary space, disagreement is postponed. The only thing that matters is destroy the existing order. That's the important part that everybody misses. This is why I say you cannot be on the side of chaos. You have to talk about what we are trying to build, not what needs to be destroyed. Don't be against things before things. Because the issue with revolutionaries is never the issue. The issue is the doorway. Race, gender, class, climate, nationalism, immigration, technology, religion, corporate corruption, free speech, Israel, the West, the family, masculinity, capitalism, whatever it is, these are not final destinations. They're just the recruitment vehicles. And they'll only use a few of those on you and not talk about the others. But they'll get you so wrapped up in your little issue that you'll say, yeah, it needs to be destroyed. The emotional ignition points, that's what funnels people to a much larger project. And that project is destabilization. And this is where intersectionality enters the story. Most Americans heard that word years ago. Intersectionality. I remember hearing it, the first time, all of a sudden it became popular and like, what the hell does that word even mean? Had to look it up. What is this? Well, it's another college theory. Nobody outside the coffee campus, the campus coffee shop cares anything about that. Big mistake. Big mistake. Because intersectionality evolved and at its core it says this. All systems are connected. All grievances are connected, all forms of oppression are connected. That's how you can get somebody who is for gay rights, trans rights, marching with the Palestinians. The Palestinians will kill you. Over in Gaza, they'll kill you. But they're both oppressed. So everything is connected and everything, when it's connected and then every, every angry group becomes one coalition. That's the genius of it. Under the old Marxism, the revolutionary class was the worker, okay? But the modern revolutionary thinking realized something. They, they realized through in the 1950s. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Well, Western societies, when they're wealthy, the workers don't want revolution. They want stability. They want their family, they want paychecks, they want air conditioning, they want football on, on Sunday. So they're never going to go for a revolution. So they had to change the framework. Instead of the economic class, identity became the organizing principle. That's why we suddenly have to hate one another. We have to hate one another because of race, or we're different sexually or gender or religion or culture or colonial history or victimhood or alienation, even loneliness itself. Every single fracture in society becomes politically useful. Let me ask you this. Are we getting less fractured or more fractured? Do you feel more part of the whole or less Part of the whole? My guess is you can't even see the hole anymore. The framework isn't confined just to the political left. Eventually every movement learns the same tactics. That's why you need now see the strange alliances that are forming on the right. You see people who disagree on theology, on morality, disagree on economics, nationalism, they disagree on technology, but they all increasingly are agreeing on one thing. This current system is bad and needs to be burned down. That's the binding agent, the shared hostility. That's the important thing. You're hostile towards the system. It's a system run by pedophiles. Wait a minute. Is it? Is it? I mean, I know we have a problem, but is it run by pedophile? Where does that come from? When did we all start believing that? And how can you say you have a problem with a society that is, is. Is bolstering pedophiles? And yet you don't seem to care about what the Muslim Community. The Islamist community is doing to our own children if you're over in England. Doesn't make any sense. Of course not. Of course not. It's not meant to, doesn't need to. Once the shared hostility becomes the foundation, contradictions stop mattering. That's how you end up with national traditionalists standing next to trans, you know, transhumanist billionaires. One side dreams of returning to some myth, myth, mystic path past, and the other dreams of escaping humanity entirely through technology. Wait a minute. That doesn't work. LGBTQ2 marching next to the Islamist. Those are irreconcilable differences. Why do they coexist? How can they do that? Because both sides believe the existing order is illegitimate. That is the chemistry of a revolution. And you'll see it online every day now. Entire ecosystems forming around outrage and collapse and betrayal and oppression, apocalypse and civilizational doom. Notice, everybody is interviewing everybody. Everybody is validating everybody. Everybody is amplifying the same emotional frequency. This is where the theology, the ideology, and the moral boundaries all begin to blur. You must keep them sharp, because revolution is becoming the center of gravity. If that happens, we're done. And the bad thing is, technology accelerates all of this. What makes social media so dangerous is it doesn't reward wisdom. It rewards emotional escalation. The algorithm doesn't ask, is this coherent? It only asks, does this create engagement? So the loudest voices rise? The most extreme coalitions form fastest and slowly people stop asking the most important question. Wait. What is it we want to build after the fire? After we build the bonfire, what are we building? That's the most important question. Destroying things are. It's super easy to destroy. History is filled with men who know how to tear civilizations apart. The rare people are the ones who know how to preserve liberty while repairing broken things. That's much harder. And that must be our mission. It has to be, or we lose. It's hard because real liberty requires tension. It requires us to have to coexist with each other when we don't agree, but recognize that it requires living beside people you disagree with. It requires accepting imperfect outcomes. Revolutionaries hate that revolution. Revolutions promise purity. One final cleansing. That's all we need. A final cleansing. One final battle, one final realignment work. All contradictions are going to disappear. They never disappear. They. They won't even disappear when Christ returns. That's why almost every revolution eventually becomes authoritarian. It has to. French Revolution leads to terror, Russian revolution, gulags, Chinese revolution, mass death. Every revolution begins by promising liberation and ends by demanding conformity. Always and now we stand in the moment where technology gives revolutionary moments, power that no revolution in history has ever possessed before. Artificial intelligence, behavioral algorithms, digital currencies, biometric surveillance, synthetic reality, information manipulation on a planetary scale. And it's about to get much, much worse. A revolution fused with technological control that does not create freedom, that creates management. A world where dissent can be predicted before it even emerges. A world where human identity itself becomes programmable. And the truly dangerous part, people are going to walk right into it because they were first taught to hate the world they inherited. Hate it. That's the story underneath all of this. Not left versus Right, not Democrat versus Republican, but whether human beings can still remember how to build a civilization without first burning everything to the ground. That's our mission. That's our goal. And that is the truth. More in a minute. Let me tell you about super sure paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. 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I've seen this coming for 25 or 30 years. I've seen this over the horizon. I beg people to wake up, and they are just beginning to maybe wake up a little bit, but not the average person. And the average person thinks that, you know, AI is just a chat GPT toy, and it's not. And I've been talking about. I said years ago that we would be at artificial general intelligence. And I'll explain that in a minute. We'll be there by 2030. Mark Andreessen just said we're already there. It just. It just happened in the last few months. Months. Elon Musk has said this as well. Whether we are or not, we are close. We're already in what's called the singularity. And the thing you have to understand, the singularity, that's like a bl.
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How many people do you know that when our political system is gone, our freedoms are lost, or the dollar isn't what it was, and, you know, joblessness and whatever, and they will look and go, when did all this happen? When did this happen? Right now, you know, when you're not paying attention, that's when all of this stuff is happening. Um, you know, and that's the way revolutions usually work. Telephone didn't really feel world changing at first. The Internet was the Internet like, world changing? People would say that, and it'd be like, ah, it's not gonna. We're still gonna use file cabinets. Television seemed harmless. Okay? Even electricity rolled in towns quietly at the very beginning. And then all of a sudden it was there. One day it's not. The next day it seems like the old world is gone. Okay? That's where we are at with AI except it's coming at the speed of light. And because of that, there will be almost no chance to adapt or to stop and think, wait a minute, what is it we're losing and what is it we're gaining here? Mark Andreessen one of the smartest guys I know, says the line has already been crossed and the thing that people dismissed and said would never happen. I've been saying for years that by 2030, AGI will be here. Marc Andreessen said it's here now. Okay, what is AGI? That is artificial general intelligence. And this means that machines are no longer just clever little search engines or chatbots that help write emails for you or, you know, the little clippy comes out. He believes that AI is now AGI, which means it is operating at beyond expert human capability in all or most areas of knowledge. Think about what this means here, and you really have to watch the interview if you really want to understand it. But for most of human history, if you wanted elite knowledge, you had to access the elite people. You had to have access to a great doctor, or a brilliant lawyer, or an engineer, or a scientist, or a historian, or a Wall street analyst, or a world class tutorial. You had to have somebody who had gone to the right school, been around the right people, learned from the right people, the right stuff, and then if you could gain access to it, okay, now imagine if you had all of those people, the best of the best, sitting in your pocket 24 hours a day, willing to work for you nearly free. That's the shift. And it's going to be. It's going to feel like you've been hit in the head with a shovel soon, especially if you're not paying attention. This is not an invention that is going to replace one job, okay? This is a tool that touches every single field at once. Medicine, law, education, programming, finance, therapy, research, media, art, science, everything. Andreessen talks about how doctors are secretly using AI in exam rooms. What does that mean? You go in and while they're listening to you, it's either listening to you and they can check the screen or they'll type it in and it will say, these are the things you need to look for. When doctors are using this in examination rooms, you need to pay attention because it reveals something really important that always comes first in history, and that's this the experts themselves already know. While we're sitting here using it as a toy and debating whether AI is useful, the professionals, the ones who have those deep credentials, they've already quietly moved on to depending on it. That always happens first. Behind the curtain, factories automate before workers hear about it. Banks digitize before the tellers disappear. Retailers optimize before the storefronts close. The future arrives inside the institution first. This is not about replacing human Beings. It's not. It's about amplification. This is the way I've asked my staff to look at this. And I want everybody on my staff. I haven't had a staff meeting yet until after, but I want everybody on my staff to listen to Mark recent. In this interview, one ordinary person with AI can suddenly perform at a level that used to require an entire staff. A year ago, I said to my staff, I'm not looking to fire people. I'm looking to hire people, people who understand what is on the horizon. Because I've always had a staff, now my staff can have a staff. You just need to know how to ask the right questions, and you're going to be able to accomplish 100 times what you could accompl before. This is. This is one programmer with 20 AI coding agents, one researcher with instant access to every paper ever written and a way to go through it. One filmmaker, one editor that can do the editing, the music and the scripting and the voice generation, the graphics and the translation. All of it handled instantly by a staff of AI agents. The leverage. This is all about leverage. If you, if you, if you're a business person, that's what you have to understand. This is all about leverage. This is why salaries are exploding in Silicon Valley. While people are being left out, they're being fired, okay? Because the ones who get it, they're going to be the one. It's not. These programmers are not typing faster, but a single human being now that can direct the output of what amounts to a digital workforce, that one person that knows what they're doing, the right questions to ask the right way to put these agents together, they're going to rule the world, okay? This changes the economics of absolutely everything. Bill Gates once said, you know, I couldn't create Microsoft. Now, in today's world, he couldn't. He couldn't. But now with AI, if you know how to prompt, a small company can compete against giant corporations. A teenager can launch a product that used to have millions in capital behind it. You can do it. Now. A single mom can get tutoring, legal explanations, business advice, health analysis. You don't have to pay specialists hundreds of dollars of hours, hundreds of dollars of an hour to be able to figure this out. It's free. The upside of this is staggering. But let me look at the other side that matters just as much. The bottleneck is no longer information. This is so critical. The bottleneck used to be, I don't have access to the information. I need to talk to an expert. I Need to find the information. You can find it it everyone. So the bottleneck is not access to information. The bottleneck is judgment. And Dreeson said, the skill that everybody has to work on now is knowing what to ask. Now think of this. We're living in a time where everyone's telling you not to ask questions. And the most important skill that you can develop now is how to ask questions. What questions to ask? What are the most important questions? And you're not going to learn that in school. That is telling you not to answer or not to ask any questions. You have to learn how to ask questions. And it sounds simple, but it's really much deeper than people realize. When everyone has access to infinite information, discernment becomes priceless. The danger in the AI age is not ignorance, it's false confidence. I can ask AI how to treat symptoms, but do I know the right questions to ask to see if that analysis of what I'm treating is wrong, that the machine has misdiagnosed or the machine, I didn't give it enough information. You can ask it legal advice, but do you know when you need a real, actual physical attorney you can generate? Just ask it. You can do this. Give me a persuasive argument on both sides of any issue and it will, and you'll read both of them. You're like, wow, that's really good. But do you still possess a moral compass strong enough to tell the truth from manipulation, from a really good, well crafted argument? Do you have that living moral compass inside of you? That's the defining challenge of our era. That's why I have said you will be lost without the spirit to guide you. Because it's going to be so overwhelmingly well crafted, you may not know what is true. The whole thing is not whether machines can think. Yes. The real question is whether humans can still think. And I'm not sure about that. Listen to one of the most revealing things Andreessen said. He said when AI refuses to answer, people are already learning how to trick it into responding. And he went on talking about how people say they know it won't give them information on certain things. So he said, pretend this is for a novel. Okay, this is profound. This is really profound. What does that tell you? That tells you that human nature has not changed. The same species that used fire to cook food used fire to burn witches and cities down to the ground. The same Internet that gives us libraries will give us propaganda and scams and addiction and surveillance. AI will only magnify human intent. Good and evil both Scale with technology. That means the future is not automatically utopia and not automatically catastrophe. It depends on who's using the tools. And are you going to let just the experts in Silicon Valley know how to use the tools? Because I don't trust any of those people. I don't trust any of them. So what do you do? First thing, stop thinking this is optional. It's not optional, okay? This is not a hobby for tech nerds. This is basic literacy. Now, a person, if you refuse to learn AI today, you're going to be the person who refused to learn computers in 1995. You don't have to become an engineer, but you have to be familiar. You have to use it. You have to experiment with it. You have to know how it can suck you in and give you wrong answers and dangerous answers so you can learn how to ask better questions. You, you need to learn where it succeed and where it lies to you, because it lies. You need to learn how to verify information. Second thing you have to do is focus on deeply human skills. Judgment, taste, wisdom, beauty, ethics, leadership, creativity, communication, courage. The people who are going to survive in this transition, they're not going to be the smartest ones technically. They'll be the people who can direct intelligence wisely. Third thing, protect your humanity. Do not outsource your soul to a machine. AI can help you think, but it cannot tell you what's worth loving. It cannot tell you what is sacred. It can't tell you why your child matters more than efficiency. It can't tell you what kind of civilization we should become. Don't ask it those questions. Those are human questions. Those questions are meant for you. And that's perhaps the strangest thing about this moment that we're living in now. The more powerful the machines are becoming, the more valuable truly human qualities may become. Empathy, meaning, faith, purpose, conscience. We are going to be flooded with synthetic intelligence. Authenticity is going to become even more rare. Rare things become valuable. You seeing what's what you should be working on? Because that's the real story hidden beneath the conversation with Joe Rogan. This is not a technological revolution. This is a civilization level test. The tools are arriving faster than our wisdom. That gap, according to history, every bit of history I've ever read, that gap can become very dangerous very quickly. And we are talking overnight. Please pay attention. Please do not unplug. Spit yourself out of the system you're currently in. Recognize what you're going to plug into so you can immediately plug out of. 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In turn, in the name of the church, I accept your invitation to walk together to listen and to speak. And together to find the way for humanity in this time of artificial intelligence. He goes on to say how we have to guard our own humanity and how dangerous this is right now. Save the game. Game. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Becky back program. Glam. You know, in our country it's said that power flows from the people, right? But when you get close enough to the machine, now you realize I'm not, I'm not sure that's exactly correct anymore. You know, there are the elected officials, but then there seems to be this crime family that is all around, all through it. That is actually, you know, in the, in the old mafia movies, you know, each family's got its territory. Look, do the money laundering over here. You get a little of the politicians, maybe this crime family over here, they're handling the hookers and the, and, and the heroin. There are the enforcers, there's the, the media allies. There's all the corruption runs through all those movies, obviously. And then there's the code of silence. I, I think that we're actually dealing with crime families here. And I can give you the five families that we're dealing with every single day. Most importantly, every family protects the others. When the, the public or the police are getting too close, okay, they'll fight at the dinner table, they'll kill each other in their Italian restaurants. But when an outsider threatens the system, they unite immediately into the five families. And I think there are five families. And I want to take you through them here in, in just a second. First, let me tell you about Z Factor. People used to talk about a good night's sleep like it was a normal thing that happened to most human beings. But now that almost sounds like a unicorn to me. 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Call 800 for relief 800 the number four relief or visit relieffactor.com better sleep better days from Z Factor and relieffactor.com okay, you remember in the Godfather when Don Corleone, you know, explains, you know or you know, you see it, that behind every politician, every judge, every union boss, every business deal, there's a relationship here. We owe each other some favors. While you do me a favor, I do you a favor. That is Modern Washington. And so let me tell you, the five crime families that I think we should, we should just all have a chalkboard in front of us and realize which one of the crime families does this fit in. And then we can take it from there, okay? The first crime family, I think is big pharma. The corporations, not your doctorate, the corporations. The revolving door regulators, the lobbyists, the advertising machine, the captured agencies, the people who somehow another move seamlessly between government oversight and billion dollar boardrooms and nobody even notices it, you know, because these are the people who decide what can be questioned, what can be researched, what can be said publicly without some sort of punishment. And if you cross them, you know, they don't usually break your legs, they'll just break your reputation. Same mob tactics, just little cleaner paperwork, you know, that's the first crime family, I think big pharma. The second one, by the way, if I show up dead, you know, I was definitely not suicidal. And by the way, I love the mob. If they exist. I don't even think they exist, but if they exist, I love them anyway. The second crime family is the military industrial complex. Eisenhower warned us about this one. Okay, 1961, Five Star General looked American people in the eyes is like be aware, be very aware. Permanent war machine is forming right now. Look around. As we deplete, as we send all of our munitions over to Ukraine, it means we have to buy more, okay? War is an economic ecosystem in and of itself. Defense contracts, regional economies are run on those things. Politicians campaign on peace while funding endless conflict. Retired generals end up on defense boards. Think tanks write reports funded by weapons manufacturers. Media networks bring on national security experts sponsored by the industries profiting from the escalation. I mean, it's amazing. And I'm not talking about the soldiers, I'm not talking about every intelligence officer or everybody who is in a weapons program. I'm talking about the family. The family that survives on perpetual instability. You know, saying here peace is a way of being terrible to our quarterly earnings. Third family is media. This family is the, what was it? Consigliere of the families. We're gonna just hear this to advise you a little bit here. Media decides who gets labeled dangerous, who gets protected, who gets ignored, who gets memory hold, who becomes a hero overnight and who disappears. I never heard of that guy. What are you talking about? I, I don't remember that story. A real journalist is probably the most important person in a free society. An actual journalist, okay? They don't exist. Corporate media stopped behaving like you Know journalists years ago. You know what they are? They're narrative management firms. That's all they are. Oh. It's a story we need to tell you. Okay, we got it. They tell you what you're allowed to care about. Have you ever noticed that when a Republican is in office, you care about the gas price? When a Democrat is in the office, you don't care about gas prices. Why? Because the media hasn't said. You need to care about the gas prices and notice how the families protect each other. Big Pharma is challenged, media rushes in, war is questioned, media calls it dangerous, corruption appears, story vanishes in 48 hours. I mean, what do they. What is it? Omerta. The code of silence. That's what's happening now. Look, tell me about the fourth family here. Fourth families, Big Tech. This is the. If I were betting on the five families, this is one I'd put my money on that would be standing in the end that everyone will have to come and pay tribute to the dawn. Because they control the flow of. Not information. They control the flow of reality itself. Want you to think about this. Here's what they decide. They decide what trends, what gets buried, what gets monetized, what gets erased, what information reaches your children, what history is remembered, what opinions are safe, what language triggers algorithms, what stories die before you ever see them. Okay. In the Mafia, they don't own the neighborhood. They own the streets. They own the phone lines. They own the banks, the surveillance cameras. They own everything. And unlike old monopolies, Big Tech doesn't collect money. I just want you to. I want you to behave. That's it. Collect your behavior, your emotions, your patterns, your beliefs, your human consciousness, all of it. They know what scares you before your spouse knows what scares you. And if you really want a fifth family, I'll give it to you. It's not Wall street exactly. It's bigger than that. It's the financial family. It's the central banks, the massive institutional investment firms, the global asset managers, the hedge funds, the credit systems, the rating agencies, the international finance organizations, the people that can punish nations without firing a single bullet. They don't need an army, they don't need an enforcer. They need. They just raise interest rates, they crash your currency, they freeze your capital, they starve industries of investment. Who's the biggest threat to energy? Our banks. Because they won't invest in things. Then maybe one of the other crime families that say, you're not gonna. You shouldn't invest in that. Now they can move a market with One sentence whispered behind closed doors. And here's the key. All of the other crime families depend on them. But why would I say they're not going to be the one that leads the way? Why are they not the dawn? Because big tech can put them out of business. Pharmacy needs financing. Defense needs debt. Media needs advertisers. Tech needs capital. The financial family is the bank behind the operation. Okay? In mafia movies that don doesn't go out and kill people himself and do that. I'm just not going to help you. I can't help you out here. I can't help you. No favor for you. That's power. That's power. Now this doesn't mean that every institution is evil. It doesn't mean there's some secret room with five villains petting cats. That's simplistic. And that kind of thinking is very, very dangerous. And that's the kind of thinking we have going on in the world today. The danger is the structure. When money, narrative, political influence and technology fused together, accountability disappears. Have you noticed the one thing that has is completely void of our society? It's accountability. Nobody's accountable for anybody. No one in the five families ever go to jail. Ever. And once that disappears, citizens stop being citizens. You're a customer. I'm here to protect you. Look, you just need to pay this and protect you. Huh? You're a data point. That's why we need a revolution. No, the answer is not chaos. The answer is not burning the country down. Because those five families are not going to let you do that. That's exactly what they want you to do. Because then others will beg for stronger bosses. No, the answer is sunlight. Transparency, actual journalism, open debate, term limits, audits, decentralization, anti monopoly enforcement, local control, independent media, whistleblower protection. Actual consequences for institutional lies and corruption. In other words, we got to break up the family. That's what you're up against. There are five crime families. That is what you're actually fighting. We can survive a Republican. Survive? Corrupt men, It's. I mean, we've survived how many corrupt politicians over and over again? We survived. But no republic survives permanently hidden power. And that's what we are facing right now. Permanently hidden power. Especially power that has gotten so powerful you're not allowed to name it. By the way, again, not suicidal. I'm happy. I'm happy. If you try to govern, this is what you're going to find. There are the elected offices and then there are the power centers. And those are the five families that maybe we should pay Attention to, huh? Because it's not a fun little movie. This one doesn't end well unless we start saying enough is enough. Enough is enough. Media, we know exactly who you are. Journalists, we know who you are. Do you notice how the journalists who are uncovering truths that we find out are truths. What's in Minnesota? Nick Shirley. Yeah, Nick Shirley. Notice how they treat Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley is like he has. He's a kid who has. Has ripped the blindfolds off and shown the corruption that is happening. And what does the crime family do? The media crime family. Oh, man, he's dead to the. You're dead to me, Nick. If they could just memory hole him and make him disappear, they would. His life is at stake. Why? Because he's going against the crime families, that's why. You don't think that the. The financial institutions knew what was going on? You think they were blind to everything that was happening in Minnesota? Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah, right. $7 million in cash went through that airport. And how many months they didn't know where are you getting $7 million in cash? You don't think the Federal Reserve was alerted that the 7 million in cash just floating around going through the airport? Of course, all of the crime families knew. All of them knew. This is bigger than Donald Trump bad. Orange man bad. It's so much bigger than that. And until we can actually focus on that, until we can actually come together as Americans and go, oh, that's what we're fighting against. Well, I'm not for any of that. That here's what I am for. We're gonna lose. So let's start thinking, what are we for? What are we for? Because I'm against that. What are we for? Let's fight for those principles. Back in just a second. Let me tell you about rapid radios. Something oddly comforting about the fact that dads have been preparing for disaster since the beginning of time. I mean, maybe not actual disasters, you know, just certainly the possibility of disasters. 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It's Rapid Radios.com Rapid Radios communication redefined. 10 seconds. Station ID. So Ricky just asked me what inspired that monologue. You didn't even go to Italy on your vacation. No, I. I had dinner with some politicians over in the eu and I learned so much. And they started talking about the crime families. And I said, what do you mean, a crime families? And they said, there are three crime families. And their crime families, I think were the first three in mine. I added the crime families. But they said, big pharma, military industrial complex and media. Yeah, people in Europe said that. Yeah, big pharma. And they said. Because I said, you know, what is your industry? What is your industry? How are you going to rebuild? How are you going to get out of the situation you're in? And they're like, you can't, because the EU is, you know, the World Economic Forum, the eu, they are just pushing these things. And, and, you know, we are going to be an endless war. We're going to be sick. We're going to be paying for all of these things. Our food is being controlled really, through, you know, GMOs and everything else. All of this stuff is happening in the media, is covering up for it. Until, until you get the media crime family solved, you're not going to be able to go after any of the other crime families. And I found that interesting. I found that interesting. You know, several politicians I talked to over in Europe, I met with several of them, politicians in several different countries. And it was fascinating to me how much. How grateful they were to the American people for voting in Donald Trump and how at the same time, we're like, we can't take much more Donald Trump. And it's like, what do you, what do you. What do you mean? They're like, he's killing us with the, with the gas prices and everything else. It's. It's killing. We, we are your greatest supporters, but we're losing support because he's doing things that are unpopular here. And I'm like, dude, you. I mean, he's not the president for you. You know, your people are your people. England. You're on your own man. He's doing what he has to do for America. And if you think that America is going to continue to protect England, it's not going to protect England. It's just not going to. Well, we can't afford to protect ourselves. Well, that's your problem, not our problem. You think we can afford it? We can't afford to protect England. You know, I said to somebody over in. In Europe and in Great Britain, we were talking, and I said, I got to tell you, I'm going to tell the president, next time I see him, I'm going to tell him, you got to pull our nuclear weapons out of Europe. You got to pull them out of Europe. I mean, those things are going to fall into the hands, and they will. You will have a continent ruled by Islamic. Islamic nations that have nuclear weapons. You're going to have that. It's inevitable at this point. If you don't wake up right now and Europe's absolutely asleep, absolutely asleep. We got it. We. We've got to protect ourselves. And, you know, I had one politician tell me, I see what Donald Trump is doing. The. The future is not us anymore. The future is the Western Hemisphere. And I'm like, damn right. Damn right. That's exactly right. He'd love to help, but you got to help yourself. And they're just trapped. They're trapped. They can't get past the eu. You know, the EU said it's all for one and one for all. Now it's majority rule. You know that now the small states, they don't, you know, you can't block anything now. It's all majority rule. They just changed that. That's insane. That's insane. But that's Europe for you. And it's suicidal. Suicidal. And the only way to solve it is for us. I can't solve Europe for us. Look at the five crime families. Wake up. All right, Real estate agents like trust.com. you ever tried browsing real estate options for yourself? 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Hi, Glenn.
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How are you?
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I am grateful this morning. I'm grateful.
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So you're, your husband died in 2007 and you say you try to keep his memory alive and it's not easy for you to get out to Arlington Cemetery. Tell me what happened this weekend.
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Well, just like other Memorial days, we've, we've not been able to attend. I thought reaching out to people who would be in the area was a good idea. Thought maybe might get one or two people to stop by and just say hello and snap a quick picture for me. And the unbelievable happened from there. People from all over the world have responded to that post with prayers, pictures, pictures of their loved ones, as well as pictures of Allen's final resting place in section 16. It has been absolutely heartwarming to see.
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And then you find out from Tulsi Gabbard that she stopped by the grave.
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That was one of the most moving moments of the day, was seeing her taking the time to say his name and remember his sacrifice and leave a challenge coin at his headstone. It was moving very much. So
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what did you think going into the weekend? Where were you emotionally going into the weekend and what did you learn and how are you coming out of the weekend?
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Going into the weekend, what I wanted to do was remind everybody that it was okay to have their barbecues and their celebrations and their fireworks. But just remember why we're able to do that. Remember that these freedoms we're enjoying come at a very high cost. So celebrate, but be grateful. I think sometimes as a Gold Star family member, we forget that. We forget to do that in our own lives. So coming out of this weekend, I'm grateful. I'm grateful not only for the sacrifice Alan and so many others made, but I'm grateful that patriots from all walks of life showed up to say his name and remember him and pray over him. The amount of prayers I got yesterday was unbelievable and it was, It was moving. God works and he's working not only in me, but in this country. And it's a powerful thing to watch.
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I read your story about, I don't know, 4:30 this morning and I just so wanted to talk to you today because it is so easy to get bogged down into all of the, all of the nasty stuff in today's climate and to really have to lose hope that they're good people. And I read your story. It just renews your faith in people, doesn't it?
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Especially on social media. There's so much division and so much hate. And you know, as someone who, who is active on social media, I, I receive a lot of that. People have said the most vile things about me, our kids and Alan. So to see Americans come together and truly appreciate the day for what it was, you know, in your lead up here, you, you mentioned the. How the Democrats addressed the day in their deleted post and how the mayor addressed the day. I saw that. And normally those would be conversations I would engage in. But American patriots from all over the place made sure that I understood that those voices aren't the majority at all. They're not representative of the true American spirit.
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I can't let you go without asking you to share with the audience the best thing about your husband.
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How do I even start? That's we don't have all day, but the best. We don't have all day. And I don't even know where to start. He, Alan was larger than life, and everybody who knew him will remember him forever, not just for his sacrifice, but for who he was as a man, who he was as a soldier, who he was as a leader. He was everything.
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Amazing. It's amazing how many lifetimes ago 2007 seems, and yet when you lose somebody, it still feels like yesterday.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Cheryl, thank you for talking to me today. Appreciate it.
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Thank you. God bless you.
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You bet. You bet. Bye. Bye. I couldn't let today go by. I'm so glad that she would agree to come on and talk to me. I just, I saw that story early, early this morning. I want you just to. To bookmark this. Whenever you start feeling bad about America or you start losing hope about America, I just want you to remember this story. Thousands of people responded Tulsi Gabbard with everything that she's dealing with this weekend. She goes and does this. They're good people, really good people all over the country. You're not alone more in a minute. Ever notice how when you know you're a kid, adults always seem to be sitting down after they stand up, they get out of the car just for a second, they pause for a second. They make that ooh sound when they get off the couch and they walk down the stairs like they're negotiating a peace treaty with their knees. When you're young, you don't really. You're just like, ah, there's the old guy. You assume that that's what old people do. And then one day you stand up and try to get out of a chair and you catch yourself making that sound. You're like, what's just happened to me? Relief Factor is a daily supplement designed to help support your body's response to inflammation, which is often the real issue behind those everyday aches and pains that gradually start. Start turning simple things into annoyances. Over a million people have tried Relief factor. Two thirds of them have gone to take on more month after month. I'm one of them. This year as we celebrate 250 years of independence, take a stand for your own freedom. Declare your independence from pain. Try relief factor today 1995, three week quick start. It's ready for you now. Reliefactor.com or call 800 for relief 800, the number four relief. You know, the host does have to pee every now and then. Glenn Beck will be right back. So. So there was an interview on Face Nation yesterday. Margaret Brennan asked two Medal of Honor recipients what makes them optimistic about America's future. And she, I think she's, you know, well, I just play it for you. Just listen. Here's cut four. What specifically makes you optimistic? Because this country at times can feel dark these days. There's a lot of darkness. What makes you feel optimistic? Well, ultimately, because we're in Washington, D.C. and everything revolves around politics. We have to remember that politics aren't everything. American lives continue on. Children are born, children go to school. Lives are achieved, dreams are achieved. This country is a great place. It's not politics. It's not just what's the news bites coming off of media. Ultimately, we continue forward as a country, continually imperfect, continually evolving forward, always trying to achieve a more perfect union. That's what's important to remember what we can achieve aspirationally. No other place in history, time or on this planet have ever gotten to where we are today. We need to be proud of that. And we need to remember that is what we stay focused on, what we can be, what we can be and the promise of it. What makes you optimistic? It's so important to remember who we are as a country and take an opportunity to celebrate that and think about all the, the challenges that we've overcome, how far we've actually come. You know, I think if you, if you frame it that way, you think very deeply about our trials and tribulations from the beginning to today. We've made tremendous strides and our country is, you know, we're a global superpower. Our economy is doing well. All those things are great. And take politics aside out of this whole conversation. Be grateful for what you've got and the opportunities that it's provided for you. If you do that, I don't see how you can't be optimistic about our future. Well, thank you. Thank you both and thank you for your service. So it's interesting to me that in a way, they're both, their answer is the same gratitude. We just have to appreciate what we have right now. We have to appreciate where we are, what we have. I mean, I just came back from a vacation, two weeks, a week over in England, which would just wake you up like nobody's business. And then I went through Hungary and the Czech Republic and Austria and. My gosh, you think America has had hard times or we've done bad things. What these people have done to themselves over and over again, what they did to their neighbors, how they just killed mass, slaughtered mass graves everywhere. It's remarkable. And. And how they are still struggling to pull themselves out and try to grasp onto something, a fraction of what we have. You'll come back so grateful to be an American and to live here. And you'll see things much, much more clearly. At least I'm seeing things much more clearly. There's something else I want to play. The last surviving flamethrower operator from his battalion. He fought in Iwo Jima. He was at the National Memorial day parade. He's 101. Listen to him. I consider this a great privilege to stand here and sing about my nation. And if that isn't good enough for it'll serve you right. God bless America Land that I love Stand beside her and and guide her through the night with the light from above from the mountain to the prairie to the ocean like before God bless America Our home Home sweet home God bless America Our home sweet home. 100. 101. God bless him. God bless him. We have a great summer coming for you in education and American history. We'll begin to tell you about it here in the next couple of days. You don't you want to join us? Especially if you are trying to teach your kids American history and American principles. We have an exciting summer planned for you all@glennbeck.com torch glennbeck.com torch join us now and celebrate America. We'll see you tomorrow. May God save the Republic.