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Trump Just Put China and the Deep State ON NOTICE | Guests: John Solomon & Spencer Klavan | 7/17/26
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Glenn Beck
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Donald Kendall
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Glenn Beck
The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I don't know if you saw the president's speech last night. I don't know if you're trying to get your news from the mainstream media on what was said, but I'm going to give you the actual documents. I'm going to read from the documents and I'm going to tell you what it all means. Because this is wildly Important. And it's not what the press says it is. What a shocker. Maybe they're still on the payroll for the Chinese. Oh that's right. That's in one of the documents that they were paying journalists to foment hatred of this president in the United States. The Chinese were doing it. Probably still are. But I digress. Let me start at the beginning here in 60 seconds. First our sponsor this half hour is Patriot Mobile. Look, there comes a moment in the day, probably most days where you kind of just want to chuck your phone into the trash. It'd be just so satisfying. But unfortunately you kind of need the stupid thing, you know, to make your life more pleasant and easier. Uh huh.
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Glenn Beck
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Marco Rubio
Huh?
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Glenn Beck
Okay. All right, let me ask you this. CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN. Then why the very moment are states all across the spectrum red and blue alike? And you have been beating this drum for months. Why are they refusing to hand over the exact same voter data to their own federal government? Most of them told the Justice Department no way. The courts backed them. You've been singing the praises of these states on the grounds that that information is too sensitive, too personal, and too easily abused just to put it on the loose. I so tired of this. I really am. I mean, I just so tired of this game, you know? It's not a game to most of us. This is not a game. This is our country. This is our lives. You cannot make the case that the. The United States government should not have the voter data from the states because it's too dangerous to give to our federal government, and then in the next breath, be on TV and say, you can buy this information just about anywhere. It's really no big deal that China has it. Oh, God. We are having the argument, a furious argument right now on whether Washington can be trusted with a voter file while we're being told that Beijing holding that voter file is no big deal. It can't be both media. Make up your mind. Either the data is dangerous or it isn't. Half the nation is in the court right now arguing that it is. And it's your half. I'm sorry. I don't want to be one of these angry guys, but every day I come in with the intent of not being one of these angry guys, and then I look at the news. You want to understand why a pile of information, ordinary facts, terrifies people who study this for a living? Don't look at hackers. Forget about the hackers. Look at East Germany. The Stasi remembered for surveillance the files, the informants, one in every stairwell. People would whisper in their own homes. Why? Because. Because you could buy this information anywhere. No, it was because it was all being compiled. Once overt arrests started drawing too much attention in East Germany, the STASI learned to break people quietly. How did they do it? They used intimate, aggregated knowledge in all of those files to reach into a target's life and just rearrange things. You just, you put a rumor with a neighbor, a marriage nudged towards collapse, a promotion that never comes. For reasons that no one could ever name, the victims used. They. They normally didn't even know what was happening. They just thought, I'm losing my mind. And none of it required any dramatic secret. It required knowing an ordinary person completely and, and just wanting to steer them. That's the capability on the table. Not that they went in and they changed the numbers of the vote, but because China is clearly amassing a file and. Let me give you. Let me. Let me just read it to you from a declassified email also mid-2018, that this is our intelligence. And they never told the President any of this. China was working to influence the results of the U.S. midterm elections and later results in the 2020 U.S. presidential elections. As part of the campaign, China was analyzing the 2016 presidential elections and identifying US states that voted for the US president. The Chinese would then identify sectors within these states that voted to support the US President and his political party, then would attempt to make those sectors experience negative financial consequences. The Chinese hoped that these measures would induce representatives from these sectors to lobby the President to be more kind to China. But what's worse is they had all of this information where they could take it and nudge you. This is what the algorithm. This is why I say you're going to lose free will. Because you won't know if that was your idea or if that was a nudge. And it's bad enough when I don't know if it was Google or Microsoft, but now you also have to worry that it might be China doing it. At the same time, all of a sudden we're seeing this pop, this popularity with Communists. You'd think that China's algorithms don't have anything to do with this. You don't think they're running an influence in our own country? Of course they are. This was point number one. But that's not even the most important point. Let me tell you what. This really should terrify every American. Stop listening to the media. Why this should bother every American. And I don't care who you voted
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Donald Kendall
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Glenn Beck
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Burna is going to put that guy in the ground for 40 minutes. Burna by R N A.com Berna.com Find the right launcher for your family. It's Burna.com 10 seconds. Station ID. Okay, so point number one, that the media will not tell you, the media will dismiss is no big deal. But I just showed you it is a big deal because they're arguing the opposite with the US Government. One, China ran the largest known theft of American data data in history. Okay? 220 million files. Names, addresses, phone numbers, party affiliation. When you vote, when you don't vote, all of this Run through a dedicated exploitation unit in Beijing. That's problem number one. I think this is the bigger problem. Problem number two, the people inside our own intelligence community knew this, discovered this, wrote amongst themselves about it, and then buried it while assuring us the elections were completely secure. That's not a scandal. That is a breach of trust that reaches the foundation of the Republic. Okay. Nothing here, I want you to know, has been proven yet in a courtroom. But the documents are clear. These allegations that are drawn from the documents. The White House declassified and released the allegations. This is so serious, they have to be run all the way down to the ground. Because if they hold up in court, what they mean is terrifying. They mean the people who put their hand on the scriptures and swore to protect from all enemies, foreign and domestic, the Constitution of the United States, they decided. They decided that the elected leader of the people of the free world, by extension you, that person didn't need to know that a hostile power had a map of the American electorate. That's not incompetence. So you know, they know what that meant. It says it. They knew what they were doing and what it meant. That wasn't incompetence on the intelligence part. That was. That was a decision. Foreign adversary, spy. We should always accept that. That's why we have a standing spy agency. They always have. The Republic was built to survive spies. What it was never built to survive is guardians who have then said, I'm no longer a guardian. I'm a gatekeeper of information. I get to decide what the elected president gets to see, what the people are allowed to see, because I don't think they can handle it, or they might react in a way I don't think they should. Our Constitution does not put the power like that into your hands. It puts it in elected hands, accountable hands, not your hands. If they can sit on a foreign adversary's grab of voter rolls, the only honest question that any of us should be asking is, what won't they do? What won't they do? We have example after example Iran Contra, we have Vietnam. But it's exactly the same instinct. The President doesn't need to know this. Let me ask you Democrats, did you have a problem with Iran Contra? That was the intelligence community saying, we didn't tell the President about these things. Now, you've always claimed that he did know, so the fault was really his. But what if he didn't know and the fault was the intelligence? Would it still be such a big problem? Of course it would be. Of course it would. Be. And that's what this is. Here's the worst part of this. In every case we have seen like this. Never this. I don't think ever like this. Never this big. Never documented trail saying we. We're massage. We're massaging the presidential report. We're making sure that we're holding this back. I've never seen that before. Ever. Ever. Remember all. All we had was. What was her name? Fawn Hall. That says, yeah, I did that. We never had documents, but we had hearings. And it eroded our faith. And there was a conviction here or there, and later pardoned, later overturned, but there was no accountability for any of these things, ever. Ever. The machine just took the hit and then just kept running. And it's still running. So may I suggest that maybe we look at things differently, because what they've done here is not just unethical. It might be criminal obstruction of justice. Obstruction. Or impeding an official proceeding or. Or the President's constitutional duties. Obstructing the President's constitutional duties. You'll find that in U.S. code 181505. Making false statements. Did they misrepresent what they knew to the executive or to Congress? The answer is yes. In their own writing. The answer is yes. Mishandling of classified material and the sworn duty to report a threat. Yep. Coordinated to conceal. Yes. In their own writing. We have that now. You're into a conspiracy? This carries decades of prison time. Why do we have these laws? Why do we have these punishments if we never enforce them? Their entire oath is to guard the nation's secrets, brief our leaders. The betrayal. The betrayal here is stunning. And by the way, that would not be a call for vengeance. That's a call for restoration. To restore the Republic and what it is supposed to do. If this. If this can be proven, if these documents prove to be real, if the people who did this don't answer for it, not to settle political score, but because a self governing people cannot survive being lied to by its own protectors, then everything is on the table. We must have prosecutions where the law demands them. Reforms with teeth. So no one ever again gets to decide what an existential threat to this country is. I got news for you. Nothing is above the pay grade of the people who actually own this country. And by the way, that's you. Nothing is above your pay grade. Nothing is above the presidential pay grade. These people need to pay for what they have done. Not because I'm after them, but because it cannot happen again to any President. I don't care which Party. 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Announcer
Coming up, John Solomon, the White House's declassification insider joins Glenn to expose the media cover up in Trump's document release. And if there's more to come, stay with us on the Glenbeck program.
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Glenn Beck
John Solomon, who I think is one of the best journalists in the country. He is the CEO of Just the News and Editor in chief of Just the News. He is also an unpaid advisor to President Trump on this issue because he has been at the forefront of exposing and getting these things declassified and so he knows the story better than anybody else. Welcome to the program, John. How are you, Glen?
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John Solomon
I'm great, Glenn. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me on.
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Glenn Beck
Can you quickly explain your new role at the White House? What, what is it that you do? How do you separate that from news and journalism?
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John Solomon
That's a great question. So really I'm just a journalist who got the chance to go to the White House and tell the White House which documents I've heard about that I've never been able to get through FOIA lawsuits or through my relationship with Tulsi Gabbard. I had heard these things about China getting 220 million million voter records and I couldn't get him out of Tulsi Gabbit before I left. And so at some point, the White House said, well, listen, why don't you just come here, work with a team of intelligence officers, tell them what you want when they find it, and we'll declassify it. Then you can go out and explain to the American public. So I have the sort of the same exact role that I do every day, other than I just have a shortcut to getting the documents that I think will benefit the entire country.
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Glenn Beck
Has that ever happened in history in America? I've never heard of that. I mean, that is.
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John Solomon
I don't think so. I have to thank the President.
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Gen Z Writer
Yeah.
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John Solomon
Susie Wiles and the President decided this would be a good idea. By the way, it's built on a model. They didn't use a journalist at the time, but Barack Obama had a transparency office in the White House in 2015 and 16. And that's what I modeled. That was my suggestion. And they have come back. So there's seven or eight career intelligence officers. I tell them what I've learned as a reporter, they go out and try to find it. If they find it, they say, we got something can't show you yet. Well, get it declassified. They take it over the White House, they get it classified, they send it to the intelligence. Is this accurate? Yep. Anything that you want redacted, that you know, sources and methods. And then as a mere mortal, I finally get to look at it, and then I go out and try to tell the public what we found.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, April, this year, you guys reported on the 2020 election meddling.
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John Solomon
We did.
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Glenn Beck
So what did we hear last night that was new? Anything? So.
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John Solomon
Yeah, a lot. So in April, I had the benefit of something very small. I had a single document from Avril Haines team with two sentences saying, hey, we think China got access to photoviles. What did that mean? That sounds serious. Because I know we indicted Iranian hackers for getting access to just 100,000 voter files in 2020. So what's China been doing? Why don't we know about it? When those documents came back, I was floored. I was literally floored, Glenn. Because what we learned was that China didn't have just some files. Not 100,000 like Iran. 220 million. They had the holy grail of the voterless in America. And this shocked me because, for one, we indicted Iran for just 100,000. Two, the CIA had these documents saying, if anyone ever got these voter files, here are the nefarious things they can do. Three, in 2024, Joe Biden got up and railed on China, because China had hacked Great Britain's voter file database, by the way. Only 40 million files there, about a fifth of what was taken from America. And no one told the American public through this whole time. We were much larger victims, by the way, this is larger than the Equifax leak of 2017, which was about 148 million Americans impacted, 220 million. We were kept in the dark about something that in any other time would have been immediately alerted to the public.
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Glenn Beck
So, John, I just said at the same time, the media and half the states are saying we can't give the federal. The US Federal government access to voter data files because it's too dangerous for the US to have. Yeah, the media today is on. On television saying it's no big deal. You could buy this stuff anywhere. So which is it, John? Which is it?
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John Solomon
It's a little bit of both. There are some states, though, not all 50 states, but there are some states that you can buy the commercial versions of those databases. That commercial version doesn't have the Holy Grail stuff. It doesn't have some of the things that you need to be fully read. So you'll know. John Solomon votes in Virginia, by the way. I don't vote, but if I did, I'd be voting in Virginia. But you won't know some specific things like identifiers and driver's license. What China does is it takes the commercial data first and then it sends a hacking unit it, and it's called the cne. And then they go in and they get. They hack into the databases and get the stuff that really you can register with. The stuff you buy commercially is just surface level, you know, sort of that John Solomon registered in Virginia. That's all you know. When you get the voter file its entirety by hacking either commercial, government or state voter databases, you're now in a position to make a ballot request for someone from China. So there are six things that the US Government said once China got access, if they would be able to do one, they would vote in your name and you'd show up and they say, sorry, sir, you can't vote because you already voted. And you're like, wait, I didn't vote. Remember how some people said that happened in 2020? I remember that coming out. The second thing that would happen is they could change a little bit of your voter file without you knowing you'd go in with your license. And I'm at this street and say, no, sir, you can't vote because you're registered on this one. So you're going to have to do a provisional. We may or may not count it. The third thing they could do is go and take your identity, move you to another state. You'll never know you're living in Virginia, but you just got registered in Michigan. And China will vote there for you. You'll never know. You may never know you voted in another state. And then they can do things by taking their other data hacks that they have on Americans and start targeting you for malign influence. Like, there are very clear things in these documents we released yesterday that no one's ever seen before. The Chinese were telling their consulates target people with this messaging. Then they told their social media folks, make it look like Donald Trump is a bad person, make it try to foment racial strife on the streets. Now, I want to compare this, what these documents say to what Mark Warner was saying. Nothing happened from China. If you hack 220 million voter files from us, if you're trying to foment racism and division on our streets, if you, if you're trying to use your social media, if you're using blackmail, by the way they talk, China was gaining blackmail on US Officials so that they can embarrass them just before the election. If you're doing those things, you have intervened in our election. I don't care what any Democrat or some knucklehead on CNN is saying. Those four things are thresholds that amount to interference in any common American's mind.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so I thought that there were two things that came out. One, sure, that this is really important, this voter data, and it could, they could just use it for algorithms to shape you on how you're going to vote, all the things you just said, and shape you as well. And two, and this might have been a bigger thing, the, the COVID up from our own intelligence agencies. I mean, John, this is, this is what happened in Vietnam to some degree. It's what that, what happened with Iran Contra in a way where everybody said, well, no, the President knew. Here we know, the President didn't know. And it was a problem every time something like this has happened. And I can't, I think this is the most important violation of this, them keeping information vital from the President of the United States. I think, is there anything here that is going to be so indisputable that you'll see an actual perp walk?
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John Solomon
Yes, I do. I think it's possible. I think you'll see terminations first. Right. And so the CIA is now reviewing everyone that was involved with a Presidential daily briefing for which this information was withheld. And you're seeing things here that you're showing up on screen so important. They basically are talking about deliberately massaging President Trump's database so he won't see the Chinese election interference stuff. There are people watching this that are pros in the intelligence community. They're not trying to cover it up. And they're writing back to this like, it boggles the mind that we're going to keep this from the president. Another FBI person who kept pulling back China intelligence interference reports and not letting the community see them so they can be investigated, wrote in her own text messages to her colleague, I'm running a shadow government. I'm running a shadow government to keep the President and others from learning about this. It is remarkable when you hear that, those sort of text messages, what was going on, other people writing, this is clearly politics. We should be telling the president. An NSA guy said, I'm alarmed that we're not telling the President, but I was too weak to stand up and object in the meeting. This was one of the widest secrets in the intelligence community that some intelligence analysts use their power to keep the President in the dark about a 220 million voter data breach, about the vulnerability of machines in elections, about Venezuela's successful hack of a voter machine in a controlled environment, not in an election, but in a laboratory setting. All of those things are things that are actionable that a president and a Congress needs to know in real time. And we had analysts in the intelligence community who thought their political purposes were more important than our national security. They didn't want Donald Trump to have this. They didn't want Donald Trump to make a China argument. So they shut off the spigot of information for what they're paid to provide the President. It's fraud. It is deceit. It is harmful to our national security.
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Glenn Beck
Talking to John Solomon, there seems to be some dots to connect between the investigation into the CCP billionaire Neville Singham, then Cuba's efforts to agitate in the US Marco Rubio, and the State Department government's mission to crack down on violent far left extremism. And.
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Donald Kendall
Amazing.
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John Solomon
Did you see that conference yesterday? Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
It was unbelievable.
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Spencer Clavin
Amazing.
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John Solomon
It was.
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Glenn Beck
And to disrupt their financial networks. Is there more to come on this? Am I. Am I seeing dots that are.
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John Solomon
I think you're seeing boulders. I think you're seeing boulders coming down a hill, picking up momentum. I think the FBI and the IRS are going to begin taking some really big actions against people that might have been conspiring with foreign powers to harm American national security. There is evidence that I'm working on right now, by the way, as a reporter, not in my government job right now, that there was contact going on between US Groups and foreign enemies specifically related to the anti ICE and ice out protests. Imagine that if anyone involved in that was conspiring with a foreign power to harm our United States. That's something we're looking at right now. Scott Bessing came on my show a couple of weeks ago, said we are going to start pulling IRS tax exemptions and making people pay taxes for what they did and they might be charged with fraud if they claim they were doing public good and instead they were doing public harm under a tax exemption. So the irs, the FBI, the Homeland Security Investigations Unit, created a task force and they are cracking down. And I think the first fruits of that are likely to be in the next month. We'll start to see, see actual activity, burp walks, actions in court, IRS actions. And that is the beginning of a long haul because our country has been embedded with nonprofits that are aligned with foreign enemies. And that is something that is not a good security posture.
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Glenn Beck
When the president said in a tweet, most terrifying and yet so satisfying tweets, I don't know. But within the last month, he said something along the lines of, you know, the communists are starting to come out everywhere. And I've been waiting for this moment, wait to see what's coming. It's going to be fun to watch.
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John Solomon
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Is this the beginning of this?
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John Solomon
I think that is what he's referring to, that we now are moving towards a body of evidence that Americans were working with our enemies to harm our country. I don't know what charge that count will be. You can throw terms rolling trees and sedition, I don't know yet. But I do believe that that's what everybody's working on. That is a very, very important development in our country. And it's important for another reason. Rasmussen. Scott Rasmussen has a poll out today. 31% of Americans now think socialism is good, and not even a majority think it's bad any longer. That is the most alarming statistic I've ever seen. What it means is the mainstream media have normalized what is the radical in America, and they're now convincing people that socialism is good. It has never been good in world history. It has been repressive. It is bad at this moment. The joy that Venezuelans have today versus six months ago shows you what happens when people get a little freedom from the repression of socialism. Every economy that ever was socialist has failed. And yet Americans, a third of Americans, nearly think this is a good thing. We have to nip that in the bud. Stop that. And the way you stop it is, is by stopping the propagandists who pump that into our information system every day to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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Glenn Beck
I have about 40 seconds left. Let me just ask you this last question. In one of the documents released last night, the Chinese government sought to identify US Journalists who had reported negatively on the US Presidents and pay them to write more negative articles about him.
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John Solomon
Yep.
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Glenn Beck
Are we ever going to get to a place where we will see names vast for that?
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John Solomon
Now the committee, the commission just asked for that task force. So if there are any journalist names that they've confirmed, I hope we'll be able to make them public sometime soon.
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Donald Kendall
Wow.
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Glenn Beck
John, Godspeed. Thank you so much for all your hard work.
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John Solomon
Good to be with you, Glenn. Thank you.
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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
Time, sir. You know, as I was listening to the speech last night, the President came out and he talked about the State of the Union. It sounded like a State of the Union and the State of the Union. There's a difference between perception and reality. And the Republicans need to understand you cannot lecture the people about how good things are because they don't feel that way. You have to reflect their perception and, and change the perception by actually showing them a change of prices. Look, gas prices are huge. And I know the President is kind of between a rock and a hard place on this, but that is a huge thing. And you know, you get those, you get those gas prices down again to $3 a gallon and people are going to start to say, okay, things are getting better. But as that changes you know, and then the, you know, here's the problem. The Marxists are talking a language that will go to the voters, okay? The working class needs to feel heard. And this is the President's biggest challenge. He's been great at this. This is the language he speaks. But he needs to, you know, he needs to go on a construction site and listen to construction workers a little bit. He needs to make sure that he is reflecting what the hard working working class have said who have always been his base, that they feel heard, acknowledged and that he's working for them. Anyway. He ended last night with call your senators and your congressmen on the SAVE act, please do it. Please call. As a business owner, entrepreneur or leader, let me ask you something. Who is challenging you to think bigger today? You can't afford to think the same way everybody else does. And I'm Inviting you to Vault 2026 Created by Patrick Bet David Patrick is a friend of mine and he built one of the most influential business media companies in America and hosts one of the top podcast business podcasts in the world. Vault is not just a motivational event. 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If you're just joining us, and we had John Solomon on, guy who has been working to expose what's been going on with our intelligence agencies and China. He has special access to the White House. He talked to Susie Wiles at the White House. And that I'm not getting, I'm getting stonewalled. I'm getting stonewalled from the intelligence agencies. And there is, I hear rumors that they are these documents that are actually written someplace. And Susie talked to the President, the President said bring John in. And John went in and he Said, what are you looking for? And he said, well, I heard this and this and this, and here's what they would mean if they're true. And the President just said, okay, come on into the White House. I'll bring the intelligence people in, we'll find those documents, and if I can declassify them, I will. And then you can look at them. Well, that's what started all of this last night in the speech. Now, Marco Rubio is attacking from a different direction because this is the beginning of an attack. What happened last night is the beginning of an attack on the deep state, a real attack on the deep state. But John says it's going to end in a perp walk and the exposing of journalists that may have been taking money from China to make the President look bad, because that's in the classified documents. And it was in the parts where, where. Where an intelligence officer actually said, quote, I'm running a shadow government by keeping this from our President. But we're going to get more information on that in the days to come, because what he revealed last night is not what the press is telling you. And it was very important. But Rubio is taking now another road, another line of attack. And his opening speech at the ministerial on resurgence of political terrorism was one of the best speeches I've heard in a long time. I'm gonna play just a little bit of it, and then I want to show you what's happening in our own country that is really kind of stemming from all of this. We'll start with Marco Rubio in 60 seconds. Stand by. First, our sponsor this half hour is the burner launcher. Okay, so here's an interesting thing. Probably don't think about enough. Not every problem has an all or nothing Solution. For instance, Dr. Doesn't reach for the strongest medicine every time. Mechanic doesn't rebuild an engine when the car needs a new fan belt. Experience teaches you the best response is the one that fits the situation. I think personal safety deserves that kind of thinking. I'm a huge fan of Burna. They created a less lethal option for moments when you need to protect yourself or your family. Create distance or stop a threat. But the situation doesn't call for taking a life or you're living this crapple California. You're living in California, or you're on a college campus and you can't have a weapon. 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Marco Rubio
This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best. A revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti capitalist or anti imperialists or communists or anarchists or Marxists, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of a quote, equality and justice, liberation. An overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world. Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us.
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Glenn Beck
Here's what people think, you know, when they think that, and I'm going to use the actual technical term, communists. Those who are actual, you know, DSA from their own report proudly state that 51% of their board are self acknowledged communists. Communism is a really terrifying thing because it is. It's legalized theft and legalized destruction. They steal the. The. There are makers and there are takers in the world. That's all there is, those two things. Makers and takers. Which one are you? Now when I say makers, most people will say, oh well, that's like Elon Musk. No, you're a maker. You're a maker. You may not be the person that says, I want to run my own business. I got a plan. I'm going to build this empire. That may not be you, but you are making something every day. You're making something of yourself. You're making something of your family. If you're trying to build a family, you're a maker. Whether you're the dad who's working two jobs or a mom that's working two jobs or a stay at home mom or stay at home dad, you are a maker. You believe in your family and you are building something big for the future. And then there are those who want to take things from you. You're working two jobs, so you're paying taxes. And these takers want to increase your taxes because they, they don't have, they don't know how to make. They don't care about the family, they don't care about making, they care about tearing down. This is what he's talking about. When there's deep resentment for the people who do. And the problem with all of this is, you know, people think it's all compassion. Well, Jesus, no, Jesus would not have been a communist. Jesus would not have been a socialist. He wouldn't have. He would be for you know what, Give all of your riches away. But you give it away. Not at the barrel of a gun, not because you have to. Nothing changes. This is the part that people miss about Christianity. Even Christians miss this. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if your heart doesn't change. I'm sorry, I know you can say with your mouth, I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, but if your heart doesn't change, I'm sorry, you could say whatever you want and I don't know, and I could be wrong, but when you get up, I'd be really shocked if somebody was like, oh yeah, before I die, I'm with a prostitute right now. I'm actually raping that prostitute while I'm pillaging some other people. And I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I'm sorry, I don't think he's going to accept that. I really don't. I don't. But maybe it is me. Your heart has to change because that is the secret to all of it. When you have a government set up to take from those that make your heart is hard. I want it. They do not deserve it. I deserve it. I am going to take it. Instead of changing the heart of the people who have all of that money. And they go, you know what? I just want to help. I want to help.
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Glenn Beck
the socialists or the communists always miss that. We are the most charitable nation on earth. They always miss that. Carnegie. Oh, this bad guy Carnegie built libraries all over the country. And why did he do it? He didn't do it as a tax write off. He believed that everyone could be a king of their own kingdom, that you can build something, but not without a king's library. And so he took whatever was in the king's library at the time, the most important books. He said, like, I will. I'll build the library. I'll pay for it all, put all the books in it. You just build the library. You just build the building. I'll put everything in it. And so he partnered with towns, farm towns, big towns all over the country to build all these libraries. Well, where would we be if somebody had not done that? And does that make him a good guy? No. Does the fact that he made money make him a bad guy?
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Glenn Beck
But the thing is, if you don't change people's hearts, then the whole thing depends on somebody else being absolutely right all the time. And that can never go wrong. So once the system starts to fail, as it always does, then you have to have secret police, because this is the way it always ends. Kgb, East Germany called their Zastasi. The Stasi had one informant for every 63 East Germans. More surveillance per capita than any regime in human history. And here's what the deal stop people from saying the plan doesn't work. That's the thing. People notice when bread doesn't come. And so they start saying something, and so I gotta stop them from saying it. That's why the left does not. That's why they want to. That's why they want to control the algorithm. That's why they want you to stop saying things. They want you to learn. No, there's consequences when you say things that we don't want you to say, because that's essential. And you've got to become militant about it, because eventually the plan doesn't work. And so you have to have people that come in, like the Stasi, and silence those people. You know, when the Wall came down in 1988, 1989, we found out what East Germany actually looked like. We didn't know for sure. Per person, about a third as wealthy as the West Germans they had been separated from for 40 years. Same language, same culture, same starting point in 1945. Only difference. One said it was right to take from the makers. And when the Wall opened, people flowed one direction. They didn't go to East Germany, they all went to West Germany. This is what we're fighting. And this administration and Marco Rubio and last night, Donald Trump, they're getting serious about it. I mean, I told you yesterday, I did not think that Donald Trump would come out and be as harsh on China as he was. I Mean, he named it. He said, there it is. And who did it? The Chinese. Now, I don't know what that means. I wonder if they've had conversations yet, him and President Z. But I gotta tell you, it was stronger than I expected. But I don't want you to listen to the media. I want you. No, I shouldn't say that. I want you to listen to the media understanding what they're doing. They are trying to silence actual documents. They're trying to say those documents don't make any difference. And the people who are in with the media and the left will tell you you're a conspiracy theorist for believing them. I want you to listen to what they're saying. I want you to compare and contrast. I want you to read the documents yourself that the President put out last night@whitehouse.gov read the documents because they make it very clear, very clear. And then go ahead and listen to the media and see what they say about those documents. You'll be able to decide you're smart enough to figure this out on your own. You don't need me or anybody else to tell you. Just read what it actually says. But they want you to shut up. And let me give you a really good example of having to shut up, what that leads to. In Maine, there is Ashley Webb. She's an activist. She's a guy. Now, I'm not supposed to say that because there's a penalty attached to that. If I say she's actually a dude, there's a penalty because they need me to shut up. And that is just. It doesn't care about Ashley. It is about control over me and people who won't toe the line. It has nothing to do with Ashley Webb. But during the debate for candidates to replace Graham Platner, Ashley Webb is on. And this is what she said. This is why she's qualified to serve in. He is qualified to serve for the U.S. senate. Listen, Ashley Webb, what qualifications do you have to serve in the US Senate?
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John Solomon
Oh, I ran for office several times.
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Glenn Beck
Didn't win, but he did run. And then I'm a songwriter, and then
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Donald Kendall
I write my own books.
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Glenn Beck
And then I suppose my transparency.
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Donald Kendall
I wouldn't lie to the people and I wouldn't deceive the people like we're
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Glenn Beck
being deceived right now. You have to see this video. It's sad. It really is truly sad. It's truly sad. It looks like an slr, you know, an SNL sketch. But they would. SNL would never do this sketch. You know, they can't see the. They can't see the. The absurdity in real life anymore. But this would. 20 years ago, that would have been a sketch. And the audience would have been roaring, laughing, because it's so absurd. He's wearing a dress, by the way, and standing on the st. On the stage. And you know what? I applaud his courage. I applaud his willingness to serve. I applaud his courage. His courage. But that's how insane things have gotten. Things are so insane that they have gone from a Nazi racist, a rapist alleged to. I mean, this guy might win. I don't know who's going to win. I don't know who's going to win. It's so insane. If I, if there were any kind of data out that said Ashley Webb is the most electable anybody and the Democrats who would say this is ridiculous today would be saying, that's the one I'm going to vote for. Because they can win. They can beat. It's this horrible, twisted game. And I think what you and I have in common is we don't look at this as a game. This is our country. This is our children. This is our children's future. It is the future of freedom all around the world. If we blow this, there's no other place to run. And it's not a game. And I think that's why you and I get so roped in, why we are so. We get sometimes so angry about it because we actually care. And it seems like so many people. This is my biggest problem with the left and not the left, people who vote Democrat, who are just getting their news from one source. If I could talk to them and they could say, oh, no, I read the documents. Did you really read the documents? What did the documents say? And they said, oh, I read them. And here's what it said. But here's why I disagree with you, Glenn. I could live with that person forever. I just can't handle people who only get their news from one source, like cnn. And then they say, that's it. And then they, they defend it to the. And you can show them the proof that that's not what it is. And their eyes glaze over and they just keep arguing.
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Marco Rubio
That's.
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Glenn Beck
That's where it becomes a game for so many people and a sad game, because it's hypnosis. Either that or it's a mental illness. All right, more in just a second. Let me tell you about our sponsor, this half hour. It's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. When we talk about Israel and the wars and the headlines and the politics, it's easy to forget the people who are actually living for living through it. You know, this is the thing that really bothers me. People are like, I'm not supporter of the Joes, okay? Do you mean you don't like Benjamin Netanyahu? Because there are days. I don't like Benjamin Netanyahu either. There are lots of days that I'm like, okay, that policy, it's a socialist government. You should like their government. I don't. Okay? But I like the Jewish people. And I think the Jewish people have a right to survive. And that's the difference. We fail to see the poor, the isolated. While much of the world is busy just blaming Israel, the international fellowship of Christians and Jews is quietly on the ground, supporting people with food and medicine and hope. That's the most important. I can't imagine how alone you must feel, how frightened you must feel at times. If you're Jewish, it has got to feel terrifyingly familiar and at times very alone. Anti Semitism is rising again. The compassion matters. When you support the fellowship, you're telling a Jewish family in desperation they're not alone. And that is what makes all the difference. That, I think, is what we're commanded to do. Celebrate 250 years of independence with the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. They are asking to turn in prayer, asking for God and his wisdom to guide our leaders. And they have a first step. You know, if you say, oh, you know, I'm. I'm real rock solid. Are you willing to put an Israeli, US Israeli flag pin on your lapel and wear it? Are you willing to put that on the strap of your backpack? Because that's the easiest thing you can do. It only gets harder from here. Get your flag pin right now. You get it for free. Flagpin ifcj.org flagpinifcj.org 10 seconds station. All right, all episodes of the American Story. It is finally out. All 20 episodes. Commercial free@glenn beck.com torch but if you want to get it for free, you can do it. We're on episode 14. It comes out tomorrow. Wherever you get your podcast. It's Manifest Destiny, the war that forged the American West. It's an amazing assault on congressman in Washington that launches a chain of events that completely redraws the map of North America. It's a great episode. It's episode 14. Available everywhere, wherever you get your podcast tomorrow, our sponsor is super sure, paid
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Glenn Beck
Okay. Donald Kendall is with me. Donald is a guy who has worked on two of my best selling books, Dark Future and also the Great Reset. And so he knows what is going on, what is, what the, what the elites are planning, how they work, et cetera, et cetera. And we have talked extensively over the last five years about AI and ASI and AGI and, and data centers. And he is concerned, as concerned as I am on the dark side of this. But he is also coming out now. He's the director of the Glenn Haskins Emergency Emerging Issues center at the Heartland Institute. And he has written many, many articles on the dangers of these, these data centers. But he is now coming out and he is also saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. We're in trouble if we don't have these data centers. So he just wrote a, based on A report from OpenAI suggest operatives likely based in China have been using artificial intelligence to manipulate the American debates about AI development and public policy. And I find it interesting because Donald is not a guy that would go to OpenAI for a report, but he's, he's using OpenAI to make this point. So my first question, Donald, welcome to the program. Is why are you allowing OpenAI to lead this argument with you?
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Donald Kendall
Well, clearly I'm being coerced by artificial intelligence. It knows me better than I know myself, so it's can push me in any direction.
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Glenn Beck
But I know, you know, you're a soft. You're a push, an easy pushover. I know you.
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Donald Kendall
Yeah. Let me just say, though, you know, I've been, I've been working on AI, as you mentioned, for, for years now. And, you know, the first real AI conversation that I ever had that was kind of outside, just like science fiction movies, was with you in your office back in 2019, when we were actually working on arguing with socialists together. So I actually kind of credit my whole kind of career path towards this, this issue to you. So there's that. We'll start off with that.
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Glenn Beck
All right, I hope you're right then.
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Donald Kendall
But, but, yeah, so, you know, I, if you were to go through my backlog of articles, you'll definitely see that, you know, most of them are a little bit more critical of artificial intelligence, the power that's wielded by the institutions, you know, when they have this, this, this new tool of artificial intelligence. And just like the whole host of things, things that are made possible now by this emerging technology. And, and most of that just kind of comes with a, a skepticism about these powerful institutions, whether it's government, whether it's big corporations.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, so many, we've had so many conversations, the two of us, of, you know, I don't want it in the hands of the government. I don't want it hands in the big, in the big tech, but those are the two choices that we have. And so you kind of, you're just, you're left with a lot of bad choices. So let me go to the data centers because that is, that, that is so critical. I believe Donald, and I think you do, too. If we don't do electricity, if we don't get our power grid under control and really expand power and have the data centers, we will be the Mexico of the world in 25 years from now. China will control everything.
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Donald Kendall
That. That's exactly right. You know, I, I have bought into the debate that, you know, if, if we're not the, the forefront of this industry, then somebody else is going to be. You could have all the international agreements that you want to slow down the development of artificial intelligence to make sure that we're doing it properly and aligning it with the, you know, the principles that we think are important. You could even have China sign on to those international agreements. And they will still work behind the scenes to push, to push their homage, you know, supremacy on artificial intelligence forward. So when I started seeing these reports, and the OpenAI one is just one of them, there's a bunch of reports out there that are showing what we know, because we also worked on propaganda wars together, that this is a, this is a common tactic of foreign governments. Foreign intelligence is to sow seeds of discontent in other countries, in rival countries. So we've seen this with Russia, with the Internet Research Agency. We've seen this with China time and time again, dating Back to like 2005, I believe, where they were just putting bot armies on the Internet to spread propaganda and make it seem like it's just a kind of a natural occurring thing. Also, there is a reports about different environmental groups, whether it's sierra club or 350. Org, those sorts of things that are kind of pushing the same message. This anti data center message that was very reminiscent of the anti fracking messages from just, I don't know, several years ago. So when all of these things are kind of coming out, it's like, you know, I could be as skeptical as the next person when it comes to the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of the United States government or, you know, these big corporate, you know, whatever, these giant corporations, international corporations that we know not to necessarily trust because of our days with the big tech, censorship of social media or the, you know, the days of esg, all of that sort of thing. But then I look at it and I say, you know, I feel like we can, you know, in the same way that Elon Musk was able to kind of change the debate when it came to the, you know, objectivity of social media platforms. I feel like there is a pathway for that sort of, you know, getting that conservative voice out there and really pushing for constitutional principles when it comes to AI alignment. I don't think we're going to have as much luck, luck with that when it comes to artificial, artificial intelligence in China. And we know some of these models in, in China, whether it's Deep Seek or Kimmy, you know, a lot of these very specifically do not criticize the ccp. They do not criticize Xi Jinping. They're, they're, you know, they're, they're as twisted and ideological bias that you could possibly imagine. And we're seeing that companies in the United States, because those models run slightly cheaper than US models, are actually starting to use those in their systems. So this is the fear that I
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Glenn Beck
have so so Don, let me, let me go back again to the data centers. I have been saying since we've, since we met and before we met, but I remember talking to you about this, you know, in that meeting that
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Glenn Beck
have been concerned forever about what I say is the loss of free will.
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Donald Kendall
Yes.
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Glenn Beck
Not that you can't choose. You won't know if you have been manipulated into making that choice or if it was actually your original idea. This was the whole point of the President's speech last night. Not that they stole the election, that they are manipulating or can manipulate because they have so much information on the individual. And I look at these people, I was having this conversation with my son. He said, dad, I agree with a lot. A lot of these people are. We passed, you know, marchers on this against the data center. And he said, dad, I agree with a lot of the things they said. I said, son, so do I. But how many of them understand that there's a good shot that they were manipulated into thinking these things or being used as useful idiots by the algorithm in China? There are legitimate questions that have to be asked. But a lot of this real deep anti data center stuff, it is coming from China. How do you know the difference? How, I mean, how should people be aware of this?
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Donald Kendall
Yeah, well, it's an incredibly tough question to ask, especially in this day and age with the speed of the, how information is disseminated across the Internet, social media, that sort of thing. So it's really hard to tell who's, who's even getting their talking points from where, that sort of thing. But, you know, I, I love, you know, the, the more heady conversations about artificial intelligence that, that, that we have, you know, the idea that like, are you really making your own choices? You know, did you decide to have, you know, Cheerios in the morning or was that just a, you know, an artificial intelligence constructed psyop, those sorts of things. When it comes to what the, you know, what the implications of that are when it comes to free will, those are that I want to be writing about. And I'll admit that when it comes to some of the data center stuff, you know, because I kind of looked at these things as kind of hand in hand, you know, I kind of bought into it a little bit. You know, whether it was the water usage or the electricity usage driving up rates for people, those were, you know, pretty concerning to me. But then we were looking into it. We wanted to do stuff about water usage. And you know, my team and people that we, that we partner with, we're like, yeah, you know, there's, there's not really a whole lot there. You know, there's some specific instances. But, you know, it seems to be something that they're kind of mitigating now as they innovate. And then when it comes to the energy, when it comes to energy, it's like, I feel like we're playing into the hands of the kind of Net Zero brigade that's been pushing to offline reliable energy for a while, where it's like, oh, look, we don't have enough energy for these data centers. Like, well, whose fault is that? So that's, that's my concern. And I've been saying, you know, when talking about this issue, that I'm hoping that this AI revolution coincides with an American energy revolution because that I don't think that we should offline powerful technology just because, you know, Bernie Sanders and crew offlined our reliable energy for the past couple of decades. So those.
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Glenn Beck
Go ahead.
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Donald Kendall
So those are like the kind of the main issues that surround the data centers that I just, like, that aren't. Don't appeal to me quite as much as those more heady subjects that you and I discuss.
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Glenn Beck
Right. But I think those, those questions are what the average person are at right now and what, you know, I think we, we have to find a way to convince people that they have all the power they. Literally all the power they need. If these, these companies want the data centers and they do want them desperately, if they want them, great. That is the best place to be when you're negotiating. No, you want them great. You're going to offset any kind of cost that my power company has to make, because now we need new infrastructure. Plus, you're creating all of the energy, and you're going to put, let's say, 10 or 20% of the energy you create back into the grid. So my energy prices go down. You can negotiate these things right now. But you have in New York. You know, when New York says, and there's other states and you talk about it, there are other states that are saying, you know, we're banning all of these data centers. That's insanity, isn't it, Donald?
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Donald Kendall
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And that's another thing that kind of started pushing me into this direction was the, the actions of Bernie Sanders and crew, whether it was the data center moratoriums that were just going to shut it down, shut down construction basically indefinitely. They, they kind of had a time horizon like, oh, we're going to shut it down until we can figure out this unfigureoutable thing. So that was a concern to me. And then when Bernie Sanders came out talking about wanting to nationalize 50% of the AI companies and basically load the boards with bureaucrats, hand selected, you know, bureaucrats on, on the board of these things, that was more concerning to me than, than some of the things that we talk about when it comes to AI and data science centers. So that's, that is a, that is a big issue. I mean, there has been a sizable impact by these activists, you know, movements against data centers. There's been moratoriums passed in certain states and certain localities. There has been a, a delay in billions of dollars of AI infrastructure build out because of some of these groups that are connected with, you know, people that have been constantly on the wrong side of the issues that we've talked about for decades. Whether that's, you know, Bernie Sanders that I already mentioned or that, you know, Neville Singham, which seems to be a, a Chinese, you know, allied activist group that, or a, you know, person that, that activates all these different groups across the country, usually for environmental reasons. So all of these things just kind of like make me think maybe, maybe we're playing right into China's hands. And we actually kind of see this now there on top of all the reports that we're talking about, there are reports that show that American companies are increasingly using Chinese models to run their infrastructure. So if that's the trend that we're heading towards, we obviously know China wants to be AI supreme. They want to have supremacy in the AI industry. And if we are going to stunt our development of artificial intelligence, we're just playing right into their hands. And now we've got a society and industry that is just dependent on these AI, you know, models that are being developed in China. So this, this, you know, for all the current concerns that we have, and I will say that there are so many justified concerns when it comes to artificial intelligence. I'm not going to back down off of that point. Yeah, but if we're going to move towards a, you know, where, where China is, is dictating kind of the underlying infrastructure of our society, that is a recipe for, for absolute disaster.
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Glenn Beck
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Spencer Clavin
Watch Odysseus, Telemachus, Penelope, Antinous Odysseus, Telemachus,
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Glenn Beck
Penelope and Helen of Troy Odyssey, Odyssey after the Iliad hidden no host won the war. Yeah, I'm serious.
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Spencer Clavin
Odyssey, Odyssey Itching for Ithaca get past the Peloponnesian Peninsula Odyssey, Odyssey Mediterranean psych
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Gen Z Writer
Out of Cyclops and Crater his cranium
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Glenn Beck
Circe is cursing them men into BIC
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Spencer Clavin
and bits Gotta go on the road
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Glenn Beck
Head to where Hades is Odysseus, Telemachus, Penelope and Helen of you could be Homer the way we go six feet Call it whatever so long as this
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Marco Rubio
beat
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Glenn Beck
okay, I can't take anymore. Honestly, it looks. All you have to say is the Odyssey. One of the greatest writers directors of our age is trying it and then put a clause Hollywood into the contracts of all these actors that they have to shut their pie hole. Shut it. Shut your mouth. Just. Hey, Christopher Nolan's got a new movie. It's called the Odyssey. Go see it this weekend. That's it.
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Donald Kendall
Shut up.
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Spencer Clavin
Glenn I'm doing great. It's great to be with you. Thanks for having me.
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Glenn Beck
It's good. Yeah. It's, it's good to be you. Good to be with you. I have to tell you, I remember reading the Odyssey when I think I was in high school and I just thought it was, was a, just a borefest and couldn't get through is. It is one of the greatest stories of all. I mean, you know, this is, I love this. I remember I read Wuthering Heights at one point as an adult and I read it and I'm like, that is
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Spencer Clavin
actually a boring book, I have to tell you.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, really?
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Spencer Clavin
That one is actually boring. I don't know. Did you like it?
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Glenn Beck
Oh, no, I did, sorry. I did, I liked it and I
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Spencer Clavin
thought, all right, maybe I should reread it.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, there's something about these classics. Discovery, you know, here I am, a 30 year old guy going, you know, people should read more classics. There's something to this classic. Yeah, they're classics for a reason.
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Donald Kendall
Don't say.
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Glenn Beck
Anyway, yeah, the Odyssey is, is like that where it is such a great story. Can you start with what the story is?
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Spencer Clavin
Yeah, I'm really happy to do that. And it's easy on one level. It's a story about a guy going home. Odysseus is a warrior and a king. He's the king of Ithaca. He's been fighting in Troy for 10 years. That's the prequel, the Iliad, if you like. And this is the sequel to the Iliad, where he tries to make his way home, but for a whole bunch of reasons, including the wrath of the gods and all sorts of other mythological mishaps along the way, he can't get back. And when he arrives back, finally he discovers that a pack of weasels and snakes, a bunch of suitors, have taken over his palace and he has to wreak vengeance upon them to gain his queen back. Penelope, who's been waiting for him all that time, all those 20 years that he's been gone.
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Glenn Beck
And one of the reasons he doesn't come back is because, because everybody died that was under his command. And so he's kind of feeling bad about that. Or do I have that right or wrong?
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Spencer Clavin
Well, close. So people, all of his men die along the way as part of this tormented journey. But you're getting at another layer of the story, which is once you tell the kind of beginning, middle, end plot of it, you get to dig deeper into these incredible layers, including, yeah, why is it that this guy can't make it home? And what does it mean to come home after 10 years of war? What does it take to rediscover yourself and reflect on the experience of being a soldier, having to do savage, brutal deeds and then go back and become a husband and a family guy and a dad out back in the yard with a beer. So there's definitely that going on as well. And these big questions of leadership that you raise.
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Glenn Beck
I don't remember the hammock with the beer and the story, but maybe I missed. Sorry. Wine.
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Spencer Clavin
Wine. They're Greek, so it's wine, but yeah, of course.
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Glenn Beck
Not the. Okay, so the. The other thing. And, and please correct me if I'm. I'm wrong, because I most likely am, but his son is angry with him. Right. And. And. And his wife.
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Spencer Clavin
Well, everyone's got a lot of feelings.
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Donald Kendall
Right? Right.
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Spencer Clavin
I would say, Clint, everyone's got a lot of feelings. His son Telemachus is. He's one of the first ever coming of age stories that we have in Western literature. And this is how the poem starts, which may be why you were bored by it. It's possible that you got to this poem and you were like, ah, there's dragons and monsters and witches and gods. And then the first thing that happens is we sit around in Ithaca with this kid who's kind of not sure about what he wants to do with his life. And he's fatherless, so he's trying to gain a certain amount of. Of manhood and maturity. Penelope, meanwhile, yeah, is waiting for Odysseus. She's a famous model of devotion, but she's also human. And everyone in this poem is beautifully human. So she is trying to stave off the suitors with this famous trick of weaving and unweaving a burial shroud. And then she's also, yeah, this very beautiful symbol of how she's a match for. For him because he's famous for his metis, his cunning and his intelligence. Basically, she has that same amount of kind of deceitfulness, but also wiles and smarts. And when they finally meet, he's in disguise. She's not sure what to believe. She's not ready even to let go of her defensiveness, and neither is he. And they have this gorgeous reconciliation scene where she practically melts into his arms when he finally, finally proves that he knows the secret of their marriage, which is that their bed is carved out of a tree that she asked him to move, and he says, no, I can't. So there are all of these moments that are really cinematic and offer a great kind of palette for a director like Nolan to work with. There's also a lot of wordplay and kind of the plot on purpose twists around the word that Homer uses at the beginning for Odysseus is he's Polutropos. He's many weighed, he has many ways and wanderings. And the plot itself loops back over onto itself. So there's also stuff that maybe if you're coming to it for the first time, you're like, I thought this was about a king and a queen. And now I'm kind of wandering about in Pylos and Sparta with all these random characters. But what I would say, if you're getting into reading it for the first time, is like, bear with him for the first four books. There are 24 books or chapters of the poem. And just keep an eye on Homer's great theme, which is the man. He begins the poem and sing to me of a man muse. And the whole thing is about, who is this guy? And if you think about it as a kind of identity tale and a homecoming tale, and you keep an eye on the character of Odysseus, you find just like endless stuff that reveals itself with more and more rereading. It has high replay value, as they say, of video games.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so Christopher Nolan, forget everything he just said because I think we just made this sound really boring. Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan. If you're going to go see a movie, Christopher Nolan, and I don't know if you feel this way, I think he's one of the better storytellers of our age.
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Spencer Clavin
Oh, he's so good.
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Glenn Beck
No question, he's so good. And there is. You've seen the movie. So please tell me he didn't wreck it by putting a bunch of crap and woke crap in it. He just told a great story.
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Spencer Clavin
He did not wreck it. I'm totally ready to just say this is a good movie. Now, there's a lot of footnotes and stuff that we can get into talking about, but just the bottom line is the thing we were afraid of, which is completely reasonable and understandable. I was listening to you talking about how dumb actors are when they open their mouths. And boy, I want to co shot, like, just, I'm so in for this writer, the shut up and sing, the shut up and act writer that you want to put contracts completely. They've done so much damage to people who are already fed up and understandably, right, because like, I always think about Rachel Zegler in Snow White, this disastrous Disney remake. And you know, Zegler, Snow White is famously very, very white. Zegler is not all that white. So people were kind of raising Their eyebrows at that. But more than that, and much more importantly, she doesn't like the source material. She was given these interviews saying, oh, it's misogynist and it doesn't like women in power. And it's all about keeping women down. So that combined with the fact that these racial recastings only ever go in one direction. And you're kind of shamed for noticing this, right? I think that's driven people a little bit crazy. And I understand that, like now whenever somebody does this, they think, oh, no, here we go again. And with the Odyssey, which is such an incredible work of art and such a foundational work of Western literature, it's a very tender sore spot, right? Like, you're going to take this thing and you're just going to drag it through the muck and you're going to, like, tell me that it's evil and you're going to give me your stupid modern take on it, you know, So I think that's what people are worried about. And I think that that got blown a little bit out of proportion because Nolan is not doing that at all in this movie. He makes some changes to the source material you can like or not like, but none of them is designed to undermine the poem or to tell you you're wrong and racist for liking it. It's the actors who kind of mouthed off and it's the controversy that got kicked up around the poem, that stuff, you know, Lupita Nyong', o, who is one of the people that talked about, oh, Homer doesn't like women or whatever, you know, she. She's a great actress and she gives a really interesting performance in this. And she's really. Her part is really like a vanishingly small part of the movie, as are a lot of the other things that people got upset and mad about. And Nolan really does, which not a lot of directors have done. He really does put the story on screen. He gives you Matt Damon as the smartest soldier around, tormented guy making his way back home. And he gives you Anne Hathaway in the best performance I've ever seen her give, who, unlike a lot of other Penelopes that have been on screen, she really does want Odysseus back. She loves him. She's, of course, conflicted. She's confused and in pain, but she passionately loves him and is waiting for him. And it's just a very moving story. So I don't know. I think Nolan does a really great job. The book is better because the book's always better than the Movie. But that's something that you can kind of talk about when you see the movie. The woke takeover stuff is what everyone was really afraid of, and that just doesn't happen. It's just not in this movie, which is great.
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Glenn Beck
One of my favorite poets. You're gonna lose a lot of respect for me. Is Dr. Seuss. No, one of my favorite poets is Edgar Allan Poe. And you like him because. I just read something that said most people, you know, especially in that era, all of the critics, all of the other poets, except for a few over in England, they all thought he was trash. Oh, pooh.
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Spencer Clavin
This is snobbery.
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Glenn Beck
This is just sheer.
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Spencer Clavin
People like Edgar Allan Poe, and that's why critics look down on him, I think. I mean, they think of him as trash or entertainment. And because it's fun, you know, because it's exciting and people like it. Then they'd say, oh, he's not really a great poet. He's not a sophisticated literary artist. There are sophisticated great poets who are difficult to understand, but Poe is incredible, and he's a beautiful wordsmith. So is Dr. Seuss, by the way, a genius.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, no, I know.
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Spencer Clavin
It's impossible to do what Dr. Seuss does anyway. Yes. Okay, so Poe.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, can you tell me. There is. While we're here on ancient culture, except for the Poe thing, AI Is now helping us unroll ancient scrolls that we haven't had access to.
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Spencer Clavin
Can.
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Glenn Beck
Do you know anything about this? Can you talk to me about this and what's happening and what we're finding?
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Spencer Clavin
I love this story. So this is like. I'm not used to people being interested in things that I'm passionate about because I'm a classicist. So the fact that there's this big movie about the Odyssey and this major AI Story about classics.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, no, you're nerding out. This is your weekend.
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Spencer Clavin
I'm just. This is my. Like, this is my moment. I am just, like, put me in, coach.
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Donald Kendall
Right? So.
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Spencer Clavin
But this is a genuinely awesome story. And it's awesome for about a zillion different reasons. These scrolls that you're talking about were buried under the ash of Vesuvius. You remember Mount Vesuvius? It exploded. Erupted and buried Pompeii. And there was another city, Herculaneum. And so obviously. Obviously, there's, like, incredible stuff preserved there. A lot of dead bodies, for one thing. But in addition, in the 18th century, they found this villa with a library. And it's not like today where you can just be a schmuck like me. And have a big shelf of books behind you. It's like very few people had, were wealthy enough to have large collections of books. And so there's a lot of stuff in there that might be lost, that is lost from the ancient world that we could recover. And it's tantalizing because they're baked into these carbonized chunks, basically. They're like, they're like charcoal, basically. And so for centuries, people have been trying to figure out how to read them, how to read what's inside them without destroying them or just making them crumble to a million pieces. It's like an Indiana Jones type thing. You know, if you touch it, it falls apart. And there have been all sorts of different mechanical efforts to do this, including most recently, and this was when I was in grad school, people were shooting them with X rays, very highly powerful X rays that can see inside the layers without touching the scrolls or doing damage to them. But it's really, really hard to figure out once you have the X ray images, how you're supposed to basically arrange them, virtually unroll them, they say to make them lie flat so you can read them and see what's on them. And that's what AI has now helped people to do. There's this project called Vesuvius Project, which is funded by a tech investor where you get a prize if you can do this with one of the scrolls. And they just recently figured out how to do it with a complete scroll so you can just look inside, into the past, into these priceless treasures using the help of AI but not. And this is really important. I know we've talked about this before. The AI is not reading the scrolls. So it's not. Not guessing what letters are there. It's. It doesn't even know any Greek, if that makes sense. There's no, there's no language built into the.
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Glenn Beck
It's just showing us what it is.
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Spencer Clavin
Exactly. Yeah. And then the people come along and they, they read the, the stuff that's in there. So, okay, right now, like. Yeah, the one disappointing thing is right now it's just. I'm sorry. Yeah, go ahead.
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Glenn Beck
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Spencer Clavin
Oh, well, right now, sorry to say, bunch of philosophy, the hope there's all these scrolls left to unroll. We could find stuff by Aristotle. We could find poems that were missing, like Ennius, the great Roman, the great, the great Latin poet. We have a tiny, slight sliver from this period. We've got, you know, seven plays by Aeschylus, which is just a miniature portion of what he wrote. There could be anything in there. And I just love that, you know, the tech is actually working to help the humans rather than the other way around.
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Glenn Beck
Thank you so much, Spencer. I'm glad to hear this review that. My pleasure. The Odyssey is. Is good and, you know, because that's what I would expect from Christopher. So thank you. Appreciate it. God bless you, man. Thank you.
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Spencer Clavin
Great to be here.
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Glenn Beck
Spencer Clavin. Yep. That's. Wouldn't it be interesting if. If we open all the scrolls and we found like the words to Beyonce and we realize. No, no, that's why those words are so good. They're an.
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Donald Kendall
Right.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, maybe, maybe words from Lizzo's songs, but certainly not Beyonce. True cost of a bad real estate agent is just not inconvenience. It's money. Real money. According to industry data, the average difference between a top agent and an Underperformer is about $25,000 on final sale price. And that's just on the sell side. Buy side. Bad agent might talk you into overpaying, miss out on a better property entirely or fail to negotiate closing costs, which means thousands more out of your pocket that you never had to spend. Here's the worst part. You may not even realize that you lost. You know, you'll just sign the papers, you move on. You assume that's how it goes. And quite honestly, if that's what happens I'd rather just live in my bliss. But don't make this mistake. Real estate agents I trust is designed to make sure that never happens to you. This is my company and we vet every agent we work with for experience, perform, performance and character. There's only about, I think we're up to about 3,000 and there's a waiting list to get on to this service with us of about 10,000. We won't take them because we want to make sure we can check their character, their performance and watch them entirely. To make sure that you're getting the best real estate agent and the best experience that you can possibly get, check out realestate Agents I trust dot com. I don't charge you for it. We just give you a name. You enter, interview him, then you hire him or not. Name says it all. It's real estate agentsitrust.com if you're tired
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Announcer
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Glenn Beck
This is the Glenn Beck program live from Los Angeles, California. This week I've been doing some work on a Christmas album that is coming out soon. And you know, I just, it's my daughter and I, I, she's grown so much, it's amazing. And I'm watching her work with, with Roger Love who is, he's worked with everybody. He was saying my daughter lost some confidence. And he said, you know, I get a call probably twice a year from and I won't say the name but one of the biggest names you could imagine. And I get a call from her manager and says, you got to come over. She doesn't think she can sing anymore. And he's like, why? She's lost confidence. She doesn't think she can sing anymore. And he said, have you tried just bringing her a mirror and reminding her who she is? But I've learned so much from him and it is really all about and I, and next week I want to talk about this in a non musical way, but I've learned so much that it really is most of life is about confidence. It's hard work being prepared and then having the confidence to do it. Because once you have the confidence to do it, your whole life will change just based on how you feel about yourself. And he was working with people that we, we had sing for Ellis island. They, they never saw. I wanted to give some people a chance to sing for the first time. They've always wanted to sing but never really had the chance to do It. And so I wanted to give them really difficult songs that they could sing and then, you know, at least they would be able to say, I sang on Ellis island staring in the eyes of the Statue of Liberty for the 250th birthday. And, Ricky, you've been chomping at the bit to tell me something about an update on this.
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Announcer
Oh, yes. One of those difficult songs, and it was the most difficult was oh, Lady Liberty, the range. And that was insane.
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Glenn Beck
And it was in French.
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Announcer
Some of you guys may remember that. Chrissy Owens, it was the mom who auditioned for Ellis island singing contest and she won. And if you weren't at the event, here's a clip of her singing oh, Lady Liberty in her first big public debut. Can we play that? Okay, so this is where you're going to need your tissues because the message I got from her is exactly the reason why Glenn added empowerment to the mission of Torch. Listen to this from Chrissy. I just wanted to let you all know that the Atlanta Braves asked me to sing oh, crap. At the stadium next week. Pretty sure it's because someone from their office saw me. On Ellis island, they don't hold auditions for regular vocalists. It is pretty much invite only, so you have to be a celeb or a school group to even have a shot at it. And they invited me. This stadium holds 41, 000 people and this game will be on ESPN during prime time. It's all possible because you guys gave me a shot.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, crap.
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Announcer
Sorry, Glenn. I'm turning into you. She just wanted to let you know how much yours and Glenn's and the whole team's kindness and support is meant to me. Thank you. That's July 22nd at 7:15pm Eastern. Go watch Christy Owens. Chrissy Owens and chair on Live.
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Glenn Beck
That is fabulous. Chris, I'm so happy for you. So you know when. And I knew. I knew our audience so well, I knew they would pick her because it came down to you, the audience voting. And I knew they would pick her because for a different reason, but exactly the same reason. I saw her when she auditioned. She sent in a video. She's a mom and her kids, she had no time to herself, so she learned. She doesn't speak French. She learned this song. She's not a professional singer. Never done it ever before. She learned the song in French and then she auditions and she was like, out of the park. But the whole time, one of her children was constantly tugging her mom, mom, mom, mom. And she would read a. She grabbed their head and redirect them over to, like, their sandwich. And she auditioned like that while she was navigating all of the. And I. I thought, if that woman can sing that song that well in an audition while navigating her children to sandwiches, this woman can. She could do anything. And she knocked it out of the park. And now, literally, she's going to knock it out of the park. Ricky is exactly right. For over 20 years, I have started every hour with the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. And when I started the Blaze, I told my staff a year before, as we were getting ready to. As I was explaining what Torch. I'm sorry, When I started the Torch. As I was explaining what I was going to do with torch and why I was making this move in my career, I said, and we're changing the entertainment enlightenment. And I know a few people have been on my staff forever, went, oh, what is he doing? He's gone insane. And I said, we're adding one word, empowerment. Because that's what the next phase, which I'm in now, the last phase of my career has to be about. I can't just entertain you. I can't just bring you some enlightenment or some information. I want to empower you to use that information, to use the things that you hear on this program, to empower you by. Let me tell you quick story. God, you know what it's like to live riddled with ADD like this. Oh, I. I was. I was. I've been watching Roger work with my daughter for the last week, and she's been in the studio and she's just pounding her head against the wall. She's doing stuff she could have never done before two years ago. And. And I'm watching him sitting right next to him the whole time at the control board, and he's directing her, and he'll open up his mic into her studio and he'll say, that was great, and I want you to blah, blah, blah. Well, after the first two days of really listening to him, I realized the man has never used the word. But that was really good. But this time, I want you to never. So we're having lunch on day three. And I said, roger, you don't use the word, but, do you? And he said, oh, no. I swore that off long ago. This guy was teaching at UCLA. I found this out yesterday. He's teaching music at UCLA at 16. Teaching music at UCLA at 16. He said, no, but just shuts everybody down. I want to start living by that rule alone. I think that will change my life. I Think that could change your life. I think that will empower not only you, but empower everyone around you. Because I've. I've always believed there's no such thing as no. There is no but. As I used to say, there's no but meaning you can say, no, not that way. But if we do this and this and this, I think we can accomplish that. So you don't ever just say no. But I think even more empowering is, okay, That's a really good idea. And if we do this and this and this, I think we can accomplish it. And if we start thinking that way, even just for ourselves, not just for the people that we're trying to motivate around us. And if you're. If you're a manager or you're a leader of people thinking that way, it's so subtle. I'm not even sure my daughter noticed it. It's so subtle and so empowering. But I'm wondering how empowering it is if you lived your life yourself and never said the word but to yourself. I really like that, but I really want to go. But. I am now at the age of my life, where I can look back and I can see things that just. That didn't work in my life, things that I tried, the things that I thought were true, and turns out they're not true. And my. I think it was. My grandfather used to say, youth is wasted on the young. And it's so true, because you get to a point to where you can see things more clearly and you can see these things that just empower you and just empower others, whether they're just watching, listening, or standing next to you, doing it with you. And that's what I want to bring to you. That's my goal for the next. That's why I started Torch, you know, that's why we just. We just finished our first two episodes, and I'm going to let it sit for a while. We're going to work on another audio series, but I'm gonna let it sit for a while. Maybe next year will work on episode three and four of the American Story, but the American Story, I'm telling you, it will empower you. I was sitting during lunch. I happened to have. I happened to have my copy of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, because I had to go give a speech the other day in Las Vegas, I think it was. I had to give a speech, and so I brought it with me, and it happened to be in the. In the car, and I was Talking during lunch. And this guy who is just running the control board of the studios, we were talking at lunch one day, and he brought up something about our founders or something. And I said, you know, I have something. Let me get in the car and show you something. And I brought it out, and he was blown away. And he said, how do I not know this? How are we not taught that? This guy in Los Angeles? And I said, I know, right? He's like, glenn, that changes everything. That changes my complete understanding. He's like, I want to go back and read about it now. And I'm like, I didn't say this, but I like, yes, that was the point. Go and listen to some of the things that we have on Torch. Listen to the first two episodes. You want a commercial free? You can get all 20 episodes right now. And I think we're up to 16. Is the death of Abraham Lincoln and the assassination attempts of Abraham Lincoln. And then what happens after he dies? And then reconstruction. Boy, you weirdly want to understand. You want to understand that nothing has changed. Just the names. It's. It's the American story. You will find it empowering. Information, Knowledge and age gives you wisdom. I can help you with information, and I can help you with knowledge. You're the one that has to put it into practice and gain wisdom to teach all of it to others. But you're smart enough to do it. See, I just did it. But. And you're smart enough to do it. You're smart enough to figure it out. You're smart enough to find the truth because it's everywhere. Let me encourage you to do that this weekend. All right. More in just a second. Our sponsor is super sure, paid for
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Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck
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Gen Z Writer
Now listen, I recently saw a viral video about a fridge from 1958 and the comments drove me crazy. Everyone seemed to agree that the reason why they didn't have a fridge as cool as that one is because of capitalism. This could not be more wrong. So while I couldn't find that exact model, I did track down an ad for a similar fridge from 1958. It costs cost $400, so about $4,600 today. Most modern fridges are way less expensive than that. In fact, $4,600 these days will get you just about the nicest fridge that money can buy. This smart fridge is 50% larger than the 1958 one. It has a built in ice maker and water dispenser and some very fancy beverage storage. Not only are fridges cheaper today, but modern American families are much richer than they were in the 1950s. In fact, in 1950, around 20% of American homes didn't even have fridges. Why did appliances become less expensive? It comes down to technological innovation and competition from foreign models. So no, capitalism is not the reason why you don't have that vintage fridge. It's why you normal person watching this video can afford a fridge in the first place.
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Glenn Beck
It's amazing. Amazing. Average people are making a difference. Now. One more video that's been going around making the rounds and I haven't had time to talk about it. Some people are saying she's like a baseball coach from the Great Depression. No, she's Chris Farley. She's a Democratic representative and Senate candidate. Haley Stevens. I want you to listen to this. Tell me she's not Chris Farley. I am going to be working on our behalf. I am going to be telling the
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Gen Z Writer
stories on our behalf.
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Glenn Beck
And you better believe I'm going to
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Gen Z Writer
be doing it with a little bit of joy, a little bit of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy and a
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Glenn Beck
little bit of sick it to them, because that's the Michigan way. I mean, I have no idea what her polit. She might be an absolute communist. I have no idea. But I kind of want her to be in because I want her just to be on the Senate floor and just go, you're going to live down in a van by the river.