What Steven Spielberg's New Alien Movie Could Actually Be About ... | Guests: Dave Rubin & Robert Charles | 5/28/26

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The Glenn Beck Program | May 28, 2026

Episode: What Steven Spielberg's New Alien Movie Could Actually Be About ...
Guests: Dave Rubin & Robert "Bobby" Charles

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Overview

In this episode, Glenn Beck explores the cultural and political implications of Steven Spielberg’s latest film, "Disclosure Day," rumored to be his most impactful movie in decades. The conversation spans the intersection of storytelling, propaganda, the decline of shared narratives, and the rise of AI-driven persuasion. The show tackles the weaponization of government, erosion of free will, current American political figures, policy issues, and the alarming social, economic, and criminal realities facing both the US and Europe.

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Main Themes

• Spielberg’s "Disclosure Day": More Than a Movie
• End of Shared Imagination & Rise of AI Algorithms
• Weaponization of Government and Media
• Political Landscape: Florida, Maine, and National GOP
• Societal Upheaval in America and Europe
• Guest Interviews: Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report) and Robert “Bobby” Charles (Gubernatorial candidate, Maine)

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” — Storytelling, Propaganda & The End of an Era

• Spielberg's Cultural Impact:
  Glenn reflects on Spielberg's unparalleled role in shaping American imagination, referencing movies from E.T. to Jaws to War of the Worlds.

  "Spielberg is not just a movie director. Spielberg has built half of the pictures that live inside of our house, inside of our head. How we view ourselves, how we view our past, how we view our culture. A lot of it comes from Steven Spielberg." (15:00)

• Government Storytelling Partnerships:
  The history of governments using entertainment to sway public opinion—propaganda films during WWII, the Pentagon-Hollywood connection, Obama's White House doctors working healthcare messaging into TV scripts, and claims that Hollywood elites (possibly including Spielberg) advised politicians like Bill Clinton.

  • “Governments have always worked with storytellers to shape public opinion. ... Hollywood just perfected it. Because stories move people faster than facts.” (16:00)

• Greater Significance:
  Glenn refrains from pure conspiracy (aliens, secret government collusion), focusing instead on the broader shift: the replacement of old-school storytellers with personalized AI-driven narratives.

  • “You don't need Hollywood or a Spielberg anymore because you now have the algorithm.” (19:00)

2. The Algorithm Age: The Death of Shared Reality

• End of Free Will:
  Glenn’s central thesis: AI and algorithmic ‘persuasion’ are eroding Americans’ genuine agency.

  • “We are at a time where we are facing the death of free will... Did you make that decision yourself? Did you come to those conclusions because you thought it out? Or is it just what you’ve consumed? Or worse yet, did the algorithm quietly shape you in millions of small ways?” (20:50)

  • Example: Two neighbors, each fed different tailored content based on their fears; both think they arrived at independent conclusions.

• AI’s Impact vs. Traditional Propaganda:
  Unlike past propaganda, AI micro-targets individuals, constantly testing and optimizing emotional impact. The result is the end of a shared national conversation—the era Spielberg represented.

  • "The old system of broadcasting one message... is over. The new system builds millions of custom messages for individual people. That's a gigantic shift..." (21:45)

• Existential Question:
  Is the real “disclosure” not alien life, but that “something is learning how to program you and all humans one person at a time”? (24:15)

3. Weaponization of Government and Media Manipulation

• CIA Corruption & Accountability:
  Glenn shares stories of high-ranking officials avoiding serious prosecution despite serious offenses:

  • "If you work for the government, you have some shield of protection around you." (32:15)

• Controlling Public Narrative:
  Cases like Jill Biden’s alleged reaction to her husband’s health during a debate, and the government’s subsequent silencing—linking back to government-optimized reality management.

• Psyops & Disclosure Obsession:
  Reference to CIA using consumer DNA (23&Me, Ancestry.com) to search for ‘alien DNA’—highlighted as an absurd psyop illustrating how public is routinely spun.

  • "At some point, you got to take a step back..." (Jason, 27:18)

4. Social Engineering, Elitism, and Manufactured Division

• Immigration as Distraction:
  Glenn’s fictional scenario: destabilized communities, economic suffering, and cultural displacement engineered to sow division and distract from policymakers’ accountability.

  • "You've now just given the people in those small towns something to worry about that's bigger than you because it's in their face." (29:10)

• Mockery by Elites:
  Discussion of politicians’ patronizing images (e.g., Talarico’s “Texas” cosplay) as evidence of how coastal elites consciously or unconsciously parody rural Americans.

5. Societal Normalization of Atrocity

• Terror, Euthanasia, and Cultural Shrug:
  • Swiss train attack: Media misframing Islamist violence as simple madness, linking to misunderstanding of Islamic eschatology.
  • Canada’s MAiD (assisted death): The mechanization of euthanasia—a clinical, bureaucratic “shrug” that would have shocked the world 20 years ago.

  • “That’s how cultures change. While we’re talking about UFOs, they’re changing the culture one compromise at a time.” (39:58)

6. Political Realignment & Guest Interviews

A. Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report Host)

• Identity-Focused Political Mockery:
  Joking about Democrat candidate’s ‘Texas’ cosplay; debate over authenticity and identity politics.
• Democratic Party’s Devolution:
  Discussion of the party’s aggressive, coarse rhetoric online, exemplified by a party tweet using profanity.
• Post-DeSantis, Post-Trump Futures:
  • Discussion of the Republican bench for the next wave: Byron Donalds, Jay Collins, Rubio, JD Vance, possibly Tulsi Gabbard.
  • Broader reflection on whether internal GOP divisions are overstated, given Trump’s continued influence and success in primaries.
• Hope for Sanity:
  Dave posits that America’s rejection of “full communism” as peddled by the far left could unify the right—even if only in response to extreme opposition.

B. Robert “Bobby” Charles (Maine Gubernatorial Candidate)

• State in Crisis:
  Maine’s collapse from “Norman Rockwell’s America” to economic and social chaos: highest property taxes, rampant overdoses (8,000/year), failed schools (#50 in USNWR), and widespread fraud.
• Triad of Illegal Factions:
  Chinese-run drug houses, Sinaloa cartel, and illegal immigrants—all exacerbated by defunded law enforcement and sanctuary policies.

  • “We have three major groups of drug traffickers up here, the Chinese triads... the Sinaloa cartel... and a lot of the illegals show up in those Chinese grow houses.” (72:38)

• Democrats’ Downward Spiral:
  Charles critiques his opponents as “morally bankrupt,” with Democrats unable to produce high-integrity candidates, “scraping the bottom of the barrel.” (78:37)
• Populist Reform:
  Charles pledges to restore law enforcement, overhaul the courts, and refocus on “constitutional values.”

7. Europe in Crisis: Germany as the Cautionary Tale

• Germany's Economic Collapse:
  • Corporate tax revenue down 80% in January; industrial production down 15% (pre-2020 levels); chemical production down 20–30%; 100,000 businesses closed in 2025 alone.
  • Volkswagen closes a domestic plant for the first time since WWII, replaced by a Chinese automaker.

  • “A nation can't survive when it declares war on cheap energy, manufacturing, and work.” (92:52)

• EU Political Bankruptcy:
  Germany condemned as the “machine shop of the western world,” sacrificed on the altar of environmental dogma and anti-production policies.
• Parallel to US:
  Glenn draws warning parallels: overregulation, energy costs, undermining of skilled work, signaling the risk of forgetting the value of productivity and reality.

8. Urban Crime and the Illusion of Progress

Guest: Rafael Mangual (Manhattan Institute)

• LA Crime Drop?:
  Homicide reductions likely attributable to incapacitation (criminals killing criminals), pandemic behavior change, and selected enforcement, not broad policy success.

  • “When you walk the streets of a major American city and you see people shooting heroin... that sends a signal... there's a lack of control in that public space.” (111:08)

• Public Order Still in Crisis:
  Visible disorder, open-air drug use, rampant theft, and homelessness persist—undermining residents' sense of safety regardless of statistics.
• Political Movement Toward Sanity:
  The rise of candidates like Spencer Pratt in LA, leveraging outrage over public disorder, signals a broadening movement beyond traditional left/right boundaries for basic order and safety.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Spielberg’s Cultural Role:
  “He is the chief storyteller of the modern age. ... When Spielberg retires and then suddenly returns for a movie called Disclosure Day, right as Washington is openly discussing UFOs and non human intelligence, people begin asking questions.” (15:00–16:45)

• On AI Supplanting Storytellers:
  “Beneath all of the UFO or UAP fascination now sits the biggest question humans have ever asked... What is real?” (22:32)

• On Free Will and Algorithms:
  “Most people think they're using the algorithm. They're not using the algorithm. The algorithm is using you.” (22:02)

• On Government Malfeasance:
  “If you work for the government, you have some shield of protection around you.” (32:15)

• On Culture & Propaganda:
  “That's how you do it. ... It's just changing the culture. One compromise at a time.” (40:41)

• On Law Enforcement:
  “I will wire brush them out of this state starting day one.” (Bobby Charles, 74:49)

• On Germany as a Warning:
  “Germany is showing the world what happens when a country slowly disconnects from physical reality.” (93:25)

• On American Renewal:
  “Within a generation, humans still know how to do things. What we're missing now is the courage to say plainly what prosperity is built on.” (98:25)

• On LA’s Crime Perception:
  “When you walk the streets... and you see people shooting heroin... that sends a signal that we process as... a lack of control in that public space.” (Rafael Mangual, 111:08)

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Segment Timestamps (MM:SS)

• Spielberg/Disclosure Day & Cultural Manipulation: 02:14–24:15
• AI, Propaganda, and “Death of Free Will”: 15:00–24:15
• CIA Corruption, Jill Biden, Weaponized Gov’t: 24:15–33:30
• Psyop, Immigration, Elites Mock Rural America: 26:39–35:00
• Euthanasia, Islamist Attack, Societal Apathy: 37:15–40:41
• Dave Rubin Interview – TX/FL/Trump/Party: 46:33–59:31
• Bobby Charles Interview – Maine, Cartels, Reforms: 68:05–81:17
• German Economic Crisis & American Parallels: 84:08–98:25
• LA Crime, Order, Public Perception (Mangual): 107:40–117:19

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Takeaways

• Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” may signify the end of shared narratives; the real story is the replacement of mass storytelling with AI-driven, atomized, personal realities.
• The weaponization of government, manipulation of media, and normalization of once-unthinkable practices are converging to create cynicism and division.
• Both America and Europe face existential tests related to production, reality, and the courage to live by foundational values.
• Political hope may hinge on backlash to extremism and a reassertion of plain common sense—more than party loyalty.
• The show closes with Glenn’s call for cultural and educational renewal—emphasizing teaching the Bill of Rights and reviving shared American identity for the nation’s 250th anniversary.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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One reviewer said, Emily Blunt gives the performance of her career. Another person said, this is John Williams best score perhaps ever. Another said, the movie left him emotional and shaken. And it is a story that centers around the discovery that humanity may not be alone. Okay, It's a summer blockbuster for Steven Spielberg again. And normally that's where I would lead it. Leave it. But it's perhaps not just that. Okay, it could be. It could be softening. Here, let me just give you this. Spielberg is not just a movie director. Spielberg has built half of the pictures that live inside of our house, inside of our head. How we view ourselves, how we view our past, how we view our culture. A lot of it comes from Steven Spielberg. When you think of aliens, a lot of people will picture ET Or Close Encounters. You think of going to the beach in the summer. You will think of Jaws. You think of sharks, dinosaurs, Jurassic park, the Future, Minority Report, artificial intelligence, AI, all of this stuff. World Ending panic, War of the worlds. He has created all of these things. Steven Spielberg has spent over 50 years shaping how America imagines fear and wonder and technology and government and the unknown. He is the chief storyteller of the modern age. So when Spielberg retires and then suddenly returns for a movie called Disclosure Day, right as Washington is openly discussing UFOs and non human intelligence, people begin asking questions. And this is normal. Okay, wait a minute. Is this something bigger? I want to make it really clear I'm excited for the movie because I think it's going to be a great blockbuster. I don't think Steven Spielberg is secretly working with aliens. I don't think the government is. Is littered with aliens and, and lizard people. Although you could make a pretty strong case just by based on their behavior. And if aliens had traveled all across galaxies only to land in Los Angeles first. Those aliens deserve what happens to them. Here's what I am saying. Governments have always worked with storytellers to shape public opinion. Always. This is not new. Kings did it. Churches did it. Governments did it. Hollywood just perfected it. Because stories move people faster than facts. Fact straight into your head, into emotion. And they're imprinted on us. That's why the Pentagon has worked with Hollywood for decades. You want fighter jets in your movies? Great. Aircraft carriers, military advisors. Government gets input on the script. That's public record. During World War II, Hollywood openly produced propaganda films for the US government. In fact, um, the Disney studios. Walt said that one moment. One morning he walked in only to find that his entire Walt Disney Studios had been populated with the US government and the military. And all of a sudden he was done making the movies he wanted to make. But this isn't just old timey history. Obama's White House worked with television writers during Obamacare to weave health care messaging into popular shows. Okay. They admitted publicly they admitted it. That's propaganda from the government. Why? Because for some reason we trust fictional characters more than we trust politicians. It's sad, but it's true. Let me take you to Bill Clinton. He understood this. Do you remember that famous speech where he is like, I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. That whole thing, when that was going down, he brought in top entertainment advisors to help shape public appearances and public emotion. And that particular statement, Spielberg is, is the name that was, been floating around those stories for years. I don't, I can't verify that. I don't know if that's true. But top producers and storytellers out of Hollywood help craft that. And I believe Spielberg was one of them. Okay. Okay, that's sad. Again, but the point is bigger than one meaning or one rumor. Now, all of this may be a coincidence, and Spielberg, who is, you know, as a storyteller, is really good at reading the room. That that's what storytellers have to be good at. Who's my audience? Was my audience feeling he might have just read the room? Okay. He might have just seen. Oh, everybody's paranoid about all of this stuff. Or someone else did this. They're paranoid about invasion. They're paranoid about science. They're paranoid about all of this. Let me do War of the Worlds. Maybe this is his kind of War of the Worlds. He's reading the room, so I don't want to get into the. Is he working for the government right now to prepare us for. I don't know. Nobody does. Okay, here's something I think is more interesting and more important than. Than Spielberg working with the Pentagon or the CIA or aliens. I believe this movie and Steven Spielberg may actually represent the end of a human era. Okay. You're not going to need Steven Spielberg anymore really soon. Okay? And I don't mean in Hollywood, although that's true, too. I mean, as government power centers, advertisers, anyone else is trying to get you to buy something, act a certain way, believe something, just come over to their side of thinking. Wear the mask, don't wear the mask. Whatever it is, you don't need Hollywood or a Spielberg anymore because you now have the algorithm. That sounds crazy, but I want you to stop and think about your own life. Who's with you all the time? All the time. Who's with you in bed? Who's with you at the supermarket? Who's with you in the car? Who is with you on the toilet? Your phone. And your phone studies you all the time. What makes you angry, what makes you laugh, what scares you, what keeps you watching. What kind of voice do you trust? What headlines make your pulse jump? It tracks. All of it. Now combine that with AI Suddenly, persuasion. I don't need Steven Spielberg. I have something much more powerful than Steven Spielberg and John Williams. The old system of broadcasting one message, like I'm doing right now, to millions of people. This is over. The new system builds millions of custom messages for individual people. That's a gigantic shift, probably the biggest shift in. In culture, propaganda, in thinking. And perhaps you may begin to understand or see this in a new light when you hear me say, we are at a time where we are facing the death of free will. I have said that over and over again for a few years, maybe 10 years. I said we are going to approach a time where we will see the death of free will. We're in it right now. The death of free will. What does that mean? What that means is what you did today, what you think, what you're passionate about, what you're arguing with people about. Did you make that decision yourself? Did you come to those conclusions because you thought it out that you had this idea? Or is it just what you've consumed? Or worse yet, did the algorithm quietly shape you in millions of small ways? So you choose that action, you choose that course, you choose that belief, all the while thinking, yeah, I made that choice myself. Death of free will. Imagine two neighbors living next door to each other, okay? One fears government control. The other one fears chaos and instability. The machine is not going to feed them the same news. The algorithm is going to feed them a completely different set of emotional reality. One gets stories about hidden corruption, UFO disclosures and secret programs. The other gets stories about safety and experts and the dangers of misinformation. Both people become more emotionally certain and hardened. Both believe they discovered that truth on their own, but the machine has studied them and is feeding that to them like lab rats. Quietly, consistently, automatically feeding. That's what makes this moment different from anything else in history. Human. Human propagandists, they have been manipulating crowds for a very long time. But AI manipulates individuals personally, one by one. And unlike people or governments, the machine never sleeps. It runs billions of tiny emotional experiments every single day. Ab, let's send out this A and send out this to B and we'll see which one tracks. You're being AB'd all day long. This image worked with this person. Remember that this phrase, this phrase increased their fear. Remember that this music created trust. Remember that this story kept him engaged longer. Remember that? Most people think they're using the algorithm. They're not using the algorithm. The algorithm is using you. And maybe this is why Spielberg's movie is landing at exactly the right moment. Because beneath all of the us, UFO or UAP fascination now sits the biggest question humans have ever asked. And an entirely different question. Or asked, at least with entirely new meaning. And this is the question. What is real? Seriously, what's real anymore? Is that video real? Because it can be faked. Is that his voice? Or is that a clone? Images can be generated. Outraged, manufactured, entire realities are going to be personalized. For every human being alive. That falls into the hands of the wrong people that want to Convince a group of people to do one thing or another, it's done overnight. Spielberg comes from the last age of shared imagination. One movie, one theater, one national conversation. AI Is destroying that world every day. You get your own personal movie. You get your own fear reflected back to your own truth reflected back. Your own reality stream. Maybe the real disclosure day has nothing to do with aliens at all. Maybe the real disclosure is this. Something is learning how to program you and all humans one person at a time. 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Yeah. Worried about aliens. I'm worried about AI warping our sense of what's real until we start acting like aliens. But even without AI and aliens. We have some real problems. I don't know if you saw the story about the high ranking official from the C who was just arrested. They raided this guy's home in Virginia. They found 303 gold bars worth $40 million. $2 million in cash. Nearly three dozen luxury Rolex watches for, get this, work related expenses. You and I are in the wrong industry, dude. We need to be working for the ca. I want to work with people. You know, when you walk up I can say I need $40 million in gold bars and some. And I need, you know, dozens of Rolex for work related. Come on man. What, what, what? Work related. That's scary. If that's your work related paraphernalia that you need. So the CIA director heard about this guy. He was like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what is, what's going on? So they raid his home. They find way more than they were looking for. And yet they charge him with inflating his credentials, falsely claiming active naval reserve captain status after his 2015 honorable discharge. Non existent degrees from Clemson University. A test pilot. They say he was a test pilot. Certification. He never earned that. And he secured unearned pay while drawing an inflated, inflated executive salary. Those are the charges. What about the literal gold bars that you've found? Nothing about that. He now faces a maximum of 10 years. Uh huh. Like he's going to get 10 years in jail for. He's not. He's not. This is, this is the kind of weaponization of the government that really concerns me. The CIA is spying on you. They're doing this stuff. And when they catch somebody spying on you or stealing stuff, they walk away. They walk away, they get no real punishment. Nobody learns a lesson. You and I, what lesson are we learning? Well if everybody else is doing it and they're getting rich, why the hell am I working hard every day? Why am I, why am I playing by the rules? That's a really bad lesson to learn and to be teaching. And we have seen it over and over again. Somehow or another, if you work for the government, you have some shield of protection around you. Okay, how about Jill Biden? You see this story that came out last night? Jill Biden casually says in an interview she thought her husband was having a stroke during the presidential debate. She thought he was having. Do you remember? He walked off stage, she walked him off stage into another room and was like, didn't he do great? Everybody? Didn't he? You thought he was having a stroke and you walked him into another room and, and Then the government hammered anyone who thought maybe he was having a stroke on stage. That's weaponization of government. That is control of what you think. Remember that was being done by these guys, okay? 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Because they were only made in America. We got rid of all the machines and everything else. We, American Giant brought those machines back, we sold them to Japan, we brought them back, and now they're made here in America like this. And you feel the difference. This is the kind of clothing that is made to last. It's comfortable, it's well constructed, built with the kind of care and workmanship that used to be a point of pride in America. You're looking for a gift for Father's day, go to american-giant.com Glenn Use my name. Get 20% off your first purchase. American-Giant Coming up, another Islamic terror attack in Europe happened early this morning, but Glenn will explain why this jihad is even more chilling than you think. Next on the Glenn Beck program. I am just not going to be able to do justice to a piece of history that I think is really important. It kind of ties into what we've been talking about, about how everything is, is changing and the weaponization of government and how government is using algorithms, etc, etc. I want to save that till tomorrow because it's, it's really, really important that I can spend the time to do it right. And I'm already seeing the stories that are just stacking up on top of us. Jason was just talking to the insiders about, you know, the, the movie from Steel and Steven Spielberg and he said he's Starting to believe that this whole thing is just a psyop. And I think it is. I think it. I mean, let's be the most reasonable people. Steven Spielberg read the room, saw what was happening, saw a great script come through, and went, oh, this will be a blockbuster. Because Everybody's thinking about UFOs right now. And so let me do this. And I think that's the most reasonable thing to think. You know, him being involved with the CIA. It's possible. As I showed you just a little while ago, Steven Spielberg has done government propaganda stuff, you know, over and over and over again. He has helped, you know, do things that he thought were the right things for America. And so he has been involved with things like this. But there are so many stories stacking up. Jason, you were just talking about the story of the CIA using DNA from Ancestry and 23andMe to, quote, search for alien life. What the hell is that story?

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I had this picked a while back as something to do, like on a Friday. But now I feel like all of these. I 100% now believe this is a psyop. And I feel like the people that were looking at these topics before were always, you know, pointing fingers at the CIA, saying they were. They were the bad guys. You know, they're the ones that are hiding all this information from us. We need full disclosure, but now we get disclosures like what you were just talking about, that The CIA was using 23andMean ancestry.com allegedly to find if all the humans that had extraterrestrial DNA. I. At some point, you got to take us to take a step back, I believe.

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Yeah, I think you do have to back away from the cliff just a little bit. Go, wait a minute, wait a minute. What? And then the CIA, the psychic spies, tell that story.

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Yeah, that. That was. So that was supposedly the source that. So this source approached this. This novelist who brought this out in a podcast and brought it out into the mainstream media. But it was supposedly a CIA psychic spy that got this information about the CIA. Now, if you're curious how this psychic spy allegedly got this information, it's a very common, you know, spy type scenario that happens, Glenn. So he was not ordering a martini, shaken not stirred, you know, in Eastern Europe somewhere. He was in a diner, supposedly, where he was approached by three aliens, and they were the ones that let him know about this. So obviously it's not a psyop. Actually, I didn't know that he was approached by three aliens in a diner. So I guess this all really is true.

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How many times does that happen to all of us? Right, right. So it is so much easier if you are in charge of things. For instance, I have this understanding and this is just my own feeling. I don't have anything to back this up. But just see if this makes sense to you. Yeah. If you're a politician, and I got this from being over in England, in London, and just standing there and sensing what was happening and seeing how the elites can live in London. And nothing is happening, really, in London. You have to be where the people live and you have to be in these places where they've destroyed the factories and the working person and the farmers. So you can stand there and you go, well, nothing is really happening. But if you're in those neighborhoods, if you're in those areas where the factories have been destroyed and you see it everywhere, you think, now how can these politicians do this and think this is going to work out? Well, hear me out on this. Your policies have destroyed the country. Your policies have destroyed the working class. Your policies have destroyed the factories. Without factories, without power, you cannot survive as a country, okay? And you know that the people who are in these towns are going to rise up soon, okay? Because you've destroyed their way of life. And now. And now you're destroying their country. And they're all like going, wait a minute, I don't think you actually serve our country anymore. How do you. How do you keep them down? Well, you do. You could do it. Now, this is me as a fiction writer writing this fiction. One thing you could do is you could say, why don't we just import a lot of other people that are going to be a bigger problem from them, and we're going to place them in the towns that we have just destroyed. We're going to put them in the struggling town. We're not going to put them around us. We're not going to put them in London. We're going to put them in towns where the factories where these people are not going to work anywhere. They're going to live off the system, but we're going to put them next to the people who are living in those towns. And we're going to give them free stuff that we're not giving to the factory worker who no longer has a job. You're struggling, you're paying your taxes. We're going to give these people all kinds of stuff. And, oh, by the way, you know, they're not going to be compatible with that system at all. They're not going to be compatible with the people that live there, et cetera, et cetera. You've now just. You've now just given the people in those small towns something to worry about that's bigger than you because it's in their face. It's in their face. Now, I think this is backfiring on them because people are seeing, wait a minute, they're not paying their taxes, they're not doing anything. They're raping our children. And the police are in on this. I don't think that they serve us at all, but they've slowed things down and they've made it easy to say, oh, see, you're a bigot. Because they control all the power. They control the media, they control the television. They control everything that you see. They control, in many cases, what you see online. And so it's easy then for the elites and those people who are living in the big cities to go, yeah, it's just those hicks that live out there and notice that's what they're doing. They're mocking you all the every step of the way. That tell Rico video or picture that just came out. I'm going to talk about this at the top of the hour, but let me show you this picture of him eating a turkey leg with a big Texas flag shirt on. He posted this and he's like, ready to take back Texas. He's eating a turkey leg wearing a big Texas flag shirt. Now, do you think this California liberal has ever worn a Texas flagship? You think that's the way he goes out of the house during the day? Technically, he's born and raised in Texas, but you wouldn't know it. You wouldn't know it. He's a Californian. He's a Californian in spirit. Everything about him screams California. Okay, okay. Do you think he actually goes out in that shirt and he's like, hey, buddies, what's going on? Eating a turkey leg? I thought this guy was against meat. This, he is, in a way, mocking you. This is how they, this is what the elites think of you when they think of a Texan that they've got to get in their side. They think, yeah, the ones who wear the big Texas flag shirts and eat turkey legs all the time, they're mocking you. It's incredible to watch. It's just incredible to watch. Tomorrow I'm going to do something on history, but I'm going to start with Neville Singham. There's new audio out, new video out that Fox has just exposed where he is at a big thing over in Asia where he's talking about how we need to change history. You know, capitalism is fascism and we've got to destroy it. And it's the capitalist and Americans that were really responsible and the British that were responsible for all the death in World War II. They were the bad guys. Now, wait a minute. I'm hearing this from Neville Singham, who is, we know, in league with the ccp. Where else have I heard that the west and America and the American soldiers and Winston Churchill and England were actually the bad guys? Where else have I heard that? What's happening here? What the hell is happening here? Meanwhile, while we're arguing all of this stuff, we're arguing about who the real racist is. Let me give you a story about the jihad killing. This morning on a Swiss train, there's a guy who goes to a train station. He pulls out a knife, he starts stabbing people and he's screaming Allah Akbar. And I am Jesus Christ. Now here's where the media is going to spin this. They're going to leave out the Allah Akbar and they'll just say he was a crazy guy who thought he was Jesus. That's what you're going to hear. Crazy guy who thought he was Jesus starts stabbing people in. In Switzerland, okay? How could a guy say Allah Akbar and claim that he's Jesus at the same time? That doesn't make any sense. No, it doesn't. If you are a Western, if you have the Western pov, if, if you haven't, if you don't know what Islamists actually believe, then it makes no sense. Now, I'm not saying this guy isn't crazy. I'm sure he's crazy, okay? He thinks he's Jesus and there's lots of crazy people who think they're Jesus. But this guy thinks he's Jesus and is screaming Allah Akbar. What? How is that possible? Well, if you're a Sunni or a Shia radical, if you're somebody, and I can't even say radical because it is, it is so much a part of this faith right now. They have the opposite understanding of the Christian second coming. Or, yeah, second coming, they have a different view of how the world is going to come to the end. And in the traditional Islamic belief, Jesus doesn't come back. He's not the Son of God. He returns as a Muslim prophet and he helps defeat the false Messiah, the dajjal, and he confirms that the real faith is the Islamic faith. Okay? And he corrects all of the false worship. And then he is also the enforcer of that. So a guy who is crazy but believes all of the Islamic traditions and all of the Islamic end of time stuff. He believes he's the enforcer. He's coming back as Jesus Christ, who is the enforcer. Don't dismiss these things. Don't listen to the media. They don't care about any of this stuff. If this were happening, I guarantee you, if this guy were a Christian and thought he was Jesus Christ, this would be a story that would lead the press in the world forever. But because he is an Islamist who also says he is Jesus Christ, they will just bury this story. Because either they do not know what that means or they do not want you to know what that means. This is a very sick individual who also understands the coming of the Mahadi, who knows that Jesus is going to be be a prophet for Islam, at least in their belief and is going to come back into being the enforcer. So whether he actually thought he was Jesus or he was just making the point to a bunch of people he thought were Christian, but if they're in Europe, I can guarantee you, odds are they're not Christian and is stabbing them and saying I am Jesus Christ. Allah Akbar. This is not just some madman. Okay, and what is the media telling you about this? Most likely nothing. What is the media telling you about the guy who walked into Horton's coffee Shop? Tim Horton. It's a, it's like Denny's up in Canada, Dunkin Donuts. He. He walks into Tim Hortons and it sounds like a joke. Guy walks into Tim, Tim Hortons for a cup of coffee and a donut and ends up dead. Okay, this, this is state approved death. Now here's the story. 45 year old man in Canada suffered from Crohn's disease. I have that in my family. It is a horrible disease and depression, they usually go hand in hand. He meets with a doctor outside a Tim Hortons and that's where this doctor evaluates him outside of the coffee shop and says, you know what? You are a candidate for maid. I can have you killed by the end of the day. So the doctor texts him a euthanasia plan and then personally drives him. And this is the worst part of this story and this is the part that I have not heard the media talk about. The doctor drives him personally to an industrial building where cadavers are prepared for funerals, walks him into a holding room at this industrial cadaver factory, injects him with legal drugs. End of life paperwork complete end of story. An industrial building to prepare cadavers for funerals. And a doctor walks in, puts him in a holding room and kills him and is like, I'm just cutting out the middle man. We don't need to bring you to the hospital, just bring you right to the cadaver factory. Oh, my gosh. These are the stories. These are the stories. Because it's not just the death, it's the collective shrug. Twenty years ago, this story would have petrified the entire world. Now it's just administrative. It's clinical, it's routine. That's it. That's how cultures change. While we're talking about UFOs, they're not. They're not changing the culture with fireworks or marching bands. It's just changing the culture. One compromise at a time. That's how you do it. All right. More in just a second. First, let me tell you about Super Sure. I think most small business owners would agree there are already enough things trying to kill you. Payroll taxes, regulations, you know, and that one customer who emails you 12 times a day like he's your only client. The last thing you need in your business is insurance making life harder. But for a lot of people, that's exactly what happens. You try to call your insurance company with just a simple question. 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Crank the game.

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Glam Back is on. Glam. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Glenn Beck is on. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. We're glad you're here. It is Thursday, lot to talk about. I want to spend a little time on Talrico and something I found very, very disturbing that came from the Democratic Party that will tell you everything you need to know on how we have changed. And you know, maybe it's time that the Democrats stop clutching their pearls at everything that Donald Trump says because they have revealed, I think in a tweet they know who their voter is and it is really disturbing. Dave Rubin joins me here. In just a second, host to the Rubin Report. We're going to talk about El Rico, the future and really where does Florida go and where does America go after Ron Desantis leaves office this year and Donald Trump is gone in a couple of years, where is the party headed? Where are the states headed and where is Florida headed? All of that coming up in just a second. First, let me tell you about Z Factor. As a kid, bedtime felt like a human rights violation. Really, it did. You're wide awake, you're, you're full of energy. You're ready to stay up till 3 o' clock in the morning. Then you become adult and you know, suddenly a good night's sleep feels like a luxury item only available to billionaires. You're tired all day. By the way, can I just say this? Speaking of billionaires and sleep, I would absolutely hire somebody to give me Profofol every. If I were a billionaire, I'd be dead like Michael Jackson, I'm sure. But I would hire a legitimate doctor. Wouldn't you take Propofol every night if you could? Seriously? Yeah. And wake up, wake up. It's the best five minutes of sleep you'll ever get. Anyway, Z Factor, not Profofol. But this one won't kill you. Okay. It's a sleep formula from the makers of Relief Factor, designed to help you fall asleep faster, sleep more deeply and wake up feeling refreshed instead of feeling like you spent the night fighting a battle. Bear, the truth is, good night's sleep will change everything. So try this, will you just go to relieffactor.com relieffactor.com Give Z Factor a try. Save 46% off your first order 199530 day supply. Give a call to 1-800-4Relief 1-800-4Relief relief factor.com Better days, better sleep from Z Factor relieffactor.com Dave, how are you, my friend?

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Glenn, I'm fine. I mean, if you want me to get a guy that can get you some Propofol, I have to make a couple calls, but I think we can get it shipped to you somehow. I think you have to administer yourself,

[A]

but sure you can. Yeah, I mean, I, you know, geez, there have been nights that I've just been like, Propofol would be so good. I understand Michael Jackson. I strangely, I understand him. Anyway, how you doing, Dave?

[B]

It's good to see you, my friend. You know, I'm fine as every time I see you, I think I say the same thing for the last, you know, probably two plus years, which is my life is good. What happens in the, in the four walls of my home and with my family and my colleagues and things like that is all good. The state of the world is just wacky and that's what people come to us for. So I guess let's dissect it.

[A]

I know, I know. The most important things we will ever do will be in place the first four walls of our homes. So it's all that really matters. So let me. Can I start with. Can I just be. My nickname years ago used to be Oblivio because I'm oblivious to so much. Okay. Just oblivious to so much. There is a tweet that came out of Talrico. Talarico. Sorry, Talarico. In a, in a Texas flag shirt, eating A turkey leg. First of all, the guy has on record saying he's a vegan, he doesn't like meat, he's eating a turkey. I think this whole. What I saw in this is here's a guy almost mocking Texans. You know, this is what Texans really look like. So I'm going to pretend I'm one of them. However, Ricky, who is absolutely debased, she is. She's not a good human being. She. She comes in and she's like, this, this is a. This is appealing to, let's say, non cisgendered voters. And I'm like, what are you even talking about? And she said, your rumor is, you know, he says he has a girlfriend, yada, yada. I have no gaydar. I think she's an abomination, Ricky. I think she's probably going to spend more time in hell than most of us.

[B]

I've always liked her. But. Okay, you know,

[A]

what's your gaydar say on him? And what is there. Is she just going to hell or does she have a point on this?

[B]

You know, I must say, this is very strange. I got a text from Billy Bush, broadcaster Billy Bush, yesterday, asking me about my gaydar on Talarico, if this is what the remainder of my career is gonna be, just figuring out who and who isn't gay. Well, I have a very long career in politics, but I don't know that this is what I signed up for. Look, I don't know if this guy is gay. There, look, there's obviously some weird stuff when he tells you that Jesus is non binary and that there are six genders and there's a. Yeah, there is a slight effeminate thing to him. But you know, Glenn, look, there are effeminate guys who are straight and there are straight acting guys or masculine guys who are gay and all of those things. So to me, that's not.

[A]

I feel better about myself.

[B]

Yes, Glenn, as far. I've known you quite well for many years at this point, and I can confirm to the, to the listeners that you are straight, as far as I know.

[A]

No, no, no. I mean, I just, I thought. I feel better because I didn't think there was anything to this. I didn't see it that way. And then Ricky comes in, you know, with.

[B]

I thought, I thought this was. I thought this was just a crazy ruse to get me to affirm your straightness.

[D]

But.

[B]

Okay, in any event.

[A]

No, no, no. All right, let me ask you. Yes, let me ask. Let me ask you a couple of things. There is another thing that was put out. Stephen Miller, he shows this picture of Talarico and he says Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender state Senate candidate. Okay, funny. Okay. But the response from the Democrats, the Democratic Party, was, shut up, you ugly f. And I can see that coming from personalities. I can see that. I could see Donald Trump even saying that this was the Democratic Party. That tells me they believe their constituent is a lot different than, I think what most Democrats think. Think the other voters that vote like them are.

[B]

Yeah, I think too much into that. No, because in this case, you know, look, we live in the world of the Internet and social media, and there's trolling back and forth, and Trump obviously says colorful things about people, and we've all been through all those things. But there is definitely a level that now is being achieved by the Democrats where they're constantly, if you note lately, Democrats constantly on the stumps, stump speeches are saying the F word. They're doing this soft, kind of soft shoeing around violence, where it's sort of okay that Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, was killed by Luigi Mangione or Charlemagne, the God. I hate calling him that. His real name is Lenny the radio guy. He, after the last assassination attempt on Trump, basically said, well, I can understand why people would do it. So they really are. Are changing all the norms. And the crazy thing about the Talarico situation is you have to remember his primary was against Jasmine Crockett, who was as bananas lefty as you could get. And he said, hold my beer. I'll show you what bananas lefty is. In Texas. In Texas, it would be one thing if this was happening in Cali, we would all be like, okay, they had a kind of crazy lefty, and they went a little crazier. But it's really. But Glenn, think about it this way. This is what they do in their prime, in their primaries. And then when you have a bad lefty, you get a worse one. Think about Chicago. They had Lori Lightfoot, as bad lefty as you can get. Now they have Brandon Johnson, the Jasmine Crockett, Talarico thing. You had what's his name. You had Garcetti, who was a terrible lefty in la. Then you got Karen Bass. There are so many examples. You had de Blasio and then Eric Adams in New York, and now you end up with Mamdani. So for some reason, and this is something that our friend George Peterson was talking about for years, the left never knows when the left goes too far. So everyone's always trying to out crazy themselves. And congratulations, you've now ended up with Talarico in Texas. In Texas.

[A]

I know, I know, I know, I know. Let me. Let me switch to DeSantis and to Donald Trump leaving in this way.

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In.

[A]

In the Bible, in math, I think it's Matthew, Book of Matthew, Jesus tells a story about, you know, somebody who chases an evil spirit out and. And then the spirit goes out and it's wandering, and it comes back and finds that that guy hadn't replaced it, hadn't cleaned. He cleaned out his house, but he hadn't replaced it with anything. And so it goes back in. But this time it goes back in with seven more spirits worse than the first spirit. And I. I feel like we've chased bad guys out, but we're not necessarily replacing them with anyone. Who are we going to replace DeSantis and. And Donald Trump with? What happens when these guys leave? Because we could get seven more that are much worse than what we chased out prior to.

[B]

Yeah, I mean, the key to that is realizing that you have to have some kind of plan of secession. And no matter how good things may be in Florida, and you're a new Floridian resident, you see how great things are. I saw you a couple months ago, and you were just beaming about how much you love it here, and there's reasons for that. Look, from a Florida perspective, you know, in terms of the next governor, it, like, looks likely. I would say there's probably about an 80% chance that it's going to be Byron Donalds, who, you know, I've interviewed many times. I've hung out with him. I think he's a good guy. He's done a nice job in southwest Florida, you know, Naples area, as a congressman. I think he's really good on television, and I think he will likely continue much of the DeSantis agenda. It's probably him. It might be another great guy. We have Jay Collins, who's former military vet, who is the lieutenant governor right now, who I think would be completely in line with DeSantis. He has a much more uphill battle because Byron Donald just has great name recognition and he's all over the media all the time. But Florida also keep in mind, Florida got 2.3 million residents since COVID and we've now seen the numbers. I mean, they are voting red, red, red. When DeSantis took over, I think there were a couple hundred thousand more Democrats than Republicans in Florida, and now it's over a million more Republicans. So Florida, I think, for the next let's say five, six plus years, I think will be just fine on the national stage. Look, the Republicans, I think Trump's going to want a contested convention. I don't think they're just going to hand this to JD In a conventional way. I think, obviously, almost everyone right now is high on Rubio. So you have competent people, you've got Rubio, you've got J.D. maybe DeSantis gets involved again. Who knows? Could Hegseth throw his name? I mean, there's enough people there that whether you agree with all of them or maybe you like this one on this and that one on that, there's enough people that I think most of us who are right leaning would say, hey, this is a good crop of people, and let them fight it out. And I think that's what Trump's gonna want. I think he's gonna want a show to hand over his legacy. Maybe Junior gets involved. I mean, who knows?

[A]

I think Tulsi Gabbard is a name that you should throw in that.

[B]

I think Tulsi Gabbard is absolutely, absolutely. You know, obviously her husband's dealing with some health stuff right now, so they have to see how that shakes out. But, you know, tell Tulsi this is someone who was a Democrat congresswoman, who was, who ran for president as a Democrat. You know, she, me and her, we have a sort of familiar kind of roadway to becoming Republicans. Let's say she's really, she's well liked, you know, and there's going to be different factions in the Republican Party, and they're going to fight it out.

[A]

So where does this end? You know, Dave, you and I have talked several times. The right is just dividing itself. Got to stop dividing ourselves. But it's just dividing itself and it's breaking up. And how does this end? What will bring us all back together? Is that possible?

[B]

Well, yeah. I mean, you know, unfortunately, the way the world works or humanity works generally, the things at this point that could probably bring us together are real tragedies and horrible events. So let's pause on that for a second. You know, in terms of the division, you know, if you look at Trump's last 118 endorsements, as I'm sure you know, he's won all 118 of them. Now, some of them were easy primaries and whatever, but this is gubernatorial, this is Senate, and this is the House. So the idea that Trump, that maga, is seriously divided, I think it plays well online, and I'm not sure how much actual traction it gets. You know, Glenn Even some of the guys that you and I used to be close colleagues with that have gone in this other direction that are attacking Trump constantly and going after him on the war and Epstein stuff and all this stuff, their numbers are not doing great right now. I don't think numbers are the ultimate arbiter. I think truth is the ultimate arbiter. But I don't sense that things are as divided as they think. Even if you look at the Massie race, which was the most contested, Trump's backed candidate, Ed Gallerin won and won by a lot. And it would have been an aberration had Massie won after going against Trump. So Trump still has control of the party. There's going to be fighting online for sure. And maybe we need to make better arguments about certain things. I think that's possible. But I also think that the real white pill right now is that the Democrats are so out of control, partly from what you just showed before with the language, but also the, you know, Mamdani talking about asset seizure, the crazy race in LA where people are realizing how bad Karen Bass is, that as we roll towards the midterms, you know, after our 250th anniversary, the Iran war will wrap up. One way or another, gas prices will go down. That I think people will be feeling, boy, all right, maybe there's some things that I didn't like about Trump or I wasn't thrilled with the war or this or that, the other thing, but I'm not going full communist and that's what they're offering at this point. And Americans are not communists. Americans are not communists.

[A]

Hopefully, Hopefully. Hopefully. For now, you, I want, I have to take a quick 1 minute break and then come back and I want to talk to you about something. You invited me to, to join you on something and unfortunately I'm traveling. I've just had so much travel in my schedule here in the last, in the next few months. But you are doing something at the Fillmore in Miami Beach. And Dave, as much as I love you and I love the people who are coming on stage, you should have said, Glenn, it's at the Fillmore. The Fillmore is known as the Jackie Gleason Stage.

[B]

The Jackie Gleason Theater. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, my gosh. I am the biggest fan of Jackie Gleason. Just to be able to stand on that stage where Jackie Gleason stood, it would be a dream come true. But I, but I still, I can't make it, unfortunately. But I want to talk about it because what you're Doing, I think, is really, really important. And we'll. We'll talk about that here in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about real estate Agents I trust dot com. The amazing thing about buying or selling a house, everybody is. Everybody involved is stressed out. Everybody is stressed out. Buyer is stressed, seller's stressed, the mortgage guy is stressed. Somehow, you know, even the family dog picks up on and starts acting like, you know, he's going through a divorce of some sort. In the dog world, there's a lot of money involved, a lot of moving parts, and so many opportunities for things to go sideways. Great real estate agents, they do more than just unlock the doors and put a sign in yard. They help you navigate the pricing, the negotiations, the timing, the inspections, the contracts. The stress. They don't add more stress. They relieve the stress is why I started Real Estate Agents I Trust. I spent years building a network of agents all over the country who have been very carefully vetted for their experience, their professionalism, and the way they treat you. Because if you're making the biggest financial decision of your life, you deserve somebody in your corner who actually knows what they're doing. Please check out realestate agentsitrust.com. we'll show you how to buy or sell a home. Even in this tough market. The name says it all. Realestate agentsitrust.com that's real estate agentsitrust.com back in 10 seconds with more of David. So on June 11, Dave is going to be doing a show at the Jackie Gleason Theater, the Fillmore in Miami beach, and Ben Shapiro, Adam Carolla, Jillian Michaels are going to be there. Why are you doing. Why are you doing this show? Because somebody else is going to be there as well.

[B]

Sure. Somebody else. Yeah. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will be there. For the record, Glenn Beck, you were the first, first guy that I contacted on this thing, but I, you know, Glenn Beck, big star, always traveling, got a lot to do is what it is.

[A]

I'm sorry, Dave, you know me. You know how I feel about you. I would have been there in a heartbeat.

[B]

I'm really sorry, but it's okay. It's okay. No, well, really, the idea behind this was you. You know how much my life changed by coming to this great free state of Florida. And I fought very hard against the Cali craziness and all that. And, you know, I brought two companies here and all my employees and everything else. And I really realized that, you know, DeSantis is in the waning time of his second term right now. And I wanted to do a theater show with thousands of people where we could celebrate all the goodness of Florida. I'm going to write a Rubin report show that morning off the day's news. So we'll do a live show. Adam Carolla is going to open up with a little stand up. It sounds like Ben Shapiro actually has to step out because his wife's about to give birth. So we might, might replace him with someone if you want to make a little bit of a change in your schedule, my friend. But then really tempting to the moon. Alice, come on. We'll do some Jackie Gleason stuff.

[A]

We know, I know.

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And then I'm gonna do. It'll end with a. We'll do a Q and A and we'll have giveaways and all that kind of stuff. But then, but then really do, you know, a nice half hour for 40 minute sit down with the governor where I want people to get to see him in a little bit of a different light. You know, I've been to dinners with him where afterwards, you know, he has a whiskey and he puts his feet up on the table and he's smoking a cigar and he's talking about baseball. And I don't know that people have sort of seen him that way. They see him as this highly competent, functioning executive, which is incredible. And thank God for that. But I wanted people to see a little bit more than that in a really fun atmosphere. So it's really going to be a blast. My whole goal with the entire thing is if you come to that show at the Fillmore on 11 June, it will be two hours of laughter and good times. We're not going to drub you over the head with all the hardcore political stuff of the day. We'll do some of it, but that's not the goal. The goal is to just have a good time with some great people. I mean, Jillian Michaels, as you know, is just fantastic. Carol is amazing. So

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Gillian and Adam, they haven't moved from California, have they?

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I mean, Adam has been fighting Newsom more than anybody for over a decade and for some reason he has not got out yet. There's a rumor that he may be going to Vegas. He's always threatening, but I don't know that that's happened. And Gillian basically is out. Yeah, I don't know if she wants me to say where she is, but she's basically out. I think she may have a little place there still, but again, that's just such. It's so illustrative of what Gavin Newsom and what the Democrat party has done. If you would have said to people 30 years ago, boy, there's going to be all of these people leaving California, which was the dream of America in some sense. It made America go west, right?

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Yep.

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And then all of these people, these great people who are creative, who have businesses, who do all these interesting things that they would be fleeing en masse. I mean, Gavin Newsom should be hanging shame instead. He's likely the nominee.

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I know. Dave Rudd Rubin. Go to Dave rubin.com events daverubin.com events and we'll see you there. Thank you, Dave. God bless.

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Good to see you, my friend.

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My wife stopped me from buying Jackie Gleason's golf clubs. I almost had jockey Gleason's golf club. She's like, you don't golf. And I'm like, it's Jackie Gleason's golf course. Yeah. Anyway, let me tell you about relief factor. It probably comes as a surprise, you know, that I've never been a cage match fighter. You know, I've never, I've never fought in a cage, never. I know I seem the type, but I think I know what it feels like to stumble out of one of those matches. Body all beaten up, rack with pain. I bet you can relate. Your back hurts, your knees hurt, your shoulders hurt. You know, you sound, you make that little sound every time that you stand up. You're like, ah. And you think to yourself after a while, okay, this is the way I die. For most of us, everyday aches and pains are connected to inflammation. And that's why so many people have turned to relief factors. It was created to help support your body's response to inflammation, helping reduce those daily aches and pains that keep you down. Over a million people have tried relief factor and two thirds of them have gone on to take more month after month. And I'm one of them. Even though I may look at I've never stepped into a cage match, I still feel like I have. That's why I take relief factor. Try it now. Reliefactor.com get the three week quick start. See if it doesn't work for you. 1995, take it for three, three weeks. See the difference? 800 for relief coming up. Will the radical Nazi tattoo guy actually boot the rhino Susan Collins in Maine? And will they vote in a GOP governor? All that next on the Glenbeck program. So we're living in a weird time. We're living a weird time. Here is a quote from a Republican that is running for governor in Maine. America was built on the foundation that no king, no religion, no foreign law can override the Constitution. Let me be clear. Sharia law has no place in Maine's courtrooms, our schools, nor our government. Not now, not ever. We've seen what happens when Sharia takes hold. Women are banned from leaving their homes without male permission. Girls are pulled from schools, denied education. Victims of assault are punished rather than protective. These are not ancient relics. This is happening right now in countries all around the world. Here at home, we've seen the attempts to lay groundwork. In Texas, planners push a vision for Epic City, A self government governing Islamic enclave designed to operate outside America law. Every person in this state of Maine, regardless of their faith, deserves to live under the same set of laws. One standard. The Constitution. Equal protection for every man and woman. As governor of Maine, I will always put our constitutional values first. Religious freedom means the right to worship as you choose. It does not mean replacing American law with a foreign legal system. Maine families deserve a governor who will stand up and say what others are afraid to say. I am that candidate. Our laws, our values. The Constitution. Get out and vote. June 9th. That is the guy who's running for governor of Maine named Bobby Charles. And at the same time, people are being asked to vote where you've got the Democrat running for the Senate. He said, quote, what Nazi tattoo. Whoops. That. That was a Nazi symbol. I didn't know that. I mean, it's just the strangest time I've ever. I've ever seen in the United States. Bobby Charles, running for governor of Maine, joins me now. Hey, Bobby, how are you?

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It's a pleasure. It's truly a privilege, Glenn. I listen to you all the time on the radio and I. I realized, nope, I'm going to have to get in a suit and tie because I'm really up here on television with him.

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Well, it's good to. It's good to have you. So how are. How are things in Maine? Because I don't know what the hell happened to Maine. At one point, Maine was. Well, let me ask you this. Was it Stephen King living there? Is that what happened? It just got started.

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Yeah. I think we're seeing remnants of the shining everywhere now. Yeah. I will tell you, Glenn, I grew up in this state, and we were Norman Rockwell's America. We were World War II values. You know, that's what we were. I grew up working from the age of 12. Everything about this state was more or less wholesome. And now we've got the highest property taxes in the country with one of the lowest per capita incomes. We've got high income taxes. We've got drug traffickers everywhere. 8,000 overdoses. We've got the highest energy costs. The highest jump last year, 36% because they pushed all this solar and wind crap everywhere. Our schools. And this is a shocker. Our schools were actually at the top of the nation in the mid-90s and at the end of the McKernan administration. And they are now number 50 according to US News and World Report. And they're shot through with. And then the last point that I just have to leave you with because it'll resonate with you, and particularly since what you just read, we are like a mini Minnesota for fraud. We have. It's not just Somali fraud, and it is Somali fraud, but it's everywhere in this state. We have a state that, in general, the average Mainer cannot trust. And that really, three years ago, is part of what got me off the couch and said, you know, Bobby, you can sit around here in Carp and listen to Glenn Beck about what all good people should go out and do, or you can go out and do it. And I really do believe good people have to act. You know, what did Edmund Burke say? All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. And I'm just not going to be that person.

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So what's your background? Why are you qualified for this?

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Yeah. So it's an interesting background. I do truly believe, even as you and I sit here today and people listen and watch. I believe that God puts us where we are meant to be, all of us, that just at this very moment, this is where we are meant to be. And my life experience was growing up working for World War II vets through 17, 18. My father never went to college. He was enlisted Navy. I ended up. My mom was a schoolteacher who for a lot of the time, raised the four of us. And she just said, you got to go out and get an education, Bobby. We had no money, zip. We had no electric heat. We chopped wood to be able to heat the house. But, you know, on a wish and a prayer. I ended up at Dartmouth, Oxford University, studying in economics, Columbia Law School, the Reagan White House. Clerked for a U.S. court of Appeals clerk, Reagan appointee on the 9th Circuit. So that was like a little patch of heaven in the middle of hell. And then I became Assistant Secretary of State and. And. And I had 10 years Navy intelligence, and I've run a company for 25 years. Helping the Pentagon. So. And law enforcement was a huge part of what I've done for the last 30 years. So I look back here, I come to Maine and I say, you know, really, it was other people who said to me, bobby, look at this. You managed billions of dollars. You know, you shut down bureaucrats at the State Department. I was responsible for training all the Iraqi police and Afghan police. I set that up as Dave Petraeus did the military side. And you've managed big projects. You helped bring down the Cali cartel. You're all about counternarcotics. You did all the CD training for the National Guard for decades. You're the guy that can help fix the drug problem, both on the addiction side, frankly, and on the law enforcement side. You're all about fraud. For five years, I was Gingrich's, one of his top federal investigators. I did the Waco hearings, all those hearings. And, you know, Gingrich supported me, Mises supported me. People say, you just gotta get out there and go do it, Bobby. And so I feel like it's like a puzzle piece, Glenn. The problems of the state of Maine match with the. The life experience that God has given me, even though if you asked me five years ago, I would have never thought about it. And I. In terms of governorship, I was just waiting for Ronald Reagan to show up, and I would have supported him and made everything good

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you have. We get calls from listeners in Maine all the time that say China is in our state and they are running these. These drug farms and nobody's doing anything about it.

[D]

You're absolutely right.

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Go ahead. Yeah.

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No, to. To answer. Preempt your question, but. Sorry, I. Yes, of course. We have three major groups of drug traffickers up here, the Chinese triads that run between 3 and 400 of these grow houses. Illegal marijuana that they put fentanyl on and distribute, which of course damages northwest, east and south. It damages people. And, you know, I. I can't tell you the number of overdoses tied to them, but I will tell you that fentanyl on their marijuana is a major issue. And I will also tell you that we have between 8 and 10,000 overdoses a year in this state. Hundreds and hundreds of fatal overdoses. You know, a comparable state like South Dakota has 65. So we can do better. The second thing I'll tell you is that we have the Sinaloa cartel up here. It's a major problem. They have gutted the state police. People don't even want a lateral into this state to do law enforcement. We, we will reverse all of that. And we have the Trinity.

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How they gutted it.

[D]

Oh, my God. I've been all over this state. Local law enforcement is literally being defunded. They've defunded big chunks of the state police. They've taken their authorities away. When they try to arrest people on 95, they're accused of racial profiling. So of course they default to not arresting people. We know where these drugs are coming from. The fentanyl, the meth, the heroin, the crack cocaine in larger quantities than we have ever, ever seen here. And in larger purities. We know where it's coming from, Glenn. It's coming from very specific points in Boston, New York and Connecticut. And we know how it's getting here. It's getting here up through 95, Lawrence and Lowell. We, we can almost, I mean, I talk to DEA every week. We can almost pick out the cars, but we don't do it because this governor, Governor Mills has deauthorized and defunded huge chunks of the state police. I was up at the Houlton Northern Border State Police outpost not long ago, and they were down 41% in Manning. Look, they have, they have, they have literally favored the illegal aliens. They've turned this into a sanctuary state. And a lot of the illegals show up in those Chinese grow houses. I mean, we have almost 8,000 illegals in this state. I will wire brush them out of this state starting day one.

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Tell me about the, the person running that you're going to be running against. I mean, you're, it's looking really good for the primary, obviously, but if, if you become the candidate, who, who is the, the Democrat? What are they running as?

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You know, it's interesting and I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you a little preemptive here. Again, just a simple statement. Democrats and independents, the traditional Democrats and traditional independents or unaffiliated voters are just as sick and tired of all these high taxes, overreach, overregulation, drugs everywhere, schools that can't be trusted as Republicans. And so one of the things that's happening here is that traditional Democrats and independents are calling me, joining me literally almost in a revival type way at some of our meetings, turning into Republicans on the spot, pledging to register as Republicans because they can't fathom that the candidates on the other side, and you mentioned Graham Platner earlier in the Senate race, but that the candidates, Glenn, on the other side, are so utterly morally bankrupt and dedicated essentially to putting bad money after bad. So the candidates Are, you know, we have this guy named Nirav Shah who's like the, the Fauci of Maine who shut down 55% of our businesses, shut down our schools, shut down our, our churches. He's a complete. Jeez, no, he's a horror story. And, and there's no way that Mainers are going to vote for that guy. Then you've got Hannah Pingree, the daughter of Shelley Pingree, who is the one who set up these new American offices and has imported all these illegal aliens. And she's basically a carbon copy of Janet Mills, who has, incidentally endorsed her. You've got Shanna Bellows, who is the, the one that threw Trump off the ballot, lost hundreds of ballots, refuses to disgorge names to the federal government under subpoena. And then who else have you got? You got Troy Jackson in a funny little twist. And my God, you know, Maine is a small state, but we're a damn interesting state. We had a funny little mix because. No, we're very interesting. I mean, and when I get off this show, you know, I'll be running around in my plaid shirt because it's how we grew up. We're very simple minded, I guess we are a very simple, common sense based, Norman Rockwell, value based state. And that's why all this is looking so goofy to a lot of Mainers that, you know, the Democrats have thrown up these candidates. But another one is this guy, Troy Jackson, who was head of the Senate, who decided that he would elevate himself by debating me even in the primaries. So I said, let's go for it. Bring it, brother. And so we did it and just crushed him. And, you know, I think that's what's gonna happen here in the general. We have so much to gain. We're only a couple of seats away, Glenn, from controlling the House, the Senate, the governorship. And I will strip the Supreme Court of all seven of its justices. They get seven year terms. They all come due in that four year term. We will put constitutional conservatives on our Supreme Court.

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Oh, my gosh, that is worth, that's almost worth moving to Maine to be able to vote up there for. I mean, holy cow, that's huge. It is. Let's. Can I just ask you. And you don't have to comment on this, but as somebody who is not there, you don't know what to believe. You're just seeing, you know, America's watching what's happening in Maine from a distance and you're not involved in the everyday back and forth But Platner, I mean that, I mean, it's, it's. I mean, there's no way no one would get the break of, oh, gee, I didn't know that was a Nazi symbol. Coupled with all of some of the crazy things that this guy has said. Is that really who the main Democrat is?

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So, you know, it's a great question. Not one that is. People ask it every day of ourselves. I mean, I think Democrats are asking of themselves. I've asked the other Democrats in the gubernatorial to disavow him and they've chosen not to so far. I assume they will not disavow him. You know, they're scraping the bottom of the barrel is what it boils down to here. Mills was completely shooed out because she's a failure and all these other Democrats running for governor are carbon copies of her failure. But Graham Platner is essentially a farce who is very well funded. He is a, you know, the national Democrat Party, I'm sure, are just oohing and eyeing over him. He presents well. He is a Nazi communist, let's see, woman hating, minority hating, veteran hating guy who, who somehow has grabbed national attention. I think he's a complete farce. And at the end of the day, I think he's like a bubble that pops up, pops toward the end of the cycle the same way that others around the country who have thrown up, just crazy people, pop. But, you know, the problem is right now, the Democrat Party in Maine, Glenn, has no one to reach to. They have no bench. There is no high integrity. I don't know what you'd want to call it, an Ed Muskie style Democrat up here. And frankly, we have lost the con. We had Margaret Chase Smith, we had people who were real, I think, believers in Maine first. You know, they didn't tolerate a lack of integrity. They didn't tolerate this kind of. I could use other words for it, but they're probably not on air. Good words to use. They just. This guy is a complete farce. But it's because literally the Democrat Party has no one to put up that has high integrity, that has delivered anything. And all those things I talked to you about, the high property taxes, highest in the country, high income taxes. They just raised the income tax again. They just raised sales tax again. Our schools that are at the very bottom, the drug traffickers everywhere, the energy costs. The Democrats own all of these things, Glenn. They own every single one of these failures. So Platner's just like, I don't know, flavor of the day, grab a guy that'll get some media attention and get money.

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I hope he is a balloon that pops in the end. ROBERT Bobby Charles. You can find his website, Bobby for Maine, F O r Bobby for Maine.com. follow him on X at Bobby for Maine. Bobby, best of luck. I hope you become the governor.

[D]

Thank you. Glenn. We're up, we're up by double digits in all seven polls. So I hope we're on our way. But you know what? It's through the tape every time. So thank you.

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I know it is. I know it is. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, Let me tell you about our sponsor, let's Pray America. I mean, real prayer, that kind of, that kind of happens. Real prayer when somebody is scared or heartbroken or overwhelmed or desperate for God to intervene. And then we promise make all kinds of promises and then we're like, oh, well, yeah, okay, forget about that. This time I'm going to change. Can you help me on this? Real prayer, not from some formal religious exercise. Real prayer is a lifeline. And one of those things I know because I have seen it. I have been there, and I have seen that God often answers prayers through people, through the people who show up, the people who give, the people who help, the people who decide they're not just going to stand there while other people suffer. That's one of the reasons I'm proud to support the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. And they provide food and shelter, medical care, emergency assistance to Jewish families, children, elderly, people all around the world who are in very difficult circumstances and those in Israel that are the same. If you want to support the Jewish people, you may not support the politics of Israel. That's not what God asked you to do. Support his people, Support and stand with the Jewish people who feel very alone right now. Go to prayifcj.org prayifcj.org just submit a prayer today. Prayifcj.org you're going to be thinking about that for a couple minutes, huh? Glenn Beck will be right back. So there is something that has really bothered me since I was over in Europe. And it's a sense that we are on the verge of something big with Europe in not a good way. And I found some things to back this up. And I want to share this. It's kind of a look over the horizon, but I think it's a very short horizon and I'll share that next.

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Now, I would like to respond to one story that's in the news today that the left is freaking out because the word is making a comeback. But my response, I think deserves some thought and some craft. And so I'm going to take the day and come back to you with my response for the left that is freaking out that the word is coming back and that will be on tomorrow's program. You don't want to miss that. Now, I have mellowed. I've mellowed in my, in my, my late latter days. I have mellowed quite a bit. Or have I? That'll be on tomorrow's program. I want to talk to you about something that I, I talked to Jason about when I first got back. Jason, are you with us? And I got back and I said, look, I think Europe's in real, real trouble and Germany is in big trouble. And Jason's been doing some homework. And he came back because he was like, I don't, I don't know what you're talking about. And I said, just start looking into it as a researcher, start looking into it. And he came back to me today and he's like, okay, okay, all right. I'm concerned because there's lots of things that are happening the, the U.S. mCA, which is the, the treaty between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada. It's in the middle of being negotiated right now and they're running out of time. And if that thing isn't negotiated and negotiated right, holy cow, is that a bad thing? Because, you know, every, all of our parts are made in different car. It's made partly in Canada, partly in Mexico, partly here. I mean, what does this mean if it all falls apart? But I wanted to go through what I'm feeling about Germany and I want you to understand, I want you to think of the, of Europe as the European Union and that all of these countries over there are just like states there. Germany is their Texas and Florida, okay? Everything else like France is, is their California. England might be their New York and those are the strong ones outside of, of Canada. It'd be like if you get rid of Germany, it would be as if the United States got rid of every productive state in the union and you were left with New York, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Jersey, California, Oregon and Washington. It would not be good, right? You think the economy would be good if that was the U.S. no. Germany is the machine shop of the western world. Has been for a long time. If you bought a luxury car, there was a good chance it came from Germany. You walk into any factory anywhere on earth and odds were very high that the machines, the best machines that were inside that building no matter where you were coming from. Germany, Their chemical plants powered Europe. Basf, okay. Their steel mills fed industry engineers were the backbone of modern manufacturing. German ingenuity, German craftsmanship. Almost as good as German chocolate cake. People were doing serious work. Not anymore. There's some information that is coming out of Germany right now. Their German corporate tax revenue. Listen to this. Their German corporate tax revenue collapsed in January. Almost 80%. It's worth pausing so you can think about that number. An 80% collapse in their tax revenue from their corporations. Now, you can fake growth statistics. You can, you know, message inflation numbers. You can even redefine unemployment. But tax receipts, you can't fake those. When businesses stop making money, your taxes that the companies are paying goes way down. And I mean way down. I would think 40%, 30% would be way down. 80% is a bloodbath. Tax revenue is the pulse of the real economy. This is Germany. This is Florida and Texas combined. For Europe, industrial production in Germany has fallen by more than 15% from pre2020 levels. These aren't Covid levels. This is pre2020. 15% energy intensive industries are crushed. Right now, German chemical production is down roughly 20%. Some sectors are down 30%. BASF, that's one of the largest chemical companies in the world. They are permanently downsizing in Germany and moving their investment to China and the United States. Good for us, bad for them. Now think about how insane that is. Germany built one of the greatest industrial systems in all of human history. Then German leaders made energy too expensive to sustain it. The electricity prices in Germany for the industry exploded after the loss of Russian gas. Some factories saw the cost of energy double or triple. Thousands of companies either shut down, cut production or moved overseas. Listen to this stat. In 2025 alone, 100,000 German businesses closed. Think about that. If I said to you 100,000 businesses in Florida close down. 100,000 businesses in Texas closed down in one year, would you think that would be a good thing? Or would that be just that number would be. Good God, what's happening to Texas? Add 80% tax revenue. A decrease of 80% in one month. I don't. I think we would be panicking. Yeah, and we should be. Insurgency in insurgencies. Insolvencies are now surging at levels in Germany that they have not seen in decades. Volkswagen is closing a plant inside of Germany. Volkswagen. Okay. Closing a plant. And you know what they're going to do? They're closing one plant and they are leasing that plant. They're shutting Volkswagen out and they're leasing that plant to China for. What is it? Bdu, I think is the name of the company they make. They say they make more cars than anybody else. It's China. So I'm sure they're lying. But this is a car company that is now moving from China and taking the Volkswagen plant. Volkswagen. That's impossible. Ten years ago. Volkswagen. Volkswagen is Germany. It's like Mercedes Benz. The company. Volkswagen has never closed a domestic plant since World War II. Why, why, why are they talking about this now? Because a nation can't survive when it declares war on cheap energy, manufacturing and work. A modern country runs on steel, on electricity, on chemicals, on trucking, on mining, on farming, on heavy industry. And all of those things are being taxed to death or destroyed because of the EU politics. You can't replace all of that stuff with slogans about climate justice. Reality always sends the bill. And the bill is coming due in Europe. It's arriving in every capital of Europe. Germany's economy has barely grown in the last two years. Some quarters actually. It got smaller. Manufacturing orders keep falling. Export demand is weakening. The middle class is getting squeezed. You know how much they're paying for a gallon of gas over there? $10 a gallon. That makes California look cheap. And do you know why it costs so much? This is going to make California look sane. They're charging that because the EU has a five dollar a gallon tax for green energy. Meanwhile, there is no green energy and the German people are feeling it. I just want to throw this in. When you humiliate the German people, when you take their pride away, when you take their work away, when you take their money away, gee, historically speaking, what do the German people do? This is not a good thing. This country was the stable country. This is the one. Remember, the reason why places like Greece love being in the EU is because Germany was paying for all of their retirement. Okay? It was the German taxpayer and the German industry was paying 90% tax decrease with the receipts. What do you think's going to happen to Greece and Italy and everybody else that Germans have been holding up? Meanwhile, the German people are a little divided A little angry, little anxious. Farmers now are blocking the roads with tractors. Why? Maybe because they can't even afford the fuel to get off of the street with their tractors. Workers are protesting the layoffs. Companies that are closing down, they can't fire them. In Germany, you can't fire them. So even though you're not making anything, you have to still pay them. Well, that's going to work out. Political parties that were considered the fringe are now rising because millions of people no longer believe the ruling class is listening to them. How long have I said this? Everyone who is concerned about Nazis, why don't you start responding to the people and listen to the people? Because once the people have gone through every single party and done their part and elected somebody else, that said, I'm going to fix it. I'm going to fix it. I'm going to fix it. And then they get into office and they betray you. And they don't fix it, they become part of the problem. They make it worse. You're left with crazy people who say, oh, I'll fix it. Okay, this is the part that every American needs to understand. That's about Germany. Let me make this about, about us here first. Give me 60 seconds back into it first. Our sponsor is Leaffilter. 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Somebody has to keep the lights on. And we have been such. I can only think of bad words. We are such wieners. There isn't a man within the sound of my voice. Every man knows there are things you've got to do. You gotta do that you want to survive. I'm sorry. You may not like it. You gotta do it. A country survives when work has dignity and industry has support. Germany began treating industry like a moral problem instead of the foundation of modern life. And that poison has spread through the universities and the media and the politics and the corporate media boardrooms. Energy became nothing but political kabuki theater climate targets. It's a religion. It's not fact. It's not science. It's a religion. And all the leaders chase the applause at conferences while their factories are quietly dying or are now dead and buried. And it's happening all over the Western world. And now Europe's strongest economy is Europe's. Texas and Florida is collapsing. I want you to hear this warning. America. It's sitting right in front of you. We are closing power plants while demand for electricity is exploding. We are drowning builders and manufacturers in regulation. We are teaching young Americans that office activism matters more than making something real. We don't even know what's real anymore. We import what we used to build ourselves a nation that has lost its confidence because it loses the ability to produce. And that's what this story is all about. Germany is showing the world what happens when a country slowly disconnects from physical reality. And it's not the people, it's the politicians of Germany. An economy can survive bad leaders for a season. A nation can survive corruption for a season. People can survive inflation for a season. But no country, no civilization survives after it forgets how to build what the truth actually looks like. And that's the lesson. Now, here's the hopeful part. The people in Germany I don't know about France, but in England, they still know how to build. Workers are still there. The engineers are still there. The craftsmen are still there. The people, the patriots of the country that don't want to dominate the whole world, just want Germany to be Germany, want America to be America, England to be England. They are still there. And they want a future a nation can recover when it just remembers what made it strong in the first place. We're the country that built the Hoover Dam and the interstate highway system, the arsenal of democracy, the Saturn V rocket, the greatest middle class the world has ever seen. It is time we get back to doing the things that built those people that made us the industrial giant. Within a generation, humans still know how to do things. What we're missing now is the courage to say plainly what prosperity is built on. All right. More in just a second. Let me tell you, our sponsor this half hour is the burner Launcher. 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How safe is it, Raphael?

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Certainly not as safe as the L. A Times wanted to make it out to be with that ridiculous headline. Look, I think you're going to see a lot of this over the next year or so. As you know, some of the cities take advantage of the broader declines in homicides and shootings specifically, and they're going to try to paint this as a massive improvement in safety overall. And the reality is, is that crime and public safety are matters of much more than simply one or two crime measures. And sure, L.A. you know, has. Has absolutely improved things on the homicide front, on the shooting front, and they deserve credit for, for that.

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Can we, can we stop here? Wait, wait, wait. Before you go on, let me stop there. How. How did they stop that? Because that is great. It's great news. How did that stop?

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It is great. I think it's a combination of factors, right? I think, you know, you had a massive increase in serious violence in 2020 and 2021 that finally started to come under control in 2022. And I think that probably had what's called an incapacitative effect, meaning that a lot of that extrajudicial killing ended up taking off the board a lot of individuals who would have continued to offend. If you look at. It's kind of. It's kind of a dark thought, but if you look at the sort of typical profile of your median homicide suspect and you compare it to your median homicide victim, they don't really look all that different. They tend to have very similar criminal histories, very similar likelihoods of being in gang. So when you have this massive uptick in the number of offenders being killed by other offenders, you know, it results in a reduction in the overall pool of potential offenders. Then you have everything that happened after Covid. You have massive changes in routine activities. Fewer people are going into the office, more people are working from home, more people are shopping from home. Americans, on average, are spending about 65 minutes more a day at home. What does this mean? It means that they're spending less time in places where they might be criminally victimized. So when you combine some of those factors with the fact that L A got a new DA in 2024, George Gascon lost his reelection bid to Nate Hockman, who ran on a tough on crime platform. You had Prop 36 in 2024, which rolled back some of Prop 47 in the state of California, which gave police more ammunition to use against the criminal class. So you have more people getting arrested, more people going to jail. I think that enforcement has something to do with why we're seeing reductions in at least those crime categories that we know police are concentrating on most heavily because they have limited resources. But again, this is only a small part of the story. The rest of the public safety picture, particularly in la, looks God awful. You have massive problems of public order. People using drugs and selling drugs right out in the open, homeless encampments, you know, petty theft, this sort of thing, all of which contributes to legitimately the average American's perception of public safety. And this is one of the things that I think the American left has forgotten.

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Okay, so let me talk about the perception. The L. A Times can say, you know, murder rate is down and it could be down, and that's great, congratulations on that. But perception is reality indeed. What is the average person's perception? Reality on how safe it is to walk the streets in California?

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I think they have. I think people rightly perceive Los Angeles to be in a state of disorder. When you walk the streets of a major American city and you see people shooting heroin into the veins between their toes in broad daylight, that sends a signal that we process as follows. We see people engaging in antisocial behavior out in the open. We understand their actions to be or to reflect the lack of control in that public space, right? If this individual feels comfortable doing something that is clearly both against the law and just socially unexpected, acceptable, they are confident that nobody's going to intervene. When somebody walks into a CVS casually with a garbage bag and fills it with the things that aren't behind plexiglass, right, that sends a signal that nobody is in charge in that public space. And this was sort of the brilliant insight of the broken windows theory, because when people are confronted with visible signs of disorder in public, they process that in a logical way. They say, well, if nobody is going to, to intervene in this person's clearly aberrant behavior, then no one's going to intervene if that person decides to turn around and try to victimize me. Which means that I'm not safe.

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I lived through the Rudy Giuliani years in New York, where I remember praying, please, dear God, don't, don't, don't turn red at this stoplight. Please don't turn red at this stoplight. Because there would be people that come out, they were window washers and they would come out and they would just spray crap on your window, take a newspaper, make one swipe, and then pound on your window, pay up. And I mean, it was blackmail at every stop. And Rudy Giuliani with the broken windows theory was one of the first things he did. I'm stopping that, I'm cleaning that up. That immediately made this. It felt safer to be in New York. And that just builds on itself. So is this from the la. From the LA Times? Is this more about Karen Bass and her cronies in the media trying to take away talking points from Spencer Prak, who's running a very effective campaign? Is that what this is really about?

[E]

I think that's exactly right. I think they understand that this is a major vulnerability for them politically. When you have well to do citizens finally starting to listen to somebody who's simply telling the truth, he's pointing a camera out with outward and saying, look at the filth, look at the people injecting heroin into their veins on the street. Look at the discarded needles, look at the human feces, you know, on the sidewalks. These are sort of bread and butter issues that the government exists to solve. And LA has been systematically failing to do anything about those issues at scale. And I think what they're really understanding now is that this is something that actually people care about. Right. The sort of peak woke era of 2020 is kind of over. You know, even, you know, far lefties want a relatively decent quality of life, and they're not getting that in a city in which they're paying through the nose when it comes to, you know, their tax burden. So I think what this reflects is an understanding that they have failed to deliver on their most basic duty as leaders of a major American city. And, and Spencer Pratt is doing an incredible job of just sort of leveraging that reality again, pointing the camera outward and saying, do you want more of this?

[A]

Does he have a chance? I mean, a real chance?

[E]

You know, it's hard to say. My political prognostication skills are not what I get paid for, but I think he does. I think he does. You know, I think the fact that he has caught on to this degree and not just outside. I mean, really, people in L A, I have tons of friends who live in LA and in the surrounding counties who are just all in on this guy who are not committed, you know, conservatives. These are just sort of regular people with tech jobs who just are fed up. They're fed up. And he is speaking their language. And so, you know, I think just, just as people did not give enough credit to Donald Trump, you know, in the lead up to 2016, I think people will underestimate Spencer Pratt at their peril.

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Boy, I hope you're right. You know, and it. I don't care about party. I care about common sense. I mean, America has been so. We just unpegged from any kind of common sense and we've just been following lunatics and everybody stood around looking at it going, yeah, I know, that's crazy, isn't it? Oh, well, I'm not going to say anything for such a long time. This, this, this is not necessarily about the Republicans versus Democrats. This could signal the return to sanity in America.

[E]

I think that's exactly right. And one of the things that I think people have forgotten in our sort of era of, of, you know, stark political polarization is that this issue, the public safety and the public order issue, was not a polarized issue, you know, 30, 40, 50 years ago. I mean, I remember in the early 1990s and late 1980s where Democrats and Republicans were essentially trying to one up each other on how tough they would be on crime, on how tough they would be on disorder. I mean, people forget that, you know, Bill Clinton signed the 1994 crime bill into law. The Anti Drug abuse Act of 1986 passed the Senate by a vote of 97 to 3. You know, you had people like Charles Rangeland debating William F. Buckley on Firing Line, where Charles Rangel was taking the position that we were not being harsh enough when it came to the prosecution of the drug war. And so, you know, I think that Americans are just ready for a return back to the day in which this particular issue is just taken out of the sort of police, the political sandbox. I think people are tired of fighting over what is basic common sense. I think Americans see aberrant behavior in the street and they want it dealt with. They want order restored. And that's not a solely Republican or solely Democrat sort of ideal. That's just what every American, what every human being wants for their own lives.

[A]

Rafael, thank you so much. I really appreciate the perspective. Appreciate it. Thank you. We'll talk again.

[E]

Thank you for having me on.

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