Jason Buttrill (3:57)

Yes, sir.

Glenn Beck (3:59)

The President is trying to clean up crime and crime so people understand. You're hearing, you know, Washington D.C. say crime stats are down. Yep. But since when? Since when they're down compared to when crime is now. It is. It is more safe to walk the streets in Mexico City than it is in Washington D.C. it is more safe to walk the streets of Bogota, Colombia than Washington D.C. insane.

Jason Buttrill (4:38)

Yeah. The crime stats, you're right. You have to look at it in terms of like from when to when. And this, this reminds me of when you asked me to look at inflation when they were saying that inflation was coming down towards the end of the Biden administration and they were like, this is great. Like everything is working well. You can't get used to, you know what they want us to get used to? They want us. They want the norm.

Glenn Beck (5:03)

Right.

Jason Buttrill (5:03)

They want the norm to be absolutely insane.

Glenn Beck (5:06)

They want. They are expecting us to look at the Biden administration as the norm instead of as a blip. Okay? That is a blip. Everything went through the roof. Crime, everything else. So now when it comes down, it's still within the Biden administration crime stats. And nothing is going to change unless you start changing the way people are. People start to view the law, Right. You have to view the law as, oh, they're serious about it. And Washington D.C. is not serious about crime, especially when it comes to the youth. The district attorney in Washington D.C. believes that, you know, everybody makes a mistake. We were all teenagers once and we make mistake. I don't know, me and my gang never walked around beating up women in the streets.

Jason Buttrill (6:01)

Apple dumpling game.

Glenn Beck (6:03)

Okay. All right.

Jason Buttrill (6:09)

But yeah, if you look at, if you look at the full, like if you look at the full graph, there was a decline from 23 to 24, which was around a 30 plus percent decline. And that's what the, that's, that's what they want us to say. This is Great. And that is great that it went down.

Glenn Beck (6:24)

Right.

Jason Buttrill (6:24)

But if you pull the map out, let's just say you pull it out to like say 2010 ish. And then you go all the way through the years, we are still higher than it was when or about the. About the same level that it was right when Biden got into office. So we're celebrating a little bit of a jump down or a climb down from probably the worst crime Washington D.C. has ever had. But it's still higher than it was right when Biden was coming off.

Glenn Beck (7:00)

Let me say a name and see if you recognize this name. Edward Korestein.

Jason Buttrill (7:07)

No. Should I?

Glenn Beck (7:10)

Sarah Edward Korestein. Any want to take a guess? No. We've talked about him recently. He should be. This is a name that everyone should know. Name the guy who shot the United Healthcare worker. Can you name him?

Jason Buttrill (7:29)

Luigi Mangian.

Glenn Beck (7:32)

Look at that. Look at that. Luigi Mangione. Do you remember the name of the shooter of President Trump?

Jason Buttrill (7:39)

Thomas Crooks.

Glenn Beck (7:41)

Okay, again, Edward Korestein.

Jason Buttrill (7:46)

Was he in the Godfather? It kind of sounds like.

Glenn Beck (7:49)

No, no, no. Okay. Three o' clock in the morning, Washington, D.C. a woman is. A woman is being brutalized by this group of 10 kids. They tried to carjack her. Somebody sees this going on. He runs to protect the woman. He pushes her into the vehicle and then confronts the aggressors and moves them away from her so she can get away. And he's beaten to a pulp. Do you recognize the story? Yeah. What is it?

Jason Buttrill (8:36)

It's the recent Doge guy.

Glenn Beck (8:38)

Yes. It's the reason why this is happening now. Because there was a good guy that at 3 o' clock in the morning, a Doge kid that everybody mocked, a Doge kid who saw a crime against a woman against 10, and he stood up to them and tried to rescue her and was almost beaten to death. And no one can remember his name a week later. Well, what does that say about us?

Jason Buttrill (9:11)

In Sarah and I's defense, his nickname is so powerful.

Glenn Beck (9:14)

Oh, yeah.

Jason Buttrill (9:15)

That's why everybody.

Glenn Beck (9:16)

Okay. Yeah. All right. If I said who's Big Balls? Yeah, I would know. If I said that, you'd know exactly who I was talking about. Right. But that's his real name. I mean, we have. Man, they're practically. I mean, what's his name? The mayor for New York has said, I look forward to walking down Man Avenue someday. This kid that shows you our priorities as a press, as media, and honestly as us. Why did we not consume this story more? Why did we not look to that kid and hold him up as a hero. I'm asking that of myself. Why was that story just on and gone one day? Gone where? Mangione went on and on and on and on. Are we just that attracted to the darkness? Is that who we've become? I think it's also sex appeal. Isn't Mangione super cute? Apparently. Have you seen this kid? I know his name, so I think he's super hot. No, I, I don't know. I mean, I've only seen a picture of him bloodied, but he doesn't look like a bad looking kid. I just think that's part of why he mangy and became so, so big so fast. That's even more. That's even more terrifying. Yeah, it's even more terrifying. Okay, look at. We have become a society that has erased all heroes and is no longer looking for them. We have made our president into a superhero. I'm Donald Trump and only I can save the world. And a lot of people believe that. A lot of people put him in that category. And there are times that even I believe that, like, he's the only guy that can get the job done. Instead, we have never been that society. Why was, why was Superman designed? Do you know who designed Superman? Who came up with Superman? What's his name? He's on the show. He writes the little books. He's on the show all the time. Meltzer. Brian. Not Brian Meltzer. Brad Meltzer. Yeah. So Brad Meltzer and I, we first got to know each other years and years and years ago and we became friends. And he calls me up and he says, glenn, the Superman house is about to be torn down in Ohio. And I'm like, what? And so we raised the money to save the Superman house. Now what the Superman house is. And I, forgive me, I'm not a Superman fan. So I'm going to butcher this story. I don't know the names of. Look it up. Who designed Superman? He was a young kid with a brother. They were Jewish. It was during the war. They were in the 30s maybe. And they're hearing about the Jews being rounded up, yada, yada, yada. And, and who can save the day? Who is strong enough to make sure everybody is safe? And so he's drawing Superman on the wall of his bedroom for his brother. It's still on that wall in that bedroom. Okay.

Jason Buttrill (12:46)

Jerry Siegel.

Glenn Beck (12:48)

Okay. So he, he does it for his brother. Because at the time things seem so far out of control that the average man couldn't stop it. So you Needed a Superman to do it. But that was a child story. That was a kid telling his younger, his younger brother, it's going to be okay because Superman is here. But we're not children. We're not children. You don't need. You don't need Superman. You need Clark Kent. You need a kid like Big balls. You need that kid. That kid can change the world. Can you imagine how different life would be in America if people just would not film things but do what he did and actually step in? He didn't take out his phone and like I'm filming you. He did something I'm not sure I would do. I mean, I would do it if I had a gun. If I had a burn a launcher, I would have absolutely used it if I had a gun. But I'm gonna get the snot beat out of him, out of me. But he knew that. Cuz he was one against ten. He knew that. So what is it? He knew that maybe we don't value enough. We have so devalued men that it's not your responsibility to stand up for a woman. You'll film it. I mean, look at when they knocked that woman out in Cleveland. People just, they just continued to pile on. There was no one, no one that was like, hey, hey. There was no one in that crowd. Now maybe there were, but nobody wanted to be the one. They'd film it, but they didn't want to be the one because they didn't want to get pummeled. We live in a society where nothing is greater than self. That's not a good sign. And let me show you how that's how that's happening in our own homes without us maybe not knowing it and what to do about it in just a second. First, let me tell you about legacy boxes. There are boxes in your attic, your closet maybe tucked somewhere in the cupboard somewhere. Film reels, VHS tapes, old photos. Pieces of your life that you haven't seen and seen the light of day in years. Years. These. These memories are not immortal. 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Fast forward into the digital age with Legacy box. Visit legacybox.com records today. Unlock 50% off your order. That's legacybox.com records. 10 seconds. Station ID okay, so there are several things that are happening in today's world that are breaking us down. And we have to actively work the, in the opposite direction of those forces. Okay? It's not good enough just to talk about them, just to recognize them. We actually have to get engaged and do the opposite, not, not just fight against it. I think this is the, this, I think this is the secret of where, where I am right now, where I'm headed. I'm kind of. If you've been listening, I'm in this big life change right now. And it's not good enough just to talk about it. It's not good enough because I feel like we're getting to the place to where we're just admiring the problem. We all know the problem. We all know the problem. So what are we going to do about it? Because we can't just fight against. We have to be for something. So the recent data, most recent data, shows that parents and teenagers view social media as the single biggest threat to mental health today. I agree with that. But that's not the, necessarily the biggest problem in our society. I think it's compounded by several things. But let's just talk about social media here. Teens focus more on the relentless bullying and the academic pressure that they're under. And we are talking about a generation that is struggling in silence right now. And I want to talk to you about the struggle of the youth, but I want to talk directly to them here in a second. Social media is not just bringing in distraction. It's actually bringing in pain that we're all feeling right now. We're seeing it. That's what's happening. That's why suicide is so high. It's bringing in pain. It is a constant parade of filtered images, peer comparison, digital validation chips that are just, you know, you're like. It's just, it's just eroding self esteem. Meanwhile, the grades the expectations, the bullying online offline are no longer just a, a teenage rite of passage. They are now the final cracks in a dam that is about to break. No. No generation in history has ever lived the way this generation is living. So while I want to talk to the youth about give me a break on some things, we also have to look at them and say we need to give them a break. In some ways, in the old days, we had community, we raised our youth. My grandparents played as much of a role in my life as my parents did. And we respected our elders. And my grandparents friends also played a role. My parents friends played a role. I'd be in the grocery store and they go, aren't you the Beck kid? Yes. I know your mom and dad. I don't think they'd be cool with this. And you'd be like, okay, that doesn't happen anymore. That doesn't happen. We can only flourish as a society when community, stability and self understanding are present. Our ancestors, they lived quite well without screens, you know, they. Because they belong to families and neighborhoods and traditions. Look at what Michelle Obama said. We're going to have to change our families, our traditions. We're going to have to change everything. Okay? We've changed our families and our neighborhoods and our traditions, and they're still being degraded. People are still working to destroy the family and destroy our traditions. We can't, because those are the things that, when we were kids, those things held us back into place when the world didn't make sense. At least we had the family and traditions and our neighborhoods and our real friends, but they were supported. Now we've taken all of those traditions. And I want to talk about, in a second, I want to talk about capitalism because that is a huge tradition that if we don't understand the role capitalism plays. I read an article, gosh, it was in the 90s and it said, what happens to a society that is built on ownership when there is no ownership? And I couldn't even understand that. And it was talking about, someday people won't own cars because there'll be fleets of cars, basically Uber. So you won't get a driver's license. You won't. You will rent everything. How is that going to change the psyche? Well, we're beginning to see it. And then you add people who are trying to turn capitalism because they believe in communism. I want to address that in 60 seconds. This is Glenn Beck. Ever what happens to your money after you pay your cell phone bill? Most people just vanishes into a giant corporate bucket. That funds causes and politicians that you'd never choose in a million years. I mean, I mean, unless you're crazy, most of us just pay our bill and we think we're paying for a service that we need. But when that money is going to work against everything you believe in, Patriot Mobile is there. 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Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. So I started the show off with Donald Trump is going to be speaking to the nation here in about 30 minutes. Usually he's late, so maybe in an hour. But he's going to be talking about what he's doing in Washington D.C. and we're going to give you all the facts on that because, I mean, the first thing that everybody in the media is telling me is a fascist. No, he can't do that in Los Angeles. But the District of Columbia is federal mandate. So the, the ones really in charge of the District of Columbia is the federal government. He can do many things that he can't do anywhere else in Washington D.C. but of course, they just use this to claim he's a fascist. No, it's District of Columbia, but I'll get into that later. So we're talking about crime and why the teens are becoming worse and worse. Why? Why, how can I say this? Let me switch this around. Because we look at it at my age and go, how could you do that? Let me look at it from. I've been raised in the last 16 years and my kid, my family went through hell in 2008 and, and they've never really gotten back on their feet. So I was raised, I Was raised in a family that is broken in a society that is broken. I went to school. They told me the system against you. They taught me how to be, how to hate people, how to hate people of other races, how to blame things on everybody else and on the system, how never to take responsibility. And how you've watched your whole life, nobody gets punished. The bad guys don't go to actual jail. You know, at the top level. And you know what? Here in a local level, nobody seems to go to jail for it anyway. I mean think about it was 3% of those criminals that used a gun. One in violent crime in Washington D.C. 3% went to jail. 3. Now if it was a bunch of white guys carrying guns and not even using them in Washington D.C. what do you think the percentage would be that they went to jail? I would say probably closer to 100%. It's the law and they don't screw around with it. Right? We got gun violence. We got to get tough on gun violence. Why aren't they not getting tough on gun violence? Nobody's trying to solve this problem. This is why a Batman always arises. And we have to be very careful because I've told you we are entering the time of Gotham that the problems seem overwhelming. Superman, I told you about that just about 20 minutes ago. Batman, a defender who sees that the system is completely broken, there is no justice, so he steps in to do it. But there's also the other angle. The Punisher. The Punisher is really more on the left. We have the. We have. My fear is that we start to believe in a Batman figure on the right and they believe in a Punisher. That's really dangerous. That's not America. That's really, really, really dangerous. So what is, what's happening to us as a society? Well, you have taken away every responsibility. You know why your kids are depressed. And I'm, I'm saying this about myself and my, my own family. So I'm not pointing fingers at anybody. Point them to me. You know, when I have low self esteem, when I feel that I'm not productive, when I'm not productive, when I'm not doing something of consequence, when I'm sitting around the house, you know, doing whatever, playing games, reading frivolous stuff, watching tv. If I do that for more than a couple of days, I start to feel like really nasty about myself. Like, you know, it's not worth any. That's the problem we have by, by devaluing capitalism. What is capitalism? In, in, in a nutshell, what capitalism is Is the right for you to work hard to have a better idea, to produce that better idea and then be rewarded for it. That's capitalism. Now, it's been conflated with consumerism and corruption and crony capitalism. But the essence is you don't have to have a title everywhere else in the world. Still go over in England, try to make it on your, your, your own. Really? Do you have the right English accent? Do you use the Queen's English? Where did you go to school? Who are your parents? That happens all over the world. Doesn't happen here. Because in our system of the free market, you have the right to have an idea and then work hard and produce it. But in a society where we have removed all personal responsibility, you're not responsible for anything. You took out a loan. Well, let somebody else got to pay for that. Well, no, wait, wait, wait. You were there during the decision. You and your parents signed those papers. Now, you may have been misguided, but also, honestly, it's like anybody my age who is like, I can't believe they're going to touch Social Security, I planned on that. Well, you may have because you had to. There's a difference. If you had to. Because I could never get ahead and I paid into the system. I get it because you paid into the system. But for anybody who says that and they don't have to rely on it, it's. What are you, stupid? I mean, we all knew this thing is coming. We all know it's a scam, all of us. No, it's a scam. The closer we get to retirement age, the more we need that scam to stay in place because they bled us dry everywhere else. We want what we paid in for. It's, it's the same thing here with, with capitalism when you take away the personal responsibility, the right to succeed and the right to fail. You notice they only, they only talk about the right to fail. They only say, you're not going to fail, you're going to fail. If you go that way, you're not going to fail with us because we're not going to let you fail. Failure is a part of life. The reason why our kids are so tender is we've never let them fail. We've never said, you know what? You played a. You played your best. Did you go out and play your best? Great. The other team smoked you because they were better. Oh, no, you were. You were a superstar out there. Now you dropped the ball. Now, I'm not gonna harp on that. I'm not Gonna beat that into you. I'm not gonna be one of those parents are like, you dropped the ball. I'm not that. But I'm going to tell you the truth because the. The truth will set you free. I didn't get the role. You know why? Because she's better, he's better. Now what are you going to do to get better at those things so that doesn't happen again? But if you just say, you know what, the system was rigged against you, the system may be rigged against you. That is also part of life. Somebody else gets the job that you're perfectly qualified for, and it may just be because of the way they look, because they have a friend who has a friend in the business, whatever it is, that's part of life. And you need to be resilient enough to understand that. Instead, all of our problems are the system's fault. And that takes away all pressure to take action. Other than to the streets, nobody believes nine to five is worth. I mean, kids expect adulthood to be more fun. Yeah, I did too, when I was a kid, and then I grew up and I'm like, oh, crap, this is even worse. Your childhood is the. That's as good as it gets. Usually. I mean, unless you're in a really abusive childhood, that's as good as it gets. You know, and still your whole life is just set up to what, recover from childhood. Because there were so many things that. Things that happen and you misinterpreted or somebody did something and you're like, I gotta. That's gonna leave a mark for the rest of my life. We're all just. That's adulthood. Trying to. Trying to put our childhood into perspective. And hopefully, you know, if you have common sense, you have faith, you can do that in pretty short order. It takes time and it's hard, but you can put that into short order. But it keeps cropping up. Mine does. I'm in the full throes of absolute, just like crazy town right now with things that are. I thought I had gotten rid of and I gotta dig them up again and start dealing with them again because I apparently didn't heal enough on a few things. And then the left romanticizes not working. Cuba, Cuba. You want to live on Cubans. They romanticize communism. You know anything about communism? No, because they don't teach you anything about communism. They just say it's better and, you know, ignore their hardships over in Cuba. It's just better. Instead of. Instead of focusing on the hardships over there and saying you'd rather have this than that, wouldn't you? They don't focus on the hardships over there. They only focus on your hardship here. And by doing that you're only creating something. People that have just this giant hole within them, just this emptiness because they're not working. Is your kid sleeping later and later playing games all the time on, you know, on a, on a gaming machine and, and bummed out all the time, kind of just withdrawing that, you know why they think that's normal? Because that's what everybody does right now. But that's the cause of the problem. Nobody said, you know what? Go pick up a shovel. How's that? I told my son. He's, he's in a time between, you know, classes and he's like, I don't feel well. I just, you know, I'm kind of. And I'm like, I get it, I get it. Here's an idea. Go work at a pizza parlor. Dad, that's not going to solve. Yes it is, son. Yes it is. Get up every morning and work until you're but tired. And I guarantee you, mentally, you will feel better. You will feel better. You're going to probably complain. Oh, but you know what? Everybody did that in my day. We all did that. That's part of life. That, that is the value, the true value of work. Idle hands, devil's workshop. Why? It's not because you just get yourself in trouble, but because you start to be introspective and you start to look at all of the things that you don't have that you want that. And you just fuel this emptiness over and over and over again. Here's a stat that'll blow your mind. Life satisfaction. Life satisfaction. Are you satisfied with your life? How much does that, does marriage affect that? Marriage has no value. Family, no value. How much in life satisfaction does marriage change? Life satisfaction, 545%. A 545% increase in life satisfaction with marriage, by the way. Jobs, job satisfaction, 145% increase. We're devaluing the things that give us meaning in our life. First thing you need to say to your kids, go to work. Get a job. Get a job. Get a job. Because you're never going to feel better until you, I mean Peterson said it best. Till you make your bed and clean your room. Clean your room, make your bed. Now step two, get the hell out of the house and get a job. When you have a job, you can come back. You do whatever, we'll help you anyway. Get a job. Oh, but that might. Yeah, it might, it might. But I'll tell you, coddling them. Just one more thing before I go and I got just going to touch on this. We'll talk about it later. Do you know what's now starting to hit the market and taking off? Adult pacifiers. Adult pacifiers. That's an oxymoron. And it's being accepted by kids as reasonable. No it's not. Back in just a minute. Imagine you're walking through the world with quiet confidence as somebody who already knows they're ready for whatever comes next. And I don't mean with paranoia, but because you're prepared. Prepared because you've clipped to your belt and tucked into your bag a burner launcher, a non lethal self defense device that puts control back into your hands. The burner launcher fires powerful pepper based projectiles that can disable a threat from a safe distance, giving you the critical moments you need to escape to safety. 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Any minute now the President is going to speak vowing Liberation Day that D.C. is going to be liberated today from it's crime. A lot of people say this, this is fascism. No, no it's really not. There are things that he can do and cannot do. We'll get into that here in just a second. And a continuation of our conversation about our kids and what our kids are growing up experiencing and how as parents how to deal with that. Coming up in just a minute. First let me tell you about simply safe. When something goes wrong at home, a door gets forced open or a window gets shattered, fire starts when nobody's there to catch it. You really, you don't get warning about it until now. Really. Simplisafe is the award winning home security system that protects your home 247 against break ins, fires, floods, medical emergencies. And it is built to respond instantly the moment a threat is detected. Simplisafe's live monitoring agents spring into action verifying the alarm and sending help fast. 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The stats on crime. Jason Butrill, chief researcher, is with me today. The stats on crime in Washington, D.C. are off the charts.

Jason Buttrill (45:36)

Off the charts. And if you look over a period that goes back to like say 2010, there was a reduction around 2023. But the reduction just gets us back down to basically right when Donald Trump left office.

Glenn Beck (45:50)

Right.

Jason Buttrill (45:50)

So if you look at it as a whole, it's still insane. The White House actually just did a comparison of the 2024 murder rates per 100,000 people. Washington, D.C. at 27.54 is larger than Bogota at 15.1. Mexico City 10.6. Islamabad 9.2 Lima, 7.6 Ottawa 2.17 Paris 1.64.

Glenn Beck (46:18)

I mean, we at it just keeps going.

Jason Buttrill (46:19)

D.C. 27.47.

Glenn Beck (46:22)

Yeah. Double. No, almost three times as much as Islamabad.

Jason Buttrill (46:27)

Islamabad.

Glenn Beck (46:28)

Oh, my gosh. I mean, kind of bad. Kind of bad.

Jason Buttrill (46:32)

It's nuts.

Glenn Beck (46:33)

So you know when they say it's going down. Yes, but going down to where? From when you have to look at. It's just been out of control for a long time. And, and a lot of stuff we were talking about last hour, if you missed it, go to the podcast and listen our number one of the podcast because we were talking about, you know, kids and what's happening today and why our kids are turning out the way they're turning out. And we need to turn a corner on this. But we'll get back into that here in a second. The Washington, D.C. is different. It is a federal district. They don't have a governor. Okay. The president is kind of the governor. In some ways it's not. But in some ways, the Congress can overrule things. In 1973, Congress passed the Home Rule Act. It granted D.C. the ability to elect a mayor and a city council. But. But Congress can still override all the local laws at any time and even manage the city's budget. Well, that would be good. They'd be good at that, that. But they didn't even have a mayor until 1973. Did you know that? So this is not an American city, like you understand it. This is a failed American experiment. Quite honestly, 1973 is when everything changed. When I went to Washington, D.C. i. 1982 maybe, and I was working at WPGC in Washington as, I don't know, 18 years old. And the license plates back then said District of Columbia. No tax, no taxation without representation. And they were trying to become a state. They were trying to say, we pay federal taxes, we want statehood. Okay? So this has been an ongoing battle since the very, very beginning. And Washington, D.C. when it comes to policing, it's very complex. You have the Metropolitan Police, which handles the, the everyday policing under the D.C. mayor and Chief of police. But the Park Police handle, you know, the National Mall and other national park areas in the city, which is a good portion of the city. Then the US Capitol Police, which is not under DC Rule, Capitol Police, they're supposed to patrol the Capitol complex and the surrounding areas. Then the Secret Service is in charge of the White House and any of those areas. Then you have the FBI, the atf, the US Marshals that investigate crime in the DC Area, along with the police. So it's, it's not an American city, as you understand it. If Donald Trump was going to say, I'm just going to take over, well, then, you know, maybe, maybe you would have a point if it was Chicago. But that's not what's happening here. There is no governor, so he can call out the National Guard. Now, there are things that he can and cannot do. Here's what the President is allowed to do, and we'll hear what he wants to do. He can deploy the National Guard for law enforcement, for support, for emergencies, crowd controls, and to execute federal laws. Under the Home Rule act, the President can assume control of the Metro Police, but only for 48 hours during special conditions of an emergency nature, and the time period can be extended. So he may choose to do that and say it's a national emergency or it's a city emergency, and then just keep extending it every 48 hours. He could invoke the Insurrection act, and that way he can deploy military forces to enforce federal law, suppress any kind of insurrection, or restore order when civilian authorities can't. But I don't think he's going to do that. Because he would have done that in Portland or Seattle or any of the other crazy places. Increase the presence of federal law enforcement in dc, including the FBI, US Marshals, Capitol Police, and dea. So he can increase the presence of them. It also allows him to form an interagency task force under federal authority to conduct operations in dc. My guess is that's what he's going to do. He's going to put an interagency task force on the streets that can conduct operations in the District of Columbia. That seems the broadest and the one that would give him the most authority without any kind of time restrictions on it. Here's what the President cannot do. And I want you to know before he speaks, if he suggests any of these, I will speak out against him. Because the President cannot do these things. He can't take indefinite control of the Metro PD into it for 48 hours, and then he has to renew it every 48 hours. I just don't see that as a workable thing. But. But he can't take indefinite control of the Metro pd. Um, he cannot repeal the Home Rule Act. Only Congress can alter it or repeal it. He cannot use active duty military forces beyond the D.C. national Guard in certain roles for domestic law enforcement unless authorized by Congress or under specific exemptions like the Insurrection Act. Okay, so no active duty can go on. National Guard can, but only in certain roles. And he also cannot make any changes to DC's local criminal laws or police policies. Only Congress can make those changes. So if you're talking about a fascist, those. That would be the mark of a fascist. If he says we're going to do that, if he says we want to change the criminal laws, he is absolutely in. In within his jurisdiction, if you will, to say, I'm going to pass some new criminal laws, but Congress has to do them. He can't just sign executive Orders and do those. He has to have Congress to do those. That last thing on the eo, I'm not really sure. I'm not a big fan of Executive Orders. I don't know how far those things have been expanded in the last 25 years, but I would hope that it is not going to, because that should be challenged. And. And I don't know how that would work out.

Jason Buttrill (53:03)

What I would love to see him do, I know he can't overrun the Home Rule act, but I would love to see him use that bully pulpit to. Bully pulpit the crap out of the Home Rule act to really do a full court press and get rid of it. Because in my Opinion. It's an abomination. It's not what the framers had in mind. It should not be there. And I think the only. I mean, there's multiple reasons why. You can say why we have the Home Rule Act. It's not supposed to be that way. It's supposed to be a way to where Congress. Which is a joke because I think Congress gave it up because why they're doing the thing that they always do, which is skirt responsibility.

Glenn Beck (53:40)

Disagree. I was alive at the time. Disagree. When they got it, what did the license plates change to immediately? What was it? No taxation without representation. That was a move towards statehood. That was a progressive. Okay, give us home. Agreed. And then. Then we need to have a governor. We need to have a state. We need to have representation in Washington D.C. this has all been a move to make Washington D.C. a, a state when our founders thought that was absolutely the wrong thing to do. We cannot have our capital in a state. It has to be a district. But they run by the governor, the federal government.

Jason Buttrill (54:22)

But they basically already have it. They have the benefits without it actually being a state. Because in the 1960s they were given three electoral votes. You want to guess how many times that the District of Columbia has gone towards Republicans and Republicans have gotten.

Glenn Beck (54:36)

I'm gonna take a guess. 0000. Right? Right.

Jason Buttrill (54:41)

Just insane.

Glenn Beck (54:41)

Yeah. So it. It's. This is not fascism. You need to understand that. Right. You need to understand Home Rule Change 1973. Just remember that Home Rule 1973, that gave them the ability to have a mayor and a city council. They never had one until 1973. This is a failed American experiment. It has become more and more American leftist. And the more leftist it gets, the more out of control that city gets. Congress should abolish home rule. It should go back to Congress and the president running that city. They're very capable of doing it. And the only reason to have home rule is to make it a state. That's the only reason. I mean, and honestly, look at that. Look at. Look at the mayors. Anybody remember Marion Barry? Marion Barry was caught smoking crack and they reelected him. I mean, he went to prison, I think, and then he got out of prison. He's like, yeah, remember me on the crack guy? Yeah. Elect me again. And they did. I mean, it's. It's an insane city. It's an insane city and our capital cannot. I remember, you know, when I was living in Washington D.C. i was a kid, 18 years old, all by myself. Never. I had never been west of Boise or East of Boise, Idaho. And I move across the country, and I move to Washington, D.C. it was the freakiest place I had ever been. I'd never seen an east coast city. I had never. I mean, yeah. But I remember I got up every morning and I would go to the Lincoln Memorial, and I would sit on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, watch the sunrise. And in the summer. And they would hose that thing down. Fire. Fire hoses. And they'd hose that thing down. I don't think that's been washed. And I don't know, maybe since 1983. And I could walk the whole Mall in the middle of the night. I could walk. I could walk up to the Capitol doors and these beautiful relief doors that tell the story of America. You can't even walk up the stairs to those doors. You are no longer allowed to even see those doors. Okay? Because of security. And what is that security giving you? A security is giving you maybe some security inside the Capitol, but everybody else, you're on your own. Well, that's my city as well. I am so proud of this audience. I remember when we went and we did Restoring Honor there, and the National Park Service called the office and said, could you please ask Mr. Beck to please ask his audience to stop calling us? You know why? You know why they were. Why this audience was calling? Because people had gone up and they had seen how badly it was being run and how the Park Service didn't. Wasn't mowing all the lawns and everything else. So this audience volunteered over and over and over again, saying, can we just come up and mow the lawn? Can we just. We'll clean it all up. We just want to mow the lawns in Washington, D.C. and the park Service was like, we can't let people just come out on the block. And I'm like, you know what? You should. You should. If the people can fix it and you can't, let the people fix it, it's their own. It's their own place. You can't do things in Washington, D.C. and it's really not for your safety. They'll say it's for your safety, but it's not. And it is. Separated the people from that city. And now you go walking down the street. Good luck. I go walking down the street with my wife at night because I have armed security with me. I'm not walking down that. I'm not walking down that street by myself, nor would you. You want to go to Washington, D.C. and see the founding documents, Good luck with that. All right. Still waiting for the president. More in just a minute. Rain doesn't ask for permission. It doesn't care if it's Saturday morning or your daughter's wedding day. If it's coming down, it's coming down. And your gutters are clogged. Well, the rainwater is just not going to go away. 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I mean, I think the whole thing would have been renamed District of blm. I mean, it would have been. It wouldn't have been good. It wouldn't have been good. We just have to fix things with principles. And when we fix things with principles, then, you know, then we can. We all have to worry about who's coming in next because we'll all know the principles. By the way, did you hear about the mysterious quote? US or uk? Scientists have discovered a massive blob of rock underneath the Appalachian Mountains that is slowly oozing its way to New York. It's a. Geothermal upwelling has been a long, puzzling feature of North America. But it is a subterranean slime ball. 125ft underground, extends 220 miles across New England. And it's now going towards New York City. Now, when I say it's moving towards New York City, what do you think? Right? What do you think? You think, oh, well, when does it get there? Well, a little slower than you might think. It'll reach New York City in 10 million years. 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Jason Buttrill (63:29)

What was his name?

Glenn Beck (63:30)

Yeah, anyway. Vigo. Vigo. Yeah, I'm here for you. Vigorous. Anyway, super hot rock. It's a blob. It's headed towards New York City. Tell your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great great grandchildren look out. Because someday, in their great, great, great, great, great, great grand grandchildren's day. This is Glenn Beck. It might arrive. Okay, let me tell. You know, it's weird when you stop to think about it. When you were younger, you didn't really ever think much about pain. Not when you climbed a ladder, carried groceries, spent a Saturday fixing the yard. You just did things. No mental negotiation. Just gonna hurt tomorrow. Somewhere along the way, some little calculations began to start. At least in my head. Maybe I won't pick that one up. Maybe later life started getting a little more difficult day after day. And your interest in abilities got narrower and narrower. Relief factor is about widening them back out. And four natural ingredients that support your body's fight against inflammation that can cause long term pain. No drugs, no knockout side effects. Just a chance to reclaim those everyday moments. Without worrying about any of the consequences. You've been watching me, you know, for the right time, the right time to take control of your life. It's right now because life is still out there and it's not going to wait forever. So go and grab it. Relief fake factor. Let's make the can I do that question Disappear in your life. Just try it for three weeks. Take it as directed. 1995 to try it for three weeks. Reliefactor.com that's relieffactor.com 800 the number four relief 800 for relief.

Jason Buttrill (65:12)

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Glenn Beck (65:34)

Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. So Donald Trump is going to unveil his plan on D.C. crime and homelessness. He says he's going to move the homeless out but where is he going to move them? You know, we, we have had a complete breakdown of our society and it's, it's really weird because as we've been focused on the we movement, you know, that, that movement towards communism, you know, we're all shared, this is a shared experience and we share everything. The exact opposite has been, has been taking hold. So when we, we talk about the we movement, we talk about communism, what does that do at shares responsibility and relieves the individual of their responsibility. Okay. And so you can blame the system and the system should take care of all of us. But at the same time that, that, that we mentality is, is there we're also going hyper individualism. So I don't care about anything about you. It's me, me, me, me, me. And I'll get all of my individuals met. Our individual me needs met online through AI etc, etc. I don't want just a cool car. I want a one of a kind, designed by me kind of. We're going hyper individualistic and hyper social as in socialism hyper we. At the same time the we part is starting to fall apart in some areas. But our kids, that doesn't mean anything to them because they've never experienced that. Nobody's made the, the case for capitalism and they are all we talked about this last hour. They all, they have all just these gaping holes in them and nobody knows contend we all know what to do. None of us are willing to do it. Does that make sense to you, Jason?

Jason Buttrill (67:36)

Yeah, and I don't really know how to combat it because let me just tell you my wife sent me this TikTok and I know I'm not on TikTok. I've been trying to get them not to be on it.

Glenn Beck (67:47)

Yeah, it's a losing battle.

Jason Buttrill (67:48)

It's a losing battle. They're all on it. But she sent me, but you sent this to me and it said, do your kids exhibit this behavior? And it listed a bunch of different things. It listed staying up later and later at night, sleeping more throughout the day, playing video games nonstop when they're awake, has no social interaction except through these platforms like Xbox, PlayStation, whatever, they're speaking through those. Then when they're not on those social platforms, they're on other social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, all that. Does that describe your child's behavior?

Glenn Beck (68:28)

Yes.

Jason Buttrill (68:29)

I was like, yes, yes, yes, yes. And it said, this is not necessarily a problem that you are doing with your children. It's a problem with self worth. And that scared the crap out of me because it was saying that the more behavior your child represents of this, the less they think about themselves.

Glenn Beck (68:48)

I agree 100%. But did they say what the cause is?

Jason Buttrill (68:54)

I mean, everything that, when you just described that we mentality, the more social mentality going towards socialism. That seems to be the case to me.

Glenn Beck (69:07)

So the cause of that is everything you described. They're staying up later and later, sleeping during the day. When everybody is functioning and doing things, nothing good happens at night. And so they're staying up later and later they're getting online, they're playing games, then they're going to social media. That's their whole life. That is the cause of their low self esteem. I am convinced. And you know, as a dad, I just want, I want to talk to you as a dad because I mean, I can't be alone in this as a dad. My wife and I are constantly. And we are, we are really good at being one. But my wife thinks that I am a little. Can we tape the president please? Can we tape it so we have it? I am a little. I would, my wife would think you're being old fashioned. It's not the world today. You're being old fashioned. And I'm like, yeah, but you know, the values and the principles never change. They never change. So you can call me old fashioned, but there are some things that are old fashioned, you know, like the Ten Commandments. That's really old school. They're still valid. They're still valid because I, I say to my wife, if behavior doesn't change, it's because of that cycle. And the only way to break that cycle is to get a job. Okay? Get a job. And, and, and then you don't have your. You're just beat tired by the time you get home, so you can't stay up and you got to get there the next morning and you must keep the job. And you know, and I'm like, or just everybody or there's not a dime coming to anybody in the family. Not a dime, not a penny. I'm not going to. I will help college. I'll do all of that. Not if you're going to be in that cycle. And she's like, you're going to. You're going to chase them away. And hear me out on this. I believe that that is exactly what God did to all of us. We're his children, and he taught us the best he can. Put us down, gave us parents. They were flawed. They did the best they could. And in the end, it's why you don't. You shouldn't fight or I shouldn't say this put into perspective, if you have teenagers, why they're becoming monsters. Why are your kids that were sane all of a sudden treating you like you're garbage? And it seems that they've gone insane. The reason is they have, and I believe God put that in for that age to push them away from the family. They. They have this innate thing because they all do it. It's like clockwork. They all do it. They hit this certain age and they're like, you don't know anything. You guys are just stupid. Roll the eyes. I can't live like this anymore. I got a good. And. And you go up with it for, you know, three, four years, and by the time you get to the third or fourth year and they're like, I'm moving out. And you're like, oh, thank God. Right? I think this is something that God. Otherwise families would stay together forever. And I think man would perish. Because there is something to going out on your own, having to survive, finding your own way, finding your own spouse. Now I'm different. I moved away when I was 18 years old across the country. And I didn't have. I. We didn't have money for. I mean, this is. In days of long distance, I couldn't even call my family, and my family couldn't afford to call me. So I was away on my own. And when you are like that and you have to stand on your own two feet, you find yourself. You don't find yourself in college. You find yourself when you have to stand up and be. You either live or die. And, you know, I think a lot of people will say, well, you can't do that because you know that'll just drive them deeper into depression or whatever. I know that. But God knew that as well when he sent all of us here. You can only do your best. And then at some point you have to say, you're on your own. You're on your own. And I'm always here. The door is always open. I will always welcome you home. But you're on your own. You have to do this on your own. Otherwise you cripple them. They live in that state where they haven't earned anything. They haven't done anything. They're trapped in that cycle. And the other side, if I may play my own devil's advocate here, because this is what is in my head. Well, then, okay, well, then they're going to get so down, they're going to kill themselves. The Lord also has dealt with that. He knew that some of his kids wouldn't make it. But he's always there. He's always there, but he's never coming in to do all the work yourself. He's just saying, don't do that. Don't do that. This is the path. This is the path. This is the path. This is the path. Let me show you the path. But he never takes you, picks you up and puts you on that path. You have to find that path. And some of us won't find that path. And I know this sounds horribly monstrous, but I think it's the only thing, because we have coddled them and coddled them and coddled them. We've tried to protect them from everything. And I want you to know I am not, I am no qualifications for telling you any of this. So take it for just one guy's opinion, trying to figure out his family like you're trying to figure out yours. But I am, at this point, I'm not convinced that we do anybody any favors by saying, well, that could cause more problems. Have you done your job as a parent? My answer, No, I did my best. I failed over and over and over again. But I did my best. I did better than my parents did with me. That was my goal. Well, how come my kids sometimes are struggling so hard in ways that I never struggled? Because society dropped the ball. Because while my parents weren't the best, the rest of the community was there to help police and help parent. Now that doesn't exist. The rest of the community is pulling you, your kid, into a vortex. So you can only do what you can do. And you have to live with what you did, and you have to always be. You can always come home. You can always come home. I am always here. There are certain conditions. You have to do these things because these things have value. No kid values work because many times we haven't, we haven't forced them to. We haven't forced them to do the hard things because we wanted to protect them and we're destroying them. I'm sure there are tons of psychiatrists and psychologists out there going, dear God, don't listen to this guy. And I could be, I could be wrong, but there is. You can't blame other things for your own choices. And we must let our kids make their own choices and tell them it's not capitalism's fault, it's not my fault, it's not your fault. My life is not a result of my parents. I overcame that. And you need to do that. If your kids don't go, I'm not going to ever be a parent like you were a parent. I don't know, you got a freak kid or you're just a super parent. Because most kids at some point will say that and they mean it. And as my dad said when I said that to him, he said, good, good, please be better than me. Please just know if your goal is to not be me, the only example you have of a dad is me. So you better go find another example and learn from that example on how to be a better dad or I promise you, you will be exactly, exactly the same kind of dad that I was. Back in just a minute. When a young woman is facing pregnancy she didn't count on or didn't plan for, there are a lot of voices around her and in her own head telling her what the options are that are available to her. And sometimes those don't include birth. Preborn is to make sure that those voices, that there's at least one at the table speaking, hope they provide free ultrasound so she can see her baby not as an idea or a possibility, but as an actual living human being. A beating heart, a life already being built. Because when that happens, a majority of women choose life. 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C (79:58)

Under the authorities vested in me as the President of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You know what that is. And placing the D.C. metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order and public safety in Washington, D.C. and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. And you people are victims of it, too. You know, you're reporters, and I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side side, but you don't want to get. You don't want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed. And you all know people and friends of yours that that happened. And so you can be any, anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets. You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don't have that. Now, the man murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on earth, much higher.

Glenn Beck (81:24)

Twice as bad as Islamabad.

C (81:25)

The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years. And the number of carjackings has more than tripled. Murders in 2023, three reached the highest rate probably ever. They say 25 years, but they don't know what that means because it just goes back 25 years.

Glenn Beck (81:43)

Stop. So the way the media is going to spin this is. I want to look up section 740, Jason, if you can do that. But the way they're going to spin this is the rates were already falling. The murder rates and the crime rates were all falling, yet they are. But they are still. I mean, 2023 was the worst. And then they came down and they're about 2020 values. But even 2016 crime rates were bad. So he's invoking home rule. Let's see if he has the authority to do that. The way he's talking about it. I'm sure they have well crafted this. We told you earlier in this hour what he can and cannot do. We'll look into it a little bit more here during the break and come back. Also more on capitalism and our kids, personal responsibility and hard work. What does it all mean? This is Glenn Beck. Let me tell you about Chase Medical. See a lot of political ideas float through Washington. But 200% tariff on pharmaceuticals, that one kind of stops you cold. 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That's promo code Beck b e c k at J-A-S e.com jace.com Sam down the road where shadows hide Feel the dark on every side Stand your ground when times get dark Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're just looking at what the president wants to do in Washington D.C. you're going to hear all kinds of talk about it. You're probably going to hear fascism. You're going to hear about the dropping murder rates in D.C. and that is true. Not the fascism part, but the, the dropping murder rates is true. You know, they cut a thousand people a year off the murder rolls in the last couple of years, but it still leaves you with about 3,000 murders. When you know, per 100,000 in the rest of the country it's 300 murders. So you know if you're okay with 10 times the murder rate, okay, I guess that's good for you, not good for me in my opinion. But we'll get into that. Also want to talk a little bit more about the hole that we're all experiencing and our systems are, our families are failing because they think the system has failed them and no, the system hasn't. We just are not doing the system. And we'll talk about that here in just a second. First, we talked about Z fact. When the sun goes down at the end of the day, your body is supposed to know it's time to sleep. But for millions of Americans, night is just a long stretch of staring at the ceiling, listening to the clock ticking, dealing with a racing mind. Here's the thing. When you can't sleep, you don't just lose rest, you lose tomorrow. You lose your mood, you, you lose your patience, your ability to think clearly. It all takes a hit. This is why I scrape started using Z Factor from the makers of Relief Factor. I take it every night, so does my, my wife. 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And Jason and I, I think we were kind of, you know, at this place where when I was a kid, I was lucky enough my mom and my dad never said, you can't make it. My dad believed in the power of positive thinking and he believed in words. Create a force and they do. What you think becomes, what you speak becomes. You say it enough and it becomes. And so my, my father was always like, you're going to make it. Whatever you set your mind to, if you do the work and you can visualize it, it will happen. I've been talking to some people about Some things. And they were like, glenn, we know your record. If you see it, it's done. And it is truly, that is one of my superpowers that my dad gave me was visualize it. If you can see it done, it will be done. You have to put all the work into it, but it will be done. When your vision is murky or cloudy, you're going to create more murky and cloudy. You have to have a super clear vision on things. Things. But I know that everybody around me, my, my dad said, you should just have a backup son because radio is not a really good industry to get into for success. And I know, I mean, the odds of you being a talk radio national guy, there's what, five of us, six of us, not even that, maybe four of us left. The odds Hollywood looks like easy to get into compared to this. And my dad was right. Now, everybody else in my life said, you'll never make it, loser. You'll never make it. But I, I set out because I knew what I could accomplish. And I also, I also wanted to prove people wrong. And I'm not sure that's a very American thing, you know, when you set out to go. Really, you think, I can't do that? Oh, I will. I mean, how many people cross the mountains because somebody in their life is like, you're never gonna cross those mountains? Oh, yeah. So very. Maybe it's childish, but it's also a very American thing to do. And when we take that, what's left, Jason, if your kids don't have that, I'm gonna prove it. I. I can prove it. You become what, Europe?

Jason Buttrill (90:04)

An average, who cares? Country? Pretty much, yeah. Like Europe.

Glenn Beck (90:09)

Like Europe. They don't believe they can change things because they've been conditioned to believe the system won't allow it. And they've allowed a system to be created around them. Now, we were the first to break that, and nobody's really broken that except us. Nobody went the first, you know, the Full Monty like the United States did. And that's what, that's what built people in my generation and all the generations before. But we don't have that foundation being taught or even extolled by anybody. I mean, now the slogans are, you know, capitalism is just greedy. Capitalism X, you know, exploits. Capitalism's the reason why you're miserable. No, no, you're miserable because you're thinking about your misery. I mean, it, it's an easy thing to say when you've never had to live without it. And our kids have never had to live without it. Capitalism is not just an economic system. It is a moral revolution. And I don't think we frame it that way enough. You know, for the first time in human history, your destiny was not locked into who, what family you were born into. Did you. Did you come from wealth and wild success? Oh, no, yeah, I didn't. I mean, I mean, really, honestly, I've looked into my genealogy. It is a loser city. I am the king of the loser people. There's not a single person that did anything in my genealogy at all. Me included. I. But I'm like the king of all of the people. Nobody. Nobody. I mean, really, One of the relatives that I hang on to, my. My great great grandfather and great great uncle, you know, they did. They were captured by the south in the Civil War after a week of fighting, and one of them died in Andersonville. I mean, that's how you. I mean, that's how low you got to go. You're like, yeah, but two of my relatives were fighting for the north, of course, got captured in the first week, and one of them died in prison. But they are on the right side. That's how low it is. How could somebody like me make it? You listen to this show, you can't figure it out, right? It's America. It's America. Hard work, vision, and honestly, lucky they all come. But for the first time, America gave that opportunity. You didn't need a king's permission to own land over in England. All of that's king's land. And then it was granted to the lords and the ladies. And if they ever wanted to sell it, they could sell. Used to be that it had to go back to the king. But here, you don't need to be nobility. You had to be noble to be able to open a business overseas. You didn't have to be born into privilege to invent, to create, to rise. You know why everybody over in England had such bad teeth for so long? Because if anybody would have invented the toothbrush and toothpaste, a lord or lady would have gotten all of the royalties for it. You're just a peasant. You're like, you know what? I. I'd like some minty breath. Next time I kiss you, you're not gonna get the royalties from it. You're not gonna get anything except a minty kiss, which, quite honestly, would be enough for me to invent the toothbrush. But that's just me speaking from today's point of view, um, capitalism was the one that just broke all of the chains of Feudalism and said to the world, if you have an idea, if you have a dream, try. It may not succeed, but try never promised you success. It gave you something much more valuable. And that is the chance. Who is striving for the chance? There have been no rich people except those who were born noble or into wealth. There's nobody that has become rich that wasn't looking for a chance they weren't doing. You didn't win it by lottery and you certainly didn't do it for long through theft. I mean you, for almost the entirety of world history, people lived in gut grinding poverty. You didn't live past 30 years. There was no, there was no middle class. That's a function of capitalism. No middle class, no social mobility. You didn't go from the lower class to the upper class. Didn't happen. Only capitalism did that. Now has it been distorted and perverted? Yes. By whom? The people who want to treat you like a serf? The people who are like, they don't know. I know better than them. They're too stupid to rule themselves. The same people that have enslaved the rest of the world for all of humanity are now winning the argument that this isn't good. You know what? You need somebody like me to make all the decisions for you and then take all the money in the end. Wow. I mean this is a very short window of time. Child labor used to be a necessity. It was a necessity. You, you would be out on your ear when you were 12 or 13. Nobody could. You'd, you had to fend for yourself. You don't anymore. You don't. Why? Because of capitalism. All of the inventions that we take for granted, the light bulb, antibiotics, the Internet at all came into the world because people were free to dream and do. Are we encouraging our kids to dream and do? If you are a 20 something, forget about all of this crap that everybody's telling you. Dream and do it. What's stopping you? Honestly, what's stopping you besides fear? What is stopping you? I got to, you know, I'm making massive changes in my life and I got to a place to where, you know, my wife and I prayed on it and everything else. But before we pray on it, we always try to make the decision and then bring it to dad and say, hey, what do you think of this? Because I know as a dad, I don't want my kids to come in. What, what should I do now, Dad? I don't know. Think it through. What do you think is the best thing? And then I could go, not A great idea. Have you thought about this? So I approach God the same way my date, dad. And he'll be like, boy, I can't believe you're still alive. Out of all of the natural selection, I didn't think you would have survived. Do you know about your great great grandparents? Anyway, I'm making these changes in my life, and before we brought it to God, Tiny said, what do you think? And I said, I keep making the list in my head. Pros and cons and all of the negatives. They're all based in fear. They're all based in fear. And she just looked at me and I went, I know, I know, I know. That's the worst reason to have. If it's fear based, get rid of that. Don't make a decision ever based in fear ever, ever, ever. You will make a bad decision. Make a decision based in love or in hope or in, based in fact. Not just like, you know what? I hope my butt starts growing flowers because then my, my farts won't, won't smell so bad. That ain't going to happen. Okay? Real hope based in something that when you have that, you can change the world. And it's a ripple effect. When, when a guy in Ohio figured out how to mass produce steel, it built railroads in India, not just here in India. When a woman in America developed a new vaccine, children in Africa lived to see adulthood. Capitalism doesn't just create wealth, it spreads it over oceans and continents and through generations. The inequalities of capitalism, they point to that as if that's proof it's broken. But the truth. Under capitalism, the poor today live better than the kings of the past. Do you know there was a. Well, let me just go here because I'm gonna run out of time. King Louis didn't have air conditioning. You know where that was invented? San Antonio. You know where it was first put? In a movie theater. Do you know why? Have you been to a building in San Antonio, Texas, in the summer? You want to kill yourself? I, I would rally if that's how I would live. I'd be like, can we make the life expectancy only 30? Cuz I don't think I can do this another 30 years. I mean, for the love of Pete. It came because people went, there's got to be a better way. And you didn't need a king. The king didn't have air conditioning. Queen Victoria didn't have any antibiotics. You know, you, you through just opening up a faucet. You couldn't have clean water arrive at your home. And that's not the work of a dictator. That is the work of millions of people. Thinking, dreaming, trading, freely, innovating, competing. And not for the glory of the state, but the hope of what? Why do they say people come here to build a better life for themselves and their families? Why can you use that as you know what you just against illegals. All they're trying to do is make a better life for themselves and their family. Wait, are you saying they can't do it here, but they can't do it there? But somehow or another under this system which is oppressing you, they can make it. What do they have that you don't have? Oh, I know. Work ethic, a dream, a desire. They've seen the other side. They don't want to live like that. Capital isn't perfect, but it is human. And anything human can be corrupted. 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Jason Buttrill (102:52)

No.

Glenn Beck (102:53)

Ever heard the name Oprah Winfrey?

Jason Buttrill (102:55)

Yeah, of course.

Glenn Beck (102:55)

Okay. Oprah Winfrey, the first famous black millionaire. Made it on her own, yada yada. No, no, no. That's just Oprah. Now, she did come from nothing and built an empire. She did. But when you come from nothing. How about this one? A daughter of former slaves who both parents died when she was 7 and then had to work as a black woman as a laundress. Okay, you want to talk about coming from nothing and having absolutely no advantages? She came up with hair care products for, for African Americans. She was like, you know, African Americans want their hair to look different, you know, than just the way it is. Naturally. I came up with this product. She was the first self made female millionaire in the world. She was orphaned at 7. Her parents were born into slavery. What? What is it your problem is what's holding you back? I'm sorry, I have a hard time hearing you. I'm really having a. Because I'm just, I'm just looking at C.J. walker and I'm like, what, what, what? I'm sorry. Oh, your parents were slaves? Oh, no, your parents weren't slaves. Oh, you were. But you were. Oh no, you weren't an orphan at seven. Wow. And you don't even know what an orphan at seven in 1873 as a black woman was like. I don't even know. I don't want to imagine it, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't your life. So again, I'm, I'm trying to figure out what is it that is holding you back that didn't hold back the first black female. I'm sorry, don't even have to say black. The first self made female millionaire in the history of the world. What is it that's holding you back again? Back in a minute. This is Glenn Beck. Here's the thing about that product of the USA label that you see on so much meat. If I may quote the Princess Bride. I do not think it means what you think it means. It doesn't. It doesn't mean what you think it means. Billions of pounds of meat are imported into this country every year. And a lot of it wears that label even though it was raised and processed half a world away. It's a loophole that they're driving cattle trucks through it's one more way to make American ranchers live the life they have to. I mean, just get undercut while you're sold a lie. Good Ranchers is on a mission to change all that they, they, they cut. They, they know where it's coming from. They, they know the ranchers. Every steak, every chicken breast, every burger, 100% born, raised and harvested right here in the United States. The best meat America has to offer. And when you use good Ranchers, you help protect the ranchers who refuse to compete with the cheap imports that you don't know. Hey, want some mystery meat? No, thank you. Good ranchers.com See what all the excitement is about? Shop American meat you can trust. Use the promo code beck today $40 off plus free meat for life promo code beckgoodranchers.com you want to break out.

Jason Buttrill (106:47)

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Glenn Beck (107:06)

Welcome back to the Glenn Beck Program. Jason Butrell is with me today, joins me filling in for Stu, who is going to be returning tomorrow from never ending vacation. How many vacation days do I give this guy? Crazy. Anyway, he'll be back tomorrow. Yeah.

Jason Buttrill (107:23)

Glenn, you were talking about something that really hit home for me. You were talking about just the power of just words and like speaking things into existence like I am good enough to do this. I'm or if on the other hand, I'm an idiot or I'm stupid and how detrimental that can be. And it reminded me, have you been listening to the telepathy tapes?

Glenn Beck (107:43)

I love the telepathy tapes. Is your mind blown? Like, oh my gosh, I haven't listened to it in about a year. So it's on season two because I think I just listened the first season or the first two seasons or something. I stopped because I ran out of seasons and they said they were coming back with another season. So I don't know where I stopped it. It's amazing.

Jason Buttrill (108:00)

It's insane. It's insanely amazing. The last one I was listening to life changing. She was talking about how there's materialist scientists that only believe in like, you know, matter and what you can, like, you know, basically way. Yeah, but she was saying this kind of thing and telepathy and the possibility of it is completely changing. How some scientists are even viewing just the power of thought and just how.

Glenn Beck (108:22)

Thinking is the most. But it is the strongest power man has is the power of the it is how Donald Trump changes the World. He speaks it into reality. He speaks it into, you know, we're going to do. We're going to do this and then they do that. But there is something about. And he's a. He's. He grew up with. What's his name? Norman Vincent Peale. So he understands. I've talked to him about the assassination and I've asked him, hey, are you concerned? I mean, have we taken steps to protect you? And he's like, I don't even want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. Don't speak it into existence. He lets other people do that kind of thinking for him. He stays focused on what he needs to. But I mean, this is the, this is the most ancient of ideas. In the beginning, there was the word, right? Do you know what that word for word actually is in the original translation? Logos. In the beginning, there was logos. What is logos? You know, thought. No, it's kind of. It is thought and spoken action. It is, it's the living word. It is a word. When it's, when it's spoken, it happens. It's. It's God. Okay? And so it's. The original scripture is, Is basically describing God as thought speaking into being. You know what I mean? It is, It's. It's why I've always said the power of. I am. I'm really struggling right now. I need to change that because I'm creating some of the struggles that I'm having. I am in a really exciting place right now where I am discovering new things. That's what I should be saying instead of, I'm really struggling. I am in this really exciting place where I'm discovering new things. Because that's true. It's true. I may not like the process I'm in right now, but I know for a fact, because I've done it so many times in my life, I know for a fact when I'm stripped down and, and have to reinvent or I'm stripped down not because I have to, but because I have to, because it just, just is in me when that happens. I don't like that process because it's gut wrenching. But I know at the end something really great is on the other side. But why do I say, I'm sorry, but this is, this is my couch, and right now you are my doctor, so shut up, take notes and just listen. But I've seen it happen over and over and over again, and yet I still create my own condition of worry and concern by. I'm really struggling with some things right now. I'm not. I am finding myself growing closer to God every day. One of my concerns is I got to get closer to God. I got to get closer to God. Instead of saying, I got to get closer to God, I got to it. I am getting closer to God every day because I know I have to. So I am. So why wouldn't I say I am on the road of rediscovering the closest relationship I've ever had with God? Why do we as humans always flip that to the negative instead of saying the other? And I really think that those who have that ability to flip it as honestly, this is one of the things I'm really struggling with right now. One of the things I'm discovering is how to do my job and to flip it around. Instead of talking about the problems of socialism that we're facing right now, which we've done a million times today, I. I was looking at all the things that I can talk about, and I saw several stories about socialism and thought, okay, instead of just talking about those same problems that we all know about. Oh, Mom, Donnie's gonna win. Yeah, yeah, we got it. We got it. You know, they got a socialist guy who's also running in Minnesota. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it. Instead, why don't I flip that around and go, do you know what capitalism is? Do you really realize how. And you're stuck on what C.J. walker at. She was slave. Her parents were slaves. She was orphaned at seven and she became the first female millionaire in the world because she had an idea. An idea. And what did she do? She pursued that idea. She spoke. She didn't care. You're black. You can't do that. She didn't care. She didn't care. We've done such an injustice to so many people. You know the Cream of Wheat guy? I can't remember his name right now, but see. See what they've done? See what capitalism. You know, that guy was. That guy ran the best hotel. Sorry, the best restaurant in the best hotel in Chicago. It might have been the Palmer House in Chicago in the 1920s, 30s. He was a black guy. You know, he looks the way he looks because he insisted on making sure that it looked like his face every single time he. They went to him because he ran. He was well known for running the best restaurant in Chicago. Hey, do you want to be the face of this? Cuz we could use, you know, we could leverage this. They raped him. No, they paid him handsomely. And he was Happy about it. And his family was happy about it. Aunt Jemima, she was paid handsomely. She, her family was happy about it until a bunch of do good white people showed up and like, you know what? This is wrong. We're going to correct the errors of that people made when they were so bigoted. You have no idea. The answer might have people like, what are you doing to our family? What are you doing? Why are you taking. Why are you destroying that for us? You just have to ch. You have. We have to got to change the way we think.

Jason Buttrill (115:02)

Especially trying to like explain socialism and capitalism as concepts to like kids these days. I just have to tell you this because it's not easy to do. It's also not easy to be like my kid and have both a government and a movie assignment while they're in college. But I took advantage of this. Glenn, not too long ago, they were doing the same thing. They were talking about concepts, socialism, capitalism. I was trying to describe it. Couldn't really do it. But then later that night, we had to watch the Matrix because.

Glenn Beck (115:33)

Had to watch the Matrix because that.

Jason Buttrill (115:35)

Was the review that he had to do of the movie.

Glenn Beck (115:38)

That's a college. I went to college the wrong time.

Jason Buttrill (115:41)

He also did Shawshank.

Glenn Beck (115:42)

Watch a movie. Okay, guess so.

Jason Buttrill (115:46)

But we were watching the movie and there's this one point where they. Morpheus takes Neo into the Matrix and he's trying to teach him how to unleash himself and fight. And there was this one point where he was talking about how the Matrix puts these restrictions, puts these guidelines, basically tells you what you can or cannot do. And there's one point where Neo just cannot get it. And finally, Neo pauses the Matrix and he says, morpheus. Morpheus pauses the Matrix and says, you don't live under these restrictions anymore. It's not about what you. It's all about what you think. And then he goes, do you really think you're breathing right now? And then Neo looks up at the. Up at Morpheus, like, huh? Immediately I paused it and I was like, that's it. This is it.

Glenn Beck (116:29)

This is it.

Jason Buttrill (116:30)

This is what I've been trying to tell you. It was a monarchical system. Back during the Revolutionary War. We created a completely different revolutionary system. It was an experiment. What was that experiment? You're seeing it being fought now between socialism and collectivism. They put the restrictions. They tell you what to think. This system, the reason why it's so revolutionary, so different, worth fighting for is because now it's all in your head. You put those Restrictions. It's in your mind. And so my son won't say his name. I said, do you think you're really breathing right now? And he looked up at the sky and was like, huh? Then we pressed play and kept watching. I think it works, though.

Glenn Beck (117:12)

You know what? You're exactly right. You're exactly right. They control. And every student should know this. Get out a piece of paper and pencil. Write this down because it's going to be on the test. Oh, thank you for that little box. Oh, I'm not here to. I'm not here to discover and think and learn how to think. I'm here to memorize. For a test that you can give me. A test to see if I follow all the rules. Even if those little tests mean nothing because they're nothing but dates and names and they don't mean anything. I don't even know what the story is. I will promptly forget everything that is on that test. The minute I finish that test, I'm not going to use it ever again. That's what they've done. That's what they've done. That's the box you need to get out. Let me just. Let me just say this. What people, what human beings truly want. I'm so empty inside. Nothing has meaning. What you are yearning for is fulfilling work, strong friendships, real friendships. Maybe only four in your life might be two. And it might be one person in your life that is truly a friend and a partner. Capitalism does not prevent any of these. You know what prevents those? And other things? Fear. Risk, aversion. I don't know. I don't know if I want to trade that for. For this. I. I don't know. I. You're afraid to risk. You're trapped in fear. And if those two don't get you, you just have the lack of will to put the effort into it. It's not going to work out right away. No. Life is not McDonald's. It's not. Thank God, it's not McDonald's. Building anything of meaning, building your self esteem, requires that you show up. You gotta show up first of all, by the way, if you just take a job and you show up, you will be the manager within months. I swear to God. Just show up and just do what they ask you to do. That's it. Just do that. Do it right, you will rule the world. You'll be president of the United States by the time you're 35. I'm convinced of it. 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Well, I gotta tell you, the president, the president's brilliant. Really, really quite brilliant. He was just in this press conference and it is packed. They are. It's like a tank of sharks just trying to eat. And it's the. They're saying that is the. The most crowded briefing room has been. And he's just been up there for an hour just taking questions. I mean, he has, look, he has cut the press out in many ways. He doesn't meet with, you know, for special interviews, etc. Etc. He just, whenever he's around the press, he just stops and talks and people can see him talk. And you know what I've missed a lot of it because I've been yapping myself. But we're gonna have more on this later in the day and then tomorrow as well. But, you know, he. They were just like, you know, can we. You're building a big, beautiful ballroom. Can we build a bigger press room? And he's like, no, I don't want you guys comfortable. And then he smiled. He was telling the truth. But he actually delivered it in a very Reagan esque sort of way. This week. We probably will have more on this. Also later this week, he's going to Alaska to meet with Vladimir Putin. And you know, the naysayers are. See, that's a win for Vladimir Putin because they think Alaska's theirs. Yeah, well, it's not now, is it? So, I mean, you could flip this around and go, that's kind of shoving it in his face. Oh, you know what? Why don't you come to the state of Alaska and meet with me, the president of all 50 states. We have 50 of them. Did you know that one of them is Alaska? It's not yours anymore. I mean, I don't know why everybody has to say, oh, see, he was giving him a win. No, he's rubbing his nose in it. You can look at it that way just as easily. All right, we'll see you tomorrow. Stay safe. God save their republic. This is Glenn, Becky.