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Glenn Beck
Glam Back is on. Glamback is on. The fusion of entertainment enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Glenn Beck is on. Hello America. It's what? It is Wednesday, isn't it? Yeah, it's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. We're halfway through. We're halfway through. Everything is downhill from here. Got a great show for you planned not for today, but one of these days I'll reveal that great, great show today. We haven't, you know. No, we have actually a lot of stuff we have to talk about because the elections happened yesterday in New York and guess what? The socialist one. Three of them. Three of them. New York is going to hell in a handbasket. And gee, who said that was going to happen? Who warned you? Democrats. They're going to primary you. They are going to eat you in the end. Starting in 2004 when you put Michael Moore in the box, I said you don't play footsies with socialist. You think they're your friend. You think you're using them, they're using you. And when they have enough power, they will eat you. I mean, you think Michael Moore got that big on Twinkies? No. He's been eating Democrats for quite some time. Look, here's the thing. It's happening and we have to know how to fight it. So I'm going to tell you all the news that happened and then I'm going to show you how to fight it this hour and so much more on the rest of the program. And it's a, it is actually a great show. Hang on. We start in 60 seconds. First, my Patriots supply. One of the most valuable things you can have in life is options. Your car breaks down, you have money in the bank, you have options. You lose your job, you have savings, you have options. If something unexpected happens to you and you have a plan, you have options. That's really what preparedness is. It's not about spending your days worrying about everything that could go wrong. It's about giving yourself options. Because people who have options tend to make better decisions than people who don't have options. You know, they don't have to panic, they don't have to scramble. They can, you know, they, they don't have to do whatever they have to do to just be able to survive. That's why I like my patriot supply. Whether it's long term food storage, water filtration or backup power solutions, they will help you build options into your life before you need them. Right now you can get their best selling three month emergency food supply for $100 off when you go to preparewithglen.com that's food gives you 2,000 calories a day, lasts up to 25 years and best of all, it's $100 off for a limited time. Go to prepare with glenn.com. get yours now. Preparewithclen. All right, all right. Woo. Let me start with the news. One of the things trending today is Social Security is going broke. What? I've never heard that. It's what? Let me get my arms around that one. It's going broke. When did that happen? It's the most popular government program in America and it's quietly, quietly going broke while everybody politely agrees not to bring it up at dinner or especially during an election. Okay, Social Security, you love it. Your grandmother loves it. And the math loves no one. The retirement trust fund runs dry. Social Security administration says in 2032. That is six years. Six big years. And unlike global warming, this is actual math. So it will run dry in six years. And when it does, the checks don't stop. They just get smaller by almost 25% now. Do you think things are going to be cheaper or more expensive by 2032? I don't know. I guess it could go either way. I mean, we did buy Social Security wasn't some, you know, sham, so I guess we might buy that prices will be cheaper. This is going to happen to everybody. The retiree, the widow, the disabled steel worker. No exceptions, no mercy. Now, CBS News has known this was coming. NBC News knew this was coming. I knew this was coming. You knew this was coming. The newspapers knew. Every president has known this was coming for 40 years. 4. 0. 40 years. We've had more warning about this than Y2K. We had more warning than this on Disco On My Own Hairline. And we've done the same thing for all of those things. Nothing. Until now. It's embarrassing, isn't it? I mean, look at it. It's really getting embarrassing. Social Security, I would say, is a Ponzi scheme, but it's not really a Ponzi scheme. I know that's a fun thing to say at parties, but a Ponzi scheme is illegal and it hides the math, so there's the difference. Social Security is perfectly legal and prints the math every single year in a report so long and so boring that Congress has successfully avoided reading it since the Carter administration. So it's not a con. It's telling you it's right out in the open. Yep. This doesn't work. It's not a. It's not a Ponzi scheme. It's a. It's a chain letter. Okay, here's how the chain works. The money you pay in, it's not sitting in a box with your name on it. I know. Al Gore. Al Gore said there's going to be a lockbox. There's no lockbox. The lockbox contains IOUs and a post it note. Your taxes go straightly straight right out the door to today's retiree and your promise that tomorrow's worker is going to cover you. It's called pay as you go.
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Brad Meltzer
Mm.
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Glenn Beck
And it works beautifully. As long as there's always more people paying in than cashing out. How's that going? Come on, America. How's that go? What's one of the Problems. The other problem we don't ever want to talk about. And we're like, well, that's good. Because of planet Earth, okay? The people are like, oh, planet Earth, planet Earth, Planet Earth. I don't want to bring children into this world because Planet Earth, Planet Earth, Planet Earth. We need more Social Security. Here's the problem, gang. In 1960, there were five workers for every retiree. Today, there are fewer than three. By the 2000s, there will be barely two. Now, the bipartisan Policy center said this, and you know, we've built a program that assumed Americans would keep having babies like it was 1955. And then we all act shock when nobody's having babies like it's 1955. We taxed work. We subsidized, not work. And the population did exactly what populations do when you change the incentives. They don't work. They don't have babies. The system isn't failing because somebody's evil. It's failing because the arithmetic is wearing a halo. This modest, beloved, demographically doomed program is what might, what you might call socialism. Light all the unsustainability with half the calories. And here's where it would get funny if it wasn't so horrific. I mean, a banana peel is funny until it happens to you. You know, the safety net is buckling. It's over. It's over. And the loudest, fastest rising voices in American politics. What do you think they're reaching for? More socialism. They look at socialism light and say, you know what will fix this is socialism. Heavy, regular, full strength socialism. Extra shot oat milk. No apology. Let's go for it. This week in New York, yesterday, the mayor's handpicked slate of democratic socialists ran the table. All three candidates that he backed won. Two sitting congressmen got bounced. They were Democrats. They were Democrats. No, we need a socialist. The Democratic establishment got booed off its own television. Even John Fetterman, who now wanders, you know, into his. His own party like he's the last guy at a Halloween party that didn't hear they changed the theme and is like the dirt bag left is surging. Yeah, John, it is. And you're the only one left when Fetterman is your moderate. The Overton window has left the building and taken a car. The flagship socialist fix for Social Security. You're never going to guess, guess what their plan is. How did you know this? Tax the rich.
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Announcer
Shut up.
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Glenn Beck
Lift the cap. Now, here's the real point buried in here someplace right now. You stop paying you. You stop paying Social Security tax at 184, $500 of income. If you make more than that, you stop paying that. Okay? The nurse pays on every dollar she earns. Now, the reason why the hedge fund guy, doesn't he play, he pays a sliver of that 184,000 is because the idea is that's what you're going to get back someday. Okay? Everybody pays the same because you're all going to get the same. But here's what happens. The rich guy pays. I mean, if they want to live, lift this cap, he'll pay on every dime. And then they will also say to him, and you don't get anything back. That doesn't seem fair. But okay, it feels rigged. And feels rigged is not nothing. Even Bernie Moreno from Ohio has teamed up with Elizabeth Warren. No. Yeah, yeah. A Republican in air quotes and the Democrat in air quotes get together, lifted tax every single dollar. Soak the rich complete completely. And you know what that buys you? If you soak them completely, it closes half the gap. Half. That's the government's own number. That's not my number. You can confiscate everything above the take it all and you're still standing in a hole because you cannot tax your way out of a. What are we short of? What are we short of here? I was going to tell you. Now, I want you to think. What. What is the real shortage here? Is it money? No, the real shortage is babies. The problem was never the slices. The problem is the baby pie. Babies. We're not. They're not growing fast enough. We're not making them. Okay, so more people keep showing up hungry. Which brings me to the thing that nobody teaches anymore. The exact reason we might do this to ourselves. A whole generation has been raised on a fairy tale. Socialism is kindness. Capitalism is cruelty. Socialism shares. Capitalism hoards. It's a lovely story. It really is. The only minor flaw is it's backwards. Socialism is a theory about how to divide the pie. Capitalism is the thing that. That bakes the pie. You can argue about slicing it all night, and we should. But if you switch off the oven, the fairness committee that you've just put together, they're standing in an empty kitchen dividing the. You know, the smell of bread that one day was here. Capital capitalism didn't pull a billion human beings out of extreme poverty in a single generation because bankers are saints. They did it because you free people trading freely under the rule of law generate wealth no central planner has ever matched. That's not faith. That's the scoreboard that's what, that's, that's the game.
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Brad Meltzer
That's it.
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Glenn Beck
It's all right there. Now there is a downside of capitalism. Capitalism without, and this is where we've gone wrong. Without a moral society that self regulates, that says I don't want to be the greediest person in the world, okay, without the rule of law, that's just theft with better branding. That's all that is. Same thing with socialism, it's theft with branding. And that's what we have now. Capitalism has become corrupt because it has found a path to power in DC and DC encouraged it. So DC and capitalism have become, have become corrupted. You have the corruption with the drug companies where they write the laws and then Congress passes them. Do you think the drug companies are going to write laws that Congress will pass that will hurt their business or keep us in check? No. And then it only gets worse when you officially merge business with government. Why? Because humans are the problem. We have a baby shortage and we have a human problem. Look at the other headline that just came out yesterday. The justice department has charged 455 people in six and a half billion dollars of health care fraud. Who did this?
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Jason
People.
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Glenn Beck
Doctors billing, Medicare for wound grafts, hospice patients they, they never saw marked up 2000%. How is this fraud happening? I'll tell you. Human greed. And in most cases that we're finding now that greed was coupled with state, local and federal government officials who turned a blind eye. Now why would they turn a blind eye? Because it helped them. Because they have a different kind of human greed. They, the greed of power. You see, none of this is going to be solved by getting rid of capitalism or adopting socialism or anything else. You have to change the person and government can't do that. You know, this isn't capitalism. That what's happening with our health care system now. That's not capitalism. That's not socialism. When you're, when you're stealing from it. It's neither of those things. That's greed gaming the system, whatever the system is. Dr. Oz said the fraud like that drains $100 billion a year to double the life of Medicare trust fund. If we just stopped it, we double the life. So no, the lesson is not capitalism good, socialism bad, the end or the other way around. That lesson is so, I mean it's a bumper sticker and it's stupid. Every system runs on honesty guardrails, people willing to do the boring maintenance that none of us have wanted to do. Capitalism bakes the cake, bakes the bread. It makes the food. The rule of law makes sure nobody walks off with the oven. Socialism keeps promising you a shiny, beautiful bin, and you discover that, wait a minute, that's a trash can. Okay, we may actually go full socialist in this country. I never thought I would say that, but we may actually do it. Because everything I predicted in 2004 and every day almost after is all happening. And not because the arguments are good. They just, they tend to, to. They just are not. They're not being taught. Nobody is teaching the truth. The net is fraying, period. The salesmen are charming, the textbook is quiet, and the kid who never heard the other side will always buy the only pitch in the room. So today, on today's show, I want to fix that. I want to teach it to you out loud with a smile and a straight face before 2032 teaches it for us. And trust me, this professor does not grade on a curve. So we'll do that here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Relief Factor. World cup is amazing. Seriously, watch these guys for five minutes. The speed, the collisions, the sudden stops and starts, the fact that everyone can run for 90 minutes and still have enough energy to, you know, to pretend that, you know they're dying every somebody, every time somebody brushes against them, it's really incredible. If you're one of those guys, what happens when all that catches up with you? When your joints hurt, when your back is stiff, when every ache and pain starts showing up? Life's going to get smaller and it's going to happen fast because. Well, not because you're weak, but because that's what happens to all of us. You know, pain changes what you feel like doing. And that's why I'm such a believer in Relief Factor. It was developed by doctors to help reduce or eliminate pain by addressing the inflammation, which is often one of the root causes. Over a million people have tried relief factor, 2/3 of them gone on to order more. As America celebrates 250 years of independence, give yourself the chance to reclaim yours. To commemorate, they're offering a special patriotic price at $17.76 so you can pursue your happiness pain free. 1776. Three week quick start. Ready for ready for you right now. Visit relieffactor.com that's relieffactor.com or call 800, the number 4 relief 10 seconds. Station ID.
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Glenn Beck
so, Ricky, I have misplaced the story Of, I want to say it was Moreno. Who, who is the guy who walked into the coffee shop?
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Ricky
Oh, Goldman. Goldman, yeah, it was correct.
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Glenn Beck
Goldman. Yes, thank you.
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Ricky
We have that cut.
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Glenn Beck
So Goldman, he, he walks into a coffee shop in New York and he just orders a cup of coffee, blah, blah, blah. And then there's a post from this coffee shop. We didn't recognize who you were until after you left.
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Jason
Left.
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Glenn Beck
We don't want your genocidal mania, you know, mania in here. I mean, just tore this guy apart. He's a Democrat and he is also, dare I say it, a Jew. He has been playing footsie with the left the whole time, and so they tear him apart. And what does he say? He says something nice about them. He said, you know, I was in and everybody there was so delightful. And I'm sorry that you would say that. You know, I needed a bathroom for my daughter and we were in the area, we stopped in, it was for customers. I felt bad. You guys let me use the bathroom for her. Anyway, so I bought a cup of coffee and I enjoyed myself. I'm really sorry you feel that way. It was a really nice response. But why did he make it? He made it because he was still trying to get the left and the people who hate the Jews and are full fledged socialists to like him. Remember, I'm one of you guys. No, you're not. You're not Goldman. You're not one of them. I mean, how many times, how many times in history do Jews have to learn the lesson, you can't play nicely with these people. They will eat you in the end. And, you know, it happens over and over again. And you watch and you're like, why is this happening? Why are you doing that? Don't you listen to them. When you hear people say, I think those people should be interred, you know, that's what the left is now saying about people who are involved in maga. I think we should put them in, in camps, re education camps. They have to be purged from our system. I'm quoting some of the biggest Democrats out there. When you have, when you have people who are saying, you know what? River to the sea, all Jews have to go, blah, blah, blah, you should take them seriously because it seems like those people mean it. Stop playing footsie. This is really your last call, Democrats. This is it. This is your last call. You're about to go full fledged antifa, full fledged Palestinian craziness and full fledged socialist if you don't wake up and get out now. All right, let me Tell you, last year, one in six Americans lost money to the digital fraud. The average loss was more than $1,400. You know, we tend to imagine criminals are breaking into our houses and robbing banks, and more and more of them are just kind of sitting behind our computers, sending emails and text messages and making phone calls designed to trick ordinary people out of their money and their personal information. AI is helping them get better at it. The days of spotting a scam because it was filled with terrible grammar and obvious mistakes rapidly disappearing. Today's fraudsters can create messes that look professional, sound convincing, and feel legitimate enough to fool even really careful people. That's why LifeLock is more important than ever. They help monitor for threats to your identity and personal information. And if you ever do become a victim of identity theft, which, believe me, is really easy, they have restoration specialists who can help work through the process of recovering your good name. Protect yourself with LifeLock. Join now. Save up to 30% off your first year with a promo code. Becky, the number is 1-800-Lifelock. 1, 800-Lifelock. Or head to lifelock.com use the promo code BECK. Get 30% off terms to apply 1-800-LifelOCK or lifelock.com promo code BECK. Glenn Beck.
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Ricky
Coming up, what does a pencil have to do with the socialist revolution in New York City? Well, Glenn explains it all in the way that only he can. Next on the Glenn Beck Program,
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Glenn Beck
okay, I want to help out the homeschoolers. I want to help you out. If you can't defend capitalism, you can't explain why it's better than socialism. Because I'm telling you, we are going to be a socialist nation if we don't stop this soon. And that is going to require us to be stronger people, better educated people. And there was something that I read when I was a kid, and I, and I think it was eye pencil. I can't, I can't remember exactly. And so I'm going to bastardize it horribly. But I'm holding a pencil, yellow, six sides, little pink eraser at the top. And we've used these our whole life. I mean, you don't know, use them now, but we use them our whole life. Everybody had one, okay? Nobody on Earth, even though you have these, nobody on earth knows how to make this thing. Not me. Not even the man who runs the pencil factory. I mean, he knows what it takes. But he's not the guy doing all of it. Not the CEO, not his best engineer, not the genius three cubicles down who corrects everybody's grammar. That guy. It's a pencil the cedar comes from. Comes off a mountain in the Pacific Northwest. It's cut by a steel saw. That steel came from iron ore in Minnesota. Smelted with coal. Hulled by the rails by people who are long dead. Okay? The graphite comes out of the ground in Sri Lanka and it's mixed with clay from Mississippi. The little band up at the top, it used to be copper from Chile. Zinc from Canada. The yellow paint, the rubber that never once meant a rubber tree in its life. All of these things. Thousands of people on five continents that don't speak the same language, who never met, who probably crossed the street to avoid each other. You know, if they did. All of them, somehow or another, without even knowing it, have conspired to put this perfect little writing machine in a child's hand for less than a quarter. These people couldn't agree on lunch and they built the pencil. And here's the key. No one was in charge. There is no pencil czar. There's no Department of Pencils in a marble building deciding how much graphite Sri Lanka needs to mine this year. Nobody on the planet wakes up at 3 o' clock in the morning in a cold sweat thinking, dear God, God, does Ohio have enough racer erasers? Nobody does. It just happens. Every day. It's a miracle, so ordinary we walk right past it on the way to complain about something. So here's how you explain capitalism and socialism. If no one is smart enough to plan a pencil, nobody. It doesn't take anybody. It just happens. Who exactly do we figure is smart enough to plan an entire economy? You know this person, right? You meet the man who flunked the pencil. But I think he's probably pretty good on running healthcare or energy or lunch for 300 million people. No, no. There's this economist named Friedrich Hayek. He spent his life on this one idea. The knowledge that it takes to run an economy doesn't live in any one place. It's scattered across millions and billions of heads. It's the welder who can feel a batch of steel running brittle. It's the grocer who notices that young families are starting to move in. And they're starting to move in and they got all these kids, so I better stock up more diapers. It's the farmer that can read the sky. None of Them could write down what they know. They couldn't fill it out in a form, they'd lose the form. But they act on it every single day. And the price tag is how they talk to one another. Copper jumps. And a man in a workshop who has never spent one waking thought on the nation of Chile suddenly figures out we should use less copper. He didn't know why. I don't think he even wants to know why. I don't want to know why. But the number told him, hey, slow down on the copper. Somebody else in the world is using a lot of it and they need it worse than you do right now. So slow down. That message races around the planet at the speed of light without one human being saying, put out the warning on copper.
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Brad Meltzer
They're not.
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Glenn Beck
There's not. There's no form, there's no. There's no phone call. Nobody's scheduling a meeting about it. But then we introduce a central planner, let's just say, best heart in the world. It's Mother Teresa with a PhD and a spreadsheet. And the most sincere Mother Teresa desire to help the poor. And she stands up and she says, we don't need all this messy haggling over prices. I'll decide. I'm gonna set the prices. You love me. I love you. You know my heart. We'll just plan it. How hard can it be? And the second Mother Teresa does that, she turns off the lights. She blinds herself to the one thing that is telling everyone what everybody else knew. She's not stupid. She's not greedy. She's been handed the job no human, no computer can pull off because the information she needs doesn't exist in any form that they can hold. It's in the lives of the welders, in the hands of the farmer's gut. And the. And it dies the instant that you tell them to stop deciding for themselves and wait for the memo. Then the farmer's like, well, I gotta tell you, my gut says this, but the memo says, do this. And that's when the breadline happens. Bread lines are real. And it happens the same way every single time. It's. Honestly. It's like a band that only knows one song. That's what socialism is. Because those countries, they were not stuffed with lazy people, evil people, stupid people. The people were the same. We're the same. We're proving it right now. We took one nation and we split it down the middle with a wall and we waited 40 years like the world's bleakest science fair. East German, West German. Same people, same Beethoven, same grandmother's recipe. Same family. Sometimes they were on different sides of the wall. One side became one of the richest places on earth, and the other side bugged its own citizens, ran out of coffee and built a wall. Same people. What happened? And by the way, notice which direction people were climbing over that wall. In all of history, all the history of that wall, not one man ever risked the searchlights and the machine gun towers to sneak into East Germany for shopping or the good food. Pull up a satellite photo of Korea tonight, the south of Korea. South Korea. It is a blanket of light. The north is a black hole with one lonely pinprick where the dictator keeps his lamp on. Same people, same mountains, same conditions, one border, one difference. So when somebody tells you socialism just hasn't been done right, ask them, and ask them gently, how many times do we have to see the same movie end the same way before we stop being surprised at the ending? How many times do you go to the moving movie and go, wait, so Jaws the shark was going to eat the swimmers? I didn't see that one coming this time. We've seen it. It ends the same way every time. We own this story on every format. We know in the end, the dog doesn't make it. So let me. Let me spend a second being the kind of man I always ask you to be and give you the strongest thing the other side says. Because I can't just hand you an easy version of the argument. I'm not informing you. I would be flattering you. And I don't want to do that. I hate when I ask a question of ChatGPT or some one of these AIs, and they're like, that is a very smart question. Shut up. Just give me the facts, okay? The socialist will look at my pencil and say, beautiful story, Glenn, that's really nice. I mean, that's really Hallmark movie stuff. It's great. I'm going to cry in the end. Oh, and do you. Do you end up together? Okay? But your market made that pencil. And the market can't make a single thing that it can't slap a price tag on. It can't price clean air. It can't price a stable climate. It can't price the quiet dignity of a man who has built something with his own hands, so it just ignores them. It runs clean off the cliff with those things and calls it efficiency. Here's the thing about that argument. It's not wrong. And any honest defender of the markets has to own that he's not wrong. And then I could go harder. The wealth doesn't stay polite. It doesn't sit in the corner glen sipping water. It buys senators. It writes the rules of the very game it swears it's. It's playing fair. A kid born in a dying town with a worn out school. You're going to look him in the eye and tell him you know his reward is tied to his effort when the race was 3/4 run before he put his shoes on. Absolutely fair. Absolutely fair. That is correct. So if you want to be honest, where do you land? Well, you don't. Burned down the engine that lifted more human beings out of crushing poverty than anything else in the entire history of the world. This is why I'm a conservative. You look at the whole situation. You go, what worked, what doesn't. Okay, the engine is good. The corruption is bad. Okay, that's, that's what you have to do. When China and India finally quit trying to plan every single pencil and let the markets breathe, a billion people climbed up out of the kind of poverty that kills your children. A billion. No charity, no revolution, no five year plan ever came close a thousand miles to something like that number. What it did was let ordinary people own things, trade things, keep a little of what they earned. You don't put out a house fire by knocking the house down. You build the thing the market can't. The rule of law. A real shot for that kid, a fence at the edge of the cliff. You build it around the engine, not in place of the engine. And the part that has almost nothing to do with money. When the government owns the work, the government owns the worker. You keep saying, well, the capitalist owns the worker. Well, the government will too, because it's humans that are involved. A man, a man who can take your living can make you say almost anything. He can make you applaud until your hands bleed. When all you want to do is weep, you won't weep, you'll clap. Because he owns you. In a free economy, if one boss fires you for what you believe, you just walk down the street to the next one. Unless the government is involved. The government is supposed to be the policeman. If a powerful man hates your idea, somebody else prints it. They might even just print it just to make a buck off the controversy. That grubby, profit hungry marketplace is the very same thing that keeps the dissident fed. The freedom of the spirit and freedom of the wallet were never two things. They were always one thing. Wearing two coats. So let me quickly end where I started with A pencil. The reason why this little miracle works, the reason a quarter's worth of cedar and Chilean copper assembles itself in a child's hand with nobody in charge, is that it trusts something that no planner ever can or will. It actually trusts you. It trusts the welder that they've never met, the farmer, the grocer, the grandmother. It trusts that millions of free people, each one knowing what one small, true thing will between them. No more than any genius in any capital ever could. Socialism, say, says that the people at the top are wise enough to run your life. Capitalism, at its best, says something much humbler and a whole lot more radical. Nobody's that wise. Not the king, not a committee, not a computer, not the man with the spreadsheet and the very sincere face, not Mother Teresa. Nobody. So we'll leave deciding the the only people. Leave it to the only people who actually know, which is all of us, one at a time. And I'd rather live in a country that admits nobody knows how to make this pencil because that's the country that figured out how to make a billion of those pencils and then hand them to the poor more in a minute.
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Ricky
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Glenn Beck
the last three minutes yelling at me. What is it you're whining about now? What is it you're angry about now?
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Ricky
If I'd been able to invest all the Social Security I've been paying in since I was 16, I'd be rich by now and not have to work for you. So what is the solution? Teach me, oh wise one.
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Glenn Beck
What was your. I'm sorry I missed the complaint. I'm sorry. I just, I. I tune out whining.
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Ricky
I said I'd be rich by now if I didn't had to pay all my stuff into Social Security and never get it back. And I wouldn't have to work for you.
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Glenn Beck
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. It's Wednesday. Got a lot of news to cover. Antipop finally has been charged. Federal charges. You remember when they attacked the ICE facility in Texas? They shot a police officer in the neck. They're all very surprised. Now, wait a minute. The guy who did the shooting, he got 100 years? Yeah. Yeah, he got 100 years. You know, if this thing is overturned, you'll know we're not going to survive. If this is, if this is left to stand, we're going to make it. You have to start saying these people are like, wait a minute, I thought we could get away with it. Wait until I tell you the whole story. It's coming up this hour and so much more. Let me tell you first about our sponsor. It's Preborn. The Ministry of Preborn is doing more right now to help the to help champion the cause of life than just about anybody else out there. And there's a lot of great organizations that are doing. 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They arrive here and they have expected to see the caricature, the cruel, broken down, dangerous cops riding on the hood of a car, shooting people. And instead they find a barbecue or a stranger waving to them into a parking space. You know, 70,000 people in a stadium who really don't care, you know, what flag you arrived under. Just, can you play or not? For years, these people have been told, America is the villain. You don't. You're not gonna like Americans and America's a bad place. Instead, have you noticed how many of them are like, I would live here in a heartbeat. And all because of soccer. Soccer has everybody's attention. And because of that, politicians are reaching for soccer, too. And I was really disgusted yesterday. But before I get to that, let me just play a couple of things that I think are. Are really cool that what people are actually saying about us. Let's play. Let's play. Cut 16, please. Have you got a message for the Scottish fans of Kitnamu City the last two days? Yeah, absolutely. Stay here. Never leave. This is New Glasgow now. Don't leave. I just want to say thank you
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Ricky
to the fan base.
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Glenn Beck
You guys are absolutely electric. You brought an energy to Boston that we've been missing. So thank you very much. And it's now added Scotland to the
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Ricky
list of places to visit because you
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Glenn Beck
guys are a great crew.
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Brad Meltzer
Amazing.
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Glenn Beck
Please don't leave.
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Ricky
We're gonna miss you guys when you're gone.
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Glenn Beck
This was the best thing that happened to this city. These Scots, all these Scots here, man, I love these people. People in Uncle Fern. I'm saying right now, a year from today, I'm going to Scotland and I'm going to do videos over there and I'm going to have a hell of a time. I'm going to go for 10 days over there. Those are Boston people who are like, I just love these people. And I feel the same way. I don't care. I don't care what country they're from. I don't care what they look like. I don't care what flag. I don't care what team they're rooting. None of it. None of it. They're coming over and they're discovering, I love America and we love them. It's great. It's great. Now let's wreck it with politics. When we started winning, the US Team started winning, the narrative machine kicked into gear. Wall Street Journal now the editorial board has published a piece titled America's Immigrant Soccer Team. And then, of course, the weasel John Cornyn amplified it, arguing the team's success really reflects America's historically welcoming immigration system. Okay, all right. This is not about soccer. This is all about politics. The article is clearly aimed at the ongoing debate over birthright citizenship and the Supreme Court case that is expected to rule on it. Okay. Soccer is just the vehicle. So let's take their article. Let's count. The Journal noted that six of the 26 players on the roster were born outside the United States. Technically true, but birthplace is not the real question now, is it? The questions? The question is how many of those players became Americans? Five. Of those six were born to at least one American parent. So I don't care where you were born. If one of your parents is an American, you get citizenship at birth. That's not immigration in any meaningful sense of the current political debate. That is not being debated. So you remove those five and you're left with one actual immigrant on the roster. He was born in Mexico. Zendayas. I guess. I don't know. He moved to the United States as a child. He became a citizen when his father was naturalized. When his father stood up, by every public account, lawful, ordinary immigration story, the kind that very few people object to, he stands up and says, I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. He takes the test. And every player representing the United States in the World cup has to be a verified American citizen. There's no ambiguity on that one. Yeah, but what about birthright citizenship? Okay, let's count those cases. Maybe you get four. Maybe one born in New York to Nigerian parents before growing up in England. Then you have one, another one who was born to parents that came from El Salvador in Guatemala. Then you have a couple of others that were born in the United States to foreign born parents whose status at the time is not publicly documented. So I don't know. But if you grant everyone the benefit of the doubt, that's 4 of 26. That's not a quarter of the team. That's not an argument for open borders. What the players demonstrate is something else entirely. Wall Street Journal. That people from around the world want to be a part of America. There is so much sleight of hand in this story, it is crazy. Take a true statement that ambitious people from everywhere strengthen this country quietly substitute a different claim that borders, citizenship, ship and legal distinctions no longer matter. That's what's happening here. You're watching a magic show. They're not the same argument. And then you get John Cornyn coming in. John Cornyn. John Cornyn. Republicans already made their judgment on you in 2026 in the primary.
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Ricky
Hmm.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Jason
Oh, my gosh.
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Glenn Beck
It was just this year, wasn't it? It seems such a long time ago. He lost his party's nomination. Ken Paxton, 1. Ken won despite being outspent by Cornyn. 10 to 1. You couldn't buy the voters. Okay. Why? Because people are done with the Republican establishment and people like John Cornyn. What makes moments like this so striking is here's a politician rejected by his own voters who is still trying to shape a conversation they've moved beyond. Maybe it's conviction, maybe it's habit, maybe. Maybe it's something else.
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Brad Meltzer
Hmm.
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Glenn Beck
I wonder what that could be. Either way, the larger story is not about one senator. It's about the political and media establishment just making mistakes in volume for influence, for forever. For my whole life, they just assumed they were the referees. And for my whole life, they generally were the referees. But today you're discovering, wait a minute. I'm just an ordinary participant. Participant in the game. I'm just. I'm in the bleachers here. How did that happen? And I think that's the most encouraging part of this whole story. A new generation is coming up behind these weasels in the media and these weasels in Washington. People who are tired of the stale arguments, the broken trust, the endless attempt to divide Americans into competing camps. We're done with it. They all want. I don't care who they vote for. I actually do. If you're a socialist, you don't want this. But generally speaking, everybody who's joining in now, they want a country confident enough to welcome visitors, proud enough to be admired. Clear enough about what citizenship means. Look at the. Listen to the people in Boston. A country we want, a country that is open to those who want to contribute. If you come here legally, raise your hand, take an oath, commit yourself to the nation's future. Generally speaking, we're happy Welcoming you, okay, Because America does not owe anyone a place here, but because citizenship means joining a shared project. We want you here if you want to share in it. The question in. Oh, man. The question is not what America can do for you. The question is, what can you do to help build America? That's the country millions of visitors are seeing right now. A group of people who are like, they love their country. They're nice. They don't want to hate people. That's not who they are. And maybe someday the United States lifts the World cup trophy. It would be sweet, but this year, the trophy is not the most important thing. To me, what's remarkable is that the people who were told to fear America spend 90 minutes at a time seeing it for themselves. And they're discovering that the country they were warned about is not the country they were they found. So who's been lying to them the whole time? And why? By the way, Cornyn, we're not going to miss you. It's sad. It's really sad and pathetic to see you've lost and now you're doing everything you can to burn the house down on the way out. It's really sad. We should have seen how much you really. I mean, how it's almost psychotic. If I can't have you, no one will. It's psychotic. You're a really bad boyfriend or ex husband. Really bad. And I, for one, not going to miss you. I'm glad they threw your ass out the door in Texas. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you about rough greens. I think dogs have a pretty good deal. You know, they don't pay taxes, they don't have to work. We have these two dogs that we. We. We got. Cause they were abandoned. And so we're. They're sitting on our porch. They sleep all the time. I mean, it's like, can you guys do something? I don't know what you have to do, but you should do something, don't you think? I mean, it's an admirable way to go through life, I guess, to do something, but we take care of them, we feed them. We make sure they're getting the nutrition that they need. Which is why I'm a fan of rough greens. It's not a dog food. It's a powerful supplement that you can add to your dog's existing food, packed with vitamins and minerals and probiotics and omegas and antioxidants and all the other stuff your dog needs, because your dog is doing something. As my wife will say, those dogs are doing something. They're providing love. I just love them so much. And then she gets all slobbery with them. Feed your dog the food that your, their, their body needs. Keep them healthy. Give them the good, healthy life. Get a free Jumpstart trial bag. Just cover shipping. It's Rough Greens. R U F F greens.com use the discount code beck. It's ruff greens.com promo code beck. Rough greens makes any dog food better. 10 seconds. Station ID.
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Glenn Beck
If you're trying to teach your kids or yourself about American history. I mean, this is the summer to join torch. I mean, there is so much going on. And on July 1st, I think that's next week, we're doing a live special. We have a new doc that is coming out, America 250 doc, and it's called the Golden Door. And it's really, really good. We take you from New York to the White House. And it is, I mean, it's, it's really well done. Really, really well done. I'll be there live. We'll be taking questions and things. Jason will be with me. And we'll be doing it from Washington, DC. It is on July 1st, 8pm only on Torch. You're really going to love this because of the history and inspiration and quite honestly, the truth. Here is a trailer from Golden Door that premieres on Torch next week. Now, on the base of the Statue of Liberty is a poem, and it's called the New Colossus. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe. Break free the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these the homeless tempest toss to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. For more than a century, Americans heard those lines as an invitation to the world's dreamers, the fighters, the people who looked at tyranny and said, I'm going to go to a place where a man can rise, where I can be who I was born to be. It was never intended to be a suicide pact. And that's why I say this with zero apology, zero new immigration until we can get this right. Because you, you can't understand immigration if you first don't understand its purpose. Well, we're going to correct that. From New York City, where it all started, we'll take a tour through history from some of the historic sites that Wrote the immigration story in our country. And speaking of stories, I'm going to tell you the story of a young woman who stepped off a boat from Scotland. One generation later, her child was achieve something I can guarantee you she could have never dreamt of. You think this kind of success happens in Somalia? Begins next week. You'll see it live with me. June, July 1, 8pm Let me just play a little montage of the people who are coming and what they're saying about America. Let's remember this. Listen, Do we have it?
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Here are the things I love about Americans. First of all, amount of patriotism flags everywhere. And I absolutely love it. Nobody on this planet can come even close to the amount of patriotism Americans have. Especially American, South American. Another thing that really stands out is the amount of water Americans consume daily. Believe it or not, nobody else drinks so much clean water as Americans. At first I thought, oh my God, this is so dumb. Nobody needs so much water. And to be honest, the only dumb one in this situation was me. I decided to give it a try and started drinking water on regular basis. And I've never felt better. Headaches went away, skin cleared out. It absolutely amazing thing. I love small talk. It makes you feel so much better. Of course, nobody gives how you're really doing that your day is crap. No, that's why you put a smile on your face. You leave your problems at home and a cashier tells you, hi, how are you doing? With a smile on her face, it automatically brightens your day. And I love it.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, I am just walking around randomly, no idea what's ahead of me. But I gotta show you these houses and these places.
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Glenn Beck
No 10 foot fences. No rabid people trying to burgle, rape and murder the citizens in Washington. My goodness, look. This is. Wow, look at this. They really used to build beautiful buildings. Look at that. That would be a death trap in South Africa. Imagine walking through there in the middle of the day or the middle of night. I can also basically guarantee you'd have your throat slit in South Africa, but not yet. This is the land of the free, ladies and gentlemen. This is actually truly overwhelming. Look at that little fence. Such a tiny little fence that's literally just decorative. Let me stop this here, let me stop this here. This is how we change the world. This is honestly why the French made the Statue of Liberty for us. They were trying to teach their own people. It's why Washington crossing the Delaware. That painting was painted in Germany for the Germans by a German painter saying, look, America has It. We have beat our chests and we are like, we're going to make everybody free. You're gonna. We're gonna come in and bomb you, and then we're gonna give you our. Your freedom the way we like to give it to you. No, the way to change the world is live the example. Just live the example. And then when people come over here, they do what they're doing. My gosh, you would not believe America. They have it down. Look at what they're doing now. We don't have it down. You know that. I know that. Imagine how bad it is over in their countries that they think we've got it down. We don't need to get arrogant. We need just to. To recognize, yeah, this is a special place. This is a place that is different than everywhere else in the world. And it's good. It's good. Do we have problems to fix? Yes. Can we fix them? Yes. Why can we fix them? Because we're Americans. So let's fix it the American way, not the European way. European way is government will fix it. You just sit down, stay out of it. We'll fix it. We'll tell you how to live your life. It's not the American way. That's not how we got here. This is the greatest example I have ever seen in my lifetime of just live your life the way you're supposed to. People will notice and they'll say, my gosh, we got to be more like that. What makes them special. That's how you take real freedom, the real principles of our country, and share them with the world. Not through the State Department, not through usaid, not through any of that. Live your principles, America, and people will notice and want it. All right, let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. Imagine going online to the homepage of your cell phone provider, and the first thing you see is that the provider believes, you know, in the same things that you believe in. They not only provide amazing, affordable service that you can't beat, but also they use some of the money that they're making to help fund pro American conservative causes. What? Well, it's possible. Patriot Mobile, they're the America's only Christian conservative wireless provider, and they offer the dependable nationwide coverage on all three major networks. So you're not going to lose. You're not going to lose anything from where you already are because they're using the same systems. Okay? And you're going to get the same service just as. Just as importantly, at a lower price, and you're going to be doing business With a company that supports free speech and the sanctity of life and the second amendment and our military and our first responder heroes. You know, you don't have to put up with the woke companies anymore. Don't do it. Don't do it. Switch. Make the switch today. Pay the bill and feel good about it. Patriot mobile.com Beck patriot mobile.com Beck or call 972 Patriot. Use a promo code.
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Ricky
has a powerful message for young adults who think their future is doomed. It's not. Stay with us on the Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn Beck
okay. It has been, it's been a pleasure in the last couple of weeks as we're building up to the 250th anniversary to be able to teach you about America and tell you some of the stories about America and show how all of our problems really can be solved if we go back and look at our history. And I'd love to hear from you, you know, if you could write us or you know, just drop us a line somewhere. Another, I just like to know if it's connecting with you, if you're like been there, done that, heard that before. Because I, I know I find such strength in learning from history, you know, and I have been trying to teach American history over the last couple of weeks and teach you and even teach myself. But I want to talk today just for a second. The person who is holding the phone right now looking at it and pretty sure that the future has already been canceled. This is the younger generation. And I can't imagine what it's like to grow up being you today because nothing is, nothing seems real. Nothing seems solid. You know, and the first thing you need to know is this. Your fear is not stupid. It's not. You look out and you, you, you look out to the world and you see reasons to worry everywhere. I do, too. I do too. But I have a well that I can pull from. You know, you were told civilization has 20 years left unless we solve the crisis at the moment. And you're probably 20. Okay, you see machines now that can write and paint and code and think faster than you can. And you wonder, are jobs even going to exist by the time I get there? You see prices of things completely detached from paychecks, housing detached from wages, headlines that read like countdown clocks on everything. You've done the math on your life, the life that you were promised. And the numbers don't work. And you know that. And so you feel like you've been lied to. And I'm not going to tell you to cheer up. That's a little insulting. Hey, cheer up. Hang in there, Kitty. But I want to tell you something that history class never got around to teaching you because this is where the all the secrets lie. You're not the first generation to be handed the end of the world. It happens all the time. You're just the first generation that was taught that you're not going to survive it. You're not strong enough to do it. So let me introduce you to some people. There was a guy named James Monroe. He was crossing an. An icy river in the dark to attack an unbelievable. The strongest army in the world. They had no chance of winning. That kid when he was in the boat, he was 18 years old. James Monroe, there's a French aristocrat, aristocrat that is named Lafayette. Lafayette is here. Okay. Lafayette crossed an ocean to fight for a country that wasn't even his. You know how old Lafayette was? 19. Alexander Hamilton was an immigrant orphan barely out of his teens. Nathan Hale, they put a rope around his neck and he said, my only regret is I only have one life to give for my country. You know how old he was? 21. Okay, these aren't old men in powdered wigs. Wigs came later. The paintings. In 1776. They were young, scared, broke and in way over their heads. They didn't have an army. They had no meaningful navy. They had no money worth Speaking of. They were rebelling against the most powerful empire on earth with odds that made any modern day strategist laugh and go. I mean, the king laughed. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Rebel all you want. If you would have told them they had no future, you wouldn't have sounded irrational. You would have sounded realistic. Most of the world would agree. But they built something anyway. And that's the part that matters. Not that they weren't afraid. They were. They acted despite what they were feeling. They acted despite what they felt the world had handed them. And if you look at this story honestly, you have to look at everything honestly. Otherwise it becomes propaganda. Maybe the reason you've struggled to love this country is because you've spent your life hearing about all of its failures. Maybe you've come to assume that anyone telling the bright version of the story is hiding the receipts. I Mean, just look at that. Did you know that those guys were in their teens? Did you know that at the time of the revolution they were in their teens? Well, then how could they be the powerful, rich, greedy, you know, capitalist that was just trying to. They're in their teens. Put the receipts down on the table. Let's look at all of the facts. The same generation that wrote all men are created equal tolerated slavery. That's a fact. America broke its promises to native tribes. That's a fact. We interred the Japanese. That's a fact. We have fallen short of our own ideals so many times it's hard to count. Sometimes really brutally, most times shamefully. And those facts don't disappear because they're uncomfortable. But neither does something else. America is unusual because it was founded not just on blood or language or tribe or territory. It was founded on an argument. It was founded on a sentence. We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. That is the strangest national foundation in history. Nobody had ever uttered those words before. And here's why it was really strange. Because it embedded inside of that sentence a measuring stick. The measuring stick that judges everyone who touches it, including the men who wrote it. Slavery violated that principle immediately. The abolitionists didn't need to import a foreign philosophy to fight slavery. They used that line, America's own founding words, and said, that's your ruling stick. That's your. That's, that's it. That's your measuring stick. You're failing. The suffragettes did the same thing. The civil rights movement, Martin Luther King did the same thing.
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Jason
He didn't.
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Glenn Beck
Martin Luther King didn't reject the promise. He argued that America failed to keep the promise. He called it a promissory note that had come back marked insufficient funds. And he demanded, we're not. Don't abandon the founding principle. He demanded we honored it. That's important because most young people feel their attention that they can't explain. They love justice, but they're not sure they love America. Well, what if those two things are not opposed to each other? It's the people that fail. What if the instinct that makes you angry when America falls short is itself deeply American? Think about that. When you say, this is beneath us. This is, this is, we should do better. What standard are you judging it? Usually the ideals embedded in its founding equality, liberty, human dignity, equal justice, equal treatment and justice under the law. You're reaching into the same well that generations before you reached into. The founders drew from that. The abolitionists drew from that suffragists drew from it. King drew from that well, you're drawing from that well. Now your frustration is not proof the idea failed. It's proof the idea is still alive. Now let's talk about the apocalypse that's coming. Because every, every generation gets an apocalypse. And they all feel permanent. They all feel unprecedented, they all feel final. Your great grandparents got the Great Depression. They fought the Nazis. Can you imagine doing that? Banks collapsed in the Depression. Millions lost jobs, breadlines everywhere. The land seems to fail. You know, there was dust bowls. Serious people announced that democracy was finished, but it wasn't. Then your grandparents got the Cold War. Children practiced nuclear drills because they genuinely believed the world would end in an afternoon. And it could be this afternoon. 13 days the Cuban Missile crisis went on. Some of the smartest people alive thought civilization might not survive the month it did. And then there's crazy things like overpopulation. 1968, a Stanford professor named Paul Ehrlich published the population bomb. This thing is so discredited. Don't buy into the population bomb argument. Simple. Humanity is doomed. Mass starvation is inevitable. Hundreds of millions will die. Debate over, okay, Smart people believed it. Politicians believed it, Journalists believed it. The future was settled. We're all going to die. Then came a guy named Norman Burlog. He's a plant scientist. He's the guy who said, can we, can we develop a high yield wheat? Because if we can do that, then we can feed the world. The catastrophe that experts considered unavoidable never arrived because somebody had another idea. One stubborn man working in fields changed the equation. The that could be you, you don't know. But the pattern is worth remembering. Not the fears we fake, the fears are real. Depression was real. The Nazis were real. The Cold War was real. Nuclear annihilation was real. The threat of famine real. The pattern is that human beings keep solving problems after the experts declare they're unsolvable. Which brings us to the machine that you're going to have to deal with. And this is the hardest, most complex problem we've ever dealt with. Artificial intelligence. And unlike some people, I'm not going to dismiss your concerns. And I'm also not going to stand on the roof and say we're all going to die. Because look, this is real. And it is the defining technological question of your generation. But understand what the actual question is. The question isn't whether powerful technology is powerful. Technology. Powerful, yeah, it always has been powerful. The nuclear weapon. The question always is who governs the power? Who controls the power? Who benefits from the power who's protected from the power? That's not a new question. That's the oldest political question there is. The Founders wrestled with it, too. Not about algorithms, but about governments, empires, majorities, human nature itself. How do you. How do you prevent concentrated power from crushing individual dignity? Well, their answer wasn't perfect, but it was profound. Checks and balances. Consent of the governed, limits on authority, rights that exist before the government arrives and remain after the government leaves. The technology will change over and over again. Technology changes, but the question remains. So now we're back to the well. Because eventually every discussion about the future ends there, at the well. Why does a human being matter? Why do individuals matter? The Founders gave the answer, and you don't have to agree with it, but it shaped everything that followed. They argued that your rights don't come from a king or parliament or a president or majority or a corporation or a machine. They're inherent, and they belong to you because you're a human. That's what they meant by being endowed by your creator with certain inalienable rights. The source matters because anything granted by power can be revoked by power, any and everything. If the worth comes from the state, the state can redefine it. If. If your worth comes from public opinion, public opinion can withdraw it. If your worth comes from economic usefulness, a machine may eventually outperform you. But if human dignity exists independent of those things, then none of those things get the vote. Not the government, not the market, not the algorithm, not the crowd. None of it. That's the well. The belief that every person possesses value that cannot be measured by productivity, popularity, wealth, or utility. And wells matter because civilizations get thirsty and we are really, really thirsty. Sooner or later, every generation reaches a point where fear runs ahead of confidence, where problems look bigger than the solution, where decline seems inevitable, where people become convinced history has finally arrived at the chapter where everything falls apart and we're all doomed. And that's where you find out whether there's any water left in that well. And there is plenty of it. Same well previous generations have. Have had water from same one sustained people facing wars and depressions and revolutions and the Nazis and the crisis they were certain are going to destroy them. The future is not a weather report. It's not. It's not something that simply happens to you. It is something you help create. You weather. Every institution you inherited was once an impossible idea. Every freedom was once, and still is, fragile. Every improvement was once unfinished work. Somebody before you built those things while they were afraid, not after. The fear has Disappeared during that. And here's really a couple of keys that I haven't hit but will in a couple of days because I guess because I feel this way. Nothing feels real and you feel empty. Okay. Build something. Build what? It's all online. Let me leave you this. God connects you to your soul, and that's what connects you to your family and to other people. That's imperative. Have children. Be good to them. Be good to people. See people. And the second thing is build with your hands. Your body connects you to your soul and that cannot be dissevered. We're missing those two things. Those are really important because the torch is being handed to you now, not because previous generations finished the job they didn't. They knew they wouldn't. Nobody ever finishes it. That's why they pass it on to you. Believe in yourself. Believe in yourself. The work is still there, and so are you and so will you. Now go out and be the reason the apocalypse doesn't happen.
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Glenn Beck
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But just tell us where you are, where you want to buy and where you want to sell, and we'll help you find the right real estate agent. They're waiting for you now. Real estate agents I trust.com Glenn Beck. There's a new survey out from people who live in New York city and they're 63% of New Yorkers think that New York City has lost its standing as the greatest city in the world. But don't worry, we're going to fix that. We've just elected three more socialists. Okay. All right. Well, that'll fix it. New York More coming up. One of the most frustrating parts of hearing loss is it can, it can make you really feel disconnected without ever announcing itself. You're still in the room, you're still nodding along, still showing up, but you're working a lot harder just to keep up. And sometimes you're guessing more than you'd like to admit and you're just hoping. Don't ask me anything because I don't know what we're talking about anymore. 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We both love love, love history. We love exploring the things that nobody knows about and learning them just for ourselves, even if we don't share them. And then we bore everybody to death by sharing them. And strangely, if you catch us on a good day, we don't bore you to death. You're fascinated by it. Brad Meltzer is the king of this and he has written a new book, I Am Teddy Roosevelt. He has this whole book series out for kids about, you know, heroes of American history. And this one is about Teddy Roosevelt, who I have a love hate relationship with. I love the guy, but he was also and I give him a break and maybe I shouldn't, but I give him a break because it's, he's before you start to see the results of what deep progressivism does and you know, eugenics and everything else. But he was deeply into all that stuff. But he also at the same time is a monstrous hero. I mean just, he belongs on Mount Rushmore because he is a giant sized hero, a man like no other. Brad is going to talk to us about that and then we're going back to the news here in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to any of us is taking things for granted. Freedom, safety, peace, you know, these, these things have a feeling of permanency right until the moment they're not. And that is one of the reasons I pay attention to what is happening in Israel. Most of us go about our daily lives. Millions of Israelis wake up every morning in a part of a world where the threat of violence is very real and they don't have the luxury of forgetting about how precious peace really is. That's why I'm grateful for the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. They give us a way to stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters. I don't care how you feel about Israel. I don't. You know, you. You can be for Benjamin Netanyahu against Benjamin Netanyahu. You can think the war is great or think the war is horrible. Doesn't matter what you think about the Jewish people matters. Do they have a right to exist and not be hunted or blamed for everything? Yeah, I do. And I know history well enough to know they're the canary in the coal mines. Whenever a society goes dark, that's the. That's the first thing that happens. People get wildly anti Semitic. Okay, so that's happening now. So what can you do about it? Well, I would like to suggest that you take one step of courage today. And this is so sad that this is courageous, but it is. Take one step. Get a free US Israel flag pin today and wear it once. Just wear it. Okay. Simple reminder that two nations are united by shared values and a common God. Flagpinifcj.org Get it for free. Flagpinifcj.organ request your US is real. Flag pin. Flag pin ifcj.org Brad, how are you, my man?
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Brad Meltzer
I miss you. So good to see you.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, so good to see you. Thank you so for joining us on Zoom. So I want to talk to you, I want to talk to you about Teddy Roosevelt, but let's start with the news. The, the fight that happened at the White House. I thought of Theodore Roosevelt the whole time. Everybody is freaking out. Theodore Roosevelt, that's his kind of thing, don't you think?
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Brad Meltzer
Well, here's what I think. I actually was not a fan of the fight at the White House because I just felt like it was. I think what I love about the Teddy Roosevelt is Teddy Roosevelt would fight. Teddy Roosevelt was the guy who got in the ring. Yes. He had fights there.
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Announcer
Correct.
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Brad Meltzer
But also wanted to fight there. I just don't like the money making part of it. Right. Like, I like the fighting part. I get. I, you know, Teddy Roosevelt has this. Nixon has bowling. Everyone present has their thing. I just didn't like the cash value of it. But, of course, how could I not think of Teddy Roosevelt? When you're thinking of fighting, it's the guy who truly, you know, was. Was the guy who had fights at the White House.
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Glenn Beck
How do you, how do you reconcile him as a. As a parent? Because I. There's parts of me that absolutely loves him as a parent, and there's parts of me that go, you would be in jail today. He used to take his kids out, and I don't remember the age. You probably do. But he would take them out. They were very young, and he would just take them out in the middle of the forest and say, find your way home. And they'd have to find their way home because he taught them how to survive in anything.
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Brad Meltzer
Listen, he's complicated. Every hero. And I. Listen, I owe you a huge thank you. This whole series started. I came and launched it on your show. It was to give people better American heroes to look up to. We started with the obvious. I am Abraham Lincoln. I am Amelia Earhart. People we love. I am Rosa Parks. We've done together on the show. And every book I've done, Glenn, someone has written to me and said, that person has this wrong with them, that wrong with them. They shouldn't have done this. They shouldn't have done that. And they're right. Every person we've written about is complicated. The only person that's perfect and you know is, of course, God and everyone else. Take a number, right? We're all flawed in some way. And Teddy Roosevelt, the reason why it took me so long. This is our 39th book in the series, is he was most complicated, maybe the most complicated person we've written about. And, yes, I don't feature some of the things he's done that you've talked about. I don't feature problematic things he's done as his presidency goes on. But you know what I do feature? I love the fact that when he's a little kid, his father doesn't like bullies. And his father says, when you have money and you have power, that doesn't make you fantastic or strong or terrific. What it does is it gives you responsibility, a responsibility to help other people. So you see those orphans that are in the streets, they have no place to live. We got to help them. You see these workers that are suffering under bad conditions, we got to stand up and make sure they're not being taken advantage of. And that's what he does with the environment and the great outdoors. Our mutual love, right, has always been, is he goes to those great outdoors and says, we have to protect them, and we have a responsibility to the environment, too. And those are the parts, of course, that I picked to feature in the book. Sure. You know, my editor was like, maybe we shouldn't talk about the later parts of his life. Maybe we shouldn't talk about these parts. But maybe we don't talk about abandoning your kids in the wilderness. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have amazing, amazing things to teach us.
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Glenn Beck
No, I know, but I mean, you're writing a kid's book, and I get that you cover all the important things that make him a great guy, but I. But he is so. I think he's probably the. The president that is. He's probably the most complicated president since Jefferson. I think those two. I have a hard time reconciling. I like both of them. I like. And I can understand both of them. And maybe because Roosevelt is closer to me, and I don't even know if this is right. You know, he was a big eugenist guy. I mean, we have some documents where he is like, look, we wouldn't do this with our cattle, just let them breed with anybody. We got to pick and choose who we breed, you know, who we let have children. But I look at that and think, he's at the beginning of this science. He doesn't understand what it's going to turn into. And you could have made that case back then because you didn't have any negative. Am I being too kind on that, or do you feel.
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Brad Meltzer
I don't think you're being too kind on eugenics. I mean, that's a huge issue. I think, as we all look, that's a moment in time where I certainly don't think he knows what's going to happen in the future and what it's going to be turned into. Of course, what I focus on very strongly is how he gets there. And as you said, he's a complicated president. But as a person and as someone growing up, it's an incredibly great hero to give to my kids and all that. Let's talk about why, because it is important. I think today, Teddy Roosevelt is sometimes held out as being that strong guy, the macho guy. Look at him. He's the big stick, the whole thing. But that's not who he is. When he's growing up, he's actually sick a lot. He's smaller than everyone else. He gets picked on. He's so scared when he's little that his mother used to read to him to go to bed because he was so scared to go to bed, he used to get bullied. And that's when he takes boxing lessons because his dad is like, listen, you know, fighting is a last resort, but if you're being picked on, you got to stand up. And I can tell you, my editor wanted to take that part out of the book. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Right. We have to put that in. I learned the same thing from my dad. I remember being picked on and my dad teaching me how to throw a punch. And not that that's the answer, but listen, when you're pushed around and someone picks on you, you have to stand up and say no. And that was a key part of the book that we put in there. And what I love is. Go ahead.
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Glenn Beck
Do you think that's his turning point?
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Brad Meltzer
I think the turning point is this. And it's the part that I think you and I, I'm going to wager just knowing how much we know each other is your favorite part of his story, which is his turning point. He's not the great outdoorsman. He loves animals. His whole life, he, you know, he had, like, mice and. And. And spiders used to keep in his room. He was a weird kid. He keep, like, animals in his pockets. And he, you know, called his bedroom in Roosevelt Museum of Natural History that it's a weird kid. But here's the turning point. His father dies, and then soon after, his mother and his wife die on the same day, Glenn, on Valentine's Day. And on that day, he's devastated, Loses the great two women in his life, and he can't get over it. So he moves in that moment. He can't. He's suffering in New York. He moves to their ranch out in North Dakota. And in North Dakota, he just sits under the stars and he listens to the wolves. And it's there that he really develops that need and that and that truth, what I can call his experience in the great outdoors. He. He's never a great rider until he gets out there, and then he starts spending 12 hours, 13 days in the saddle. You know what that takes in in degrees that are crazy below zero temperatures. And what I love about him when he does that is it's not. He's not the best rider. It's. He worked hard in it day after day. And if being out in nature teaches him anything, it's like success doesn't come from having natural gifts. It comes from how hard you work those gifts. And that's where he falls in love and starts protecting the outdoors. And on this one, July 4th, as we come up to July 4th ourselves, he gives this speech. They asked him to speak, and he says this quote, and this is his speech. He says, like all Americans, I love big things. Big prairies, big forests, big factories. But we also have a responsibility to protect things that can't take care of themselves. And that's when he starts protecting Yellowstone and Yosemite and Niagara Falls. And he creates five national parks, those national parks that you and I love. So much. They exist because of Teddy Roosevelt. That's who gave us the national parks and federal lands and wildlife bird preserves, and that's why he's on Mount Rushmore. Not because of, you know, even the big stick or the freedom fighters or anything else. It's all because of what he does to our national park. So next time you're in a national park this summer, say a prayer and thank Teddy Roosevelt for that one. And to me, that is the lesson I wanted for my kids, to teach them that love of the great outdoors.
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Glenn Beck
I love Mount Rushmore. I love her on Mount Rushmore. But I find it. I find it so ironic that they carved his face in a mountain and he was the guy who was protecting and saying, leave everything, leave the mountains alone. And they carve his face into it. So ironic.
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Brad Meltzer
Great is when you every. When I've been to Mount Rushmore, I can't even tell you. Every time that I've been there, I have someone, because I can't help but listen on everyone, and someone says, oh, yeah, there it is. Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and fdr. And I'm like, it's not fdr. I can't help myself. I'm just like, it's not. It's the other Roosevelt. There's another Roosevelt.
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Glenn Beck
I know.
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Brad Meltzer
And. And that is the irony, of course. My favorite part of Mount Rushmore. My favorite part of Mount Rushmore, you know, there's a secret room behind Mount Rushmore, which I spent a lot of months trying to get into. It's just a storage room. But the fact that there's a secret room behind Mount Rushmore, Come on, maybe, you know, I love that.
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Glenn Beck
So cool. One thing that this, the story, to me, that defines him and his just inner strength to go on is he is going over to accept the nomination to run for president, and he's going to run against Wilson, and he's trying to get the nomination of the Progressive Party, blah, blah, blah, which he starts, and he's going to give this speech. And he talks so long. He's so long winded. He talks so long. He folds this speech up and he puts it in his pocket. He has then his glasses, and he puts his glasses into his pocket, into his shirt pocket. He puts a heavy coat on. He goes across the street, somebody shoots him. The bullet goes through his glasses. Then through the speech, which I have the speech.
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Brad Meltzer
I know you have the speech. Trust me. I was waiting all day because I know you told me you have it. I didn't know if I was supposed to say, say it or not.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah, listen. It's a great bullet hole in it. The speech saves his life.
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Brad Meltzer
Saves his life, Protects him in the assassination attempt. I debated putting that into the book because it's so good, but it goes through. It goes through. I love the fact that a politician is protected by his own words.
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Glenn Beck
I know, I know. So it goes through the speech. It's slowed down so much that it just lodges between his ribs and it stays between his ribs forever. But then he goes on to give a 45, and he's saying, right? And he's saying, please, you know, you gotta. There's no microphones or anything. There's thousands of people there. And he has to project and give this speech. And at one point, his coat kind of opens up and everybody sees all the blood on his shirt and they laugh or they, like, gasp. And he's like, I told you I was shot. But nobody believed him.
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Brad Meltzer
Nobody. Well, that's the best part, is I'm finishing the speech because I'm not done.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Brad Meltzer
And that.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Brad Meltzer
I know, again, he's complicated, but he has these hero moments that you're like, oh, my goodness. Like, you can't. If I get. If I put that in one of my thrillers, my editor would say, no one's gonna believe that. No, there's no one that's gonna believe that. But he over and over has these moments. Like he. Even when he's younger, he has these moments when bullies come and pick on him and he goes and gets the boxing lessons. You can hear the Rocky theme being played in your head. And he then fights back and beats up the bullies, and, you know, again, it sounds like something that's just made up, but the fact that this guy rises and when he goes to run for the. For his first office, he loses. He comes in third. He runs for mayor of New York. And I love the fact that he loses, and I love the fact that he won't stay down on the mat and keeps getting back up. That's why I wrote the kids book for him, is I want my. My sons, I want my daughter to have that lesson that you can be. It's what it says in the back of the book. You know, every. Every kid's book. We do. Yes, they're history books, but they're value books. So. On the back of I am Amelia Earhart, it says, I know no bounds. On the back of I am Abraham Lincoln, it says, I will speak my mind and speak for others. On the back of I am Teddy Roosevelt, it says, you know, become a force in nature. And right now, America 250, I'm a force in nature on the back and And I as America 250 approaches, we obviously time this book for that is I wanted to give my kids a lesson of what kind of American they should be at America 250. And Teddy Roosevelt, complicated as we all are, is the man.
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Jason
Yep.
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Glenn Beck
Brad, I love you. Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing the book. It's a great book for your kids. Make sure you get it. I am Teddy Roosevelt. I am Teddy Roosevelt. And the whole series by Brad Belt. Thanks, Brad. Appreciate it. Back in just one minute. Let me tell you about rapid radios. There's a difference between something being convenient and something being reliable. Convenience is nice to have. Reliability is a thing you discover you can't live without. If you're coordinating a job site, managing a crew, keeping track of a family member on a road trip, I mean going to Washington, D.C. with the whole my whole family is coming and there's like 10 of us and we're all going to be at Washington, D.C. you want to make sure that you can reach each other quickly. You don't want to wonder whether messages got through, et cetera, et cetera. And that's why I like rapid radios. We're taking them to Washington. Instant push to talk radios nationwide. LTE coverage that lets you communicate clearly over thousands of miles. You get crystal clear audio, no static, no delay, and the ability to talk to one another. You in large, large groups at the same time. They're private, they're ready to use right out of the box. And they don't require contracts, limited time. Go to rapidradios.com Beck sorry/ bundle for their exclusive Buy more, save more event two walkie talkies get one completely free. You need one for your crew by six to get three bonus radios absolutely free every order, 365 days of service, free shipping, 30 day money back guarantee. Go now to rapidradios.com bonus bundle rapidradios.com bundle 10 seconds station ID.
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Glenn Beck
your opinion on this. Just talking about Theodore Roosevelt and how he went on to give that speech for 45 minutes almost an hour before they took him to the hospital after being shot. There is no doubt in my mind that if Secret Service would have allowed it, Donald Trump would have gotten back off. Now, I know it was only an ear wound, but he is caught from existence exactly the same cloth as Theodore Roosevelt. He would have gotten back up and said, I'm finishing the speech. I don't care. Secret Service would not have allowed him to do that. And it's not the president's prerogative in those situations to override the Secret Service. They protect the Constitution. And the President is part of that line. But is there any doubt in your mind he would have gotten back up and finished that speech?
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Jason
Oh, no. You saw the look on his face. He, he, he was pissed. He was absolutely pissed. And he was holding the Secret Service back with his fist clenched in the air. 100% he wanted to stay out there.
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Glenn Beck
But yeah, can you imagine what he would have said in that? That speech would have been remarkable. Could have been really, really bad, but it could have been really good. It would have been remarkable to hear him say in the moment after being shot to stand back, back up and just speak. I mean, yeah, I would. I, you know, I wish we could go back in time and just watch an alternate universe version of that to see what he would have said. You know what, next time I interview him, I'm going to ask him, what do you think you would have said? I'll bring him the speech with Theodore Rose with a bullet hole through it and have him see that and then ask him. He went on to speak. I know Secret Service wouldn't let you. What would you have said? Be fascinating. Fascinating. I don't know. Do you know anybody like that, Jason? I mean, you're in this. You were in the service. You were in the Marines. So you guys are all tough guys. Do you know anybody like that in
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Jason
a public official, like a politician?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah.
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Jason
No, actually not. Because I, I've been involved with protecting a few of them and I can't. Most of them, I think, would have been running for the hills.
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Glenn Beck
You've protected me in scary situations. I think I would have run for the hills. Do you think I would have run for the hills?
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Jason
You would have looked at something to crawl under.100%.
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Glenn Beck
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Ricky
destroys the lies you've been told about immigration and a live Torch special. Join us today@torch250.com and watch along live with Glenn.torch250.com.
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Announcer
History only survives if they do. Listen with your family today to the brand new audiobook of Glenn's New York Times bestseller, chasing embers@torch250.com
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Glenn Beck
Unbelievable. I've got a lot of things to do. Jason, I want to bring you back in because I want to finish our conversation real quick about our conversation between Theodore Roosevelt and Donald Trump. If Donald Trump would have finished the speech, I don't know. Did you see the thing? It's cut 10 where Joe Rogan was talking at the UFC fight and talking about, you know, maybe there we could have been killed. You know, is anybody worried? I'm a little worried about being killed. Donald Trump without blinking. Listen to this. Cut 10.
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Jason
I was honestly really nervous, Joe.
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Glenn Beck
I was like, dude, there's like just again being around everybody and something could happen. The drones that, you know, that they stopped like again, I wasn't knowing what to expect and then till after the
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Jason
fight because again, we couldn't take it in.
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Glenn Beck
It was a beautiful thing. And Justin, I was like, if I get taken out in the middle of the cage, how legendary would that be? I saw Trump, I go, I hope we don't. I said to Trump, I hope we don't die in a terrorist attack. He goes, we gotta go.
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Announcer
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Glenn Beck
everyone remember for the rest of eternity. Yeah, but no, I'll pass. Sign me up. That is the way he is, though. Gotta go somewhere. Look, gotta go. Might. Today might be the day. He is just a different dude. And I. I love that about him.
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Jason
I do, too. And what's crazy about this situation that they're in that he's just gotten accustomed to. Did you see the. The Melania documentary? I think it's on prime or whatever. You could tell there were multiple different occasions where Melania set in right before the inauguration with her husband. And you could tell she was terrified. Like, they're like, oh, we can go here. You can get outside. And she's like, oh, my gosh. Even places that, like, seemed like they might be so insecure, she wasn't completely sold.
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Glenn Beck
I. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't get the feeling that she was terrified. I got the feeling she was terrified for him. It wasn't about her. She was like, are you going to keep him safe? That's the way I remember it. I don't know if that's what she said, but. You going to keep him safe? Is that safe to do? She was. I got that impression.
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Jason
I feel like I got it wrong. I feel like at one point Baron was going to be at one of these locations, and it seems like she mentioned something. Something like that about just being nervous for him. But I mean, the fact that you have gotten into that point.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, oh, yeah.
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Jason
Oh, yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Do you remember when were you. You weren't with me in Israel. Israel became an actual military operation when I did that show there. And everybody tried to get me not to do it. And I'm like, I'm doing it. And I was called in the prime minister's office that morning, and he said, this is no longer your event. This is an Israeli military operation. There are two suicide vests out that are targeting your event. We will have security all over that place beyond your security. And we got there and, I mean, they had, you know, little red dots. You know, you would see them on the back wall of the Temple Mount once in a while. You could see the snipers were everywhere. And it was a military event. And. And, you know, Tanya. Tanya was there with me.
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Visitor/Interviewee
Me.
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Glenn Beck
But she would not let the kids come, and I didn't want the kids there anyway because they were too young. But she was like, you know that. I mean, that's a mom. No, but she was there, not the kids. Yeah, kids.
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Jason
It was a military operation to protect you over there because of like military opera, people like terrorists that use military tactics. It's crazy that that is how it has devolved here in the United States as well. I mean, we, we just had the, the first federal antivateral prosecution and they're using military style tactics. Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Good. So I want to talk about this because this is the way, this is the way everybody is reporting this. Update text. Eight Texas protesters were sentenced today following a July 4th noise demo outside of an ICE detention center. The federal government rounded up 18 activists tied to an anti ICE protest in Texas claiming they were part of an antifa cell. That is the first big test of Trump's crackdown on free speech. Okay, they say they were just protesters. Protesters don't come and shoot a cop or an ICE agent in the neck. Okay? You don't, you don't come with a military plan to a protest. You are a terrorist. You don't do that. This, I mean, what is this, what is the noise demo thing? What are they claiming that this was a noise disturbance? Do you know, Ricky?
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Ricky
No, but Jason, you know, was pretty close to some, some of the people in the ring. I'm kidding, Jason. And he has a lot of details about actually how much plotting went into this. So it wasn't just an organic grassroots protest. This was a real terrorist plot, Jason.
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Jason
So the, the noise demo thing was, I, I think was just the, the fireworks display that they did to, to that. That was not a noise, demo and protest. That was the way that they got them over to the kill zone.
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Glenn Beck
The only, the only noise that should be concerned about was the, as the guy is bleeding out from his neck after you shot him. That's the noise that people would, should be concerned about. So tell me about the planning of this thing because people are upset now. They got 100 years. And I'm telling you, if this, if liberal judges get a hold of this and they reduce this sentence and make this sentence go away, Texas is doomed. This sends a message to antifa and everybody else. You can protest all you want. You bring a gun and you bring violence into it. That's not a protest, that's terror. And you're going away in Texas for the rest of your life. That's the only thing that will send a message to these people. And that's the message they need to, they need to hear. So what planning went on?
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Jason
Yeah, just wild. I mean, we talked about just, you know, the plan in general that looked like a military style attack, you know, a distraction get them into a kill zone. Then you read about what investigators recovered afterwards. And I'm reading this from Andy Ngo, who's been following this really closely. He said investigators recovered a cache of weapons, ammunition and electronic devices stored in Faraday bags. Authorities also later recovered antifa anarchist propaganda. Testimony established that members of the group had trained together and collectively acquired more than 50 firearms before the attack. And this is not to mention how they were, you know, using, you know, signal groups to coordinate movements, even escape afterwards. I mean, there, the, There were no witnesses to this that would, that would testify in their behalf. The only witnesses that actually testified on this were members of their own group that turned state evidence and worked with the prosecution against their comrades. I guess they would call them just wild.
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Glenn Beck
So two of them were sentenced to 70 and another one to 100 years. The one who wasn't even at the protest was sentenced to 30 years. You don't get that kind of sentence, you know, for a protest. You don't. What kind of deal do you think the people that testified turned against them? What. What kind of deal did they get?
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Jason
That's a, That's a good question. So there's eight. Eight of them of the co defendants and their sentencing is scheduled for July 4th. So we'll find out very soon.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, my.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
What an amazing day to lose your freedom. Wow. Wow, that's. Do judges even work on July 4th? That's an interesting day. July 1st to. Oh, July 1st. Oh, that. You said July 4th. Okay, that's fascinating. Fascinating. Well, I mean, I have absolutely no sympathy. When I heard it. I don't usually cheer at verdicts or anything else. I, you know, justice. Justice is justice. But I heard this one and I abs. And when I, when it first happened, I said, good. Which is the mo. The closest I get to cheering for a verdict that is absolutely the right verdict. That is absolutely the right sentence. I should say. If, if, you know, these guys went in with guns, military operation, they. Absolutely. It's like the other people. What did the other guy get in Dallas, do you know? Has he been tried or sentenced yet? The guy in Dallas, he committed suicide.
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Ricky
So he got eternity in hell.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. The only thing that will stop these people, because they all think that, I mean, some of, some of them are not going to stop. Some of them are so committed they will kill and be killed. And, you know, you're not going to stop those people with deterrence. But there's a lot of people that are, you know, 18 years old or 25 years old and they're like, yeah, you were just protesting. No, there is a big line between protesting that is protected by the constitution. If you're protesting and you're not bringing violence into the situation and you're saying stuff that I absolutely despise, I'll testify on your behalf. But you're bringing. You're bringing violence into it. Nope, nope. You shoot somebody. No, no. I'm GLAD you get 100 years. Because that message, you know, there's a reason why we used to have automatic death penalty for cops. You shoot a cop, it is automatic death penalty. And in the old days, it used to happen quickly. Oh, you got the sentence. It's death penalty. Take them outside, shoot them. I mean, it was fast. You'd be hung in a week. And they did that because too many cops were getting killed. And as soon as that happened, you saw all the organized crime and everything else, they stopped killing cops immediately. People generally get the message, I get caught, I die. In this country, the problem is, especially, like, a place like California, I get caught, I'm gonna. I'm gonna be in prison for a few years. I'll probably be let out on parole, and I'm not gonna die. Even if they give me the death penalty, I'm gonna live my life out. Nope, if you're gonna have the death penalty, carry it out. Carry it out, and carry it out quickly. Send the message. All right. Back in just a minute. Let me tell you about. Super sure. One of the. One of the strangest things about running a business is that success sometimes creates problems. When you first start out, you dream about having more customers, then you get more customers, and now you need more employees. So you hire more employees, and now you need more space, and you get more space, and now you need more equipment. And of course, through all of that, the building, all the things, especially all the people, that requires some pretty serious and usually very confusing insurance. Oh, I just wanted to build a widget. Have you ever been that? If you're a small business owner, I know you felt that way. Why? I just want to do this. I'm just. I know I can help people. I can make people's life easier because I can build this. And it seems like everything is trying to stop me from doing this, that. And I'm not good at insurance. I'm not good at any of that stuff. Super sure is. And they will help you get the coverage that you need without turning the process into a second career. You can get covered quickly, manage your policy easily, and spend less time thinking about insurance and more time thinking about the business you're actually trying to grow. Because success should create the opportunities, not headaches. Right now. Go to super sure.com beck get a free report, a free a full report on your current policies. No obligation. Find out if you're overinsured, underinsured or somewhere in between. It is super sure.com Beck supersure.com Beck One super agency, one powerful platform and all your policies in one place. It's Super Sure.com Beck paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, LLC, a licensed insurance agency fighting every day to keep the republic our vet founders created. Glenn Beck continues after this.
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Glenn Beck
Elizabeth just wrote in, she said, glenn, Chasing Embers audio the first two chapters is so well done. Looking forward to read the next book in the series. The entire audiobook comes out. People have been asking me about a follow up of this book forever, I think. I released it two years ago as a New York Times bestseller, much to their chagrin. And it was, it's a, it's a great book and it's a story that I wrote in my head years ago while reading Karl Marx. And I'm reading Karl Marx and I'm like, none of this makes sense. How does anyone buy into any, any of this crap? Why is anyone reading this? And I, my theory is they're reading it because it's kind of, it's taboo. You know, you're not supposed to read that. You're supposed to be for capitalism. You're supposed to like the founders. So I'm going to go the other way. I like Karl Marx and I thought, you know what, when they, when they make Thomas Jefferson and our founding documents taboo, that's when the, that's when youth will start to go, I want to learn about that. What was that? What did they say? This is the way humans are. So I told Michaela, one of our great producers, to if she would write this up and told her the story. And then she took it to places that I could have only imagined. I mean, it was really great. And I think there's six books in the series. We released it. New York Times bestseller. I didn't have time to do the audiobook. We have the audiobook now. It's out this summer. And it's a great way to learn history. It's a dystopian fiction for teens and young adults. And it, we bury history stuff in there because I, I have Always when I read books, I usually read them with a pen or a highlighter or something if I'm reading non fiction and it'll say something in there and it'll be like and so. And so said. And if it's a good point, I'll highlight it and go, I want to read what he was all about. Who was this guy? What did he believe? And so it becomes this wormhole where you just. It's how I self taught myself. This book is full of wormholes. It will have all kinds of little details here and there about history, American history as they're trying to piece it together. They don't know what they're going to find yet. And they're piecing these things together and hopefully it'll be a jumping off point for your kids and they'll go, I don't know that story. What was that story? And then you can find that story with them and help them self educate themselves on history. Chasing Embers. The first two chapters are out now. I think the next two chapters come out in a couple of weeks. All of the chapters will be available wherever you get your audiobooks. It's chasing embers. Let's see. 250 LFG says serious question. I have a trip planned to DC for the 4th of July with my kids. Am I nuts? This show is making me nervous. This show, today's show. I mean, I wasn't even trying to make you nervous. I can make you nervous.
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Glenn Beck
You're nervous about going to Washington D.C. look, you should be nervous about going anywhere, okay? And then blow it off. Because wherever you are is wherever you know there's, what's going to happen is going to happen. And you know, I don't want to be the Department of Homeland Security. I think they deserve a mighty round of applause by the end of this summer and by the end of the year. Protecting America's 250, protecting our cities, our airports and everything else. With everything they've gone through and everything that everybody is coming after us with, it's remarkable what they have thwarted. Don't worry about. I mean otherwise you'll not, you're not going to do anything in your life. Don't worry about it. I'm going to, I'm going to be there. I'm going to be on the mall with my family, 4th of July and everything else. I'm not getting any special treatment. And we're going because it's America's 250th. You will never see these things ever again. In your lifetime. Bring your kids, join in. It's going to be really remarkable. I'm speaking, like, at least twice a day for the whole week of 4th of July. When I can tell you where I'm speaking, I'll let you know. But I know I'm speaking at the fair thing with Mercury One and the American Journey Experience, but we'll give you all the details coming up.