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On today's show, Glenn Beck sits down with Stu and talks about the recent ice storm that has claimed the lives of 9 people in the past week and a half. Glenn and Stu talk about the dangers of ice and how to deal with it.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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And he'll be here tomorrow for his last exciting episode.
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We'll be talking about what I'm doing next as well.
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At 30, the 30th anniversary, you know what I was getting you.
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And I don't mean a pirate like, ah, I mean, matey.
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I want the audience to understand what's happening.
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The audience needs to understand how manipulative this is.
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You, I went through a five-year anniversary, a 10-year anniversary, a 15-year anniversary,
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a 20-year anniversary, and a 25-year anniversary with, I think, maybe there was one bacon, egg,
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and cheese biscuit offered at maybe five years.
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The 30th, not the 25th, which would be the obvious big one, but the 30th was when the
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Well, it's only because, and this is the honest God's truth, and you know it's true, because
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You got me a hat and a t-shirt, which is more than you got me on my 25th anniversary.
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What happened was, I was talking to a friend of mine, and he's like, you did nothing?
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We were on the air one day, but how many years has it been?
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So I decided right then and there, 30th, Lotus.
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The 25th year, we talked about it during the 25th year, and literally the conversation
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But at 30 years, you were going to buy me this car.
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And you only tell me it after I tell you that I'm leaving after 28 years.
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Well, I'm not going to tell you beforehand, hey, you know what you're going to get?
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I hope the audience knows the fraudulent person you listen to on a day-to-day basis.
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That was risky, you know, you're still working here.
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I've been here 18 years, I haven't gotten anything.
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I'll get you a bottle of booze, you'll be fine, and you'll forget about how many years you've
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Even if it was just like the generic vodka brand, you know?
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This is the love and respect we were talking about.
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So, tomorrow, we say our final goodbyes, because we're never going to talk to him again.
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Tomorrow, you're going to reveal what you are going to do, right?
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But yeah, it's going to be a really interesting thing, I think.
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And we'll talk about it tomorrow with all the details and where you can go to get involved.
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I would like you to say, hey, that's a great thing.
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I should just call in sick, honestly, is what I should do.
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And obviously, we almost got to that really important, everyone talks about 30th year anniversary.
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It's only because I didn't pay attention to the other ones.
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I mean, he's been getting lotuses like crazy every single year.
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Oh, I forgot about all the lotuses I have, the low tie that I have in my garage.
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You know, this is exactly what I would expect out of you.
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I'm sure Tanya's a very lucky woman to be able to get this sort of attention.
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And of course, you could always make the 25th right.
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There's no reason that you couldn't just say, hey, by the way, ordered this for you.
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It wouldn't be going to you because you'd no longer be an employee.
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Sarah, are you the longest running employee now?
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Glenn's going to have a mass firing spree at 29 years every time.
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I hope my God I'm dead before everybody hits 30 years.
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Do we want to go through some of this Alex Preddy stuff we were discussing earlier?
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So, ISIS killed nine people so far in 2026, says every social media post.
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Alex Preddy, Rene Good, Keith Porter, Hebert Sanchez Dominguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Paradis La, Luis Beltran, Yanez Cruz, Luis Gustavo, Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas.
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So, I haven't, I haven't really, I haven't heard any of those.
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Let me give you some of the others, though, because you'd think, and of course, everyone retweeting it has not actually looked at what has happened with those situations.
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He was a Cuban immigrant, and his death was, at an ICE facility, ruled a homicide.
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In a statement, they said he was pronounced dead after experiencing medical distress.
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He became disruptive while in line for medication, refused to return to his assigned dorm.
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While in segregation, he was observed in distress, and they brought in medical personnel.
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In the autopsy, it was ruled a homicide due to asphyxia.
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So, it's possible he was just murdered, or, you know, he was resisting, and there was a struggle.
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Like, that's the one that I think, like, hey, we need to know what the truth of that is.
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If it is some terrible thing, we should know about it.
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I will note, this might adjust your sympathy level a little bit.
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He had prior convictions, including sexual contact with a minor.
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So, this—now, look, that doesn't mean he should be murdered in prison, if that's what happened.
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I mean, if a child predator is murdered in prison, at least let's not have the authorities do it.
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But, again, yes, a child molester died in questionable circumstances.
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But that—okay, you want to include that list?
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I just feel like you should note that, by the way, this guy was a child molester, and that's why he was in prison.
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Then we have—again, this is 2026 killings by ICE, murders by ICE, active shooter or ICE agent's victim.
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What happened in L.A. New Year's Eve killing is the headline of this next one, which is interesting because it's 2026, and it happened on New Year's Eve.
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But, anyway, this is about—Porter is his last name.
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During a big ICE raid, was he going to a home depot?
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Was ICE driving by and just firing into home depots to see if they could hit illegal immigrants?
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In reality, what happened was an ICE agent was at home on New Year's Eve, in his home, off-duty, just home, and he decided, when he heard a bunch of gunshots outside, to go out and make sure there wasn't an active shooter situation going on, which is what he believed.
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Early news reports after the incident said that Porter, the victim here, quote-unquote, was firing an assault-style rifle.
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Now, you might say, well, that's just what reporters are saying.
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Well, there is a defense, and it is important to adhere to defense.
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We should note this was not an ICE investigation.
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It was an ICE agent who was off-duty, at home, protecting his home.
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So, totally out of what we're talking about normally.
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But there is a defense for Porter from his family.
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Porter's loved ones and advocates say they believe he was ringing in the New Year by firing a gun into the air over and over again.
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And those bullets, by the way, those bullets never come down.
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One of the complaints by the family, by the way, is that the other people who were also firing guns into the air at the time, they didn't get shot.
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Now, he's a criminal illegal alien from Cambodia, convicted of receiving stolen property, robbery, criminal conspiracy, theft, DUI, forgery, intentional possession of a controlled substance, violating probation, receiving stolen property, another intentional possession of a controlled substance, and another conviction of forgery.
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I'd rather have Parody Law around than the other guy.
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But this happened over a period of 20 years while he was here illegally.
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He was arrested by ICE agents outside of his Upper Darby home, transferred to detention center where he received treatment for severe withdrawal.
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So, he was heavily addicted to opioids, had a withdrawal.
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When they saw he had a withdrawal, the staff immediately administered CPR and several doses of naloxone.
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He then was transported to the hospital in critical condition and passed away.
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They tried to save his life multiple times and were unsuccessful.
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Luis Beltran Yanez Cruz, Glenn, another one of these ICE murder victims.
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He was a Honduran national, died after he was admitted into the hospital having heart-related issues.
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Yes, Glenn, you'll be surprised to hear another illegal immigrant.
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He was pronounced dead January 5th in Houston after being treated for chronic heart-related issues.
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So, ICE is now putting cholesterol into the veins of these illegal immigrants and causing heart attacks.
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A couple more shocking ones, Glenn, before we go.
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Hebert Sanchez Dominguez is another guy on this list.
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And if you want to ask him the details about this, obviously difficult because he's dead.
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But I think he would have a particular opinion as to whether he was murdered by ICE, largely
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He committed suicide in the prison cell, yet he's included on the list of ICE murders.
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They found him in the cell hanging, but that's ICE's murder.
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It's hard to tell because he also killed himself in prison at the sprawling tent complex at the
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You know, they came and they put him on the end of that rope.
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All of these, of course, deserve, when you have someone who dies, deserve investigation,
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And there's any evidence supporting the fact that they were murdered.
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Have to tell you, I don't have a problem looking into all of that.
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You know, if something foul was happening, I want those people, you know.
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But, yeah, I don't think the nine people were murdered.
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I personally think the world has enough opinions, and you certainly don't need mine.
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Um, I think my job really needs to be, as somebody who can see slightly over the horizon, um, and show you what these things mean.
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What's happening, what happened yesterday, what they mean to you today.
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More importantly, what does this mean if these things continue to go in the direction that they're going?
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So we can, we can not ignore these warning signs and look at them through history and through common sense.
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So if we were an early warning system, there would be some lights on the panel that are flashing today.
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Uh, some would be red, some would be yellow, uh, and some would actually be green.
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So let me just go through all of these things because it matters.
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Not everything would be red, you know, but panic is what you feel after you have ignored the warnings.
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You didn't, you didn't, you didn't hear about it.
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Honestly, here, there's some red lights flashing today that you need to know.
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I've checked these back and forth with history.
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Cause I'm looking at history now and saying, where are we, you know, in, in Rome or in France, where, where are we in history?
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One of the biggest warning signs that I see right now is, um, red light number one.
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This one is blinking really hard and you see it in the pretty, uh, conversation.
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There, there is, you know, a healthy society can hold two ideas at the same time.
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And right now we're losing the ability to say somebody can be really guilty and a bad guy and mistreated.
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Law enforcement can be necessary, needed, doing their job and fallible.
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Protests can be legitimate and infiltrated by insurrectionists.
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Those things are all true, but America can't see that anymore.
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And that's when, you know, when everything collapses into all good or all evil, there is no moral clarity anymore.
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Rome and America will fall when disagreement becomes identity warfare.
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Now, how could Israel be the chosen people if they rest, their name says wrestle with God?
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It's meant to be argued about, wrestled with, thought about, argued about.
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But tearing it apart, tearing yourself apart at night.
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The only way I am who I am, the only reason why I know who I am is because I wrestled with everything in me.
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But now, truth is something we argue for like a team.
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Once truth bends to faction, power then replaces persuasion every time in every civilization in all of history.
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No matter what anybody says, everyone has a right to go out and protest what ICE is doing.
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Everyone has a right to go out and protest what some of these judges are doing.
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By not enforcing what some of these cities are doing.
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You have a right, but you don't have a right to disrupt the law.
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You have a right to go protest the people who make the law to get them to change the law.
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You have a right to go and stand peacefully and protest the cops, if that's what you want, or ICE.
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But you do not have the right to engage and disrupt the law.
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When unrest becomes coordinated, when it becomes professionally funded, strategically disruptive, and shielded by moral confusion.
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That's no longer a spontaneous civic expression.
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Now, there's some other things that are flashing, and I want to go through, that are yellow lights.
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And they're serious, but they're not fatal at this point.
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And the way gold is rising, it's not a collapse announcement.
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It is trading now today, at least a few minutes before I went on the air.
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Futures were trading at as high as $5,600 an ounce.
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Today, I'll give you some historic comparisons of this here in a few minutes.
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All that gold does is reflect trust or the lack of it.
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And when people begin to move towards hard assets, what they're saying is,
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Uh, we are not going to spend ourself into oblivion.
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That our, our government and our Congress gets it.
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And they're going to, they're going to stop spending so much and borrowing so much.
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They no longer believe that NATO can hold the world together.
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They know things are beginning to get really dicey.
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It's a yellow light and it is trending hotter every day.
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Now, yellow light number two, this goes along with yellow light.
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Debt isn't immoral, but debt that can't be discussed honestly, honestly, and paid back
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When a nation stops saying, how are we going to pay this bill?
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When the nation says, who's going to pay this bill?
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Or they stop asking what happens if confidence breaks?
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What happens if people start to believe we're not going to pay this back?
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Now we're not Rome yet, but this gauge is rising.
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Yellow light number three, institutional distrust.
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This goes with the red lights I gave you and the yellow lights.
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What are the first five rights in the First Amendment?
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You have a right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press,
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freedom of assembly, meaning you can go and assemble in the streets,
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So skepticism is our First Amendment, and it's healthy.
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When people believe the courts are illegitimate, that it doesn't matter,
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If they believe elections are meaningless, law enforcement is either sacred
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and can make no mistakes or evil and can do no good.
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The system loses its elasticity, its ability to stretch and bend the way it has to.
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That's yellow, not red, but close enough to pay attention
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Let me give you that because these matter more than most people think
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Collapsing societies stop arguing about morality.
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And we're still arguing about justice and what it means.
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The Constitution still exists, and it's still being cited.
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It's getting a little sketchy, but we're still arguing it.
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People still believe rules matter, even when they break them.
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I'm able to get on the air and speak to you about these warnings.
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MSNBC is able to get on the air and speak to you about
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We are today still able to have them on the air legally.
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Early warning signs only matter before the catastrophe.
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And here's the most important thing to remember.
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Civilizations don't collapse because warnings exist.
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They collapse because warnings are mocked, politicized, or ignored.
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Rome, the question is, will we do what Rome didn't do and respond to the warning signs
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Because once the panel goes dark, there are no more warnings.
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We're working really hard on a few things for you.
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Every day we do something with George AI and Glenn AI, and I want to explain what that is.
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This is something that my team, my tech team, has built.
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I hired a really good tech group about, I don't know, eight months ago or so,
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to build the AI part of my next phase of my life for education.
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And George AI is a fully proprietary system that has the library that I have collected
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and David Barton and Mercury One has collected over the years.
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It is the largest library, third largest in the world for founding documents.
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It's the largest private library on the founding.
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It goes from the Pilgrims, and we've put up until about 1820,
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And right now, we are using it to create what is called George AI.
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George AI today is on, I was kind of motivated by the border czar heading to Minneapolis
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So I did it specifically on what the founders would have thought about the need for,
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or the importance to the American project of having a strong and secure border
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and the proper enforcement of immigration laws.
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Not only is there a debate, but if they do agree with that, why do they agree with it?
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How do you get people, because people say, well, it's not ChatGPT.
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So normally, if I have to do that, I give a hypothetical situation,
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and I have to type into it when I'm doing the prompt exactly what the hypothetical situation is.
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And it sounded like this was going to kick off a whole other debate.
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I actually might have to do that one tomorrow, because that one might be interesting.
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But anything that's happening that they wouldn't know about, I have to hypothetical into it.
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It is only stuff from, the only things that the founders either wrote themselves or would have influenced that we know influenced their thinking at the time.
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And when it goes to Glenn AI, this again is not ChatGPT.
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You could go and ask, you know, ChatGPT, hey, what would Glenn Beck think about?
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And it would, I don't know, might get it right, might get it wrong, but it wouldn't be me for sure.
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Glenn AI is all of my words, everything that I have ever said, printed, spoken on TV or radio, many of the stuff that I've said in speeches, 30 years of that, all put into, again, proprietary technology.
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So if you asked it about the, you know, the earthquake of 89 in, you know, uh, in San Francisco, it probably wouldn't be able to find anything and tell you anything about it because it doesn't have that information.
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And every day we provide one of those things for you.
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And we are guarding our credibility and making sure that everything we do with AI is marked AI.
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So, you know, it is really important that, you know, some things are made by AI.
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Um, and, and we have to guard our credibility and I am working really hard on that because I, as I said to you earlier today, I believe in five years, credibility is going to be the only thing has any value because no one's going to believe anything within five years.
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And I think five years is an outside wall, um, which is why it really bothers me when people say, you know, Glenn Beck, you're just a shill for Donald Trump, not a shill for Donald.
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I mean, anybody who has actually listened to this show, you know, that I criticize him hard when I believe he deserves it publicly, clearly without any hedging.
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And I also praise him when I believe he earns it just as publicly and just as clearly that's not loyalty.
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And I'm, I'm telling you this because this is how we all have to start to be.
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And truth is really inconvenient because it refuses to stay on one team.
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Uh, I've got a interview with him coming out next week with his book.
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And yesterday we were talking and he said, uh, you know, I said to him, I said, you know, Jonathan, the reason why I love you is because you are so much like the constitution.
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The constitution always doesn't, doesn't always cut my way.
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The constitution doesn't always say, you know what, Glenn, you're right.
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And, and you, then you have a decision to make, I'm either going to deny the truth or I'm going to go, well, okay, well, the constitution says that's wrong.
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I like those people who I can't always, you know, put into a box, you know, I've said repeatedly in moments like what we're seeing right now in Minnesota, I may be wrong, but I lay out what I'm seeing.
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And I explain the pattern that I believe is forming.
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And then I do something apparently that drives people crazy.
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I give you the markers and the timelines and the signals because analysis without accountability is propaganda.
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And I have to, and I have to tell you that, and that's not a weakness.
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You know, the people have been saying, you know, chill for Donald Trump.
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Cause I've, I've said recently, I don't find Donald Trump's negotiation skill remarkable.
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It's so good, but there's a pattern that you have to watch from.
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And if you watch the pattern, the way he reframes, he pauses, he lets others overplay their hand.
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And then he quietly gets everything he always wanted all along.
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But could I be wrong about the things that he's doing right now?
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And I say, so every time I talk about one of the things I'm praising him for, I'm like, I hope this is what it is.
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But I think, you know, there are two possible paths ahead of us all the time.
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And there's two things that, you know, you get up in the morning and you can believe two things that are objective.
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There, there is no truth to that one way or another.
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And when it comes to truth, those, those are not subjective, but we, we will pretend it is.
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I just want people to watch the evidence, watch it with me, correct me.
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We've lost the ability to hold hope without surrendering our brains.
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I mean, I can't think of another that can do it, but he's not going to be the savior of us all.
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And at the same time, other people say he's folded.
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He's sold out and they raise that, you know, he's raised a white flag.
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And that confuses me just as much because both positions demand faith without any evidence.
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If you want, assume betrayal is inevitable, that nothing matters.
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That discernment is naive, that all roads lead to someplace very, very dark, or we can do something far more difficult.
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We can choose optimism only if the facts support it, not fantasy, not blind trust, not, you know, measured hope.
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And one thing, because I've been thinking about this all week, it's been bothering me, and it'll bother me until I get it off my chest.
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But because alcoholics, if you're an alcoholic or a recovering alcoholic, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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You covered everything for your whole life while you were drinking.
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You were drinking and telling everybody you weren't.
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You had a problem when you told everybody you didn't.
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I was really good at looking in the mirror and lying even to myself.
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And eventually, your promises to yourself and your promises to everybody else eventually mean nothing.
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And I remember the time when I was at my most broken, and I realized I didn't have anyone in my life at all, anyone who knew me, anybody who would listen to me, nothing, nothing.
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Nobody believed a word I said because they shouldn't have, because I was a liar.
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I will do exactly what you asked me to do to the best of my ability if you will just help me regain the trust of people.
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I just want to look somebody in the eye and say, this is true as I understand it.
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And them to go, okay, Glenn, they might think I'm wrong, but at least they know I believe it.
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And I vowed that I would never, ever violate that again.
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I would never give it away, not for approval, not for power, not for money, not for access, nothing.
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And I have spent 35 years rebuilding that bond.
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And I am not going to throw it away for a politician or better podcast numbers or for applause or any of that.
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If you're listening to this show, you should know I'm not, nor am I trying to get on Trump's good guy list.
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And if I'm wrong, either direction, I'll reevaluate and I'll apologize.
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And if that's what you want in a host, you're in the right place.
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But if you want a host that always agrees with you, who never challenges you, who never asks you to reconsider, never admits uncertainty, then you know what?
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But actually, as I have been thinking about it, that actually makes me sad.
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Because I value people who don't think like me.
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But when disagreement instantly becomes, you're a sellout.
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And it is absolutely known by the other person.
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What do you do when curiosity becomes betrayal, when humility becomes weakness?
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Whatever that team is that people want me to be on, I'm not on that team.
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I am an individual to act not to be acted upon.
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I have my own mind, my own conscience, my own point of view, my own responsibility.
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And I am inviting you every day if you're willing to be the same kind of person.
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I warn you, it is harder, it is lonelier, but it is so worth it in the end.
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And it is the only way I know how to do this job.
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So whatever you think is going to happen in the future,