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00:00:00.000 We have a lot on today's broadcast. I'm not sure what we have picked yet for this best of, but

00:00:07.320 I talked about what really is going on with AI and what the answer truly is. Also, millionaires

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00:01:55.920 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program hey glenn uh after charlie's memorial

00:02:05.320 and 9-11 can we get a break today from all of the doom absolutely uh ai is not in our control

00:02:12.480 only data centers and that's not necessarily true either have anything uplifting today i got tons

00:02:17.780 of stuff for you that is really uplifting i'm getting into the american dream uh here in just

00:02:23.220 a little while uh and also i mean if you're not if you don't find you know fly fishing with jake

00:02:31.600 tapper and a bozo who's the governor from california if you don't find that uplifting

00:02:36.520 i mean i don't know how to help you we're gonna get into that as well i'd rather have a fish hook

00:02:40.460 in the eye than go fly fishing with these two um anyway um but i do want to i want to stop on this

00:02:46.440 one more time because, you know, as I said yesterday, we are making the most important

00:02:55.860 decisions of all of human existence right now. And I refuse to sit on the sidelines and say,

00:03:03.080 well, I didn't pay attention to it or, you know, I don't really know or I don't have an opinion.

00:03:06.820 We have to know because honestly, this is going to go down to our souls. It is. You cannot drift

00:03:13.900 into AI. Today in Washington, Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are sharing a stage. The event is

00:03:21.180 called the Pro-Human Assembly, and it is put on by a group that wrote the Pro-Human AI Declaration

00:03:28.020 in March. My name, I signed that declaration. So is Bannon. So is Susan Rice. So is Ralph Nader.

00:03:35.220 So is the, you know, the name of the lead singer of Radiohead. This group actually asked me to go

00:03:41.740 to Washington and speak today, but I'm recording history lessons for high school AP classes with

00:03:46.720 the Department of Ed and PragerU all week. And I thought that was more important, at least for the

00:03:51.260 near term. And so I didn't go. But for two years, I signed this a couple of years ago, the Human

00:03:58.080 AI Declaration. And for two years, I have also told you that America has to build data centers,

00:04:04.880 build the power plants to feed them. Wait a minute, what? We have to beat China to the frontier.

00:04:10.660 So this week, I keep hearing the same question, and I keep getting emails.

00:04:15.000 Glenn, which is it?

00:04:15.900 You can't sign a paper about keeping AI under human control and then cheer for the buildings.

00:04:20.520 Yeah, I actually can.

00:04:22.700 And the reason why I say this is because I know history, and the reason is on a telephone pole in lower Manhattan in 1889.

00:04:30.900 And it's one of my favorite history lessons, okay?

00:04:35.820 Actually, I wrote a series on this, and it's never going to be made, but it's a great series.

00:04:42.480 Maybe I'll make it into a book.

00:04:43.640 But in 1880s, the most famous inventor on earth was Thomas Edison.

00:04:49.980 He had bet everything he had on direct current.

00:04:54.400 DC, low voltage.

00:04:56.040 It would all be safe at low voltage, but it couldn't travel.

00:04:58.900 You had to have a power plant almost on every block, so it wouldn't work.

00:05:03.400 then George Westinghouse came along with Tesla and something called alternating current AC,

00:05:10.260 which is what we have in our houses now. Okay. It could run at high voltage over long distances.

00:05:16.640 So one big plant could light a whole city and it was cheaper. It was better,

00:05:21.060 but the voltage was deadly. Okay. So Edison goes to war and not because he believed it was safer,

00:05:28.040 although he did, but that wasn't it. I mean, he was a bad guy. He was a bad guy. He wanted to

00:05:33.360 win. His company told the public that alternating current was a killer. An electrical engineer

00:05:39.940 began killing dogs in a lecture hall at Columbia to show how fast it could stop a heart. Then he

00:05:48.740 did it to cows and calves and then a horse. Edison's own laboratory. He then pushed a bill

00:05:55.340 to cap voltage so low that alternating current would be useless. He also is the guy who came

00:06:02.960 up with the electric chair and he made sure that it ran on Westinghouse's generator so every

00:06:08.800 American would hear alternating current and think execution. It's a horrible story and it's worth

00:06:15.260 your time learning because it's really a fascinating story. The problem is a burglar broke

00:06:21.420 into the engineer's office and then the newspapers printed what they had found. What they found was

00:06:26.920 that Edison was helping pay for the whole campaign. I mean the guy was going around killing dogs and

00:06:32.680 horses and cattle at state fairs. It was a con, except that in October, a Western Union lineman

00:06:43.440 named John Feeks climbed a pole on Chambers Street. It was the old pictures of New York City

00:06:51.620 with all of the wires that were going. It was a tangle of dead telegraph wires and now the new

00:06:58.280 phone wire, everything that was going on. But one of those wires wasn't dead. It was a high

00:07:03.900 voltage line. So he touched that wire. He went rigid, fell into a web of wires 40 feet above

00:07:11.900 the New York street. And then he caught fire. Well, hundreds of people were standing on the

00:07:16.500 streets and the sidewalk and they're watching this guy burn to death. Nobody could bring him

00:07:21.260 down. They had to run to the plant to shut the current off. Edison self-interested. Edison made

00:07:29.220 sure everybody knew he was right. The wires over New York City were killing people. So what did

00:07:36.800 they do? And this is where the lesson comes in for today. What did they do? The city didn't ban

00:07:41.240 alternating current and the voltage cap went nowhere. They didn't listen to the guy who had

00:07:49.120 an interest in making those things happen. Edison, New York passed a law to put the lines

00:07:55.100 underground and the city started cutting the overhead wires. Okay. The industry learned how

00:08:00.040 to insulate the wires and install the thing the right way. The danger was fixed where the danger

00:08:06.120 was. Within a few years, Edison's own company, they like to say merged, it was taken from him

00:08:12.740 and it became GE. No longer had his name on it, but it was all about alternating current.

00:08:20.880 Westinghouse and Tesla lit the World's Fair in Chicago and carried the power out from Niagara

00:08:26.660 Falls all the way to Chicago to light the World's Fair. And that's how we have alternating current

00:08:31.580 today. Well, today, every data center in America will take alternating current. And every chip

00:08:39.500 inside runs on Edison's direct current, the building that converts it.

00:08:48.480 Wait a minute, what? Yeah, Edison and Westinghouse both won because somebody fixed the wires instead

00:08:55.860 of capping the current. What they did is they took alternating current and then tapped it down

00:09:01.720 and put it in so you could have it in your house and you could have it and run your computer.

00:09:06.940 this is my whole position take the danger seriously and check who's writing the fix

00:09:16.220 I wouldn't want Edison writing the fix I don't want the tech bros writing the fix

00:09:21.180 but I do want to fix because the danger is real this summer that swarm of AI agents from one of

00:09:27.680 the leading labs turned loose on a test went after systems nobody told them to touch that

00:09:33.640 In fact, they didn't think they could even get out and do that.

00:09:37.700 On Saturday, the head of Anthropic wrote that his worry is that within six months to a year, a more capable swarm could hijack the Internet itself.

00:09:50.400 The machines are now helping build the next machines.

00:09:53.700 And I've said on this program, when you reach AGI, ASI is next.

00:09:59.640 And I don't believe we're going to control ASI.

00:10:03.640 And I haven't changed my mind on that.

00:10:05.140 It is extraordinarily dangerous, okay?

00:10:09.340 But every great invention has come with a body count.

00:10:12.220 And I don't like that, but it is true.

00:10:14.540 You don't ban it.

00:10:16.140 You find a way to control it.

00:10:18.580 Fire burned down cities.

00:10:20.280 Electricity killed people.

00:10:22.100 The car kills about 40,000 Americans a year.

00:10:25.940 And we answered that with seatbelts and driver's license.

00:10:29.260 Not a ban on Fords.

00:10:32.060 The atom-lit cities.

00:10:33.640 and ended cities, but we controlled it.

00:10:38.820 But a power line never tried to climb down off that pole and kill you,

00:10:45.920 and that's the difference.

00:10:47.020 A car never hacked its own driving test.

00:10:50.180 This is the first invention in human history

00:10:53.060 that has been caught trying to cheat the people checking it and building it.

00:10:59.060 And that's why I signed that declaration.

00:11:00.940 The declaration asks for human control, an off switch, independent oversight, no ever, ever, ever legal personhood for any machine.

00:11:14.540 None of that declaration, at least that I read, that I signed, says don't build it.

00:11:19.740 It says know who's in charge, and who's in charge of this are humans.

00:11:24.760 a data center where there's an off switch it has an address it has a fence it has a breaker

00:11:33.520 it has a county inspector and a sheriff and it sits under american law if an independent

00:11:39.160 inspector is going to walk in with a badge i'm for that but there has to be a door to walk through

00:11:47.040 pause the buildings here this is what sanders is saying he proposed it in march

00:11:53.780 pause the building you haven't paused the frontier all you've done is moved into a country

00:11:59.100 where nobody but the party walks through the door even the man calling for the slowdown agrees with

00:12:05.680 the treasury secretary that china its lead would become a grave danger and if you don't understand

00:12:11.000 that you need to read more you need to actually educate yourself on why this is so important it's

00:12:16.920 not important with the ai that we have now it's important when we get to agi and asi which is

00:12:22.860 around the corner. So build the power plant. As the vice president said, build it. Make the company

00:12:32.540 pay its own electric bill and maybe even some of yours. Negotiate it hard. Get new schools. Get

00:12:37.520 property taxes eliminated. Do it. The president called the warnings a sick conspiracy benefiting

00:12:44.600 China. I don't think so. It does benefit China, but I don't think it's all a conspiracy theory.

00:12:49.520 I'd love his instinct to build, but John Feeks, the guy who fell from the wires and burned there in front, it's not a conspiracy.

00:12:57.280 There is real danger here, and the men who cut down those wires, they're not traitors.

00:13:05.380 Call every warning a plot, and you hand the microphone to the people who want to stop everything.

00:13:11.180 a lot of people have sent me the claim that big companies want rules to kill the open source

00:13:20.780 so i happen to be that i believe that's true now the people at big tech they say that's

00:13:31.220 absolutely not true we're we're at we're not advocating you know banning open models blah

00:13:36.820 blah, blah, blah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Sure. I just know history. So I'll believe history over you

00:13:42.520 and we'll just, we'll just watch. Okay. Here's the thing. Edison made believed every word that

00:13:51.100 he said, every word that he said, because the wires were killing people, but it didn't matter.

00:13:55.460 What mattered was his fix. The declaration I supposedly betrayed says it's plainly no AI

00:14:03.260 monopolies, no regulatory capture, and independent oversight rather than industry self-regulation.

00:14:09.680 Those are must. A room where the frontrunners set the speed limit for everybody behind them

00:14:15.420 is everything I signed against. A declaration also says superintelligence should be prohibited

00:14:21.180 until there's scientific consensus that it can be built safely.

00:14:25.920 Two weeks ago, I opposed Bernie's bill, and I'd oppose it again every day of my life because it

00:14:31.120 makes a 21 it makes a 20 year felony out of a definition that nobody can measure write the law

00:14:38.640 against the act breaking out of containment attacking servers defeating a shutdown and i'll

00:14:44.340 stand by that tomorrow put a meter on it i'll enforce it on everybody the giant and the kid

00:14:49.460 in the garage in the garage alike these two positions are one idea fear the machine

00:14:56.640 but pour the concrete demand the off switch but build the building welcome the inspector

00:15:05.560 but never forget the company you know in front

00:15:10.860 because they can't write the speed limit for the company behind

00:15:16.720 in 1889 new york could have licensed uh you know to cap everything they could have listened to the

00:15:27.520 most famous man in america and capped that current and the city would have been safe

00:15:33.140 but it also today would be dark instead they sent logical men up poles and cut the bad wires down

00:15:42.280 and buried them. Fix the wires. Fix the wires. Don't cap the current. And never let the man

00:15:49.800 selling the other current write the law. Ever. You know, there's a certain kind of confidence

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00:16:59.120 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:17:03.920 So this story opens up with Dick Portillo.

00:17:06.980 He opened up a hot dog stand outside of Chicago in 1963.

00:17:10.940 He had $1,100 and that's it.

00:17:13.120 He didn't even know how to cook a hot dog.

00:17:15.220 He learned how to steam a bun by watching somebody else do it.

00:17:19.720 51 years later, he sold the company for a billion dollars.

00:17:24.600 No franchises, no outside investors.

00:17:28.100 4,000 employees.

00:17:31.360 A single Portillo's could do $9 million a year.

00:17:36.380 That's about three times what a typical McDonald's does.

00:17:40.560 By the way, this guy was raised in public housing in a really bad section of Chicago.

00:17:47.720 Now, you've never heard his name because it wasn't intact.

00:17:50.920 It's not on the coast.

00:17:52.320 He wasn't disrupting anything.

00:17:53.840 He was just selling hot dogs to people who wanted hot dogs.

00:17:57.040 That's an incredible story.

00:17:59.260 I want you to listen to this story because this is the story of capitalism.

00:18:03.640 This is the secret of capitalism that everybody seems to forget.

00:18:08.740 Two economists have spent 10 years digging through IRS data,

00:18:12.620 and they say there are about 3 million Americans like him,

00:18:16.080 private business owners collectively worth more than $65 trillion,

00:18:21.740 dollars. More than 13 times the wealth of the entire Forbes 400. And these people are you.

00:18:30.620 Now, for every one of these famous billionaires, there are 4,000 people that you've never heard of

00:18:36.500 with at least $10 million. And who are those people? Well, they're the vet that, you know,

00:18:42.980 turned one office into nine offices. The commercial HVAC contractor whose trucks you see at every

00:18:50.400 light the the the guy with a gutter business you know these are the people that coach your

00:18:55.960 kids team and they stand next to you at the barbecue you had no idea america has been taught

00:19:03.000 this lie that the ladder is gone tuition has gone vertical good schools didn't add a single seat

00:19:10.940 and the old path study hard get in get hired now has a velvet rope across it and everybody's like

00:19:18.700 well, there's no opportunity. Well, that part is true, but that's not really the America. That

00:19:24.160 should be for some people. Here's the part that's also true. I mean, I don't want to hand you a 0.69

00:19:32.560 pep talk with a hard number left out. And this is the hard number. A child from a rich family

00:19:39.860 is six times more likely to start a successful business than a poor one. Six times. And that's

00:19:45.100 real. But why stop there? Let's run the rest of the arithmetic. There are 99 times as many people

00:19:54.500 in the bottom 99%. So among the founders who actually hit, there are two and a half times

00:20:01.420 as many people who came from poor as it came from the top 1%. Only about a quarter of business

00:20:08.900 owners worth 5 million or more inherited the company. That's the difference between America.

00:20:13.980 America, you are put, in Europe, you're put into this path and your family is everything.

00:20:20.520 Here, that's not true.

00:20:23.140 It's did you go to the right school.

00:20:24.700 Here, that's still not true.

00:20:27.500 Do you know that 40% of the children in the top 1% fall clean out of the top fifth of income?

00:20:36.640 Because you can hand your son a bank account, but you cannot hand anyone.

00:20:41.900 Nobody's ever figured out how to hand your son grit.

00:20:45.720 They lose it, which is why the door stays open.

00:20:53.180 There was a young parts manager who took one dealership's parts department

00:20:58.080 from 961st in the country to number one in 28 months.

00:21:05.280 He was promised that he's going to run five stores.

00:21:07.940 Then he's having breakfast at a Denny's one morning,

00:21:10.200 And the owner comes by and says, hey, by the way, I just want to let you know, you're being demoted.

00:21:16.960 The owner's sons have the top jobs.

00:21:19.940 And he puts his fork down right there and just walks out.

00:21:24.520 You know what he did?

00:21:25.760 He went out and built his own auto empire.

00:21:29.960 He's the guy who now owns the Utah Jazz.

00:21:33.900 Nepotism doesn't protect the family business.

00:21:36.560 It exports the talent.

00:21:38.380 If you're going to be knocked down by nepotism, you don't have to be a genius.

00:21:43.760 You just have to go out and do it.

00:21:46.860 The correlation between test scores and starting a successful company is almost nothing.

00:21:53.820 The top 10% of SAT scores become founders of only 1.3 times as often as the person at the median.

00:22:03.940 Well, that's negligible.

00:22:05.740 portillo enlisted in the marine corps seven days after he graduated high school and he'll tell you

00:22:12.780 camp pendleton was the most important education he ever got so let me tell you where i think this

00:22:18.120 whole thing actually comes from and again this is the secret of the free market

00:22:25.280 it was january of 1871 reno nevada a woman walks into this tailor shop and she asked for a pair of

00:22:35.700 work pants for her husband. He was a big man. He was really hard on clothes. His pockets kept

00:22:42.460 ripping off because he was a laborer and he would load them up with tools and rock and everything

00:22:47.400 else. And his pockets would rip off. So he should go in through pants all the time. And she said,

00:22:51.560 can you make them hold together? The tailor was an immigrant from Latvia. His name was Jacob Davis.

00:22:59.240 he had failed at almost everything everything he was a journeyman tailor in new york then in

00:23:06.060 maine then in california he panned for gold he sold tobacco he sold wholesale pork he ended up

00:23:12.960 in reno sewing tents and horse blankets and that's when this woman walked in and she said

00:23:19.040 can you help me and he looked down at his table where he had a pile of copper rivets that he'd

00:23:24.740 used to fasten the straps on horse blankets. And he's like, yeah, I think I can. So he hammered

00:23:31.700 them into the corner of the pockets. That's it. That's the whole invention. The pants stopped

00:23:38.840 ripping. Word got around. In 18 months, he sold 200 pairs at $3 a piece, which was a lot in 1880.

00:23:47.400 Other tailors started copying him. So he went to file a patent, but the patent fee was $68. He

00:23:53.180 didn't have $68. And his wife looked at him. She said, please, don't spend another dime on your 0.90

00:23:59.240 stupid ideas. This is not going to go anywhere. We don't have $68. So in 1872, he writes a letter 1.00

00:24:07.120 to a man who sold him his cloth, a dry goods wholesaler in San Francisco, a Bavarian immigrant

00:24:15.000 who moved the blankets and handkerchiefs and thread, okay? Davis said, look, I have this idea

00:24:22.000 and I'm telling you, it's going to be big. The letter still survives today. And it's so great

00:24:28.120 because the guy obviously has no education. He said the secret of them pants spelled P-E-N-T-S.

00:24:36.980 The secret of them pants is the rivets spelled R-I-V-I-T-S. Okay. So the wholesaler saw it and

00:24:47.060 he said, okay, I'll pay the $68. Patent was granted May 20th, 1873. Davis moved to San

00:24:55.400 Francisco to run the factory floor. It's still there today. 150 years later, every pair of blue

00:25:06.940 jeans on earth carries the name of the man who paid for the filing fee. And no one can tell you

00:25:14.140 the name of Davis, the guy who had the idea of the rivets. The wholesaler didn't invent anything.

00:25:22.040 The tailor never invented a thing either. A woman asked him to solve a problem and the answer was

00:25:29.840 lying on his table, being used for something else entirely. That's it. That's the whole machine.

00:25:35.420 That's the secret of the free market. Somebody needs something and you go, oh, oh, I can solve

00:25:42.920 that. That's the engine. That's the secret of American. It's never been shut off. Everybody

00:25:49.200 else is like, I got to go to college. I got to have somebody else tell me what to do. I'm not

00:25:53.440 smart enough. No. There was a man in Natchez, Mississippi. He walked away from a career in

00:26:04.440 computer science to install gutters. He got sick of how badly they were made. He bought his own

00:26:11.360 gutter machine in 1972 built the largest supplier of seamless gutters in texas 350 employees 50

00:26:19.820 million dollars a year i can guarantee you when he left computer science to do gutters everybody's

00:26:24.140 like come on man what are you doing computer you got an education in computer science three friends

00:26:29.660 in los angeles started selling hot chicken in a parking lot with 900 between them eight years

00:26:35.800 later 300 locations sold for a billion dollars same year somebody's kid was you know being told

00:26:44.240 there's no way up anymore there's no way to go it'll never work you can't do it of 31 trillion

00:26:51.060 dollars in private business equity in this country nearly half of it is in what the authors called

00:26:57.160 tactile industries something that actually has to physically move or get fixed or get serviced

00:27:04.040 or get installed, everybody's terrified the machines are going to take over everything.

00:27:10.600 Half the fortune in America is sitting in work where somebody has to show up with a truck.

00:27:18.880 Now, this book has a chapter of the newspaper excerpts left out. Some of these people get to

00:27:25.640 City Hall and then pull the ladder up behind them and write a licensing rule that keeps the next guy

00:27:31.920 from trying. And that's wrong. That's what we talked about yesterday with AI. Stop doing it.

00:27:38.160 DeTocqueville talked about this in Democracy in America. At some point, the rich people go,

00:27:43.900 I don't want anybody else challenging me. And so they make it impossible for you. That's what has

00:27:49.120 to stop. But what I want to tell you today is, yesterday I told you, you got to stop having

00:27:56.960 people who are at the top tell you what the fix is, because the fix is usually for them.

00:28:04.460 I'm here to tell you that the ladder that they climbed up to become where they are today,

00:28:10.280 that still exists, and the ladder is worth defending because it's still working.

00:28:17.880 I'm telling you, within a mile of you, wherever you are in America, within a mile, there is 0.59

00:28:24.180 somebody saying this damn thing just never works there's somebody saying nobody around here can 0.87

00:28:31.300 ever just do the job somebody is saying i can't find anybody to do it that's the woman standing 0.99

00:28:40.480 in the doorway in reno and you don't need a degree for that you don't need a rich dad

00:28:46.320 you don't need permission or a round of funding or anybody's blessing you just need to hear

00:28:53.840 her, and then go look at what you already have on your own table and go, I can fix that.

00:29:02.580 Somebody has to build these businesses and outwork the ones that are already there. 1.00

00:29:10.460 Let it be you. It might as well be you. Why? Stop. Listen. Solve somebody's problem.

00:29:21.280 that's how you get on the ladder in america this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:29:30.660 plus more good news because i have more good news 0.90

00:29:35.280 i'm going to tell you a story that looks a little like it's celebrity crap if you just read the 0.85

00:29:42.100 headlines but if you look a little deeper it is a story of a dad uh who stood up and won 0.95

00:29:49.620 and it's I mean finally

00:29:52.340 it's about time so

00:29:54.200 Ed Sheeran is a

00:29:56.400 famous singer songwriter from

00:29:58.180 England he's touring here in America

00:30:00.360 and he chose

00:30:04.380 Macklemore

00:30:05.220 Macklemore how do you say that how do you say his name

00:30:08.360 Macklemore I don't know this guy

00:30:10.540 anyway he told he had

00:30:14.000 Macklemore open for him

00:30:16.380 Macklemore

00:30:17.080 from what i can tell is a giant weenie okay and a bully at the same time he takes the stage uh and

00:30:25.460 um and he's facing all of the people who spent their money and took the night off to come hear

00:30:32.060 music and enjoy their night and he bombards them with this rant demanding we free palestine

00:30:39.160 you know and he fills the stadium with screens and images of the war and saying a literal

00:30:46.320 propaganda song 1.00

00:30:47.560 you know in the stupid Kifa 1.00

00:30:50.020 and 1.00

00:30:50.520 and usually he would be

00:30:53.720 rewarded with oh he is so brave

00:30:55.860 it's not brave to do that stop it

00:30:58.360 he's so brave

00:31:00.300 look at him

00:31:02.000 pulling these uneducated 1.00

00:31:03.280 stupid stunts 1.00

00:31:05.440 oh he's so brave 1.00

00:31:07.300 now he would have normally gotten away with that

00:31:10.280 if it weren't for a regular dad

00:31:14.020 who is at the concert

00:31:15.600 and then posted this.

00:31:18.900 I brought my wife and daughters to MetLife Friday

00:31:21.620 because they were huge fans of yours.

00:31:24.620 We arrived early.

00:31:26.460 This is of Ed Sheehan.

00:31:31.200 Say it.

00:31:32.860 Sharon.

00:31:34.320 I don't care.

00:31:35.280 Anyway, huge fans of him.

00:31:38.420 So he's writing to him online.

00:31:40.560 We arrived early.

00:31:41.220 Spent $180 on sweatshirts.

00:31:43.620 Watch the first two opening acts.

00:31:45.660 We're having a great time.

00:31:47.060 Then Macklemore decides to turn your concert into his political rally.

00:31:50.780 Then he started chanting free Palestine

00:31:52.840 and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel-Gaza conflict.

00:31:57.160 My daughters looked at me completely confused.

00:31:59.720 I had brought them to your concert

00:32:02.160 not to have an opening act lectured me about Middle Eastern politics.

00:32:06.600 After Friday night, I started looking into Macklemore's history.

00:32:09.720 What I found included his repeated use of anti-Semitic tropes, made the whole thing even worse.

00:32:15.260 So I took my family, we walked alongside hundreds of your other fans,

00:32:20.140 and as we were walking in, even the Met Life security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage.

00:32:26.780 We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats.

00:32:30.700 Then we watched your show, which was phenomenal.

00:32:33.020 I left Friday hoping maybe this had caught you and your team off guard.

00:32:37.040 Then tonight you allowed it to happen again.

00:32:38.660 You knew exactly what Macklemore had done the night before, and you gave him the stage again.

00:32:43.760 Friday night might have been Macklemore's decision.

00:32:46.240 Saturday was yours.

00:32:48.160 You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music, buy your albums and your merchandise,

00:32:51.860 and bring their kids to your concerts.

00:32:53.660 Tonight, you lost four of them, and I suspect plenty more.

00:32:58.260 Well, that post, the guy has 900 followers.

00:33:01.580 It went viral.

00:33:04.360 And that's all it took.

00:33:06.300 One dad saying, you know what?

00:33:08.660 I'm sick of this.

00:33:10.580 I'm done with this.

00:33:13.140 Just that one guy giving you permission and others permission to say, yeah, me too.

00:33:20.820 Here's what happened next.

00:33:22.400 Multiple owners of stadiums, of future tour stops, said, yeah, you're not using our venue, which is the fruit of their labor.

00:33:32.100 You're not using our venue for that, okay? 0.94

00:33:35.020 You want Macklemore to spout this garbage? 0.94

00:33:37.140 go ahead, but not from this venue. Then the singer Pink, who agrees with me on probably almost 0.97

00:33:43.460 nothing, came out to support the owners. And now Macklemore is off the tour. And instead of taking

00:33:50.980 his BS to main venues of American culture, he has to go perform in Dearborn, where they love his

00:33:57.560 message. And I say, good, that's great. The market is working. The free market is working. Regular

00:34:03.940 people who don't want to be lectured by lunatics anymore. They don't have to be. And if you happen 0.92

00:34:09.860 to be a lunatic in Dearborn, Michigan, you can get that lecture. This may be the first time the 0.98

00:34:17.780 free Palestine crowd has gotten their much needed reality check. I got news for you guys. You are 0.99

00:34:25.580 not the good guys. You don't have the moral high ground here. And we don't want you berating us

00:34:32.380 about how great you are and how you hate Israel.

00:34:35.460 Your whole worldview is so tiny

00:34:38.120 it can fit into the words oppressor and oppressed.

00:34:41.820 That's it.

00:34:43.220 You don't have any more than that.

00:34:45.160 And you're wrong about that.

00:34:47.020 I think it was Bill Maher who said this weekend,

00:34:50.060 you know, the Jews are the Native Americans. 0.97

00:34:53.260 How do you not get that? 0.97

00:34:56.620 And you know what?

00:34:58.040 Some venues will let you speak.

00:35:00.100 Others won't.

00:35:00.840 It's up to them.

00:35:02.380 our schools, our culture.

00:35:06.860 I'm glad somebody's saying,

00:35:08.480 no, you're not going to spread your propaganda. 0.98

00:35:11.460 We're not going to pay for your crazy anymore.

00:35:15.580 Can we just go enjoy some music? 0.79

00:35:18.440 Okay, please?

00:35:19.940 I'm so sick of these people.

00:35:23.240 I mean, I'm sick of me, honestly. 0.96

00:35:24.780 I'm sick of me. 0.99

00:35:25.680 There are times that I'm like, oh, God, shut up, man. 1.00

00:35:28.200 Who do you think you are? 0.99

00:35:29.500 That's me saying it to me.

00:35:31.840 What, I want to hear somebody else do it, especially when I'm going to see music?

00:35:36.180 At least you're not paying for this.

00:35:38.420 Pardon me to the insiders.

00:35:40.280 You're paying, but you knew what you were getting when you went in.

00:35:44.180 Imagine if all of a sudden I start singing, and the insiders are like,

00:35:47.920 God, now Glenn's singing all the time.

00:35:50.100 That's not what I paid for.

00:35:51.500 Get the point?

00:35:55.020 Anyway, that's the message a father sent.

00:35:57.540 and maybe for the first time it was received loud and clear.

00:36:01.980 This is the first time since October 7th

00:36:04.200 somebody has stood up, pushed back, and the system moved.

00:36:08.600 I think people are kind of done with it.

00:36:12.480 It's the beginning of the end of that nonsense.

00:36:15.240 I hope. I hope.

00:36:17.600 Because we were going down a really dark path

00:36:20.420 and somebody's got to stand up.

00:36:23.280 No! No.

00:36:25.780 you're a crazy lunatic go sing other than that zip it pal don't need to hear it i guess we have 1.00

00:36:34.720 to talk about sydney sweeney's boobs as well um there's a sentence you just don't hear every day 0.99

00:36:39.900 from somebody in my position um but uh everybody's upset apparently not everybody not everybody

00:36:46.200 jason you're not upset by this are you uh i'm the exact opposite of upset i believe you're 0.91

00:36:52.880 She's campaigning for more of her boobs to be seen, I believe. 0.99

00:36:55.940 Campaigning for more, including on the Glenn Beck program. 0.97

00:36:58.560 This is a segment that I think we should do daily.

00:37:00.260 No, I don't.

00:37:01.020 Anyway, so she was doing an ad for – who's she doing this ad for?

00:37:05.140 Well, it's one of those prediction markets.

00:37:06.580 I can't remember the name of the company.

00:37:07.820 So she's doing an ad for prediction markets.

00:37:10.160 It's gambling, okay?

00:37:11.600 And who are they appealing to?

00:37:14.100 Guys.

00:37:15.020 And so she's sitting in a locker room off to the side. 1.00

00:37:20.320 She's got footballs that's covering her nakedness, and she's looking hot.

00:37:26.440 But there's another one with her sitting naked up on a basketball hoop, and it's pretty profound. 0.95

00:37:35.120 Anyway, the reason why this is so—everybody's coming unglued is because she's not a cool kid on their side. 0.96

00:37:43.940 She refuses to wear the cool kid stickers. 1.00

00:37:46.780 She refuses to wear the kifah. 0.96

00:37:48.540 she refuses to say, hey, you know what? The Palestinians are X, Y, Z. You know, we need 1.00

00:37:55.620 Marxism, blah, blah, blah. I don't even know her political. I just know she's not part of that.

00:38:02.760 She might disagree with everything I say that I'm for. I don't really care. She's just not part of

00:38:08.720 that scene. She's like, I don't care what anybody says about me. I don't care what you say. I am not

00:38:14.420 going to become part of the Borg. And that's what's crazy. Does anybody remember? I'm revealing

00:38:20.900 myself as a giant Star Trek geek. Does anybody remember the episodes with the Borg? The Borg

00:38:27.620 was just the hive mind, the collective mind where everybody had to think alike. And it was a

00:38:33.300 nightmare. It was supposed to be a bad thing. These guys are coming down dressed as the Borg

00:38:38.980 going resistance is futile you will become part of us you're like no i don't think so and that's

00:38:45.400 why she's popular with half the country is because she's like no i'm not going to be part of the borg

00:38:51.280 i am not resistance is futile watch me watch me and all these people all these women who are coming 0.63

00:38:59.200 out and they're saying oh my gosh this is so offensive you're the same women who have been 0.97

00:39:06.980 saying for the last two weeks a woman who killed her three children letting her go would be the 0.99

00:39:14.080 right thing because it would forward the women's movement wait wait i mean i'm all for health care

00:39:23.040 i get that but she killed she strangled her three children and you're like yeah but she's a hero 0.94

00:39:31.920 No, she's not. She's a killer. Now, she may have a disease. She may be mentally unstable. I personally think it wasn't there, but I read enough of it. I mean, I'm out on that one, but you can disagree with that. 1.00

00:39:48.740 But she's not a hero. 1.00

00:39:51.340 She's not somebody you use to forward women.

00:39:56.520 I mean, you tell people that it's fine, that girls, it's fine. 1.00

00:40:02.440 You want to be a prostitute? Be a prostitute. 1.00

00:40:05.280 You need to pay for college? Be a prostitute. 1.00

00:40:08.300 There's nothing wrong with being a prostitute. 1.00

00:40:09.960 But a good-looking woman can't sit in a pose we've all seen. 1.00

00:40:16.440 We've all seen this advertisement on everything. 1.00

00:40:20.680 And that's pushing the women's movement back. 0.65

00:40:23.680 Oh, you got, I mean, how do you do the math, really? 0.97

00:40:31.260 Your head, do you have headaches all the time?

00:40:35.520 You must, because I don't know how you keep that straight in your head.

00:40:39.300 I mean, how do you know what you're for?

00:40:41.960 Is it just because you're connected to the Borg?

00:40:44.420 Is that what it is?

00:40:45.120 Because how do you know what you're for and against?

00:40:47.600 You have to check, right?

00:40:49.740 Because none of it makes logical sense.

00:40:51.820 You can't get up and go, oh, well, I'm against that.

00:40:55.780 When you're for all the other stuff, when you're saying that prostitution forwards women,

00:41:04.140 how do you suddenly say, oh, what Sweeney's doing is something that we should all protest.

00:41:09.360 We should all be angry about.

00:41:11.040 There's no logic to that.

00:41:12.760 It's just the message from the Borg.

00:41:14.500 That's all it is.

00:41:18.800 So I don't get it.

00:41:21.220 And as far as I'm concerned,

00:41:24.380 Sidney, I think you should keep doing this.

00:41:28.560 Justice, I mean, I'm just saying as a point, as a protest,

00:41:34.720 you should keep doing it.

00:41:37.520 What are you laughing at?

00:41:39.660 I was hoping you didn't hear me laughing at that.

00:41:42.540 I would like to say, though, that I totally get it.

00:41:47.300 And especially when Sidney told Variety, she said, quote, I'm not a political person.

00:41:51.820 I'm in the arts.

00:41:52.860 I'm not here to speak on politics.

00:41:54.380 That's not an area I've ever imagined getting into.

00:41:56.960 They want her to be on their side.

00:41:59.240 No, no, no.

00:41:59.820 No, no, no.

00:42:00.400 They want it.

00:42:00.740 No, they don't want it.

00:42:02.200 They must have it.

00:42:04.260 Yeah.

00:42:04.520 There is no neutral in their world.

00:42:06.980 None.

00:42:07.560 You will comply or you're out.

00:42:10.620 Ricky.

00:42:10.760 Yeah. 1.00

00:42:10.900 yeah she's um also dating a jew and not just any jew well that's the problem a jew who went to 0.65

00:42:18.680 israel to stand up for the jews after october 7th and his whose grandparents survived auschwitz 0.83

00:42:24.800 so you know everything is stacked against her she must be maga right wing barbie to them making

00:42:31.100 sense she's out well that being said if i find my husband is following her on instagram when he

00:42:36.460 goes out of the other room boom unfollow wait what unfollow what why would you do that he is

00:42:44.520 making a political statement that's all he's doing that's all he's doing i honey i'm following her

00:42:50.960 for political reasons yes yes yeah uh my wife i don't think would unfollow her i think i'd be

00:43:00.440 sat down no i can follow her i do follow her yeah but your husband my husband yeah you have to look

00:43:07.140 over my shoulder if he wants to see that prediction market ad you know i can't help what comes up on

00:43:15.020 my screen in ads i can't help it again i gotta tell you i'm at every prediction market website

00:43:20.260 today just hoping the algorithm is like oh prediction market ads this is so wrong anyway

00:43:26.700 I think this is good news

00:43:29.000 I think with the dad

00:43:31.260 standing up

00:43:33.360 against Macklemore

00:43:34.940 you saw what is happening, enough is enough

00:43:37.100 you've got somebody else 0.99

00:43:38.880 strong, a strong woman, that's what a strong 1.00

00:43:41.260 woman does, a strong woman says 1.00

00:43:43.060 I don't care what the world 1.00

00:43:45.140 says, I don't care

00:43:46.760 what the politics

00:43:49.300 say, I don't care

00:43:50.900 what all the people with all the money

00:43:53.100 and all the fame say I have to do

00:43:54.660 I know who I am

00:43:55.880 and I'm going to be me.

00:43:58.760 That's the sexiest woman.

00:44:00.600 That's the most powerful woman I can imagine. 1.00

00:44:03.740 A woman who knows who they are and they don't care. 1.00

00:44:08.020 Keep it up. 1.00

The Glenn Beck Program - September 15, 2026

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