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00:02:56.440 So the federal government is has remained closed because they will not pass a continuing resolution, a clean CR, as they call it.

00:03:07.360 And the responsibility of that failure falls directly on one of the two major parties.

00:03:13.100 And that party is the Democrat Party.

00:03:15.420 The political the political speak is echoing through the halls of Congress.

00:03:23.260 Our military is now being funded by private dollars.

00:03:26.800 I can't believe it.

00:03:28.100 This week is the week our air traffic controllers will stop receiving a paycheck.

00:03:32.180 And so we'll be at the mercy of those who are like, I'll work for free.

00:03:35.300 And worst of all, deep in America's neighborhoods, children are going to go to bed hungry.

00:03:44.080 Now, I am not a fan of big social programs.

00:03:50.620 I think the welfare system that we have created in this country has done nothing for poverty.

00:03:56.480 And all of the stats bear this out.

00:03:59.400 Zero for poverty.

00:04:00.860 In fact, it may have even gotten worse.

00:04:03.000 But the party that purports to represent the weakest among us, the ones who are like, they want your children to starve in the middle of the street.

00:04:12.220 The ones who represent the weakest are the ones who are refusing to keep the lights on or now to secure the food on the table for the poor, poor and the vulnerable.

00:04:24.520 Literally, the poorest among us, the children that they're always saying are going to starve to death.

00:04:30.600 They are going to take the food out of their mouth.

00:04:34.920 And it reveals who they really are.

00:04:37.480 OK, what really matters to them.

00:04:39.500 Their inaction is truly a choice.

00:04:41.680 And it's it's the condemning of the poor that they say, therefore, through these government programs.

00:04:47.260 I say that's not the way to do it.

00:04:49.660 They say it is.

00:04:50.780 But now they've after they have enslaved people on these government programs, they're just yanking the carpet out. 0.88

00:04:58.380 So here's what actually is happening.

00:05:01.080 On October 1st, the federal government entered shutdown because Congress failed to pass a full year appropriations or a stopgap CR continuing resolution to fund the essential programs.

00:05:13.620 The Republicans have been there the whole time going past this, past this, past this.

00:05:17.340 We can even do a two week.

00:05:18.420 We can do a four week.

00:05:19.380 Let's just keep government functioning.

00:05:20.960 But they won't do it.

00:05:22.040 Now, among the programs at risk now, beginning November 1st, is the nation's primary food aid mechanism, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

00:05:34.660 You know, SNAP, the one the Democrats said they had to expand under Obama.

00:05:41.420 Now, according to the most recent data, SNAP is serving an average of 42 million people every single month.

00:05:50.940 That's 12 percent of all of the people that live here in the United States in fiscal year 2024.

00:05:58.360 OK, 12 percent.

00:05:59.900 And the U.S. Department of Agriculture has now said, OK, we we don't have the contingency funds.

00:06:06.860 The ones we do have can't legally be used to cover normal monthly SNAP benefits in the funding gap.

00:06:13.680 The president has tried to do everything he can, but court system just keeps shutting him down.

00:06:19.440 And I don't want to give the president more power to be able to do whatever he wants.

00:06:24.340 OK, fund the government.

00:06:27.760 Now, here's the implication.

00:06:29.900 As early as next week, millions may no longer receive their benefits or they will face a delay and a reduction.

00:06:37.260 We know because we've gone through this over and over again, these are always partisan standoffs.

00:06:43.060 But we are now witnessing where the Democrats are weaponizing hunger.

00:06:49.620 The SNAP program traces all of its roots back to the Democrats.

00:06:54.620 The food stamp era of the 1960s and the 1970s.

00:06:58.460 By 2020, it was helping over 40 million people.

00:07:03.040 Now, the previous shutdowns have delayed benefits, OK, but not endangered the monthly food assistance to tens of millions of people directly.

00:07:15.280 Shutdowns are supposed to be a bureaucratic interruption.

00:07:19.020 That's why I celebrate shutdowns.

00:07:21.580 OK, I don't want basic programs to be cut, but I do love the fact that we can look at the government and say,

00:07:29.080 wow, a lot of you seem to be non-critical or non-essential employees.

00:07:35.520 But now we have a shutdown that threatens to pull the food out from American children.

00:07:42.280 I say this kind of with glee because they've always said we want to harm children and none of us want to harm children.

00:07:49.940 But the Democrats are actually going out by choice.

00:07:55.340 It is their choice to pull funding they say is absolutely necessary to feed children in America.

00:08:04.020 And they're OK with it.

00:08:05.760 This is the party of social compassion, remember.

00:08:08.260 They have in recent years accused Republicans of refusing to negotiate, being unwilling to compromise on budgets, being unwilling to compromise on continuing resolutions, you know, on on just, you know, at least funding the basic floor for the vulnerable.

00:08:27.680 And yet the Democrats are now leading us into the longest shutdown in our history, and they are knowingly using hungry children and babies to do it.

00:08:42.520 And why are they doing it?

00:08:44.980 Why are they doing it?

00:08:46.040 Let's be honest.

00:08:47.640 Chuck Schumer is doing it so he is not primaried by the left wing of his own party.

00:08:52.560 That's what this is really all about.

00:08:55.120 OK, and this contradiction matters.

00:08:57.000 When you accuse the other side of refusing to negotiate yet withhold life support for children, your moral vacuum is a little stark and clear.

00:09:09.500 Now, because of the shutdown, USDA warns 42 million individuals may not receive, you know, snap benefits in November in Texas alone.

00:09:19.800 That means 3.4 million people who depend on SNAP are now being told the state is monitoring the situation, but the state of Texas may not be able to guarantee November benefits.

00:09:32.020 And we're a state in good shape.

00:09:33.960 Imagine what's going to happen in California or in Illinois.

00:09:38.160 Virginia's governor has declared a state of an emergency in anticipation of the loss of federal food benefits.

00:09:44.020 So what does this actually mean in human costs?

00:09:49.320 Well, let's just take the Democrats word for it.

00:09:52.760 We know families are already living on the margin.

00:09:56.520 Children are relying on the kindness of the system.

00:10:00.820 The system is not kind.

00:10:02.760 We've told you forever.

00:10:03.920 The system does not.

00:10:05.120 It cannot love you.

00:10:06.460 It doesn't care about you.

00:10:08.400 The the politicos in Washington, they don't actually care about you.

00:10:13.900 And we are seeing this now with the Democrats.

00:10:17.820 This means the food banks are going to be swamped, but the food banks are already low.

00:10:23.460 Now, these are the ones who are bearing the burden of the political gains further.

00:10:28.360 Now, listen to this.

00:10:29.760 See who this might help.

00:10:31.780 When food becomes scarce for families, what happens?

00:10:36.640 Stress rises.

00:10:37.620 That means if you have stress, that means you're going to have more suicides, more sick people, more people using the hospitals.

00:10:47.460 Theft is going to increase and public unrest may brew.

00:10:53.420 Gee, now, who would want that except all of those Democrats who are already sowing the seeds of revolution, pushing for chaos in the streets and taking officers off the field while putting criminals back into the game?

00:11:06.340 The seeds of desperation have been sown by this party.

00:11:12.440 And what are they doing?

00:11:14.320 They're turning up the heat.

00:11:15.780 And then what does this mean?

00:11:18.360 If the government doesn't pay for it, that means the states have to pay for it, which will make all of our states more vulnerable because they'll all have to dip into their rainy day fund.

00:11:29.160 Which makes what?

00:11:32.620 All of our states more vulnerable to collapse.

00:11:37.480 Also, Chuck Schumer isn't primaried.

00:11:40.360 You can't wait for political restoration when one of the political parties does not want restoration.

00:11:50.560 You know, one party is not looking for common sense.

00:11:53.360 In fact, one party is pushing for shooting those you disagree with while funding color revolutions in our own cities. 0.68

00:12:02.160 You know, while while everybody is trying to stop this, this one guy, Mellon, who is is sending a check for one hundred and thirty million dollars to pay for our our military.

00:12:13.080 All the short shortfall for our military, one hundred and thirty million dollars personally coming out of his his paycheck.

00:12:19.160 What are they doing?

00:12:20.480 They're spending almost three hundred million dollars on a no kings rally.

00:12:25.580 Hmm.

00:12:26.220 Which one is in favor of America?

00:12:30.340 Which one's not?

00:12:32.080 You can't rely on a party that refuses to pass a clean funding bill when they actually say out loud all the time that the ends justify the means.

00:12:43.540 By the way, for those who don't get that, maybe you soon will.

00:12:47.260 The ends justify the means.

00:12:49.340 What does that mean?

00:12:50.140 Well, to clarify, it's playing out right now that it is OK for people to suffer.

00:12:57.400 It's OK if your plane is delayed or canceled in the next few days.

00:13:02.140 It's OK for military families who are struggling already are pushed deeper into debt and despair and children literally going to bed hungry, wake up hungry and then go to school hungry.

00:13:15.740 They know what's at stake.

00:13:19.400 But at their plans, their goals, their primary election is more important.

00:13:24.840 That's the ends.

00:13:27.420 And it justifies all of the things that is happening or will happen in our society.

00:13:32.800 Every plane that's delayed, everybody that goes further in debt and every child that doesn't have food because their beloved snap program that they have enslaved people on is now broke.

00:13:43.720 So here's what we have to do.

00:13:46.980 First of all, you have to make sure that everyone, if you're traveling, the minute these airports start to fall apart and your plane is canceled or delayed because people aren't being paid and so they're not showing up for work, you make sure everyone knows that that's because Chuck Schumer didn't want to be primaried by AOC.

00:14:08.220 OK, call your Democrat representative, anyone who is struggling to put food on the table, anyone who knows of a hungry child after helping them.

00:14:20.560 Call your Democrat representative and say enough is enough here.

00:14:25.220 But I would like to suggest something even further.

00:14:29.940 I'm going to ask you to do what you always do and you do best.

00:14:35.140 Get involved and help in a real way.

00:14:40.480 Our communities are going to suffer for a myriad of reasons.

00:14:45.560 And right now, if you're living in a military town, they're already suffering.

00:14:49.740 They're already suffering.

00:14:50.800 We have to rally our own communities.

00:14:56.080 So our food banks all around the country are are going empty and we haven't even hit anything yet.

00:15:03.780 If the Democrats allow this to go through Thanksgiving, it'll probably go through Christmas.

00:15:09.080 That is going that will devastate the economy.

00:15:12.900 That will we'll all be looking at food banks soon.

00:15:15.460 OK, so we need to stock up our local food banks.

00:15:20.800 You need to get your church involved, get everybody involved.

00:15:23.760 If your church has a food bank, please deliver food to the local church.

00:15:28.260 OK, we need to reach out to schools.

00:15:30.720 We need to mobilize our churches, our civic groups, our community centers.

00:15:34.320 We need to make sure that no one is going bed to bed hungry because of political inaction.

00:15:40.520 This is our job in the first place.

00:15:42.160 This is our church's job in the first place.

00:15:44.100 But they have enslaved about 43 million people on food stamps.

00:15:48.920 It's got to stop.

00:15:50.180 It has to stop.

00:15:52.400 But you don't just you don't you don't take a heroin user and like, oh, no more heroin for you.

00:15:57.580 You've got to have a plan.

00:15:59.460 Well, there is no plan.

00:16:00.500 So it comes back to us.

00:16:03.900 Food is now being used as a weapon.

00:16:06.580 So we have to disarm that weapon because this makes a difference.

00:16:10.120 You might say, well, you know what?

00:16:11.680 Those people can work or whatever it is that you might say in your head.

00:16:15.580 This is going to cause civil unrest.

00:16:18.300 And you're already seeing it.

00:16:20.120 The seeds are being planted online already.

00:16:23.900 That if they don't give us our money and they're not talking about the Democrats, they're talking about Donald Trump.

00:16:28.360 If they don't give us our money, well, then it's time to take action ourself.

00:16:32.320 And you will see an increase in theft.

00:16:34.820 You will see an increase in disillusionment.

00:16:37.920 You will see an increase in violence in the streets.

00:16:40.600 It will happen.

00:16:42.620 So let's disarm that by doing the right thing ourselves with kindness, with service and responsibility.

00:16:49.940 Let's show people that, you know, there is one side that actually cares about the poor.

00:16:54.140 We always do.

00:16:55.120 We're always there.

00:16:56.340 Let's demonstrate leadership when everybody else wants to demonstrate.

00:17:02.380 I don't even know what, you know, when the left fails to act.

00:17:07.400 Let us be the act.

00:17:09.300 When food becomes a bargaining chip.

00:17:12.900 Let's render it bulletproof by putting some meals in some hands.

00:17:17.020 Let's be seen be seen doing real good politics.

00:17:21.060 Be damned.

00:17:22.420 Principles are what matters.

00:17:24.660 You know.

00:17:27.740 I can't believe all of these years they've been saying and they want your children to starve and they are.

00:17:32.880 I mean, I heard a Democrat this weekend say we know this is going to cause pain, but it's important.

00:17:39.060 Really, because you have said when we're not talking about things like this, when we're talking about just not increasing the spending, not decreasing, you're telling us that we always want hungry children to starve.

00:17:51.900 You are literally taking the only safety net away that they have that you created and enslave them with.

00:17:59.120 I'm sorry, but, you know, an empty belly doesn't know compromise.

00:18:08.580 It doesn't.

00:18:09.600 We have to stand in the breach while Congress stands idle.

00:18:14.740 How do you not pass a clean CR when when food?

00:18:19.900 I mean, that's the minimum of decency, isn't it?

00:18:22.320 When they refuse, and I don't know when people will get this, what they're saying is we don't really care.

00:18:30.480 We care about our politics more.

00:18:32.480 Enough is enough.

00:18:33.340 Enough is enough.

00:18:34.740 We'll do our part.

00:18:36.080 We should feed the hungry in the first place.

00:18:38.660 We should support the children.

00:18:40.300 We need to lean into service a little bit more and disarm the politics of hunger by living higher, higher than politics, principles of love and responsibility.

00:18:52.260 I mean, it's it's clear how truly little they care for those at the bottom.

00:18:59.940 Time to carry the torch for the powerless.

00:19:03.280 You know, I knew John Huntsman, a good friend of mine.

00:19:06.100 And in 2008, he almost lost his petrochemical company and lost everything.

00:19:10.500 He had mortgage, everything and just everything was on the line.

00:19:13.920 And when he finished, he said to the banks, he now I need a now I need a loan for charity.

00:19:20.820 And the bank went charity.

00:19:23.060 We don't loan for charity.

00:19:24.640 And he said, I have promised millions of dollars to these charities.

00:19:27.540 And they said, well, just tell them to wait.

00:19:29.240 You're you're in a bad situation.

00:19:30.560 He said, I tell you what, why don't I take you to the homeless shelter and you tell the hungry to wait?

00:19:34.200 Why don't I take you to the battered women's center and you tell them, hey, there will be a place for you so you can get away from your abusive spouse next month. 1.00

00:19:43.520 You tell them that.

00:19:45.440 He mortgaged literally his house and everything else just to make his charitable contributions.

00:19:53.160 That is a man of real principle.

00:19:55.900 That is that's the way we should all live our life.

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00:21:32.780 Well, the time is finally here that I can talk to you about the torch and what it is and when it begins and what it all means.

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00:22:49.020 So the day is finally here where I can talk to you about all of this and my next phase of my career.

00:22:57.240 So if you don't mind, just give me just a few minutes to speak from a personal and professional note.

00:23:03.120 When I began the blaze years and years and years ago, the world looked extraordinarily different than it did.

00:23:10.440 The left owned all the airwaves, the networks, the studios, the universities.

00:23:14.340 You know, if you didn't see the world their way, you just weren't welcome in it and you weren't going anywhere.

00:23:21.340 At the time when I was dominating those airwaves, the left told me, you want to say those things?

00:23:28.540 You just go on the Internet and do a podcast at a time when a podcast didn't mean anything.

00:23:33.740 It was a joke if you were a podcaster at the time.

00:23:35.940 At the time, nobody had really figured out the podcast.

00:23:41.320 Nobody had even considered live subscription networks with real talent that could not just be heard and survive, but could dominate and thrive.

00:23:51.880 So when I left Fox, I'll never forget, Roger Ailes told me, he said, you know, the Internet's a fad.

00:23:57.140 And I said, I don't think it is.

00:23:58.420 And the left thought that they had won, that I had been banished into the wilderness of something called podcasting.

00:24:05.860 On my last show, I said to the left that you will pine for the days when I was only on for one hour every day on Fox News.

00:24:15.320 But as usual, they lacked vision and they didn't see what I saw.

00:24:20.380 And what I saw was freedom, entire networks and generations of new voices that would finally be set free, that would not have to climb that impossible ladder that I had to climb.

00:24:34.240 Out of that wilderness came the blaze.

00:24:37.060 And through these doors walked the next generation of truth tellers.

00:24:42.140 And they're still walking through these doors.

00:24:44.240 Let me just name a few.

00:24:45.360 And I'm going to leave a lot of people out and I apologize.

00:24:47.160 But Buck Sexton, Lawrence Jones, now at Fox, Ali Best Stuckey, who's in the Wall Street Journal today as being the leader of the leading women's voice for the conservative movement.

00:24:56.860 Dana Lash, Will Kane.

00:24:59.560 The first time that Matt Walsh ever appeared on television, it was with me on what was then called GBTV.

00:25:05.380 And my own personal fave, whose career got a start from a nobody to now the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.

00:25:16.880 No one had ever built a live subscription-based network of independent thinkers.

00:25:24.020 It hadn't been done, hadn't even been dreamed of.

00:25:26.660 No one had ever streamed across radio and television and online simultaneously and based it online.

00:25:36.420 And to do it, we had to invent new things.

00:25:41.240 I mean, the infrastructure didn't exist.

00:25:44.260 We had to partner at the time with Major League Baseball to be able to do it because no one else but Major League Baseball had even thought of it.

00:25:53.000 Today, if you look around at the landscape, things have dramatically changed.

00:26:00.740 Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, the biggest names in news, all online, all independent.

00:26:09.500 And it's because of you seeing the future and going, I think that might change the media.

00:26:19.680 And together, we brought the networks to their knees.

00:26:23.320 It's funny because now it's becoming full circle.

00:26:25.940 You know, one of them that they drove out, Barry Weiss, is now being welcomed back as a conquering hero in the newsroom savior out in CBS News.

00:26:34.180 Because it's crazy.

00:26:35.740 But for me, my part of this mission is complete.

00:26:41.220 I wanted to start the blaze.

00:26:42.820 I wanted to create this ecosystem.

00:26:45.780 And we did.

00:26:48.320 Media now has really capable voices, minds, and hands to do things.

00:26:54.740 And the blaze is hitting new heights every single month.

00:27:00.780 And I can now turn what I want to do, which is my next disruption and my next creative venture.

00:27:09.220 Because as a nation, we are now suffering from a lack of true education, true individual empowerment, and true non-governmental rescue.

00:27:24.440 So let me start with education.

00:27:27.500 In January, I am launching the Glenn and Tonya Beck Foundation for American History.

00:27:33.940 It is a privately fund trust that will continue to do in accelerated fashion what I began almost 20 years ago.

00:27:42.100 For nearly two decades, I have been collecting the physical evidence of America's soul.

00:27:47.700 The documents, the letters, the artifacts that tell the true story of who we are.

00:27:54.520 And it's amazing to me, after 20 years, how big this thing has gotten and how few people, even in my own audience, really know what it is.

00:28:01.260 Because we haven't really unveiled it, except in glimpses here and there.

00:28:06.160 But with the help of David Barton and Wall Builders, that library has now become the third largest private collection of founding documents in the world.

00:28:15.680 It is surpassed only by the Library of Congress and the National Archives.

00:28:21.200 It houses and also preserves the largest collection of Pilgrim and Jamestown documents and items in the world.

00:28:29.240 The entire collection now contains well over a million documents and items of evidence of the greatness of the American experiment, as well as our scars and our mistakes.

00:28:42.860 But it is definitive proof of our beginnings.

00:28:47.820 This library is proof that America was founded on Judeo-Christian values. 0.95

00:28:53.660 It is proof that our mission was not slavery, but freedom for all mankind.

00:28:59.700 It is proof that while we have committed terrible wrongs, we have also accomplished miraculous things.

00:29:07.040 It is proof that our story began not in Jamestown, but in Plymouth, Mass.

00:29:12.160 It is proof that when science divorces itself from moral truth, darkness follows and usually profound darkness from the race hygiene laws born here in America that inspired the Nuremberg laws in Nazi Germany to the American eugenics society that lit lit the path for Mengele's horrors. 0.72

00:29:36.700 History repeats itself.

00:29:40.700 If it doesn't, it at least rhymes again and again and again and once again, we are fighting the same ancient evil, the culture of death. 0.71

00:29:51.260 But this library is proof that man can rule himself, that Tesla was the genius, not Edison, that some Native American tribes were glorious and peaceful, while others were bloodthirsty and slave owners, no different than the English that came to Jamestown. 0.99

00:30:12.040 Over the last three years, my team has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds and thousands of man hours digitizing this unparalleled archive.

00:30:26.040 And in the last year plus, I have been working on building something the world has never seen before.

00:30:34.580 What was once contained and still physically is in a tornado proof vault and then another they call it a mountain here, but I call it a Texas hillside and a third location, a granite vault in the Rocky Mountains.

00:30:49.180 All of this history is now also contained in a digital vault, all now on blockchain.

00:30:57.440 So these facts and artifacts will never, ever be lost unless you want to shut down the entire Internet.

00:31:03.980 But more than just preservation, which was my first goal, we now have created the first independent, proprietary, AI-driven American historical library.

00:31:16.400 And it is, as you will see next year, complete with its own librarian.

00:31:22.480 We call him George.

00:31:24.060 George is built from the writings of George Washington himself, the writings of the founders, the thousands of sermons that they heard from their church pulpits, the books that they read and the principles they lived by.

00:31:38.920 He can find any artifact, any document, any speech, and delivered it to you as evidence that what you were taught in school was either misguided out of ignorance, a half-truth, or most likely an out-and-out lie.

00:31:56.700 He will also be able to teach the Constitution.

00:31:59.140 He will teach the Federalist Papers, the Civics, American History, in a way that no one has even thought of, no one has ever generated.

00:32:11.500 And it can generate it all without hallucination, as it is all contained in a secure, isolated server where every document is memorized verbatim.

00:32:23.280 That is different.

00:32:24.940 It's first level, which we are now close to finishing, is able to contain and retrieve one exabyte of material.

00:32:36.740 Now, let me give you some perspective on this.

00:32:39.840 One exabyte is a thousand petabytes.

00:32:43.640 I don't know what that means.

00:32:44.580 Well, that equals a million terabytes.

00:32:47.880 A million terabytes is a billion gigabytes.

00:32:51.160 And a billion gigabytes is one exabyte.

00:32:57.660 Okay?

00:32:58.240 What does that mean?

00:33:00.480 It means that that approaches half of all of the digital data humanity produced in the entire 1990s combined.

00:33:12.840 This is not Chachi PD.

00:33:15.380 This is not Wikipedia.

00:33:16.700 This is verified, factual, memorized, first-source truth, powered now by proprietary technology and the greatest private collection of American history ever assembled.

00:33:32.420 And this is only part of what I'm announcing today.

00:33:36.980 This enormous library featuring our librarian, George, that will be able to teach you and your family in ways you cannot imagine but will be able to soon.

00:33:47.200 And on separate servers, we have digitized over 30 years of my life's work, every book, every radio show, every episode, every special, every speech, every bit of research, sourced and documented research with historic verification.

00:34:05.020 And that, too, will be ready to teach you and that, too, will be ready to teach you anything you might need, from the rise of the caliphate, to the structure of our government, from economic truth, to the funding networks of the left, from George Soros to Arabella Advisors.

00:34:21.700 We are working with two new sets of researchers that have come into the fold for what I'm launching with the torch next January.

00:34:31.320 You will be very excited.

00:34:32.780 These two researchers, you know who they are, their teams, and we are putting some stuff together that will first be turned over to the FBI and then made into a special for you.

00:34:42.800 But all of this will be on demand, all verified and all powered by the torch, which is going to be a new tool, a new app that will be found at Glenn Beck dot com.

00:34:53.840 It's going to be released on January 5th.

00:34:57.660 I would ask that you would sign up for my free email newsletter at Glenn Beck dot com right now.

00:35:02.780 That way we can alert you.

00:35:04.460 You can be one of the first to become a founding member when the app is released.

00:35:09.500 But this is the next chapter.

00:35:11.260 It's this is the final chapter of my career to try to restore curiosity, try to restore the ability to ask questions about history and then get honest results back without any bias, just based on actual documents.

00:35:26.960 And all of it begins appropriately at the beginning of the 250 year of our nation's founding.

00:35:33.340 Now, so, you know, the show, this show that you hear, the radio show will still be heard on radio and on Blaze TV and Blaze TV is going on.

00:35:45.020 It's going to be announcing some new and very exciting expansion very soon.

00:35:49.100 But you will find all of the extras at the torch app at Glenn Beck dot com.

00:35:55.980 And even the show on the app is going to have a completely new addition that is.

00:36:06.100 We're kind of we're in beta testing right now.

00:36:09.060 I hope it is going to be shocking in its in its usefulness.

00:36:14.800 But beginning January 5th, rolling out over the next 12 months, you're going to find new history shows, new deep dive investigations.

00:36:22.760 And most importantly, you will find perspective, honest history and hope.

00:36:27.460 And we begin the year with two brand new podcasts.

00:36:30.480 One of them is America's Story.

00:36:32.620 It's a year long celebration of our 250th birthday.

00:36:36.900 It is the original story.

00:36:38.580 And it is really, really, really good.

00:36:41.400 In the months ahead, we will also go where others cannot go or will not go digitally and literally.

00:36:51.220 Next year, Mercury One, the Nazarene Fund and the American Journey Experience, three of my charities that you have helped build, are expanding their mission as well.

00:37:01.480 And beginning in the first quarter of next year, I personally am going to take you into the heart of Islamic darkness. 1.00

00:37:07.600 That is going to be one of the things that we really delve into deeply, the Islamistization of the entire West. 1.00

00:37:17.600 And I will be taking you into the killing fields of Nigeria, where Christians are being slaughtered by Islamist militants and militias in the largest Christian slaughter in human history.

00:37:29.860 We will be there and I will take you to the places most people don't know about or won't cover.

00:37:37.660 And I will take you to the cliffs the world is about to jump off of without anyone even knowing that that is a cliff, a cliff.

00:37:45.020 And that will be Nigeria, also the front lines of South Korea, where communism is threatening to swallow another free ally, probably in the next 24 months, to the places where faith and truth and freedom are under siege.

00:37:58.980 And we don't need more despair.

00:38:02.340 We need more action.

00:38:04.260 And we need it to be bold and decisive.

00:38:07.000 And you will be a part of that.

00:38:08.840 We're not going to just take you and show you problems.

00:38:11.180 We're going to be offering solutions.

00:38:13.580 You'll be a part of a movement that will rescue and rebuild and redeem.

00:38:18.980 Um, uh, I've been working on this for a while and I've been praying all the time and just tearing myself apart.

00:38:26.960 And, uh, just a couple of weeks ago, uh, I felt in somebody was giving me a blessing and I felt strongly for the first time in my life.

00:38:37.060 I know why I was born.

00:38:38.360 And in that, I realized I don't have a lot of time to waste and, um, and, uh, I have a lot of work to do.

00:38:51.520 I want, I would love to help you find your reason you were born because we all have to.

00:38:55.920 Um, the torch is not just a platform.

00:39:00.320 The torch is a mission and it is a mission to illuminate.

00:39:04.820 It is a mission to bring light where there is darkness.

00:39:08.960 Um, it is a light to guide those in darkness to safety.

00:39:13.020 And this is my next and final step in my career.

00:39:18.380 And it is the culmination of everything that I have done and built from Fox to the blaze, from my first item of American history to now the largest, uh, private library in the country.

00:39:33.640 Um, from radio to TV, to books, to now history itself.

00:39:38.600 Um, this is the moment that I tried to pass the torch to you and founding memberships are going to be open soon.

00:39:48.500 Uh, and I would love for you to be a partner with us.

00:39:52.740 And I am asking you one last time to help me build something to change the world for good.

00:39:59.840 We've done it once before we've done it actually several times together, but the truth still matters.

00:40:05.700 And the torch of lady Liberty, the torch of truth must never, ever go out.

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00:40:21.540 You'll be given the first opportunity to become a founding member of this very ambitious project to make history once again by sharing history in new and game changing ways.

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00:40:39.620 Let's change the world yet again.

00:40:44.840 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:40:48.400 So the president is over in Asia today, negotiating all kinds of different deals, uh, and really setting the stage for hopefully peace in Asia.

00:40:59.400 Uh, things could get very, very dicey.

00:41:02.060 And it's one reason why I think that we're actually, uh, going after Venezuela.

00:41:06.360 We're trying to make sure that this hemisphere is safe.

00:41:10.120 Um, and the Chinese influence and the Russian influence and quite honestly, the Iranian influence is out.

00:41:15.820 But the president talked about a new golden battleship.

00:41:18.880 And I thought, we're still building battleships.

00:41:22.080 Why are we building battleships?

00:41:23.620 Uh, and then I thought, oh, a golden one.

00:41:25.220 So we'll be like pirates.

00:41:26.220 So we can find that gold after it's at the bottom of the sea.

00:41:29.180 What are we doing?

00:41:30.520 Battleships are a thing of the past.

00:41:31.860 In my opinion, Brandon saying is, uh, the co-founder, uh, and president of shield AI.

00:41:39.640 He's a former Navy seal.

00:41:41.620 Um, shield AI is coming up with all kinds of new technology, uh, to be able to fight the battle of the future.

00:41:48.680 It's going to be a fascinating conversation.

00:41:50.460 We begin in 60 seconds.

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00:42:55.780 Brandon Tseng from, uh, Shield AI, which is just around the corner.

00:42:59.240 Are you not?

00:42:59.880 Uh, we have an office in Dallas, about 550 employees there.

00:43:03.620 So I'm also at our office in Dallas today.

00:43:06.120 So tell me what Shield AI is.

00:43:08.680 Sure.

00:43:09.260 Uh, Shield AI is a technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with artificially intelligent systems.

00:43:17.300 I founded this company 10 years ago with my brother, Ryan.

00:43:20.620 In pursuit of this mission, we have been building the world's best AI pilot and proliferating that AI pilot, as well as next generation aircraft.

00:43:28.860 And so today we're about a five and a half billion dollar company, have about 1,400 employees, uh, and just trying to make our warfighter proud.

00:43:38.140 So what does it mean the next generation pilot?

00:43:41.260 Uh, so an AI pilot, uh, easiest way to think of an AI pilot is self-driving technology for unmanned systems.

00:43:48.080 And so I don't know if you've ever been in a Tesla or a Waymo where the thing starts navigating itself.

00:43:53.740 Exact same type of technology.

00:43:55.340 It uses sensors to perceive its environment, uses an onboard, uh, NVIDIA GPU to process all that sensor information and to make decisions about where to go, uh, what the mission is.

00:44:06.060 Right.

00:44:06.340 So for a car, the mission is go from A to B without hitting things.

00:44:09.760 It has to read and react along the way.

00:44:11.640 The mission for an F-16 would be dogfight, uh, another F-16.

00:44:16.880 So what is the expat?

00:44:18.160 So the expat is our new, uh, next generation aircraft.

00:44:22.340 It is an AI piloted vertical takeoff launch and land fighter jet.

00:44:27.240 First of its kind.

00:44:28.440 How big is it?

00:44:29.040 Is it a fighter jet size?

00:44:30.320 It is a fighter jet size.

00:44:31.880 So it takes up the logistics footprint, about one third, the size of an F-18, but that's because you don't have all these life safety support systems that you would for a person.

00:44:41.240 You basically have, uh, an F-100 class engine, which is the same engine in an F-15 or F-16, put wings on it, put computers on it, sensors, enable enough, uh, room for the fuel and, uh, the payloads.

00:44:54.500 And, uh, it's a, it's a monster of an aircraft.

00:44:57.240 It's big.

00:44:57.880 Yeah.

00:44:57.920 So, so does it, does it fly with, cause I've seen, um, these, you know, I've seen computer generated ideas where these new planes will come with a fleet of drones with them kind of as their wingmen.

00:45:11.000 Does that, that's absolutely correct.

00:45:13.180 So we actually envisioned the customer, the customer being U S and allied militaries, uh, to basically fly four expats at a given time.

00:45:21.180 Um, and all of them working intelligently with each other, collaboratively with each other, uh, to accomplish a variety of different mission sets.

00:45:29.680 So have you sold any of these to the U S military yet?

00:45:32.280 So the expat is our next generation aircraft.

00:45:35.700 We just did a product unveiling.

00:45:37.240 We're about 18 months into development.

00:45:39.460 We're doing wind tunnel testing, uh, engine testing, radar cross-section testing.

00:45:44.660 The next step, next, next fall, we're doing our first flight tests.

00:45:48.320 The thing goes operational in, uh, in 2028.

00:45:52.080 And then we go to full production in 2029.

00:45:54.640 Uh, we're working closely with a number of U S and allied militaries that are interested in the capability.

00:46:00.700 It, it, it really scratches an itch that I would say that a lot of them couldn't pinpoint where that itch was.

00:46:06.480 Um, and the fact that it is vertical takeoff and land means you are no longer, uh, reliant on runways, aircraft carriers.

00:46:13.680 Um, and what people don't realize is those are like the priority zero targets for our adversaries.

00:46:18.840 I, I, you know, I, I was with the president maybe six or eight months ago when he first got into office.

00:46:26.040 And I asked him, I said, why don't we just cancel all of these projects on planes and everything that have been in the design for, you know, the last 10 years.

00:46:34.360 By the time they come online, they're going to be outdated.

00:46:37.480 AI is changing so rapidly in two years.

00:46:41.600 It might tell us get rid of all of that stuff.

00:46:44.020 And to me, aircraft carriers, battleships, all these things are the horses of world war one.

00:46:50.920 Um, and do you think the Pentagon is listening to that kind of talk?

00:46:55.400 Is that accurate?

00:46:56.160 And do you think they're, they get that yet?

00:46:58.460 Yeah, I, I think they, they very much understand what the future of, uh, warfare looks like.

00:47:03.140 And I think, um, look, they have the hard problem of being ready tonight, today.

00:47:08.380 Correct.

00:47:08.660 And so they have to have what's available and they have to fight with what's available.

00:47:12.060 They can't rely on things that are in development.

00:47:14.780 Now, that being said, like, I agree certain development projects and not just in the aviation world, but you know, all of them, there's a ton of money that goes in, uh, to these development tool capabilities that you might say like, ah, is this really what we're going to fight with?

00:47:29.660 Um, and I think actually the U S army has been a really, has done a fantastic job of cutting,

00:47:34.420 uh, these projects saying, you know what, we're cutting this, we're cutting this, this isn't

00:47:38.080 how we're going to fight.

00:47:38.840 So that's, that's happening.

00:47:40.100 And as an American tax paper, I'm happy about that.

00:47:42.440 But I, I think they, they, they understand what that world is going to.

00:47:46.560 They just have to, you know, do the balance of what do we have now?

00:47:50.340 And then what are we going to fight with in the future?

00:47:52.100 To you, I mean, you're a former SEAL, you've been there, you've seen it firsthand to you five

00:47:59.460 or eight years from now, what does war look like?

00:48:02.860 Um, I think it's going to be an accelerated version of what we are seeing in Russia, Ukraine

00:48:08.960 today.

00:48:09.540 And so I'll, I'll share a quick story.

00:48:11.260 I've, I've been to Ukraine a number of different times.

00:48:13.240 Uh, some of these, you know, American patriots, these war fighters, there was a former SEAL

00:48:18.200 that wanted to go over to Ukraine, uh, and fight and support the Ukrainians.

00:48:22.640 And he brought a sniper rifle thinking he was going to get to snipe Russians. 0.96

00:48:26.500 And he said, the very first operation I went on, I was, I was talking to him about this.

00:48:30.520 He's like, we went into a, a, a bunker and it was rocketed and drone strikes within the

00:48:36.700 first 30 minutes of us entering that bunker.

00:48:39.220 He's like, I sat in that bunker for five days.

00:48:41.560 Cause I was, I was about to peek my head out.

00:48:43.680 He's like in 200 drones, we're overhead.

00:48:46.420 Um, and so a lot of that is done manually today.

00:48:50.160 Uh, and at, at large scale, manually FPV drones, these types of things that you see loitering

00:48:55.180 munitions going on, uh, in the future, it is just hyper accelerated by AI and autonomy,

00:49:00.480 uh, to the point where it is, it's, it's how smart your drones are and how many you can

00:49:06.280 produce.

00:49:06.660 That's, that's the name of the game.

00:49:07.760 It's terrifying.

00:49:08.300 I, you know, I read a book maybe 10 years ago, really great book.

00:49:12.820 Um, and there was this war scene.

00:49:14.660 It's all about AI.

00:49:15.860 And, uh, there was this war scene at the very beginning of the chapter.

00:49:20.340 Um, the president's council walks into the oval offices, has opened the door and they say,

00:49:25.100 Mr.

00:49:25.380 President, there's a dot, dot, dot.

00:49:27.160 And then it explains the war that is happening and it's, I mean, it is engagement that is

00:49:35.100 happening so rapidly and so, uh, completely.

00:49:38.980 And the war is solved quickly.

00:49:41.740 This battle is solved quickly.

00:49:43.440 And then it's, it talks about what happened on the battles, uh, the battlefront.

00:49:47.460 And then it says, dot, dot, dot developing in Chicago.

00:49:50.340 So all of that happened that fast.

00:49:53.780 Now I know that's dramatic license, but with hive minds and everything else, it is going

00:50:00.100 to happen in a way that we cannot fathom.

00:50:04.060 Correct.

00:50:04.840 I, I think we can see where it's going in, in that sense, but yes, it's going to be hyper

00:50:10.220 accelerated.

00:50:10.840 Um, it is, uh, look, I've always been of the belief that, you know, uh, peace comes

00:50:16.440 through strength.

00:50:17.280 Uh, we need the American warfighter. 0.97

00:50:19.140 We need our allies to have the most dominant technology and dominant products first and

00:50:24.060 foremost to deter war and fight and win wars if necessary.

00:50:28.000 And so that's what, that's why I started shield AI now to your point in terms of where it's

00:50:32.600 going.

00:50:33.300 Yes, it's going to be, I can't imagine, right.

00:50:36.360 Being a seal on the Ukrainian battlefield.

00:50:38.540 You know, I tell people like, look, being a Navy seal is really cool until you're asked

00:50:42.360 to either fight in a tunnel or fight in a war where there's tons of drones that are being

00:50:45.620 flown at you and used against you.

00:50:47.240 Same thing for relentless.

00:50:48.780 They don't give up until you're dead.

00:50:50.320 A hundred percent.

00:50:51.060 And same with our, our fighter pilots, uh, being a fighter pilot is really cool until you're

00:50:55.040 going up against a battery of surface to air missile systems.

00:50:58.000 Uh, and so this is where AI and autonomy comes in, in terms of piloting these uncrewed fighter

00:51:05.540 jets, these drones that are being built and it, it, it really hasn't taken a, it hasn't

00:51:12.680 been deployed at scale yet.

00:51:14.320 So what you're seeing in Ukraine and Russia is very much again, manual it's mass produced 0.51

00:51:19.740 drones.

00:51:20.420 They are not intelligent drones.

00:51:22.360 Now shield AI, we have our AI pilot flying on a handful of drones, uh, in Ukraine.

00:51:27.940 We just, uh, received in order to ship 150 AI pilots.

00:51:31.940 So the AI pilot world is scaling, but again, that's going to be the major difference in

00:51:36.440 terms of what you see today and what you're going to see in the future is far less people

00:51:40.320 involved, far more, uh, AI piloting, commanding these systems.

00:51:43.880 So I was talking to somebody in Washington about, you know, what they're, what they're

00:51:48.140 planning against 27, 28, 29 in Taiwan.

00:51:53.100 And they said, uh, that they just feel that it is just going to be a wave after wave after

00:52:01.000 wave of swarms of drones that you're just not going, nobody's going to be able to fight

00:52:06.480 because it's, they're that close and they're really good at that.

00:52:10.540 How far ahead are they on this or are they?

00:52:13.740 Um, so I've been to Taiwan probably five times this past year.

00:52:17.120 So I've been a number of times working closely, uh, with their military, with their government.

00:52:21.320 I think first and foremost, they're taking it very, very seriously.

00:52:24.920 Uh, I think Ukraine, Russia was a wake up call. 0.99

00:52:27.940 Uh, and, uh, a lot of people didn't think that there was going to be state on state major

00:52:34.080 conflict and they saw Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan.

00:52:36.920 Exactly.

00:52:37.520 I mean, I mean, it's a hundred percent, you know, it's been gone on for a hundred years.

00:52:41.120 What are we, the British were all going to line up in a line?

00:52:43.820 Yeah.

00:52:44.240 Yeah.

00:52:44.400 Not yet.

00:52:44.860 Yeah.

00:52:45.240 Not yet.

00:52:45.900 Um, so they're taking it seriously.

00:52:48.000 They're mobilizing against it.

00:52:49.540 They're increasing their military budget, you know, from three, you know, to 3% GDP to 5%

00:52:54.740 of GDP.

00:52:55.800 Uh, there is a massive, uh, buildup in their capabilities.

00:52:59.080 And I think they're being very thoughtful about it.

00:53:01.500 Understanding the importance of operating without GPS, without communications, with AI, uh, the

00:53:07.080 importance of not only, uh, targeting and, uh, intelligence, uh, surveillance and reconnaissance,

00:53:12.840 but also, uh, you know, counter, counter missile, counter drone, uh, is something they're investing

00:53:18.180 in also.

00:53:18.860 Is China ahead of us? 0.97

00:53:21.000 Uh, I don't, China's not ahead of us on AI and autonomy.

00:53:24.380 They are ahead of us on industrial production capability.

00:53:28.180 Cause they, I mean, you see some of their drone shows even, you know, they're just doing

00:53:31.900 nighttime drone shows and there's like a million of them in the sky.

00:53:35.100 They are people in look, even those drone shows, while I wouldn't say they're scripted

00:53:41.120 pre-scripted drone shows, but the fact that they're putting thousands of drones up in the

00:53:46.060 air is just getting that muscle memory down in terms of what it's like to, are we anywhere

00:53:52.520 close to that?

00:53:53.640 Do we have anybody?

00:53:54.640 The U S is not, it does not have the muscle memory of putting thousands of these small

00:53:59.840 systems up in the air.

00:54:00.820 Now where the United States stands, you know, is still premier today is our strategic capabilities,

00:54:07.280 our ability to jointly maneuver, jointly collect intelligence.

00:54:11.260 Uh, we still have a number of strategic capabilities at our hand that like that China has not caught 0.84

00:54:16.360 up to that make it a very, very difficult problem for China as well.

00:54:20.180 So is there anybody ahead of us?

00:54:23.120 Not with AI and autonomy now being in first place, you know, I'm a big believer, like you

00:54:29.000 should never rest on your laurels.

00:54:31.180 And I'm a believer in, you know, what Elon Musk says.

00:54:34.020 It doesn't matter if you're in first, what matters is how quickly you're iterating.

00:54:38.380 And the Chinese are able to iterate at a ridiculous rate of speed. 1.00

00:54:43.860 And so that is what I'm most concerned about is how quickly they are able to get to the next

00:54:49.300 version to iterate, to iterate, to iterate, because yes, we're number one in AI and autonomy.

00:54:54.060 It doesn't mean that they're not nipping at our heels.

00:54:55.980 What does AI autonomy mean?

00:54:57.820 Yeah.

00:54:58.040 So, um, I, AI, when I think about AI, it's a system's ability to make intelligent decisions

00:55:04.500 about where it is.

00:55:05.580 It's its ability to learn from said decisions.

00:55:07.800 It's ability to perceive the environment, uh, perceive the environment, think about its

00:55:13.500 environment and take action.

00:55:14.620 And so an AI can live as it does on our phones now in the form of chat GPT or Grok 4, uh, it

00:55:22.080 can live in the form of a physical manifestation, like a self-driving car, a humanoid robot, uh,

00:55:28.240 or what shield AI is doing, building AI pilots for, uh, uncrewed fighter jets.

00:55:32.420 Um, but that's at its core, it's ability, uh, to perceive its environment, think about

00:55:37.220 its environment and take action in its environment.

00:55:40.000 So does that involve hive mind?

00:55:41.900 That is, that is our, our AI pilot.

00:55:44.660 We call hive mind.

00:55:45.260 Okay.

00:55:45.480 So can we talk about that?

00:55:46.900 Cause I have real concerns about hive mind and what that means.

00:55:50.740 And also, uh, you know, at least at least in the movies, it's not hard to beat hive mind.

00:55:58.060 If you can figure that out.

00:56:03.300 Rinse takes your laundry and hand delivers it to your door expertly cleaned and folded.

00:56:07.700 So you could take the time once spent folding and sorting and waiting to finally pursue a

00:56:12.520 whole new version of you like tea time, you, or this tea time, you, or even this.

00:56:20.740 This tea time, you said, you hear about Dave or even tea time, tea time, tea time.

00:56:25.180 You, so update on Dave.

00:56:29.120 It's up to you.

00:56:30.140 We'll take the laundry rinse.

00:56:32.180 It's time to be great.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 27, 2025

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