Today we have the latest on the government shutdown, we have a major announcement on the torch, and Brandon Tsang joins us to discuss war and AI. You'll hear the best of in today's podcast. Glenn Beck
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00:04:00.860In fact, it may have even gotten worse.
00:04:03.000But 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.
00:04:12.220The 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.
00:04:24.520Literally, the poorest among us, the children that they're always saying are going to starve to death.
00:04:30.600They are going to take the food out of their mouth.
00:05:01.080On 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.
00:05:13.620The Republicans have been there the whole time going past this, past this, past this.
00:05:22.040Now, among the programs at risk now, beginning November 1st, is the nation's primary food aid mechanism, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
00:05:34.660You know, SNAP, the one the Democrats said they had to expand under Obama.
00:05:41.420Now, according to the most recent data, SNAP is serving an average of 42 million people every single month.
00:05:50.940That's 12 percent of all of the people that live here in the United States in fiscal year 2024.
00:06:29.900As early as next week, millions may no longer receive their benefits or they will face a delay and a reduction.
00:06:37.260We know because we've gone through this over and over again, these are always partisan standoffs.
00:06:43.060But we are now witnessing where the Democrats are weaponizing hunger.
00:06:49.620The SNAP program traces all of its roots back to the Democrats.
00:06:54.620The food stamp era of the 1960s and the 1970s.
00:06:58.460By 2020, it was helping over 40 million people.
00:07:03.040Now, the previous shutdowns have delayed benefits, OK, but not endangered the monthly food assistance to tens of millions of people directly.
00:07:15.280Shutdowns are supposed to be a bureaucratic interruption.
00:08:05.760This is the party of social compassion, remember.
00:08:08.260They 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.
00:08:27.680And 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.
00:08:57.000When you accuse the other side of refusing to negotiate yet withhold life support for children, your moral vacuum is a little stark and clear.
00:09:09.500Now, because of the shutdown, USDA warns 42 million individuals may not receive, you know, snap benefits in November in Texas alone.
00:09:19.800That 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.
00:10:37.620That means if you have stress, that means you're going to have more suicides, more sick people, more people using the hospitals.
00:10:47.460Theft is going to increase and public unrest may brew.
00:10:53.420Gee, 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?
00:11:06.340The seeds of desperation have been sown by this party.
00:11:18.360If 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.
00:11:40.360You can't wait for political restoration when one of the political parties does not want restoration.
00:11:50.560You know, one party is not looking for common sense.
00:11:53.360In fact, one party is pushing for shooting those you disagree with while funding color revolutions in our own cities.
00:12:02.160You 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.
00:12:13.080All the short shortfall for our military, one hundred and thirty million dollars personally coming out of his his paycheck.
00:12:32.080You 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.
00:12:43.540By the way, for those who don't get that, maybe you soon will.
00:12:50.140Well, to clarify, it's playing out right now that it is OK for people to suffer.
00:12:57.400It's OK if your plane is delayed or canceled in the next few days.
00:13:02.140It'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.
00:13:27.420And it justifies all of the things that is happening or will happen in our society.
00:13:32.800Every 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.
00:13:46.980First 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.
00:14:08.220OK, call your Democrat representative, anyone who is struggling to put food on the table, anyone who knows of a hungry child after helping them.
00:14:20.560Call your Democrat representative and say enough is enough here.
00:14:25.220But I would like to suggest something even further.
00:14:29.940I'm going to ask you to do what you always do and you do best.
00:17:27.740I can't believe all of these years they've been saying and they want your children to starve and they are.
00:17:32.880I mean, I heard a Democrat this weekend say we know this is going to cause pain, but it's important.
00:17:39.060Really, 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.
00:17:51.900You are literally taking the only safety net away that they have that you created and enslave them with.
00:17:59.120I'm sorry, but, you know, an empty belly doesn't know compromise.
00:18:40.300We 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.
00:18:52.260I mean, it's it's clear how truly little they care for those at the bottom.
00:18:59.940Time to carry the torch for the powerless.
00:19:03.280You know, I knew John Huntsman, a good friend of mine.
00:19:06.100And in 2008, he almost lost his petrochemical company and lost everything.
00:19:10.500He had mortgage, everything and just everything was on the line.
00:19:13.920And when he finished, he said to the banks, he now I need a now I need a loan for charity.
00:19:30.560He said, I tell you what, why don't I take you to the homeless shelter and you tell the hungry to wait?
00:19:34.200Why 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.
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00:22:49.020So the day is finally here where I can talk to you about all of this and my next phase of my career.
00:22:57.240So if you don't mind, just give me just a few minutes to speak from a personal and professional note.
00:23:03.120When I began the blaze years and years and years ago, the world looked extraordinarily different than it did.
00:23:10.440The left owned all the airwaves, the networks, the studios, the universities.
00:23:14.340You know, if you didn't see the world their way, you just weren't welcome in it and you weren't going anywhere.
00:23:21.340At the time when I was dominating those airwaves, the left told me, you want to say those things?
00:23:28.540You just go on the Internet and do a podcast at a time when a podcast didn't mean anything.
00:23:33.740It was a joke if you were a podcaster at the time.
00:23:35.940At the time, nobody had really figured out the podcast.
00:23:41.320Nobody had even considered live subscription networks with real talent that could not just be heard and survive, but could dominate and thrive.
00:23:51.880So when I left Fox, I'll never forget, Roger Ailes told me, he said, you know, the Internet's a fad.
00:23:58.420And the left thought that they had won, that I had been banished into the wilderness of something called podcasting.
00:24:05.860On 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.
00:24:15.320But as usual, they lacked vision and they didn't see what I saw.
00:24:20.380And 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.
00:24:34.240Out of that wilderness came the blaze.
00:24:37.060And through these doors walked the next generation of truth tellers.
00:24:42.140And they're still walking through these doors.
00:24:45.360And I'm going to leave a lot of people out and I apologize.
00:24:47.160But 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.
00:24:59.560The first time that Matt Walsh ever appeared on television, it was with me on what was then called GBTV.
00:25:05.380And my own personal fave, whose career got a start from a nobody to now the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
00:25:16.880No one had ever built a live subscription-based network of independent thinkers.
00:25:24.020It hadn't been done, hadn't even been dreamed of.
00:25:26.660No one had ever streamed across radio and television and online simultaneously and based it online.
00:25:36.420And to do it, we had to invent new things.
00:25:41.240I mean, the infrastructure didn't exist.
00:25:44.260We 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.
00:25:53.000Today, if you look around at the landscape, things have dramatically changed.
00:26:00.740Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, the biggest names in news, all online, all independent.
00:26:09.500And it's because of you seeing the future and going, I think that might change the media.
00:26:19.680And together, we brought the networks to their knees.
00:26:23.320It's funny because now it's becoming full circle.
00:26:25.940You 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.
00:27:27.500In January, I am launching the Glenn and Tonya Beck Foundation for American History.
00:27:33.940It is a privately fund trust that will continue to do in accelerated fashion what I began almost 20 years ago.
00:27:42.100For nearly two decades, I have been collecting the physical evidence of America's soul.
00:27:47.700The documents, the letters, the artifacts that tell the true story of who we are.
00:27:54.520And 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.
00:28:01.260Because we haven't really unveiled it, except in glimpses here and there.
00:28:06.160But 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.
00:28:15.680It is surpassed only by the Library of Congress and the National Archives.
00:28:21.200It houses and also preserves the largest collection of Pilgrim and Jamestown documents and items in the world.
00:28:29.240The 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.
00:28:42.860But it is definitive proof of our beginnings.
00:28:47.820This library is proof that America was founded on Judeo-Christian values.
00:28:53.660It is proof that our mission was not slavery, but freedom for all mankind.
00:28:59.700It is proof that while we have committed terrible wrongs, we have also accomplished miraculous things.
00:29:07.040It is proof that our story began not in Jamestown, but in Plymouth, Mass.
00:29:12.160It 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.
00:29:40.700If 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.
00:29:51.260But 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.
00:30:12.040Over the last three years, my team has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds and thousands of man hours digitizing this unparalleled archive.
00:30:26.040And in the last year plus, I have been working on building something the world has never seen before.
00:30:34.580What 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.
00:30:49.180All of this history is now also contained in a digital vault, all now on blockchain.
00:30:57.440So these facts and artifacts will never, ever be lost unless you want to shut down the entire Internet.
00:31:03.980But more than just preservation, which was my first goal, we now have created the first independent, proprietary, AI-driven American historical library.
00:31:16.400And it is, as you will see next year, complete with its own librarian.
00:31:24.060George 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.
00:31:38.920He 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.
00:31:56.700He will also be able to teach the Constitution.
00:31:59.140He will teach the Federalist Papers, the Civics, American History, in a way that no one has even thought of, no one has ever generated.
00:32:11.500And it can generate it all without hallucination, as it is all contained in a secure, isolated server where every document is memorized verbatim.
00:33:16.700This is verified, factual, memorized, first-source truth, powered now by proprietary technology and the greatest private collection of American history ever assembled.
00:33:32.420And this is only part of what I'm announcing today.
00:33:36.980This 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.
00:33:47.200And 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.
00:34:05.020And 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.
00:34:21.700We are working with two new sets of researchers that have come into the fold for what I'm launching with the torch next January.
00:34:32.780These 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.
00:34:42.800But 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.
00:34:53.840It's going to be released on January 5th.
00:34:57.660I would ask that you would sign up for my free email newsletter at Glenn Beck dot com right now.
00:35:11.260It'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.
00:35:26.960And all of it begins appropriately at the beginning of the 250 year of our nation's founding.
00:35:33.340Now, 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.
00:35:45.020It's going to be announcing some new and very exciting expansion very soon.
00:35:49.100But you will find all of the extras at the torch app at Glenn Beck dot com.
00:35:55.980And even the show on the app is going to have a completely new addition that is.
00:36:06.100We're kind of we're in beta testing right now.
00:36:09.060I hope it is going to be shocking in its in its usefulness.
00:36:14.800But beginning January 5th, rolling out over the next 12 months, you're going to find new history shows, new deep dive investigations.
00:36:22.760And most importantly, you will find perspective, honest history and hope.
00:36:27.460And we begin the year with two brand new podcasts.
00:36:38.580And it is really, really, really good.
00:36:41.400In the months ahead, we will also go where others cannot go or will not go digitally and literally.
00:36:51.220Next 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.
00:37:01.480And beginning in the first quarter of next year, I personally am going to take you into the heart of Islamic darkness.
00:37:07.600That is going to be one of the things that we really delve into deeply, the Islamistization of the entire West.
00:37:17.600And 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.
00:37:29.860We will be there and I will take you to the places most people don't know about or won't cover.
00:37:37.660And 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.
00:37:45.020And 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.
00:39:00.320The torch is a mission and it is a mission to illuminate.
00:39:04.820It is a mission to bring light where there is darkness.
00:39:08.960Um, it is a light to guide those in darkness to safety.
00:39:13.020And this is my next and final step in my career.
00:39:18.380And 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.
00:39:33.640Um, from radio to TV, to books, to now history itself.
00:39:38.600Um, this is the moment that I tried to pass the torch to you and founding memberships are going to be open soon.
00:39:48.500Uh, and I would love for you to be a partner with us.
00:39:52.740And I am asking you one last time to help me build something to change the world for good.
00:39:59.840We've done it once before we've done it actually several times together, but the truth still matters.
00:40:05.700And the torch of lady Liberty, the torch of truth must never, ever go out.
00:40:12.920So this is the torch and it begins in January, January 5th.
00:40:21.540You'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.
00:40:33.680The torch at glennbeck.com begins January 5th.
00:40:44.840You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:40:48.400So the president is over in Asia today, negotiating all kinds of different deals, uh, and really setting the stage for hopefully peace in Asia.
00:40:59.400Uh, things could get very, very dicey.
00:41:02.060And it's one reason why I think that we're actually, uh, going after Venezuela.
00:41:06.360We're trying to make sure that this hemisphere is safe.
00:41:10.120Um, and the Chinese influence and the Russian influence and quite honestly, the Iranian influence is out.
00:41:15.820But the president talked about a new golden battleship.
00:41:18.880And I thought, we're still building battleships.
00:43:09.260Uh, Shield AI is a technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with artificially intelligent systems.
00:43:17.300I founded this company 10 years ago with my brother, Ryan.
00:43:20.620In 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.
00:43:28.860And 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.
00:43:38.140So what does it mean the next generation pilot?
00:43:41.260Uh, so an AI pilot, uh, easiest way to think of an AI pilot is self-driving technology for unmanned systems.
00:43:48.080And so I don't know if you've ever been in a Tesla or a Waymo where the thing starts navigating itself.
00:43:55.340It 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.
00:44:31.880So 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.
00:44:41.240You 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.
00:44:54.500And, uh, it's a, it's a monster of an aircraft.
00:44:57.920So, 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.
00:45:13.180So we actually envisioned the customer, the customer being U S and allied militaries, uh, to basically fly four expats at a given time.
00:45:21.180Um, and all of them working intelligently with each other, collaboratively with each other, uh, to accomplish a variety of different mission sets.
00:45:29.680So have you sold any of these to the U S military yet?
00:45:32.280So the expat is our next generation aircraft.
00:45:44.660The next step, next, next fall, we're doing our first flight tests.
00:45:48.320The thing goes operational in, uh, in 2028.
00:45:52.080And then we go to full production in 2029.
00:45:54.640Uh, we're working closely with a number of U S and allied militaries that are interested in the capability.
00:46:00.700It, it, it really scratches an itch that I would say that a lot of them couldn't pinpoint where that itch was.
00:46:06.480Um, and the fact that it is vertical takeoff and land means you are no longer, uh, reliant on runways, aircraft carriers.
00:46:13.680Um, and what people don't realize is those are like the priority zero targets for our adversaries.
00:46:18.840I, I, you know, I, I was with the president maybe six or eight months ago when he first got into office.
00:46:26.040And 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.
00:46:34.360By the time they come online, they're going to be outdated.
00:46:37.480AI is changing so rapidly in two years.
00:46:41.600It might tell us get rid of all of that stuff.
00:46:44.020And to me, aircraft carriers, battleships, all these things are the horses of world war one.
00:46:50.920Um, and do you think the Pentagon is listening to that kind of talk?
00:47:08.660And so they have to have what's available and they have to fight with what's available.
00:47:12.060They can't rely on things that are in development.
00:47:14.780Now, 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?
00:47:29.660Um, and I think actually the U S army has been a really, has done a fantastic job of cutting,
00:47:34.420uh, these projects saying, you know what, we're cutting this, we're cutting this, this isn't