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00:01:15.960discount jace.com promo code beck today uh the condensed version of the podcast is really good
00:01:25.480It has some really useful things in it, but get a full perspective and understanding of all of it.
00:01:30.140You should listen to the full podcast.
00:01:32.140You can get that, you know, right here and also at glennbeck.com slash torch.
00:01:38.140But if you only have time for the edited version, six stories today that tell you exactly where we are as a nation.
00:01:44.460Twelve things that you can do to make sure you're not part of the problem and practice one of the most important things that we need in our country.
00:01:54.720and that is courage. Also, why, if we are energy independent, are we spending so much money at the
00:02:01.580gas station? Why do we care what's coming through the Straits of Hormuz? Carol has that answer.
00:02:08.640You don't want to miss it all on the edited version of today's podcast.
00:02:19.260You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:24.720you know we always see things and we read history and we're like how did these people miss this
00:02:31.580how did the people living at that time not see that what was coming their way because people
00:02:35.620say the same thing every time it will never go that far not this time it's different this time
00:02:40.560and it's usually not so let me tell you the things that you need to watch for and all these things
00:02:45.300are happening right now let's start with um cultural pressure to conform is that happening
00:02:52.380not legally, not legally, socially, when silence becomes safer than speaking, okay?
00:02:59.760Or the next step, language that removes legitimacy from any opposition. They're not wrong,
00:03:07.120but they shouldn't be allowed. Then the normalization of unequal justice. Similar
00:03:12.800actions produce wildly different consequences depending on the political alignment. You're
00:03:18.080seeing that in chicago right now guy with a gun kills a woman on a pier you know how that ends
00:03:25.160in chicago not this time because he's an illegal so now he's the hero then the last one indifference
00:03:34.760from the public this is the final stage before i believe acceleration so what do you do about it
00:03:42.800i don't know who i'm going to talk to in the audience here because not everybody will think
00:03:48.040this way not everybody will understand it but it's going to take enough of us there has to be
00:03:52.100enough of us that are willing to say that is unthinkable but possible and i cannot be the
00:03:59.360quiet one in the crowd when the crowd starts crying for blood left right indifferent it doesn't
00:04:05.280matter when the world truly goes insane and we have lost it because the crowd is indifferent
00:04:13.360How do you round up a bunch of people? You lie to them and you convince other people that your lies are true and they shrug. They don't show up for one reason or another. They just don't show up. And then the boots come marching in.
00:04:29.240so how do you prepare because you're not going to be the hero you want to be unless you are living
00:04:36.880it right now and doing everything you can to live this right now so let me give you and i don't know
00:04:43.700if i can get to all 12 i'll post these but let me give you a few that you can do right now always
00:04:49.380tell the truth even in all of the small things not the grand not the heroic truth just the daily
00:04:56.980truth. Always tell the truth. Don't repeat something that you haven't verified. Don't
00:05:05.740nod along in a group when you disagree. Don't soften the reality to avoid discomfort. Now,
00:05:13.900that doesn't mean you have to be picking fights with people, but you're in a group of people.
00:05:18.820Just live not by lies. You're in a group of people, and they're starting to tell you how
00:05:25.720charlie kirk was murdered by you know i don't care space aliens you don't have to say you're
00:05:31.020stupid you just say that's not true that's not true um and um here's why it's not true or if
00:05:39.080you don't know that it you don't you can't you haven't done your homework on it you can say
00:05:44.100i highly suspect that is not true i would love to hear your reasoning behind that because i'm
00:05:52.360going to do my own homework on this, but I doubt that is true, okay? You must be a road bump,
00:05:59.400okay? Every time you bend the truth to make your life a little bit easier, you are rehearsing for
00:06:06.220surrender. And every time you speak it calmly and clearly, you are rehearsing courage.
00:06:14.920Next thing you have to do, build a tolerance for social friction.
00:06:18.740Most people don't fear jail because they don't see themselves going to jail.
00:07:13.240You may come in with one viewpoint that you think is reasonable, but this society now makes it so you must agree with all of it because you're a traitor if you don't, and you will be forever afraid of being exposed, so you go along with it.
00:07:33.500separate yourself from your tribe. Criticize your own side when they're wrong. Defend fairness for
00:07:42.500people you disagree with. Refuse to cheer for something just because it benefits your team.
00:07:49.380This builds independence, and that's the core of moral stability. You have to be independent.
00:07:55.900You have to think for yourself, and you have to have the courage to say it.
00:07:59.280number four strengthen your understanding of first principles not talking points principles
00:08:08.320know things deeply like why free speech matters especially for views you dislike
00:08:16.500you've you've probably said it a million times if you're my age i'll i strongly disagree but
00:08:22.720i'll defend with my life your right to say those things why why would you do that why is free
00:08:28.460speech important? Why is equal justice important even when it's really inconvenient? Why does due
00:08:37.940process matter for everyone, including the guilty? If you don't understand why something matters,
00:08:45.240you will trade it away when it's tested, because you won't be able to defend it.
00:08:49.420next limit your consumption of outrage this is something i am trying to limit my
00:08:57.840vomiting of outrage on you i am trying to give you perspective and things that you
00:09:03.140can actually use in your life because i do believe troubled times are coming
00:09:06.980outrage outrage feels like action but it's not it exhausts you it distorts you it makes
00:09:16.060it makes it feel like everything is urgent and yet if everything is urgent nothing really is
00:09:22.660urgent or important so set boundaries on news intake seek primary sources over commentary
00:09:30.520i say that understanding that i'm a commentator you're much better off if you could find primary
00:09:38.720sources. To get the news, you should get the news from a primary source over me
00:09:46.100or anybody else. But if you do listen to commentary, try to listen to the ones that
00:09:54.200are not pouring gasoline. They're trying to be fair and know that you can't really trust them
00:09:59.480either because everybody has their own thing, okay? Ask, does this affect my actual behavior?
00:10:10.720Clarity is strength. Constant agitation is weakness. Six, build real-world relationships.
00:10:19.240Isolation is the breeding ground of fear. You are far less likely to stand alone. You are far
00:10:26.260more likely to stand with others that are around you that you trust so know your neighbors have
00:10:33.340conversations outside of your echo chamber build relationships bared on built on shared values
00:10:40.620not just shared opinions we are building a society on shared opinions that's death we have to be
00:10:48.520shared values and principles freedom has always been defended in communities not in comment
00:10:54.800sections. Practice self-discipline in unrelated areas. This seems totally disconnected, but
00:11:03.540the more I think about this one, the more I think it's true. You have to keep your commitments
00:11:08.880because you remember courage is a muscle. Everything is a muscle. And if you don't
00:11:13.460exercise it when you're not needing it, it's not going to be there. I can't go run a five-minute
00:11:18.380mile. I can't go run a 25-minute mile, okay? Because I'm not exercising. I'm not in shape for
00:11:25.660it. You got to wake up when you say you will. Don't hit the snooze alarm. I did this this morning. I
00:11:33.060ate that. Do difficult things that have no reward, no external reward, because discipline in small
00:11:41.240areas becomes the backbone in large ones. If you can't control your habits, you will not be able
00:11:47.300to control your fear. And fear is going to play a big role, I believe, in the future. Look how it's
00:11:53.680already shaping the markets. Nobody knows what's going to happen to the oil markets, and it's
00:11:59.140shaping the markets. Get comfortable with risk incrementally. Courage is not recklessness. It's
00:12:08.140calibrated risk. Start small. Say what you believe when it costs you just a little bit.
00:12:14.740take his position without knowing the outcome.
00:12:20.220Accept that not everybody in the room is not going to approve,
00:12:44.740it's the democrats it's the trumpers don't reduce people to labels don't assume motives without some
00:12:53.340evidence demand evidence when somebody says something outrageous it could be true and if
00:13:01.140it's true it's a huge news story but if it's not true it's completely reckless and dangerous
00:13:06.480demand evidence don't celebrate punishment without due process especially on your own side
00:13:15.240The moment you justify it for them, it will be used on you.
00:13:20.440Ten, anchor yourself in something higher than politics.
00:13:23.240If politics is your highest value, you're going to justify anything to win.
00:13:28.740History is filled with people who did terrible things for the greater good.
00:13:33.640Anchor deeper faith, moral philosophy, some code that doesn't change with elections.
00:13:41.280that's what will keep you crossing lines that you cannot ever uncross
00:13:46.60011 study history not the headlines study history i have been trying to take all of the stories
00:13:55.420every day and i look at them before i come up i go and i search is there anything parallel in
00:14:01.220history what does this story tell us if it happened historically before because patterns
00:14:05.560repeat. Details change, but patterns repeat. Make it a habit to understand how societies lost their
00:14:14.720freedom, how ordinary people rationalized crazy things, how quickly it accelerated, not to become
00:14:21.780cynical, but to become aware so you don't fit in that pattern anymore. Awareness shortens the
00:14:28.780distance between warning and action. And 12, decide who you are right now. Decide in advance
00:14:35.920what lines you will not cross. This is probably the most important one.
00:14:40.400Because in the moment, you're going to negotiate with yourself.
00:14:44.280Wow, it's just this one time. Well, it's not so bad. So decide right now, what will you never,
00:14:51.600ever say what will you never ever support what will you never ever turn a blind eye to
00:14:59.400pre-decision removes all hesitation and hesitation is where most people are lost it's that moment
00:15:08.080where you're like ah and somebody goes come on okay don't hesitate in the end it's not going
00:15:15.780to come down to one grand cinematic moment it's going to come down to thousands of quiet decisions
00:15:22.800made by people who no one ever expected to matter
00:15:27.260you can either be somebody who shrugs and goes well nothing i can do about it so i'm not paying
00:15:33.460attention to it uh it doesn't matter everybody's doing it or people one of the people who practiced
00:15:40.040when it was really easy so they could stand when it wasn't easy because when that moment comes
00:15:46.300you will not rise to the occasion you will only fall to the level of your preparation
00:15:54.800you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
00:15:57.760carol roth is uh with us um she has her newsletter every day you want to understand
00:16:06.360the economy she speaks your language carol roth.com slash news um carol there's several
00:16:12.220things i want to talk to you about but first one that i don't understand is why oil dropped so
00:16:18.400dramatically why everything is uh as stable as it is when really we have no news we don't know who
00:16:25.880we're negotiating with um iran came out with horrible demands that seem insane we came out
00:16:33.500with our 15-point plan for peace, but the world kind of went, okay, you know what, this is good,
00:16:39.600and the price of oil went down, which is great, but what are they basing this on?
00:16:44.820Well, first, Glenn, I'd just like everyone to know that in addition to a background in finance,
00:16:49.780business, and economics, I have seen both seasons of Landman, so I feel like this is
00:16:55.420right in my sweet spot to be able to explain to everybody. Right, no, I got it, I got it, good,
00:17:01.040So the headline that is hitting the markets, and you have to remember that markets react to immediate news, you know, they look out long term kind of, but they do tend to go kind of minute to minute, you know, when you're looking at it at any point in time.
00:17:19.620So the news that came out on CNBC is that Iran signaled safe passage for, quote, non-hostile ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:17:29.960So the market is interpreting that, whether it's true or not, but in this moment of time, that there is going to be more opening, and particularly for countries that it may be well aligned with, especially Asia, who is very much affected by the non-travel of ships through this critical junction.
00:17:52.800there has been at least the interpretation of a signal that that is going to open up somewhat.
00:18:01.060So they're perceiving that is okay, things are moving in the right direction,
00:18:05.900that there may be more transportation going through,
00:18:09.280and that is what is feeding into prices across the markets today,
00:18:14.460starting with that drop in oil, whether it's true or not.
00:18:17.860Okay, so here's where, you know, I said earlier today,
00:18:21.160look there's nothing you can do because we don't know so this is something be aware of but just
00:18:26.160don't worry about it because you don't know if it's going to get really bad or it's going to
00:18:29.760get really good we have no idea everybody is just speculating and so when you look at the price of
00:18:36.740oil i just don't want to be on this roller coaster every day going oh it's good it's good everything's
00:18:41.000getting better and then tomorrow it's no it's all going to fall apart it's going to be 250 dollars a
00:18:45.580barrel because they don't know what they're talking about there is just speculation is that accurate
00:18:51.000It is entirely speculation. And you have all of these Wall Street houses that are coming out with their predictions, which are forming the consensus of what people are thinking on Wall Street. And it's based on a guess. And that's going to move from moment to moment based on what happens.
00:19:10.820And by the way, it's like a choose-your-own-adventure book, but there's like 17 different paths to go down, and depending on which path one person goes down, another 17 open up.
00:19:31.960That's kind of everybody's best bet, at least for the short term, because it's going to drive you crazy otherwise.
00:19:37.460Can I tell you, do you remember you remember the Gulf War, the first Gulf War? And I remember what was his name? Bernie, somebody on CNN, the anchor Bernie. He was I think he was over in Kuwait when that started going and they were showing the footage and the green missiles and the lights and everything else.
00:19:58.720it was night vision and we were watching it on tv the difference between what we see on tv now
00:20:04.980and what we saw back then we were actually getting news i don't think we're getting news we're just
00:20:11.440getting opinions all the time and opinions i'm so sick of a bit i'm an opinion guy carol i am so
00:20:18.280sick of people like me who are just talking out there but they have no idea they're guessing like
00:20:24.280everybody else but it's not fair for you to put yourself in the same category because you actually
00:20:29.960you know give caveats use information you educate yourself so they're at least informed opinions
00:20:36.680the the difference that we have between back then i think i was in high school back then
00:20:41.300is that we didn't have social media so now everybody who was an expert on tariffs last
00:20:48.920week is now an expert on iran and geopolitics this week next week they're going to be an expert on
00:20:55.400ai and you're just hearing all of the noise that everybody feels empowered to just put out into
00:21:02.940the universe you know we used to have diaries write down our thoughts now we just say hey we
00:21:08.360want everybody to know everything we're thinking there is there is there is no off filter and it
00:21:13.440is it's overwhelming it really is yeah it's really not it's really not helpful i mean we
00:21:18.360do it to herself i'm not talking about you know regulating anybody or anything like that i'm just
00:21:21.680like regulate yourself there's this i just turn it off because it's like it's not useful it's just
00:21:26.560not useful um i love that line regulate yourself right um so the one question that i keep hearing
00:21:35.040from uh from insiders is we are supposedly energy independent we are supposedly drill baby drill
00:21:43.720why is this affecting us so much why do we care about the oil that is coming through the strait
00:21:50.620we are supposedly independent yeah explain that there are two reasons for it and i'm going to use
00:21:57.580an analogy to explain the first so basically the headline is that we're oil independent on paper
00:22:04.100but not in reality and the analogy i would use yeah i'm going to use a we're going to be baking
00:22:10.280apple pies. Do you like apple pie, Glenn? I love apple pies. Okay. So we're going to be baking
00:22:15.660a hundred apple pies for our business. And it's going to require about eight medium-sized apples
00:22:21.380for each of our pies. So we need 800 apples. Okay. And we just took in a delivery of 800 apples. So
00:22:28.800are we set to bake our pies? Wait, I was, I'm sorry. I literally was just thinking about pies.
00:29:34.220the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts story number one um power quiet invisible
00:29:42.080power let me tell you about what delta airlines just did they just adjusted its vip treatment
00:29:49.280for members of congress thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you delta
00:29:56.760thank you again did i say thank you delta thank you
00:30:00.520so what does this mean well for years our elected officials just glide past all of the things that
00:30:11.140you have to do at the airport they skip the line they avoid the friction they avoid you you know
00:30:16.180the little people because they're special and now delta thank you delta says you know what we're
00:30:22.340pausing that. We're not eliminating it. We're not debating it. We're just adjusting it for right
00:30:27.360now. And they call it a perk. Delta, I think you're using the wrong word. It is a perk. You
00:30:35.580look at it as a perk, but it's insulation. Because the moment our leaders feel what you feel,
00:30:42.700where they stand, where you have to stand, their decisions change. And history's really clear on
00:30:48.720this. The ruling class always separates itself first, and then it forgets what it's like to be
00:30:53.520a normal person. Rome did it. Versailles did it. Washington is doing it right now.
00:30:58.960And when that separation grows, accountability dies.
00:31:04.120There's story number one. Story number two, the border and the meaning of a nation.
00:31:09.420The Supreme Court, there's a story in the news today that appears the Supreme Court is ready
00:31:14.900to side with enforcement, allowing limits on asylum claims processed from outside the U.S.
00:31:23.000Okay, strip away all of the politics here. This is the real question. Does a nation have a right
00:31:28.580to define itself? Of course it does, or it's not a nation. How can you be a nation if the world
00:31:36.600gets to define you? This is not a modern debate. This isn't complex. This is easy. Every civilization
00:31:44.700that loses control of its borders, loses control of its identity, not overnight, but inevitably,
00:31:51.740and it's over. And here's why it matters today. What you're seeing with the Supreme Court and
00:31:58.900warning, because this could change, we lose control of the House and the Senate. You're
00:32:03.000going to lose control of who's coming up because we got a lot of old conservatives.
00:32:08.040but right now you're seeing reality no the law catch up to reality they're not creating it
00:32:17.080they're catching up to reality story number three lawfare and the weaponization of justice
00:32:25.080there are a few stories out there now that are shocking and should be shocking and horrifying
00:32:34.400I'm going to get into this next hour. Shocking and horrifying should shake the country to its
00:32:40.720core. New reports are out now show that efforts to obtain records tied to political figures
00:32:48.180were far more expansive than anybody admitted. Okay, let me translate that into plain English.
00:32:56.820After 9-11, we all were panicked and worried and freaking out. We're like, God says patriot
00:33:03.860in the act. It must be patriotic. And so we passed a bunch of tools in a toolbox that we were told
00:33:12.500were designed to protect the public. Okay. Those tools are now aimed inward, not outward, inward.
00:33:22.500And once that line is crossed, once law becomes a weapon, you don't have equal justice anymore.
00:33:28.500you have leverage and a banana republic and history has a lot to tell you about that
00:33:34.860when governments begin investigating citizens differently based on political alignment
00:33:40.960that does not stabilize a country it fractures it every single time story number four
00:33:48.660iran and the illusion of control just told you we sent a 15 point proposal to iran iran responds
00:33:57.100with demands that it's not negotiation it's more like victory terms close all your bases you know
00:34:03.200pay reparations I mean it sounded like I was on a college campus when I heard that one at the same
00:34:08.360time inside Iran the story that nobody's talking about hundreds are being arrested for speech for
00:34:15.600cyberspace activity well there's an old-timey word that only guys with big gray beards would use
00:34:21.720so i want you to understand the contradiction on this one externally they're negotiating
00:34:28.760internally there is no negotiation they are tightening control that is not a regime
00:34:36.220preparing for peace that is a regime managing instability and this is the part that i think
00:34:43.460most of us miss there are credible signals that iran is weaker than it appears
00:34:49.440When you have an animal in a corner, they become more dangerous because they're cornered and they're cornered. Again, weak regimes don't go quietly. They either collapse or they lash out. We'll see which one is going to happen.
00:35:11.840Story number, they're lashing out internally.
00:35:14.820Story number five, the economy, and what I believe is a false calm.
00:35:30.740This is the problem with our entire stock market.
00:35:33.120It's not based on anything real anymore, okay?
00:35:37.640Warnings of a recession tied directly to geopolitical shock.
00:35:41.840Hey, we've seen this movie before. We saw it in 1973 with the oil shock. We saw it with the credit shock in 1974. This is different. This time it's different. Yeah, is it? Because the pattern is identical.
00:35:54.000The global system, stretched too thin, meets disruption, it can't absorb, and then things start to break.
00:36:02.700And it doesn't break evenly. It breaks where you live.
00:36:07.740It doesn't break necessarily for those who get the VIP treatment at the airport.
00:36:13.600It breaks on you, groceries and jobs and vacations you suddenly can't afford.
00:36:20.720Which brings me to number six, story number six.
00:36:24.000ai and the quiet revolution all of this stuff is happening and the labor department just launched
00:36:32.480ai training and when i read this story i thought oh just just what we need the government trying
00:36:38.720to tell us how to use ai my gosh i have briefed people in the government i have okay that's how
00:36:45.640that's how bad things are i have briefed them on ai and they they i mean it's it's it's like
00:36:54.220you're talking to a caveman they have absolutely no understanding most of them some do most of
00:36:59.880them have no understanding i mean they're still at the pager system so would i get this would
00:37:06.960can I get ChatGPT on my pager? No. Anyway, companies are openly saying massive job cuts
00:37:16.540are inevitable and they're coming. And your home, your house is being integrated into the power
00:37:22.820grid to feed AI infrastructure. This is really, really, really bad. Let this sink in. Your job
00:37:32.460is going to be replaced in the next few years. Your energy is being repurposed
00:37:38.220and you're being offered a course to adapt. It's not going to go over well.
00:37:47.060These server farms cannot take a drop of energy, not one piece of energy that we are now producing
00:37:55.740for the public. They must be forced to produce their own energy because they will end up sucking
00:38:01.840all of the energy and we will be paying we'll be paying skyrocketing prices for energy
00:38:07.760this is the early stage of a complete economic rewiring that will happen if donald trump
00:38:15.840somehow or another is not allowed to finish the job on these on these ai um server farms where
00:38:24.420he is saying i'm giving you the green light you build your own power plant that has to be codified
00:38:30.740Okay, so step back. Let's look at all six stories here. What do they all have in common? One, power is separating from people. Borders are being redefined. The same time justice is being questioned. War is destabilizing and the economy is already fragile and technology is shaping everything underneath all of it.
00:38:58.000this is not chaos i mean some of it is war is chaos but this is not chaos this is a world in
00:39:07.580transition there's a word for that realignment old the old systems that don't work new systems
00:39:17.960aren't fully built and the people down at the bottom and the middle they feel that first
00:39:23.880that's you so what actually matters to you today none of the politics none of the outrage cycle
00:39:33.460okay the the votes that are happening in congress they absolutely mean something but listening to
00:39:39.560the pinheads argue back and forth that is a waste of time watch for these things watch for the
00:39:46.600things when leaders stop or are being forced to stop living in their palace and start living like
00:39:53.800citizens. Did I mention Delta Airlines? Thank you. When laws are applied unevenly, big danger. We're
00:40:02.840going to get into that next. When negotiations sound like ultimatums, when markets calm down
00:40:08.420too quickly for no apparent reason, and when technology moves faster than the culture can
00:40:16.100absorb. Those are not headlines. Those are all warning lights. And one last thing. There was a
00:40:23.380line buried in all of this. In our newsletter today, there is a story about preparing the way,
00:40:30.180even if you're not perfect. I think this is the most important story of the day, okay? Because
00:40:36.600none of this is going to be fixed with perfect people. History doesn't turn on perfect people.
00:40:43.260it doesn't history turns on people who see clearly and act even though they're not perfect
00:40:51.080not violently not recklessly but deliberately they see it they know what they're supposed to do
00:40:57.240and they act and they don't allow excuses to get in their way like i don't have the power i don't
00:41:03.400really know this i'm not the one i'm not smart enough it won't really make it they just do what
00:41:08.840they're supposed to do and they're not perfect and most times that's just teach your children
00:41:14.720that strengthen your community that's and i'm saying this like a broken record to
00:41:20.820members of my family right now get back to church refusing to be manipulated by every headline
00:41:29.060those things collapse in a society doesn't begin with the loudest voices it begins with the quietest
00:41:35.940bystanders and is stopped the same way by people who decide they're not going to be a bystander
00:41:44.560anymore. Some say the bubbles in an aero truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
00:41:53.440Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.
00:41:56.700Rich, creamy, chocolatey aero truffle. Feel the aero bubbles melt. It's mind bubbling.