00:00:00.000All right, welcome to the podcast. The return of Glenn Beck today. We'll keep this short and sweet here as Glenn, among other, you know, kind of catches us all up on some of the big news developments, including a bunch of companies that are getting together and kind of trying to figure out how they should be dealing with these terrible voting laws across the country.
00:00:19.240We get into a real controversy in Canada, as well as churches are now being fenced off and officers are coming in to raid churches and attacking conservative journalists. We'll get into that as well with Ezra Levant.
00:00:33.100But probably the thing you might want to hear most today is Glenn addressing why he was out last week and the tragedy his family had to go through.
00:00:41.480A really tough time, and he gets into that in hour two today. That's something you definitely do not want to miss. Here's the podcast.
00:00:49.240I'll give you a story here, and I invite you to stay with us, especially if you're a liberal. If you're a Marxist, you're going to be fine with this.
00:01:08.700But if you're a liberal or a traditional Democrat like my grandfather used to be, I'm not sure that those people exist anymore. I have real hope that they do.
00:01:21.500But if you're one of those people that actually believe America is a good place, that we have our problems and we should admit to our problems, but we're a good place.
00:01:36.560And that the people sometimes get it wrong, but the people should be in control of their own destiny.
00:01:49.760For those who have listened for a while, I want you to understand we have just everything that they have ever said about, oh, it's a conspiracy theory on the Great Reset.
00:02:01.300You can throw that in the garbage now because by their own fruits, by their own actions, you will know them.
00:02:09.220Something happened this weekend that is absolutely unprecedented.
00:02:16.280I have done this job for 40, I don't even know how many years, almost 50 years.
00:02:23.200And I've never seen anything like this.
00:02:27.780Leaders of over 100 major corporations got together and spoke via Zoom on Saturday about how they could combat election integrity laws similar to the one that was proposed in Georgia.
00:02:45.800Multiple reports, Wall Street Journal and others directly quote people that were on the phone call.
00:02:54.080They talked about potential ways to show how they opposed the legislation, including by halting donations to politicians, fine, who support the bills and even delaying investments in states.
00:03:09.060That's blackmail that pass restrictive measures.
00:03:14.260Now, this is according to people who were on the call.
00:03:16.380Now, I want you to understand what they are calling restrictive measures are actually just going back to the way it was before COVID-19.
00:03:28.060Remember, we had this unprecedented election and we had to change these laws.
00:03:34.580In fact, they couldn't even go through the legislative branch.
00:03:38.020They just had to be done many times by executive order.
00:03:41.320And the states changed their laws to make it easier for people to vote because of COVID.
00:03:48.980Everything that they had done was unprecedented one time only.
00:03:54.200So now these laws that are saying, OK, we're not doing that anymore.
00:05:20.680He is a Yale School of Management professor who helped organize the meeting.
00:05:26.320He said to the Washington Post that corporate leaders on the call felt very strongly that these voting restrictions are based on a flawed premise and are dangerous.
00:05:36.080What is the flawed premise that this was a new way to vote in America for covid?
00:05:42.300The discussion scheduled to last an hour went 10 minutes longer.
00:05:48.760It was led at times by Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express.
00:05:55.440Notice we have financial industry well represented here.
00:05:59.720Also, Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck.
00:06:05.900Student Merck make a are they out with a with a vaccine?
00:06:22.460They told the executives on the call that it was important to keep fighting what they viewed as discriminatory laws on voting.
00:06:30.960Chenault and Frazier coordinated a letter signed last month by 72 black business executives that made the same point.
00:06:37.740The letter that first drew attention to the voting bills in executive suites all across the country.
00:06:43.660The call's goal, listen to this, was to unify companies that had been issuing their own statements and signing on to drafted statements from different organizations after the action in Georgia.
00:07:26.380And now these corporations think they rule over us.
00:07:31.280They think it's their responsibility, not the elected officials, but their responsibility.
00:07:39.960By the way, some of them, because they're so with the people, some of them made the phone call from Augusta, Georgia, where they were attending the Masters golf tournament, which was so woke of them, I think, to be able to go to Georgia where they are protesting.
00:08:02.100One Georgia-based executive talked about how the final version of Georgia's legislation, which Brian Kemp has said, actually expands voting access, a claim that the left challenges, they say, was much worse than expected.
00:08:17.360And it should serve as a warning to other chief executives as more states consider adopting their own voting bills.
00:08:24.900Now, why is this, should this be a warning to other chief executive officers?
00:09:17.720Isn't this amazing that the people that are organizing this and are fine with it are the ones that say that corporations have no voice.
00:09:29.840The, the, it's the Republicans, it's the libertarians that say corporations can do what they want to do.
00:09:37.320But the ones that are saying corporations are evil, they keep people in poverty, they're the ones that are stepping to the plate and backing all of this.
00:11:35.080While no final steps were agreed on, the meeting represented an aggressive dialing up of corporate America's stand against controversial voting measures nationwide.
00:11:45.620I have to tell you, they're not controversial.
00:11:49.060It's just going to the way they were before COVID.
00:11:54.140It's a sign that their opposition to the laws didn't end with the fight against the Georgia legislation.
00:12:02.040Many of the corporate leaders who joined the call seem to view the voting restrictions as a tax on democracy.
00:12:08.560Saturday's call between company executives, this is a quote, shows they are not intimidated by the flack and they're not going to kowtow.
00:12:20.320That's according to Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
00:12:22.680He's the Yale management professor, one of the call's organizers.
00:12:29.300So, in other words, they don't care what the people who buy their products do or say.
00:12:40.760Mike Ward, co-founder of Civics Alliance, a nonpartisan group of businesses focused on voter engagement, said he felt there was a broad consensus at the end of the call.
00:12:49.920The company leaders plan to continue working against any voting bills they think are restrictive to lean into this, not lean away from this.
00:13:02.520And this is the official start, the public outing of what you're going to live under with the Great Reset.
00:13:14.560But it's corporations that are going to make the rules.
00:13:19.540And their lie about stakeholder capitalism is this.
00:13:27.020The capitalists, the ones that are going to be running the companies, the CEOs of these giant companies, not the capitalists like me or you, the small business person,
00:13:36.080but the people at Merck, the people at Citigroup, the people at Coca-Cola, they'll set the rules and they'll crush anybody underneath them.
00:13:47.920And they'll work with the government or I should say with the left and those in power from the left.
00:13:55.760They will work with them and your voice.
00:14:31.340This law, by the way, in Georgia, expands early voting opportunities for most counties and expands voter ID requirements to absentee ballots.
00:14:43.980And that's what they're saying they can't have, because apparently minorities are just too poor.
00:14:51.660They're just it's too tough for them to get any kind of ID.
00:16:46.320And that's when my wife came to the door of the studio here at our house and said, I, and she had the phone up.
00:16:58.200And, uh, then she collapsed on the floor in tears and I ran out of the studio and grabbed her and held her up and said, what's, what's wrong, honey?
00:18:17.700This family, I'm, I married into, I think, the greatest family I've ever met, the Kelowna family.
00:18:27.920And I didn't realize, I mean, I know what a change it's made on my life, but I didn't realize how great this family even was until this last week.
00:18:39.100My wife is, she's got a servant spirit and she just serves, she shows her love by taking care of people and doing things and never, never says, oh, it's too much.
00:19:03.700I have to tell her, I have to tell her all the time, honey, don't take this on.
00:19:08.860Last night, she was, she's still up in Connecticut and she called me last night about the dog food and she was like, the dog food and you got to get more dog food.
00:19:16.500And I'm like, honey, honey, I got it, relax.
00:19:22.820Even though I probably don't actually have it, but.
00:22:53.000This is now the third family member of mine that has gone through this.
00:23:08.840And I keep seeing it play out over and over and over again in exactly the same way.
00:23:23.000We had an immediate family member in my family that the police were called to my house this, I don't even know how long ago it was now, a few months ago.
00:24:02.780When I talked to Tanya on Monday, all she could get out of her mom at the time when they were both hysterically crying was what she thought she heard was,