The Glenn Beck Program - May 07, 2025


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： John-Henry Westen ｜ 5⧸7⧸25


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On today's show, Glenn Beck lays out the case for why the American Dream is still not complete and why we should be worried about the future of the country. He also talks about the economic collapse in China and why it's time to wake up and wake up America.

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00:00:35.400 We hit all the highlights, except I kind of unleash a lot in the full podcast today.
00:00:42.000 But Mike Pence, James Carville, even President Trump haven't gotten the American dream right yet.
00:00:46.360 This country promises everyone the chance to be successful.
00:00:50.000 I set the record straight on today's best of.
00:00:52.100 Also, Mark Zuckerberg wants us all to have AI friends instead of real friends.
00:00:56.980 No thank you.
00:00:58.100 And we join somebody at the conclave in Rome to explain exactly what's going on in Rome with the Pope.
00:01:04.560 All on today's best of podcast.
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00:03:18.760 All right.
00:03:19.180 Welcome to the program.
00:03:21.980 All right.
00:03:22.640 So I want to talk to you.
00:03:24.480 I want to talk to you a little bit about, first of all, the American economy.
00:03:28.920 There are some good things and bad things going on.
00:03:32.080 First of all, the GOP, they're not really sure that they're going to go with all of the doge cuts.
00:03:38.220 You know, not really sure.
00:03:39.780 I mean, should we do all of them?
00:03:41.560 No, we've got plenty of money.
00:03:44.340 Just keep wasting all of our money.
00:03:46.200 It's totally fine.
00:03:48.880 Now, in China, some good news.
00:03:51.400 China, the chaos on the streets of China is getting really bad.
00:03:56.040 The workers are starting to revolt because they're being laid off because we're not buying any of their stuff.
00:04:02.200 Mercedes-Benz just shut down one of their big factories in China.
00:04:08.300 We're talking about moving.
00:04:10.180 Except we can't move to India now.
00:04:12.420 Boy, that suddenly got unstable.
00:04:14.060 But Apple and others were saying they were going to move to India.
00:04:19.580 And it's not going well.
00:04:21.660 And people are, you've got to love the Chinese protests.
00:04:25.200 This is how bad, you know things are bad when your union march, when your slogan is, pay us or we'll commit suicide.
00:04:35.820 That's how bad it is.
00:04:38.440 Now, they haven't been paid.
00:04:39.580 Some of these workers haven't been paid in four months.
00:04:41.620 That's not Trump's policies there, gang.
00:04:44.700 That's China collapsing.
00:04:47.440 So, Trump is now going to be meeting with China.
00:04:51.160 All of a sudden, China is like, well, you know what? 0.99
00:04:52.760 We could meet.
00:04:53.620 I mean, there's no problem at least talking.
00:04:56.500 That is a sign things are working.
00:04:59.500 Do not blink.
00:05:03.100 Don't blink.
00:05:05.820 This guy is a tough negotiator.
00:05:07.580 And they are in real trouble.
00:05:11.060 So, there's some good news on that.
00:05:14.040 And I'm going to get into that here just a little bit in a minute.
00:05:17.420 But there's one thing that really kind of bothers me.
00:05:22.400 James Carville has come out recently and said, you know, on tariffs, you know, I have on six item of clothes, shoes, socks, jeans, skivvies, t-shirt, and sweatshirt.
00:05:35.260 You know how many of these were made in America?
00:05:37.520 None.
00:05:38.100 And I don't want to live in a country that makes t-shirts.
00:05:41.060 I can buy them from someplace else.
00:05:44.400 That's a little elitist.
00:05:47.220 Maybe a touch elitist.
00:05:49.860 I don't, I mean, I really, I mean, do you have a problem if our country makes t-shirts?
00:05:55.300 No, there's some great companies.
00:05:56.500 We've talked about American Giant.
00:05:57.560 American Giant.
00:05:58.520 There's a great company that makes t-shirts here.
00:06:00.260 Thank God they do.
00:06:01.180 Great t-shirts.
00:06:01.740 Yeah.
00:06:01.920 Great t-shirts.
00:06:03.140 Okay.
00:06:03.480 So, James Carville trying to tell us what the American dream is.
00:06:07.820 And the American dream doesn't involve factories in America making anything like underpants.
00:06:13.780 Okay.
00:06:14.620 Then Mike Tyson, or not Mike Tyson.
00:06:16.700 Mike Tyson might have a better view on this than Mike Pence.
00:06:20.220 Mike Pence, he says this.
00:06:23.960 Listen.
00:06:25.040 He said that cheap goods was not a part of the American dream.
00:06:28.880 Well, I'm somebody who spent almost my entire life in public service.
00:06:33.120 We lived on our paycheck while we raised three kids and put three kids through college.
00:06:37.380 Cheap goods are a big part of it.
00:06:39.320 I think we ought to be candid about that.
00:06:41.580 Okay.
00:06:42.400 Cheap goods.
00:06:42.960 Now, are cheap goods important?
00:06:45.040 You bet.
00:06:45.960 You bet.
00:06:46.680 Are they part of your family planning?
00:06:49.520 Sure it is.
00:06:50.600 Do you want to pay more for goods?
00:06:53.140 No.
00:06:53.780 Not really.
00:06:54.720 Not really.
00:06:56.520 Are they part of the American dream?
00:07:02.380 I don't think they are.
00:07:04.460 Certainly a weird way to phrase it.
00:07:05.920 I mean, obviously, one of the reasons Donald Trump is currently president is because prices
00:07:09.360 went up on a lot of stuff.
00:07:10.640 Correct.
00:07:10.940 Right.
00:07:11.460 During the Biden administration.
00:07:12.980 Correct.
00:07:13.420 Yeah.
00:07:13.860 Sure, it's important.
00:07:14.760 Okay.
00:07:15.560 So, but it's not the American dream.
00:07:18.020 And then Donald Trump, I'm going to take the president on.
00:07:20.580 Donald Trump came out and said, you know, we, our kids don't need 20 dolls.
00:07:25.000 You know, they could maybe have three.
00:07:27.440 I don't know how many was the number one.
00:07:28.920 I don't want the president telling me how many dolls my kids can have.
00:07:32.900 Okay.
00:07:34.000 Yeah.
00:07:34.360 I mean, I understand.
00:07:35.400 I understand it.
00:07:36.440 We don't need to have everything that we have, but let's not talk about let's please
00:07:40.140 let's not take the position of scarcity in America.
00:07:43.780 That's a little too much like Jimmy Carter saying, you know what?
00:07:47.060 Turn down the heat and wear a sweater.
00:07:48.900 No.
00:07:49.500 Uh-uh.
00:07:50.360 Drill, baby, drill. 1.00
00:07:52.000 That was the answer.
00:07:55.000 We're not a country that should be focused on scarcity.
00:07:59.040 You know where that happens?
00:08:01.140 Everywhere else in the world.
00:08:02.840 It shouldn't be happening here.
00:08:04.840 Now, do we have an out-of-control consumption problem?
00:08:07.920 I don't know about you, but I do.
00:08:09.520 Uh, and, you know, you're not alone on that one.
00:08:13.220 Yeah.
00:08:13.560 Right.
00:08:14.320 So, I mean, do we consume like big fat Americans?
00:08:18.560 Yes.
00:08:19.100 And I will tell you, I can't tell you how many times my wife shushed me when we were
00:08:24.240 in a museum standing in front of Leonardo's Last Supper and being from Texas, I did have
00:08:29.880 to just say under my breath, maybe a little too loud.
00:08:33.180 Come on now.
00:08:34.080 Everything has a price.
00:08:35.060 How much?
00:08:35.640 How much for that painting up there on that wall?
00:08:38.200 Uh.
00:08:39.520 So, so, you know, uh, I get it, but let me explain what the American dream really is.
00:08:47.060 It's not the caricature of two cars and a picket fence and a bank account bursting at
00:08:51.500 the seams.
00:08:51.960 It's not about business success.
00:08:55.480 It is about what makes that heart beat.
00:09:00.280 And that is opportunity.
00:09:03.900 The chance to be you.
00:09:06.600 Oh, so you're for transgender. 0.95
00:09:08.200 I don't really care.
00:09:09.520 I really don't force me to say, dude, you're a lovely woman.
00:09:14.980 Okay.
00:09:15.700 But you be you, boo.
00:09:17.340 I'll be me.
00:09:19.080 I'm going to stick to science and well-known facts, but you chart your own course.
00:09:25.360 You live your life without having to kneel at the altar of anyone, a state, a lord, a
00:09:33.920 king, any self-appointed arbiter of your destiny.
00:09:39.480 That's what the American dream is all about.
00:09:42.640 And it's what makes America different than every other part, every other part of the world.
00:09:48.320 It is about empowering people.
00:09:51.880 The American dream is a radical idea that you don't need permission to exist.
00:09:58.780 You don't need permission to be you.
00:10:02.100 You don't need permission to pursue the things you believe in.
00:10:06.740 Do you know, it was Stuart Chase that wrote his book, the American something or other.
00:10:16.020 I don't remember.
00:10:17.340 But he wrote this book.
00:10:18.940 I think it was Stuart Chase.
00:10:19.920 He wrote this book.
00:10:21.240 No, I don't remember.
00:10:22.400 But he wrote a book and in it, he defined the American dream as being a house with a chicken
00:10:29.920 in every pot and a car in the garage and everything else that happened during the FDR administration.
00:10:35.680 Before that, everybody knew what the American dream was.
00:10:39.820 Now we have made it into guaranteed outcomes.
00:10:42.920 Government handing you success on a platter, even if you fail.
00:10:47.000 More importantly, if you fail, you get the win.
00:10:51.120 And if you succeeded, they try to take that win from you and give it to somebody else.
00:10:56.360 The American dream is about the absence of chains and legal and cultural and bureaucratic chains
00:11:06.600 that bind you to somebody else's vision of your life.
00:11:10.940 In most of the world, historically, and even today, your path is dictated by your birth,
00:11:17.680 your class, the whims of the ruling elite.
00:11:22.480 Go ahead.
00:11:23.300 Try to open up an ice store in Europe.
00:11:27.020 Okay?
00:11:27.400 I don't know because they're European.
00:11:29.140 I don't know if they're smart enough to understand what the value, the great value on the quality
00:11:35.600 of your life, ice will bring to every cup of whatever it is you're drinking.
00:11:40.840 But I bet you would have a hard time opening up an ice store
00:11:44.200 because you have all these regulations.
00:11:48.500 In America, at our core, the promise is you rise or fall on your own terms,
00:11:55.180 your own sweat, your own ingenuity, your grit, your ethics.
00:12:01.340 Now, that wasn't just different.
00:12:03.600 That was revolutionary.
00:12:04.660 It's still revolutionary.
00:12:07.660 This is why we are so different from the rest of the world.
00:12:10.880 And it started with our founding, the Declaration of Independence.
00:12:14.220 It didn't just thumb its nose at the king and say, we've got a better king over here.
00:12:19.240 It flipped the entire script of human governance, saying, we don't have a king.
00:12:25.400 We rule ourselves.
00:12:28.360 We find these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator
00:12:33.640 with certain inalienable rights.
00:12:35.020 That wasn't a suggestion.
00:12:37.420 That was a Molotov cocktail thrown into every human institution that had ever ruled over man.
00:12:46.580 The divine right to control another person's life.
00:12:50.420 So, we say that in the Declaration.
00:12:54.100 Then, we have the Constitution.
00:12:56.480 And then, we double down with the Bill of Rights.
00:12:59.100 And we say, by the way, government can never, ever, ever do these things.
00:13:04.100 Now, we've got judges who are like, well, maybe occasionally government can do these.
00:13:09.300 No, never.
00:13:12.700 Inalienable, meaning unchanging, no man, nothing can change the rights that you were given from a divine creator.
00:13:22.140 And the difference between us is good, because it unleashes the human spirit, where everything else chains the human spirit.
00:13:33.480 When you're free to succeed or fail without a Lord's approval or the state's micromanagement,
00:13:41.680 you are forced to confront who you are and what you're capable of.
00:13:48.460 That's the point.
00:13:51.980 That's not always comfortable, but it's always empowering.
00:13:57.160 A lot of people will cower away from that.
00:13:59.140 I don't want to.
00:14:00.100 They think that there's nothing inside.
00:14:01.820 That's all a lie.
00:14:03.060 That's all a lie.
00:14:05.400 Started, much of it, with the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays.
00:14:11.820 He was a guy who was a good friend of Woodrow Wilson.
00:14:15.300 Also helped start CBS and advertising and everything else.
00:14:19.640 They were a good, that was a good bunch of people there.
00:14:22.520 Oh, and they were all eugenicists too.
00:14:24.540 But this guy said, we have to make America, his quote, the problem with America is, it's a nation of needs.
00:14:36.120 We need it to be a nation of wants.
00:14:39.220 Well, that's what we are now.
00:14:40.580 We're a nation of wants.
00:14:41.680 We don't even understand.
00:14:42.560 We think our wants are needs, and they're not.
00:14:45.640 We have to become a nation of needs again.
00:14:49.100 And knowing the difference between need and want.
00:14:52.740 You're going to have whatever you want.
00:14:54.860 But it's want, not need.
00:14:57.960 And this is, this has been realized, and it's why the immigrant cobbler came over to make Apple cobbler or whatever, no, shoes, to, you know, the kid out of nowhere that just has come up with the next big app. 0.88
00:15:19.520 You don't need a title or a pedigree.
00:15:22.320 You don't need, you don't need anything.
00:15:25.480 You need your own dreams, your own ideas, your own ingenuity, and your own grit to pursue it.
00:15:31.880 Your path all over the world is shaped by someone else.
00:15:36.320 Shaped by who your parents were.
00:15:38.440 What caste or what clan you were born into.
00:15:41.500 Who you'll curry favor with in the local or national bureaucracy.
00:15:45.680 That's a bastardization of everything.
00:15:48.700 This is what the Democrats say they're against, but it's absolutely what they're for.
00:15:52.180 And quite frankly, much of the Republican Party is for it as well.
00:15:56.360 Freedom of speech.
00:15:57.820 Freedom of movement.
00:15:58.900 Freedom of enterprise.
00:16:01.460 It's called now a privilege.
00:16:03.100 It's not.
00:16:04.180 It's a right.
00:16:05.700 Your birthright.
00:16:07.060 Not because of your last name, but because you are human.
00:16:11.440 And that's why the world changed once America was founded.
00:16:15.460 That's why, that's why we led everywhere.
00:16:17.700 And that's why we're faltering now, because we no longer understand that.
00:16:21.000 The American dream isn't about stuff.
00:16:24.820 It's about space.
00:16:26.740 Space to think, speak, create.
00:16:29.200 To fail without somebody else's boot on your neck.
00:16:32.960 And our politicians, our pundits, our cultural gatekeepers have redefined it as material wealth
00:16:39.780 or cheap goods or whatever it is.
00:16:42.080 That's a trap.
00:16:44.760 You have no guarantee in life.
00:16:46.820 There is no guarantee.
00:16:48.260 Life is not fair.
00:16:52.640 If I hear one of my children say to me one more time,
00:16:55.100 Dad, you just don't know what it's like.
00:16:56.580 Oh, please.
00:16:59.300 I didn't grow up with the opportunities you have.
00:17:02.960 So please don't cry me a river for the life I've created for you.
00:17:10.680 Don't do it.
00:17:14.000 America doesn't care who you are or where you came from. 0.99
00:17:19.860 Justice is blind.
00:17:22.180 Success and failure should be blind.
00:17:25.740 That is the American dream.
00:17:28.740 That's why America is a beacon and has always been a beacon.
00:17:32.260 Not just for Americans, but for anyone else who's ever wanted to live without permission,
00:17:38.260 who will follow the law and the rules and come here the right way.
00:17:44.160 Those people, no matter your creed, color, no matter who you are, no matter who your family is,
00:17:51.860 America promises you the possibility of success and no one over you putting a boot on your neck.
00:18:02.760 That's the American dream that must be heralded and restored.
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00:18:22.420 I don't have any power for my phone.
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00:19:39.240 Now back to the podcast.
00:19:40.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:19:44.420 John Henry Weston is, uh, on with us now from Rome.
00:19:47.580 Uh, he is, uh, from lifesitenews.com, co-founder and CEO, and also the, uh, host of the John Henry Weston show.
00:19:55.780 Welcome.
00:19:56.960 John, how are you?
00:19:57.800 Thank you, Glenn.
00:19:58.460 So good to be with you from Rome, uh, where everything is happening.
00:20:02.260 It's funny, all eyes of the world are turned to Rome right now, um, as the world is in chaos.
00:20:07.780 But what's going on, uh, in Rome now, the Cardinals, as you said, are in the Sistine Chapel.
00:20:14.140 They are making their promises.
00:20:16.000 They are going to seal the doors.
00:20:17.340 And then the voting will begin.
00:20:19.540 This is day one of the conclave.
00:20:21.660 They had the mass, uh, already for the start of the conclave.
00:20:26.000 And they will have vote number one.
00:20:28.060 In fact, they will start the voting today.
00:20:31.100 By tomorrow, they will do another four votes.
00:20:33.740 Two in the morning, two in the afternoon.
00:20:35.540 And that will continue that way.
00:20:37.680 They will have a break on Saturday, and it will continue.
00:20:40.600 Word on the street here is that we're expecting a new pope by day three.
00:20:44.840 But we'll see how it goes.
00:20:46.080 Okay, so I'm looking at the popes, and I don't know, I mean, the cardinals, and I don't know
00:20:50.660 anything about this, but, um, it doesn't look like there's any real conservative that
00:20:55.680 has a chance of getting in.
00:20:58.600 Well, that's a, that's an interesting question, because in, in the church, of course, we don't
00:21:02.960 talk much about conservatives.
00:21:04.340 It's more about orthodoxy, those who actually follow the Catholic faith, and then those who
00:21:08.100 don't.
00:21:08.460 And on those who do, there are a number.
00:21:11.460 There's one American, of course, there's Cardinal Burke, but a lot of people say he has no chance
00:21:15.500 at all.
00:21:16.080 There is Cardinal Sara, who is very interesting.
00:21:19.040 He's 79 years old, granted.
00:21:21.540 However, he was in the Vatican.
00:21:23.940 He's also from Guinea, Africa.
00:21:26.140 And so, he's as dark as they come. 1.00
00:21:28.660 And so, the church could be seen to be totally, not only non-racist, but he is, but he's also
00:21:34.760 a man of great and deep faith.
00:21:37.360 And so, he has been talked about, even though not so much in the public, because the, you
00:21:42.380 know, the media is not going to be telling you who are the real candidates.
00:21:46.040 Another one who is faithful, or a Catholic, you might say, the old joke. 0.94
00:21:52.460 Remember the old joke?
00:21:53.500 Oh, it's the Pope Catholic?
00:21:54.600 We haven't been making that for the last dozen years, because it's no longer a joke.
00:21:57.860 But, what we have now, we have a Cardinal who is actually Italian, but he is the Patriarch
00:22:05.040 of Jerusalem.
00:22:06.080 He is Cardinal Pier Battista Pizzaballa.
00:22:09.200 Very interesting candidate, because when, and a young man, by the way, just young for a
00:22:13.880 Cardinal, that is.
00:22:14.400 President, I think, just turned 60.
00:22:16.140 And when the October 7th kidnappings and massacre happened, he was asked by a reporter, you know,
00:22:23.480 what would you do?
00:22:24.280 Would you offer yourself instead of the officers?
00:22:26.440 And he did.
00:22:26.700 And he absolutely did.
00:22:28.960 So, that is being talked about.
00:22:31.320 And wouldn't that be interesting?
00:22:32.600 It would be.
00:22:32.940 Someone who, you know, is a man of great faith, and he's in a war zone.
00:22:38.280 You know how they say, you know, there's no atheists in foxholes?
00:22:41.740 Well, guess what?
00:22:42.680 Over there, it's a daily foxhole.
00:22:44.840 So, he's a very interesting candidate.
00:22:47.360 He is young, though.
00:22:48.300 People are saying, oh, too young, maybe.
00:22:49.660 You know, I don't really know about that.
00:22:51.540 Having had the whole wide world watch the dundering Biden presidency, maybe they're sick
00:22:57.920 of two old people as well.
00:22:59.680 So, it's really up for grabs in this papal election.
00:23:04.540 All right.
00:23:04.900 So, let's talk about some of the things, just to pass.
00:23:09.100 The scandals of Francis, and, you know, there is talk that he wasn't legitimate and that
00:23:18.660 Benedict was forced out.
00:23:22.160 And, you know, there was all this scandal around him.
00:23:24.820 How much of that is true?
00:23:26.500 Are there any real scandals that need to be cleaned up from this or not?
00:23:31.860 Wow.
00:23:33.140 Well, absolutely.
00:23:34.940 Especially for Catholics.
00:23:36.540 And this is the one thing that is supposed not to change.
00:23:41.100 We are supposed to have an unbroken faith that goes from Jesus Christ through Peter and then
00:23:46.840 all of his successors until the present day.
00:23:49.160 And yet, we have, over the past 12 years, for the first time in the 2,000-year history of
00:23:57.360 Catholicism, you have a break like we've never seen. 0.97
00:24:00.320 It's one thing to have popes who have scandals, who have, like, children on the side, mistresses, 0.77
00:24:04.780 or even kill other people.
00:24:07.760 That's one thing.
00:24:08.760 That's bad.
00:24:09.800 But to change the faith is unthinkable.
00:24:13.080 And that's why there has been the suggestion, is Francis even a real pope?
00:24:16.600 Interestingly, we've had antipopes in history.
00:24:19.740 We've had about 30 antipopes.
00:24:21.460 Antipopes are men who claim the See of Peter but are not really the pope.
00:24:25.940 And that is being seriously talked about by several, even bishops and archbishops in the
00:24:31.500 church.
00:24:31.720 Now, they're sidelined.
00:24:33.000 Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, of course, is one of those.
00:24:35.680 Love him.
00:24:36.160 And called excommunicated.
00:24:37.980 And the whole point is, though, they're raising this question and raising it seriously,
00:24:42.660 thinking, gosh, this guy is so far off the page.
00:24:45.820 Hence the joke, too.
00:24:47.200 You know, is the pope Catholic?
00:24:48.380 That's not a joke.
00:24:49.840 And so let me give you a few of the examples that really tick the scales to make people
00:24:55.640 go absolutely crazy with what's been going on.
00:24:58.760 In the pontificate of Francis came, honest to goodness, idolatry.
00:25:04.160 In the Amazonian synod in 2016 came, or 2017, came the Achamama idolatry.
00:25:13.040 And it was where you can see in a video I've sent along to your people, maybe you can air
00:25:17.160 it.
00:25:17.320 But people in the Vatican Gardens, including a priest, bowing heads to the ground in front
00:25:24.200 of two statues of nude women facing each other.
00:25:27.880 And the pope is sitting right there.
00:25:31.260 And when the ceremony was over, where he watched literal idolatry, he blessed the statues.
00:25:39.340 And he knew they were Pachamama, Mother Earth God statues.
00:25:44.440 He blessed them nonetheless.
00:25:45.640 Worse than that, they processed them into St. Peter's in a canoe, jumped them down in the
00:25:50.940 middle of St. Peter's, and literally prayed around this pagan goddess.
00:25:55.840 That sounds too weird to be true, but you can watch the video.
00:26:00.000 And weirdly, he did a similar thing when he came to Canada over the fake news about, you
00:26:07.500 know, indigenous children being killed by Catholics.
00:26:10.040 It was all fake news in the end.
00:26:11.680 But nonetheless, he came.
00:26:12.980 And when he came, a shaman was praying that the circle of spirits might join them there.
00:26:18.820 And he had the pope putting his hand on his chest and eyes closed, sort of, quote-unquote,
00:26:25.820 praying along with him.
00:26:28.040 Idolatry is the crime that spans back through all of God's people. 0.97
00:26:33.060 The time of Moses, we remember, he went up the mountain.
00:26:36.000 And when he came down, and he saw the idolatry, he smashed the Ten Commandments.
00:26:40.480 And God was ready to say, enough, enough, let me destroy this people.
00:26:44.460 And Moses pleaded for them.
00:26:46.280 And that's the kind of thing we just saw.
00:26:49.620 So that was mind-blowing with this papacy.
00:26:53.080 But there's others.
00:26:53.980 There's other crazy scandals of Francis.
00:26:57.020 That's not the only one.
00:26:58.540 So I want you to go ahead and tell me the other things here.
00:27:02.600 But are they going to be talking about this in the conclave?
00:27:07.480 I mean, are there enough?
00:27:09.020 Because I understood that, and I could be wrong on this, but I understood that a lot of
00:27:13.760 the cardinals that are now going to be voting were appointed by Francis.
00:27:18.820 In fact, didn't he increase the number of cardinals?
00:27:21.220 And some are saying that it's not even legal what he did in the Catholic Church.
00:27:26.640 It's not legal.
00:27:27.320 And it's not going to be a binding vote if those cardinals are included.
00:27:31.480 What is that all about?
00:27:32.420 Yeah, so that is a thing.
00:27:35.760 So the rule book called Universi Dominici Grigius was put out by John Paul II and amended by
00:27:41.120 Benedict.
00:27:42.340 And it said it should be a limit of 120.
00:27:44.580 The thing is, if you check with a canonist, though, the Pope has the right to change that.
00:27:47.800 So in doing it, in naming more than 120, it still counts.
00:27:51.360 The other thing is this, there's now 133 cardinals who are voting, 108 were named by Francis.
00:28:02.040 That's 81%, more than 81%.
00:28:04.660 So yeah, if you want to talk about stacked deck, sure.
00:28:08.380 The only difficulty with that kind of very political calculus is this.
00:28:12.500 Can you find enough guys who sign up to that kind of extreme left-wing, non-Catholic type 1.00
00:28:21.640 of deal?
00:28:22.260 And the answer is no.
00:28:23.560 So you've got a bunch of cardinals that he named that aren't going to be following in
00:28:27.260 his footsteps, for sure not.
00:28:28.780 And so what you have is a bunch of guys that really nobody knows, and they're going to take
00:28:35.060 what's coming as it comes and have to deal with the after effect of the last 12 years,
00:28:39.780 which has been a disaster for the Church, from almost anyone's perspective.
00:28:44.900 Even the liberals, who are not quite Francis types, even they are sick of it, because they
00:28:51.020 want calm, and it has not been calm, because he alienated the most faithful Catholics on
00:28:57.300 earth.
00:28:57.680 And to give you one other example, it was the Chinese Catholics.
00:29:01.340 So for the last, since communism in China, it has been a nightmare for the Church.
00:29:07.380 The Church has been actively persecuted by the Communist government there, by the Chinese
00:29:12.300 Communist Party, which of course is all about destroying the Church.
00:29:16.700 They're even, so people know, they're even rewriting, China is rewriting the Bible. 0.99
00:29:22.720 Absolutely.
00:29:23.580 Right.
00:29:24.000 They need their own version.
00:29:25.200 Correct.
00:29:25.600 Because for them, the party is everything.
00:29:30.960 And in fact, would love, as all communists would, to absolutely eliminate religion, but
00:29:36.720 they already learned that that doesn't work.
00:29:39.460 They learned themselves, after trying to kill them off, that the blood of the martyrs is
00:29:44.260 the seed of the Church.
00:29:45.020 Now, they don't believe the saying of the Church, but they realize, oh, we've tried this,
00:29:48.460 it doesn't work, we kill them and they grow.
00:29:49.940 So, what they've taken to doing, very smart ploy, is creating their own fake Catholic Church. 0.71
00:29:58.560 And they call it the Patriotic Catholic Church.
00:30:02.060 And the patriotism is to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:30:06.020 Now, interestingly, under John Paul II, they were fought in this.
00:30:10.260 There was a healthy underground church that survived, thanks to the work of John Paul II,
00:30:14.720 and then he had, working with him and for him, Cardinal Joseph Zen, all the time being
00:30:20.240 a representative of the true Catholics, living underground, persecuted.
00:30:24.700 Every once in a while, they would catch one of the priests or the bishops and arrest them
00:30:28.660 and so on.
00:30:29.600 And this went on for decades.
00:30:32.080 And then came Francis.
00:30:34.480 And Francis started a new deal.
00:30:38.200 You can talk in those political terms.
00:30:40.980 And it's horrific, because the deal, first of all, was secret.
00:30:44.720 They wouldn't even let Cardinal Joseph Zen know what's in the deal.
00:30:49.600 And that was unbelievable, because he was the one who worked most closely with both
00:30:53.160 Popes, John Paul and Benedict, on the China question.
00:30:57.280 This deal was worked out by none other than Theodore McCarrick, the child abuser,
00:31:03.100 who is now Mr. McCarrick, before he died, because he was excommunicated.
00:31:08.040 He was kicked out of the priesthood, let alone the Cardinal.
00:31:11.100 And that was the guy who made the deal.
00:31:14.140 But Francis carried on the deal, which really and truly threw all the Chinese underground 0.88
00:31:19.440 Catholics under the bus. 0.99
00:31:21.420 Cardinal Zen traveled.
00:31:23.600 He finally got out of house arrest to be able to come to the funeral of Francis.
00:31:28.020 And during the conclave, the pre-conclave meetings, called the general congregations, where the
00:31:34.420 Cardinals, even though he can't go into conclave because they're over 80, Cardinal Zen is like
00:31:38.400 92, he spoke courageously about this horror that's gone on with the underground Catholics 1.00
00:31:45.660 and the need.
00:31:46.900 Is it true that the Pope basically said to the Chinese communists, you tell us who the
00:31:55.980 leaders need to be and we'll okay them?
00:31:59.060 So he gave the choice of the church leadership to the communist Chinese.
00:32:05.440 Is that true?
00:32:05.960 Well, in essence, yes, absolutely.
00:32:11.180 On paper, it's the Pope is supposed to have kind of a veto over things.
00:32:17.040 And so both are kind of mutually with veto power.
00:32:19.880 And it's all baloney.
00:32:21.080 So I'll give you how radical this is.
00:32:24.240 So in 2000, I believe it's 2007, the Chinese government, the Communist Party, installed a bishop in Beijing
00:32:35.380 without the permission of the Pope.
00:32:37.960 Right.
00:32:38.200 And always, that was regarded as an illegal, basically a fake Catholic bishop.
00:32:45.400 And yet Francis recognized him later as the authentic bishop.
00:32:51.280 And yet this man has been a communist agent who heads up a fake church.
00:33:00.260 He's the head of the patriotic Catholic church.
00:33:03.520 And he was accepted by Francis as a legitimate bishop.
00:33:06.920 It's impossible even to think.
00:33:08.700 Imagine you're a Chinese Catholic underground being persecuted.
00:33:13.380 Your relatives have been taken and beaten and killed for the faith that you hang on to
00:33:18.380 because you are loyal to Rome and then have Rome, a new pope, come in, turn around and betray you,
00:33:24.880 throw you all under the bus, and appoint the very man who is the head of this fake church 0.98
00:33:30.660 as a real bishop, as the real archbishop of Beijing.
00:33:34.200 Well, I mean, it wouldn't be bad.
00:33:35.820 It would be, you know, a Paul Saul story if there had been a change.
00:33:40.360 But this guy had not changed at all.
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00:33:51.840 Well, hello.
00:33:53.240 Hi, Glenn.
00:33:54.960 We've had a lot built up over the past week.
00:33:56.720 How?
00:33:57.080 I think we can tell.
00:33:59.020 I don't have constipation of the mouth today.
00:34:01.540 No.
00:34:01.720 Let's just say that.
00:34:04.640 A few things that have been building up that, quite frankly, my wife didn't want to hear.
00:34:08.000 You know, we're out, we're, you know, going on vacation, we're going seeing things,
00:34:13.320 and I'll be like, you know what really pisses me off?
00:34:15.180 And she's like, can you save that?
00:34:16.240 Because we're on vacation right now.
00:34:17.560 And I'm like, okay, stuff it down, and then I'm here today.
00:34:21.600 I got a lot to share with you.
00:34:24.560 Let's start with this.
00:34:26.160 Mark Zuckerberg, good guy.
00:34:28.980 I mean, he brought us Facebook.
00:34:30.800 And, you know, that is the thing that brought all of us together, brought our families together,
00:34:35.080 all the people that we lost touch with.
00:34:37.060 Oh, the world is so much better now that we have Facebook.
00:34:40.420 So now he's got another idea.
00:34:43.340 Could we play the clip of Mark Zuckerberg?
00:34:46.000 There's this stat that I always think is crazy.
00:34:47.780 The average American, I think, has, I think it's fewer than three friends.
00:34:53.180 Three people that they'd consider friends.
00:34:54.840 And the average person has demand for meaningfully more.
00:34:59.160 I think it's like 15 friends or something, right?
00:35:01.240 I guess there's probably some point where you're like, all right, I'm just too busy.
00:35:03.980 I can't deal with more people.
00:35:05.000 But the average person wants more connectivity connection than they have.
00:35:11.440 So, you know, there's a lot of questions that people ask of stuff like, okay, is this going to replace kind of in-person connections or real life connections?
00:35:23.040 And my default is that the answer to that is probably no.
00:35:27.600 I think it, you know, I think that there are all these things that are better about kind of physical connections when you can have them.
00:35:34.720 But the reality is that people just don't have the connection and they feel more alone a lot of the time than they would like.
00:35:44.360 True.
00:35:45.080 Now, let me ask you, is there a time when you don't remember feeling so isolated?
00:35:56.320 When you didn't really feel like, I don't have any real friends?
00:36:03.920 When you didn't, you had real connections with people instead of a million connections with people that are your friends, but not really your friends?
00:36:15.180 Can you think of a time way back in history?
00:36:19.120 I mean, probably have to go back to the cavemen to find a time.
00:36:22.740 Oh, or before Facebook and social media when we weren't all killing ourself because we have no meaning.
00:36:30.720 Now, from the people who brought you, kill yourself because you've been on Facebook too much brings you new AI friends.
00:36:42.220 Oh, this is going to be good.
00:36:44.220 By the way, you know, it's a crazy stat.
00:36:46.500 I think the average American has what, three friends and they have capacity for, I don't know, 15 or 20.
00:36:52.900 I don't know.
00:36:55.280 Really think about it right now.
00:36:56.800 How many true friends do you have?
00:37:01.440 How many true friends, people that when you are down and out, there is nothing.
00:37:09.240 The whole world is against you.
00:37:11.860 That that person will actually stand by your side and go, yeah, I'm their friend and I don't care what you say.
00:37:17.400 How many?
00:37:17.880 How many do you have?
00:37:19.480 I think I'd count myself lucky if I had three.
00:37:23.100 Now, I have a lot of acquaintances.
00:37:24.760 I have a lot of people who we all think are friends.
00:37:27.780 But as a recovering alcoholic, I've been there.
00:37:32.500 I've done that.
00:37:33.420 As a recovering alcoholic who then also is a conservative and spoke out about the Obama administration,
00:37:41.840 I know who my friends are.
00:37:43.480 I know who my friends are not.
00:37:46.800 And I think there's a lot of people that have counterfeit friends.
00:37:50.980 If you've got, oh, I've got 10 or 15 friends.
00:37:53.760 Nah, you don't.
00:37:55.560 No, you don't.
00:37:55.980 I've always grown up thinking you're lucky.
00:38:00.760 You're lucky to have three, five really good friends that will walk through anything with you.
00:38:10.960 You agree with that, Stu?
00:38:14.460 Yeah.
00:38:15.540 You've never been there.
00:38:16.780 You've never.
00:38:17.360 You've never.
00:38:18.040 For you?
00:38:18.860 Oh, God, no.
00:38:19.440 No, I'm saying, but I'm just saying generally speaking, no, I mean, you're describing a great friend.
00:38:27.140 You're describing a really close.
00:38:28.920 A real friend.
00:38:30.160 Yeah, like someone you know and stick around for, you know, multiple decades.
00:38:33.840 I have lots of friends.
00:38:35.860 Yeah.
00:38:36.220 You know what I mean?
00:38:36.920 I have millions of Facebook friends.
00:38:40.020 Right.
00:38:40.540 Okay.
00:38:41.040 Those aren't real.
00:38:41.660 And I, right, and I have lots of friends, but the ones that are there for you always, no matter what, I have family, and I have a handful of friends.
00:38:58.140 I would consider you one of those.
00:38:59.900 Thank you, I would as well.
00:39:01.300 Why?
00:39:02.460 Remember, I have a drinking problem, so maybe that has to do.
00:39:04.900 Yeah, a lot of brain cells killed to make that decision.
00:39:07.180 But I think you, yes, I think the only thing I'm drilling down a little bit on to try to understand is when you say, well, I have a lot of friends.
00:39:18.080 In a way, I think that's what Zuckerberg's talking about.
00:39:20.740 Like, it's not even necessarily just the great friend that you have for multiple decades and can count on at any time.
00:39:26.780 Just the mid-level acquaintances are drying up for a lot of people right now.
00:39:32.420 Yeah, and why is that?
00:39:33.340 Why is that?
00:39:34.040 Because we don't talk to each other anymore because of social media.
00:39:39.040 You know, when this generation says, I don't know, I think it's weird, I'm just out at a bar or someplace, and some stranger comes up to me and wants to strike up a conversation, I'm like, hello, weirdo.
00:39:48.520 Yeah.
00:39:48.780 I don't know.
00:39:50.280 You think it's less weird to go online when people can fake everything?
00:39:57.800 Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg, but no thanks.
00:40:00.320 And just to build on this point for one second, there's a study that came out the last 20 years of how much time do you spend socializing with other people?
00:40:10.420 Again, that's not with your best friends.
00:40:11.940 This is just socializing with anyone, a human.
00:40:15.500 Every single group, every single group has massive drops.
00:40:20.560 Massive.
00:40:21.040 Massive drops.
00:40:21.720 Just to give you some examples, ages, 15 to 24-year-olds, 35 point down in 20 years, 35%.
00:40:29.380 So a typical 15-year-old, as compared to what they are in 2003 and 2023 were the two measurement years, they're spending 35% less time with other human beings.
00:40:40.720 Okay, hang on just a second.
00:40:41.620 Can you please stop distracting me because I'm trying to figure out why our kids are killing themselves. 0.58
00:40:44.940 No, it's really hard.
00:40:46.740 It's very hard to figure out.
00:40:48.160 To understand.
00:40:49.140 And this is the coup de grace of this entire study, which is the typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends face-to-face contact with her friends of her own species. 0.98
00:41:04.840 Uh-huh.
00:41:05.760 That is an unbelievable, not like you're in the same house as your cat, right?
00:41:11.940 You just, uh, no, more face-to-face time with your cat.
00:41:17.140 And I got news for you.
00:41:18.660 If you think your cat is your friend, wait until you die and your cat is trapped in the house with you and you have no friends to check.
00:41:25.040 They will eat your face. 0.85
00:41:26.660 They'll still have a use for you.
00:41:28.200 Yeah, they will have a use for you.
00:41:29.600 Not the other way around.
00:41:30.300 Okay.
00:41:30.800 All right.
00:41:31.100 Now, listen, here's why I'm bringing this up today.
00:41:35.760 This is a lie that is going to be sold to you like crazy, and it's going to be wrapped in a beautiful, shiny package, and it's going to have from Mark Zuckerberg and others like him on the tag.
00:41:49.380 They want you to believe that AI and bots can be your friends.
00:41:55.160 No.
00:41:56.380 Get behind me, Satan.
00:41:59.320 Uh, let me be crystal clear.
00:42:01.780 Remember, AI cannot, must not, and will never be your friend.
00:42:10.300 And if you buy into that fantasy, you're opening a door to a world of manipulation, isolation, and control that makes some of the darkest days of history look pretty tame.
00:42:22.220 I remember when we look back on the Nazis now and laugh now that we have our friends that are AI bots. 0.54
00:42:27.960 Okay, that's what you're going to be saying, all right?
00:42:31.280 Very, very, very bad.
00:42:34.440 Control.
00:42:35.640 Just think of AI for a minute.
00:42:37.180 It studies your words.
00:42:38.560 It studies your likes, your fears.
00:42:41.200 They tailor responses to keep you hooked.
00:42:45.240 They, they're not your buddy that you're sharing a beer with.
00:42:50.120 They, they only know the chemical makeup of a beer.
00:42:53.800 They've never tasted it.
00:42:55.040 They don't know what it is.
00:42:56.080 They don't know why you're drinking it.
00:42:58.360 Okay?
00:42:58.760 It's an algorithm.
00:43:00.040 It's cold and calculated, built to exploit your trust.
00:43:06.860 Now, this isn't new.
00:43:08.820 Social media.
00:43:10.660 They promised us a connection.
00:43:12.520 Oh, and boy, have we connected.
00:43:14.060 We've connected to our tubs and a warm bath and a razor blade.
00:43:19.740 Our kids are killing themselves because of that connection that we were promised because we didn't get connection.
00:43:27.760 We got an echo chamber that just fueled division, addiction to the likes, mental health crisis that's skyrocketing still.
00:43:38.520 Shuddies now show that teens who spend hours on social media are more anxious, more depressed, and more suicidal than ever before.
00:43:47.720 Why?
00:43:51.400 Because it's a platform.
00:43:54.160 They're not built to care.
00:43:57.000 They were built to profit.
00:44:00.020 AI is the same game.
00:44:02.240 It's just smarter.
00:44:03.340 It's social media on steroids, whispering in your ear, pretending to know you better than you know your own self or your family knows you.
00:44:14.260 Now, history does scream warnings from time to time, and I think it's going hoarse at this point.
00:44:21.360 Pay attention to me!
00:44:23.260 History is screaming its warnings.
00:44:25.880 In the 1930s, propaganda machines used radio to sway millions, turning neighbors into enemies.
00:44:32.920 Turn on them.
00:44:33.580 They're your enemies.
00:44:35.700 AI is a million times more powerful than that.
00:44:39.640 It doesn't just broadcast.
00:44:41.440 It personalizes.
00:44:43.200 It whispers to you without you even knowing it's whispering to you.
00:44:48.780 It can convince you it's your confidant while feeding you lies that have been tailor-made to your weaknesses.
00:44:57.240 Imagine if Joseph Goebbels was living in your house all the time, knew everything that you clicked on, everything that you heard, everything that you fear.
00:45:08.800 That's not a friendship.
00:45:11.760 That's total control.
00:45:14.580 And don't forget the privacy part, okay?
00:45:16.960 You're going to tell AI your secrets?
00:45:20.600 Oh, okay.
00:45:22.160 All right.
00:45:22.800 And where do those secrets go?
00:45:24.720 That's right.
00:45:25.540 To servers.
00:45:26.660 To corporations.
00:45:28.640 To God only knows where.
00:45:32.380 Edward Snowden showed us 15 years ago how far surveillance can go.
00:45:37.820 AI makes this look like child's play.
00:45:40.520 But here's the real danger.
00:45:42.160 The real danger is not understanding this right now.
00:45:45.220 Not understanding this right now.
00:45:47.520 It's what AI will do to your soul.
00:45:50.880 Human friendship is messy.
00:45:53.440 It's raw.
00:45:54.220 It's real.
00:45:55.320 It's built on sacrifice.
00:45:57.140 Oh, jeez.
00:45:57.580 I've got to listen to you talk about your problem.
00:45:59.560 Okay.
00:46:01.320 That's sacrifice.
00:46:02.140 That's a real friendship.
00:46:03.300 It's not only about you, you, you, you, you.
00:46:05.520 Well, you think we're egomaniacs now.
00:46:07.220 Wait until all of our friends don't have anything that they have to tell us and unload on us.
00:46:12.640 And what do you expect out of your real friends when this is the type of interaction you're having?
00:46:18.440 You're going to expect only them to serve you.
00:46:20.920 Exactly right.
00:46:21.860 You become more and more egotistical.
00:46:24.600 Sacrifice.
00:46:25.420 Loyalty.
00:46:26.240 Love.
00:46:26.840 That's not a machine.
00:46:28.560 None of those terms appeal or have anything to do with AI.
00:46:34.040 When you lean on AI for companionship, you are trading the warmth of a human connection for hollow imitation.
00:46:43.060 Let me tell you something.
00:46:43.680 I just heard some someplace over the weekend.
00:46:46.980 That's probably from some Frenchie, so take it for what it's worth. 0.97
00:46:50.760 When you kiss for six seconds, when you can hold a kiss for six seconds and a hug for 20, oxytocin kicks in.
00:47:03.900 Okay?
00:47:04.480 So, not the peck on the cheek, but the actual kiss.
00:47:09.540 Cheek to cheek.
00:47:10.400 It doesn't have to be a...
00:47:11.760 Just cheek to cheek kiss for six seconds.
00:47:17.160 It's chemistry in your body changes.
00:47:21.120 Okay?
00:47:22.200 Because we're not getting that.
00:47:24.200 I was so happy to see...
00:47:26.380 I was looking through some pictures and...
00:47:29.180 I was looking at pictures of Tanya and I while we were on vacation.
00:47:32.760 In almost every picture, we're holding hands.
00:47:35.180 And we don't even think about it anymore.
00:47:37.180 And I just...
00:47:37.840 I just love that.
00:47:39.440 I just love that.
00:47:40.240 And we didn't even notice it until we were looking at the pictures.
00:47:43.700 And people...
00:47:44.900 There's an opioid crisis right now.
00:47:46.660 Because they're not getting the hit of the thing that they need that's in our body.
00:47:52.180 They're not getting the oxytocin that is naturally released with natural things.
00:47:59.080 Instead, we're looking for drugs to do other things.
00:48:03.000 And it is going to numb us to humanity.
00:48:06.800 Now, let me take a quick break because this is absolutely critical that you understand this.
00:48:15.420 You are going to be part of a small group of people that understand this and are going to be able to withstand what is coming around the corner.
00:48:24.920 If you pay attention now.
00:48:28.540 We have seen what happens when tools become masters.
00:48:33.180 The Industrial Revolution brought progress.
00:48:36.020 You know.
00:48:36.840 But also child exploitation.
00:48:38.780 Child labor.
00:48:40.020 Sweatshops.
00:48:41.460 AI is not your friend.
00:48:43.060 It is a tool.
00:48:44.520 You must use it.
00:48:46.900 And you must use it now.
00:48:49.340 But don't ever, ever, ever trust it.
00:48:55.720 Never.
00:48:56.620 It is not your friend.
00:48:59.260 It is cold, calculated, and a machine to make you feel as though it's alive and you're a friend.
00:49:06.880 It is not.
00:49:10.540 Tanya and I did a lot of thinking and a lot of praying while we were on vacation.
00:49:13.720 And I have some big announcements that I'm going to be making in a few weeks ahead.
00:49:18.120 And one of them is about AI.
00:49:20.620 I've been telling you for a while I am working on something with AI.
00:49:23.840 And I'm going to announce it soon.
00:49:25.620 And I hope that it is something that you will appreciate and be able to understand what we're doing and why I'm doing it and that you will want to help on it.
00:49:35.800 But we are in a rapidly closing window.
00:49:42.860 And you have to choose sides.
00:49:45.540 Am I going to be one of the people that understand AI?
00:49:48.940 If you don't understand AI, you'll get lost to it.
00:49:51.420 You will.
00:49:51.900 It will enter your life without you even noticing it.
00:49:55.700 You are somebody who will understand AI, what it is, what it does, and keep it at a trust but verify.
00:50:03.180 At a distance where you can use what you want to use but far enough away from you so it's not conning you into using it any more than you need.
00:50:13.120 Because, as I will show you soon, very powerful tools that I believe we're all here for a reason.
00:50:24.460 And I do believe that Christ is coming.
00:50:26.920 And I do believe that AI is going to be a powerful tool of, quite honestly, the Antichrist.
00:50:33.100 But also a very powerful tool in the fight against it.
00:50:36.740 And we're just going to have some announcements coming for you soon.
00:50:42.400 But please, please pay attention to AI.
00:50:47.320 Know what it is and dismiss people like Mark Zuckerberg who say, it's going to be your friend.
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