Glenn Beck and Mike Rowe talk about the Russian raid on the White House and the impact it could have on the country. Plus, a story about how much steak is too much for a steak, and why we should all eat bugs.
00:00:59.940As the president talked about in his speech, we are aware that, again, when America stands for the principles and all of the things that we hold dear,
00:01:09.960it requires sometimes for us to put ourselves out there in a way that maybe we will incur some cost.
00:01:18.740And in this situation, that may relate to energy costs, for example.
00:04:46.140So there is a trans transition period that may be brutal to some.
00:04:52.300That's why we have to harness the economic productivity productivity through nature based solutions.
00:04:59.940This is a quote from a new book out by Charles, not Charles Schwab, Klaus Schwab.
00:05:06.660Klaus Schwab is the leader of the Great Reset.
00:05:10.040So he just put this out and he said, you know, we're going to have to have nature based solutions because things are going to be too expensive.
00:05:18.120That's why we'll have alternative food protein sources like beans and bugs.
00:06:31.440And I'd just like to, again, remind you what Canada made permanent yesterday.
00:06:39.520The government's new directive called Emergency Economic Measures Order.
00:06:43.300The order says that the banks and other financial entities like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts, cryptocurrency platforms, and insurance companies must stop providing any financial or related services to anyone associated with the protest up in Canada.
00:08:35.840The Bureau took funds from every corner of their world, including Amy's savings that she racked up after decades of practicing as an attorney.
00:08:47.000And agents showed up at their home, informed them that they were under investigation for allegedly depriving Amazon of their honest services.
00:09:02.540In plainer terms, they accused Carl, the husband, of showing favor to certain developers and securing them deals in exchange for illegal kickbacks.
00:10:14.140If you step out of line, it will, I mean, Mike Lee and Rand Paul are trying to bring up their bill that they tried to get passed under Trump.
00:10:24.880Limit the emergency powers, limit the emergency powers.
00:10:29.960Well, they couldn't get it under Trump.
00:12:46.320The Fed in Boston is in charge of the new digital currency, and it's called the Hamilton Project, the guy who wanted the first central bank, the first bank of the United States.
00:24:56.540By the way, I look for the dark things in American history because I think it is really important to know all the bad things in American history.
00:25:13.980If we don't know the bad, we'll be surprised.
00:25:17.960David Barton collects all the good things in American history.
00:25:21.820I have looked for the bad things about George Washington.
00:27:02.340I wonder sometimes, you know, I mean, it's so easy.
00:27:05.120Just to stare at the headlines and look at what's going on right in front of you and conclude or assume that we're truly in unprecedented times.
00:27:13.320And then, you know, you're a student of history.
00:27:15.400You look back and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to think, well, you know, the Civil War was a heck of a thing.
00:29:21.160You know, it's in so many ways we've been asked, I think, to simply ignore what we're looking at and and pretend that a new language has come along with lots of words that we used to understand but no longer do.
00:29:59.140Now, I don't know exactly what splat means, but I do know, I think, was it Churchill who said, you know, when you're, when you're marching through hell, always remember to keep going, right?
00:30:31.740I hate, I hesitate to even use it, but I had a moment last week.
00:30:35.560I was in San Francisco of all places, meeting a friend in a diner and I walked in and there was nobody at the hostess stand and I didn't have my mask on.
00:30:43.540And I just walked, I could see him sitting right there, 10 feet away in a booth.
00:30:47.020And a woman ran to the front screaming, sir, sir, sir, I need to see your vaccination card.
00:30:53.440And I had it and I, and I showed it to her and I started walking over to my friend and, and she said, and sir, you need to put a mask on.
00:31:01.260And I, I looked at her and she looked at me and she had her mask on and I, I had one in my pocket, but Glenn, I, for the first time during all of this, I smiled and I looked at her and I said, I'm sorry, but I, I can't do that.
00:31:14.120I can't put a mask on to walk five feet, to sit down and have lunch with my friend without a mask on.
00:31:20.880And the good part of the story is that there was a, there was a pause and she looked at me and she said, I understand.
00:31:52.940Well, I think it just means that in that tiny little moment where the people who have to enforce the rules come face to face with the undeniable truth that the rules they've been forced to enforce are not rooted or are no longer rooted in anything that is logical.
00:32:09.400And at some point, good cops aren't going to arrest protesters at some point, at some point, look at how many cops in, in Canada just became cops.
00:33:07.980Um, yes, that was one of the very first conversations you and I had when you invited me here years ago, which by the way, it wouldn't be the same if I didn't thank you for doing that because it did jumpstart my foundation.
00:33:18.900We're going to give away another million dollars next month.
00:33:21.680And we're doing it precisely to answer the question you just posed, which is if we focus only on unemployment, you take your eye off the opportunities that exist.
00:33:33.940And the opportunities that exist right now are 11 point what million, right?
00:33:41.020There are so many open positions right now.
00:33:44.380And Glenn, not a week goes by where my foundation doesn't get a call from some large company or more often than not some association who is desperate, desperate to get out of their own way to hire more people.
00:33:59.100And they just don't quite know how the I mean.
00:34:05.120And if you think about it, it's not a great mystery.
00:34:07.440Companies are often their own worst enemy when it comes to making a persuasive case for why you should work there, because it all looks like advertising and all looks like marketing.
00:34:15.800And kids today, they've got such a bullcrap meter.
00:34:18.860They know when they're being marketed to.
00:34:20.420So what we've been doing for the last 14 years and more pointedly for the last five or six is award these work ethic scholarships and try and make a more persuasive case for the opportunities that do exist by confronting the stigmas and the stereotypes and the myths and the misperceptions that keep millions of people from even looking at a career in the trades where there is so much prosperity going on right now.
00:34:48.860Well, your head will spin that that is I mean, I'm not sending my kids to college.
00:34:53.240I won't they can they can go unless you want to go to Hillsdale.
00:34:57.620You're not going I'm not paying for it because it's just an indoctrination program.
00:35:01.680And there's they there are trade colleges and trades that you can apprentice in even sure that are really good.
00:35:12.780You can make a lot of money and have a a pretty nice life.
00:35:16.680And those skills are going away, going away.
00:35:22.020Every five tradesmen that retire today are replaced by two.
00:35:27.840Now that I think it was Lincoln who he was talking about something else altogether, but he referred to a terrible arithmetic, a terrible arithmetic.
00:35:37.080He was talking about the death, of course, in the in the Civil War.
00:35:40.980This is just bad math in terms of anybody can look at this and say you take five and put two back, do it every year for the next 10 years.
00:35:53.260We're our trade force right now is so far north of 50 years of age and nobody is making a compelling case for tens of thousands of open positions.
00:36:03.440And the mistake, Glenn, is people think constantly this is a problem between employers and people who either are untrained or unwilling to work.
00:36:23.160Our our real infrastructure is hanging in the balance.
00:36:27.000One of the jobs, you know, I'm not sure if you're familiar with all of the numbers that are coming about AI, but a lot of jobs are going to be just destroyed.
00:36:35.540One of the jobs that won't be destroyed.
00:37:29.800He doesn't, he, all he can do is preach to the choir and commiserate with other plumbers and they shake their heads and they say, yeah, we can't, we can't find anybody.
00:37:38.060Meanwhile, the question we ought to be asking the rest, you know, the fat part of the bat, the 300 million people in the country ought to be saying, well, how long do we want to wait for a plumber to come?
00:38:06.060And the, the best way to address it, in my view, I love to talk about it and I'm, I'll find a bully pulpit and I'll, I'll pound my shoe on the table forever.
00:38:15.560But we have to hear from the people who have prospered directly from mastering a skill that's in demand and gone to work.
00:38:22.260And until we do, our kids are just not going to buy it.
00:38:25.740So, so Mike, the, um, can we continue the conversation about jobs that are going to last, uh, through AI?
00:39:48.140Uh, and we don't seem to have that work ethic anymore.
00:39:52.440It's, it feels like it's being beaten out of us.
00:39:55.160Well, we've, we've rung it out of ourselves.
00:39:57.360We've look, it's very, very tempting to, if, if, if, if the guys at car shield can come out and take care of a problem that your dad would have taken care of himself once upon a time, right?
00:40:12.240It's the very existence of companies like that, uh, that I think is telling because more and more of us are, are increasingly disconnected from the business of work.
00:40:31.380You've, I mean, I, we've placed a lot of, uh, mechanics through our foundation and I'm telling you these guys, they're, they're, it's, it, it's not quite rocket science, but when you open the hood and look down at that thing, it's pretty close.