The Glenn Beck Program - February 23, 2024


Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Jason Zachary ｜ 2⧸23⧸24


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Glenn Beck asks if there is a God and why it s so hard for people to believe in one. Glenn also talks about the latest in the Fonny Willis scandal and why he thinks there s no such thing as a God.

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00:00:30.000 You know, sometimes it feels like there is no God, Stu.
00:00:34.240 You know what I mean?
00:00:34.960 Wow.
00:00:35.460 That's quite the statement.
00:00:36.920 I know.
00:00:37.180 Have you ever felt that way?
00:00:38.240 I don't think.
00:00:38.900 I mean, you're just saying that things are so dark.
00:00:41.540 Things are so dark and things go wrong and you're like, why?
00:00:44.520 If there is a God, why is this happening?
00:00:46.720 You know, good people.
00:00:47.600 Why do bad things happen to good people?
00:00:49.420 Sure.
00:00:49.740 Everyone's had thoughts, I guess, like that.
00:00:51.400 So, I mean, let me just posit this here, okay?
00:00:55.140 If there is a God, why would the Fonny Willis information about her scandal and what we now
00:01:06.620 have in phone records, why would that break five minutes before we were off this podcast?
00:01:13.280 It's a great point.
00:01:15.240 Luckily, we'll have time to talk about it on your TV show at blazedv.com slash glen today
00:01:19.920 because that is, this is a remarkable story.
00:01:24.920 We're going to have all weekend to stew on this and get more information.
00:01:28.140 Wait until Monday's podcast.
00:01:30.600 Today's podcast was really, really important, really good.
00:01:35.020 There's stuff about radio that I know you think this may not matter to you, but it does.
00:01:42.300 There were several things, and Tennessee is another story that we talked about today.
00:01:47.800 There's a bill going on in Tennessee that is going to stop ESG, second most important.
00:01:54.020 It's voted on in committee, the banking committee, next week.
00:01:57.420 There's zero coverage of this in Tennessee, like no coverage of it.
00:02:02.640 So, there's no support from the populace, but you need to know about that.
00:02:07.980 Also, central bank, digital currency, this crazy thing from MSNBC.
00:02:13.760 Oh, this is a good show.
00:02:16.000 There's a lot of really good stuff on this one today.
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00:03:40.320 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:03:57.860 I'm going to give you a mile marker.
00:03:59.560 I feel like part of my job is to inform you what direction are we going in
00:04:11.280 and how fast are we going.
00:04:13.380 Let me give you a couple of stories here that are gravely, gravely concerning.
00:04:17.180 I told you last week the Soros Fund Management, run by billionaire George Soros
00:04:28.000 and his son, have now taken control or are on the verge of taking control of Odyssey.
00:04:36.280 Odyssey is the second largest radio broadcaster in America.
00:04:40.600 Only iHeartRadio owns more and thank God at this point iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio has the premier radio networks.
00:04:53.460 I've worked for this company in one way or another since 1989.
00:04:58.220 They are my partner with this broadcast and they have been always very, very supportive.
00:05:03.960 If it wasn't for my partners, Julie Talbot and Dan Meador and all of the people at iHeartMedia,
00:05:13.780 this show wouldn't be heard anywhere.
00:05:19.340 So iHeart is the only one right now not under attack and I'll tell you about this.
00:05:26.300 First, Odyssey.
00:05:28.480 Odyssey amassed $1.9 billion in debt.
00:05:33.360 They filed for bankruptcy and now Soros is taking on the fund and they will be the largest shareholder once the bankruptcy proceedings conclude.
00:05:47.760 Where are we?
00:05:51.860 They're dismantling radio and buying radio up.
00:05:57.520 Now, Soros has already bought, what, last year, I think 50 radio stations that were all Spanish-speaking.
00:06:06.320 Gee, isn't that interesting?
00:06:08.920 Now he's buying up the second largest broadcaster in America.
00:06:15.320 Odyssey owns 220 stations, News Talk in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, all of some of the biggest News Talk stations in the country.
00:06:30.320 They own the radio stations, including KDWNAM in Las Vegas, PHT, Philadelphia, KDKA in Pittsburgh.
00:06:43.700 They have Dana Lash on many of their stations. 0.51
00:06:47.660 They have Sean Hannity.
00:06:49.060 They have Mark Levin.
00:06:50.260 And George Soros has spent more than $21 billion over the last few decades.
00:06:58.260 He spent $1.3 billion in 2022 alone.
00:07:02.520 Most of that cash went to left-wing causes, including Media Matters, Planned Parenthood, the Sunrise Movement.
00:07:09.820 He's the guy who has put in the radical DAs and the radical attorney generals.
00:07:15.980 And now, what?
00:07:18.980 He's buying up talk radio.
00:07:22.580 Why would you do that?
00:07:24.800 Why would you buy all of these broadcasts?
00:07:27.660 It seems like it's a failing industry, right?
00:07:30.700 It's not.
00:07:32.480 It's not.
00:07:34.540 About 80% of the people still listen to radio.
00:07:40.000 80%.
00:07:40.920 That's incredible.
00:07:42.960 You think nobody listens to the radio.
00:07:45.240 80% still listen to the radio.
00:07:48.700 Okay.
00:07:49.680 So that is the second largest broadcaster, now going to George Soros.
00:07:55.360 Then we have this.
00:07:58.180 Cumulus.
00:07:59.360 Cumulus used to be the ABC radio network.
00:08:03.380 It used to be the largest.
00:08:05.120 Now I think it is the third largest.
00:08:07.560 First, Cumulus is facing a takeover from an investor based in Singapore.
00:08:15.200 Part of the process of their bankruptcy, it has asked for and received from the FCC permission
00:08:23.980 to become as much as 100% foreign owned.
00:08:29.580 So the third largest broadcaster is about to go to a Singapore holdings company.
00:08:36.540 How does this bid for America?
00:08:42.540 You have George Soros and a Singapore company.
00:08:46.920 And then iHeart all alone.
00:08:49.960 But don't worry.
00:08:51.780 News for radio gets even better.
00:08:53.720 Yesterday, Brendan Carr, he's an FCC commissioner, he came out and said the FCC has just ordered
00:09:02.020 every broadcaster to start posting a race and gender scorecard that breaks down the demographics
00:09:09.540 of their workforce.
00:09:10.840 Activists lobbied for this because they want to see businesses pressured into hiring people
00:09:16.460 based on their race and gender.
00:09:19.140 Courts have already overturned the FCC twice for pressuring broadcasters into making hiring
00:09:24.320 decisions in violation of the Constitution.
00:09:28.600 I dissent.
00:09:29.720 This is a shot across our bow now.
00:09:34.360 If the Supreme Court doesn't stop them again, we will now, if I want to be on radio, have
00:09:43.080 to disclose, by the way, I don't have a problem doing this.
00:09:47.300 I'm almost 2% Native American.
00:09:50.320 So I'm a minority inside of a minority.
00:09:58.080 Anyway...
00:09:59.720 We have to start hiring based on gender and everything else. 1.00
00:10:05.220 I don't care what, you know, male, female. 0.92
00:10:08.580 I don't care who you sleep with. 1.00
00:10:11.080 I don't care what color you are. 0.96
00:10:13.020 Really don't.
00:10:14.280 I want to know what's inside of your head.
00:10:17.020 I want to know how you think.
00:10:21.140 Can you bring something different that I don't bring to the table?
00:10:26.260 That's how I hire.
00:10:27.200 Can you fit what your different thinking is into what I'm trying to accomplish?
00:10:35.300 If you can, great.
00:10:38.340 We're going to work together forever.
00:10:40.800 Most of the people that I work with, and I apologize for this, spend their life working
00:10:47.480 with me.
00:10:48.340 Because we have...
00:10:50.340 It certainly feels that way.
00:10:51.760 Because we have a good working relationship.
00:10:53.840 We all respect each other.
00:10:55.900 Again, except for Stu.
00:10:57.560 This is really...
00:11:01.220 And let me give you another one.
00:11:03.060 This is not about radio.
00:11:05.080 Vice Media stops publishing on vice.com, slashes hundreds of jobs amid mainstream media death
00:11:12.360 spiral.
00:11:12.900 So, all of these mainstream media companies, they're all...
00:11:18.140 Did you hear about CBS and Catherine Heritage?
00:11:25.000 How do you say her name?
00:11:26.500 Heritage? 0.76
00:11:27.100 Heritage? 0.76
00:11:27.700 Heritage, right?
00:11:29.180 I can't remember.
00:11:30.140 Anyway, worked with her at Fox.
00:11:32.080 We were obviously very close.
00:11:33.800 But she's very, very credible.
00:11:39.940 She's worked...
00:11:40.900 I don't agree with her all the time, but she's an actual journalist.
00:11:45.540 And CBS News, they just threw her out. 1.00
00:11:49.160 She's gone.
00:11:50.180 Now, they're saying that's because, you know, we've laid lots of people off recently.
00:11:55.740 Because we're collapsing.
00:11:57.880 That's their argument for themselves.
00:12:00.740 Yeah.
00:12:01.140 We're collapsing.
00:12:02.680 Okay.
00:12:03.140 Okay.
00:12:03.800 Well, maybe.
00:12:05.000 Or maybe a real journalist just isn't welcome there anymore.
00:12:09.700 I don't know.
00:12:12.280 But everything, all of the media, what I said to Stu, and when we were at the height of Fox,
00:12:17.600 I said, we got to get out of here.
00:12:19.620 And everybody's like, what?
00:12:21.760 Everybody works their whole life to get here.
00:12:23.680 And I'm like, we got to get out of here.
00:12:26.000 So, this whole thing is going to burn itself down.
00:12:28.160 It's all going to collapse.
00:12:29.920 And here we are.
00:12:30.880 It's collapsing.
00:12:31.600 But as I said at the time as well, if you're here while it collapses and you survive, you'll then be working for the government.
00:12:40.880 Because all of these people will get bail.
00:12:44.880 They'll get bailed out by the federal government.
00:12:46.960 We can't.
00:12:47.420 These institutions are far too important.
00:12:49.780 It goes back to your Cloward and Piven stuff from yesterday.
00:12:52.100 That is worth watching.
00:12:53.400 If you go to your Blaze TV account, you can watch it on demand.
00:12:56.720 But it's one of those situations where, like, you know, Vice is a great example of this.
00:13:02.760 I mean, Vice, how many articles did Vice write about how your career and life was collapsing?
00:13:08.420 Oh, my gosh.
00:13:09.040 Over and over again.
00:13:09.800 I can't even think.
00:13:10.420 Over and over again.
00:13:10.940 Over and over again.
00:13:11.840 And all these companies that have been writing for years about how conservative media personalities were going to flame out
00:13:17.540 and, you know, their businesses were going to collapse are now all gone.
00:13:21.860 They're just, you know, they've all either dissolved or fired all their people and AI is writing their articles.
00:13:27.460 I mean, it is, sure, satisfying for me, but it is embarrassing for them, I would assume.
00:13:37.600 I mean, it's a, I don't know.
00:13:39.900 Maybe they're all just, they've all moved on and they're all just taking money from the government and living at home now,
00:13:46.000 but, or working from home now, but I don't know.
00:13:48.580 It doesn't seem like they are able to keep any of these things afloat, despite, I mean,
00:13:52.340 how much money did Vice get billions and billions of dollars of just free investment cash dumped into that place? 0.97
00:14:03.800 Imagine if we had, if we would have had a hundred, a hundred million, just, just a hundred million compared to the billions that they had.
00:14:14.500 Just a hundred million in, 50 million in investment.
00:14:19.100 Can you imagine what we could have done with it?
00:14:21.760 Because we wouldn't have wasted it.
00:14:23.720 Right.
00:14:23.940 They just wasted it.
00:14:25.480 Gone.
00:14:26.100 I mean, and this is also while they're producing shows for HBO.
00:14:30.600 I mean, they were handed a media empire with, let's be honest, no valid reason to be handed a media empire.
00:14:40.460 I mean, like Vice did some interesting stuff early on.
00:14:43.540 They did, they were kind of different.
00:14:45.060 And then they just turn into the typical left-wing news source.
00:14:50.940 And we were supposed to sit here and be like, oh, wow, this is amazing.
00:14:54.900 It's innovative.
00:14:55.620 Look at this.
00:14:56.040 Let's just throw money at these people. 0.99
00:14:58.080 And what do they do?
00:14:59.160 The place is gone.
00:15:00.580 Basically.
00:15:00.980 We sat there for, I don't know how many meetings I sat with, with big, big, big companies that were trying to figure out how we were doing it.
00:15:09.800 And at the time we were doing it more right than anybody else.
00:15:13.760 We were still wrong.
00:15:14.920 And we had no margin of error because it was all on me.
00:15:20.380 And they were trying to figure out, you know, what do we do?
00:15:24.360 What do we do?
00:15:24.940 And I remember sitting in meetings going, your numbers don't make sense.
00:15:29.380 I mean, I'm sorry, guys.
00:15:30.240 I'm, you know, I'm not an accountant.
00:15:31.580 I'm really not a good businessman.
00:15:33.540 But I can look at this and you're selling what for what?
00:15:37.440 And how do you even know that's true?
00:15:40.000 And it was all hype.
00:15:41.480 It was all hype.
00:15:42.860 Now all that hype is over and it's all falling apart.
00:15:46.920 The mainstream media is falling apart.
00:15:49.100 And look what's happening.
00:15:50.760 You know, I just said recently, it's been quiet on the Western front.
00:15:56.300 It's been all quiet for quite some time in talk radio.
00:16:00.240 Haven't really had any attacks on talk radio.
00:16:02.880 Been squished with digital.
00:16:05.600 But on talk radio, haven't had a single problem.
00:16:09.820 That's new.
00:16:10.780 What was that all about?
00:16:12.860 They forget about us?
00:16:14.840 No.
00:16:16.240 No.
00:16:17.680 They're just going to take it.
00:16:19.500 They're just going to take it in public-private partnerships.
00:16:23.220 And the left, because our billionaires do nothing.
00:16:27.880 Honest to God, our billionaires who believe in America, the only one that I know that is
00:16:33.400 actually putting his money where his mouth is, is Donald Trump.
00:16:37.480 I mean, there's a handful.
00:16:39.340 Yeah, I don't agree with that.
00:16:40.620 There's some of these guys that are very active.
00:16:42.380 There's a handful.
00:16:43.200 Very active.
00:16:43.680 Not always publicly.
00:16:44.860 Yes.
00:16:45.560 But George Soros.
00:16:47.660 I mean, if you're going to stand up, stand up.
00:16:50.560 Stand up.
00:16:51.360 You want to stay in the shadows, that's fine.
00:16:53.960 And I thank you for it.
00:16:55.200 But get your friends to stand up.
00:16:58.560 Why isn't we know the power of talk radio?
00:17:01.860 We know the power of radio.
00:17:03.740 Where are our billionaires?
00:17:05.780 Why aren't they stepping to the plate?
00:17:09.320 Why?
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00:19:16.380 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:19:20.660 We've been telling you about ESG for a while now.
00:19:23.680 There are 15 states that have now passed laws targeting ESG in one form or another.
00:19:30.200 The number is still going up.
00:19:32.740 In Florida, Ron DeSantis and Bob Romilly, state rep, put together the toughest anti-ESG bill in America,
00:19:41.240 and it was passed in 2023.
00:19:43.560 Among other things, it bans banks from using ESG social credit scores to discriminate against its customers.
00:19:50.600 And that's one of the biggest tools used by the Great Reset elites to fundamentally transform us.
00:19:57.560 They can use social scores.
00:20:00.980 What is your green energy usage?
00:20:04.000 What does your carbon footprint look like?
00:20:08.100 Are you in the school board fighting for or against things like critical race theory and DEI?
00:20:17.860 Does your company have DEI in place?
00:20:21.480 What is that like?
00:20:22.620 If it doesn't hit certain places, then they don't give you a loan.
00:20:27.080 That's done now in Florida.
00:20:29.060 There is another one that's coming out that may be the best one out, and it's coming from Tennessee,
00:20:38.060 and it's from Representative Jason Zachary.
00:20:41.540 He's just put together an ESG bill that has the potential to be the strongest or the second strongest law in the country.
00:20:50.100 It's a really good law, and it goes up in committee on Tuesday.
00:20:54.420 And I wanted you to know about it.
00:20:57.600 Representative Jason Zachary is with us now.
00:21:00.740 Hey, Jason, how are you?
00:21:02.780 Hey, I'm Greg, Glenn.
00:21:03.840 How are you?
00:21:04.740 Good.
00:21:05.120 So tell me about the bill and the battle for passing this thing.
00:21:12.620 Sure.
00:21:13.160 Yeah, well, to start out last year, we passed.
00:21:16.300 We took the first ESG step with the treasurer of our state.
00:21:19.600 Thankfully, we have one of the best treasurers in the country, very conservative.
00:21:22.800 He and I began to discuss ESG and the problems that we were seeing with BlackRock in the state of Tennessee.
00:21:29.680 We divested ourselves from all the BlackRock investments.
00:21:32.580 He and I were having this conversation.
00:21:34.160 He said, I'm never going to allow these standards to be utilized,
00:21:37.240 but we have to take legislative steps to ensure those behind me don't take those steps.
00:21:41.440 So last year, I was able to pass a bill with our Senate Majority Leader, Jack Johnson,
00:21:45.580 to prohibit ESG standards from being used on the governmental state level.
00:21:50.220 And so, obviously, the next step, as you've talked about, was the fair access bill, which Florida has.
00:21:55.700 I talked to the DeSantis team.
00:21:57.260 They've been very helpful.
00:21:58.560 But, man, really, Glenn, the team at Wall Builders, Audria, Betty, Justin Haskins,
00:22:04.560 they have been invaluable in providing.
00:22:07.480 I literally have pages of resources here to be able to combat the pushback from the Tennessee Bankers Association,
00:22:14.440 which is obviously pushing back on the bill.
00:22:16.280 But to your point, I feel like we have the home run.
00:22:19.360 We've included all the best parts.
00:22:20.820 It requires notification.
00:22:22.680 It protects religious liberty of institutions, political views, whether you want a firearm.
00:22:28.040 I mean, we hit just about every aspect.
00:22:30.160 And then we actually, versus just saying ESG, we actually list out the individual tenets of ESG
00:22:36.460 to ensure that the big banks cannot debank Tennesseans.
00:22:40.480 Oh, that is fantastic.
00:22:41.760 So what is the what's the pushback been like?
00:22:45.800 Sure.
00:22:46.360 So we started out at the team at Alliance for Defending Freedom.
00:22:49.540 They've been working hand in hand with Wall Builders.
00:22:51.840 And so they came to us and said, listen, the Tennessee charter banks are not your problem.
00:22:57.140 You're three, four billion dollar banks.
00:22:59.220 I mean, they're they're serving Tennesseans.
00:23:00.900 They're doing a great job.
00:23:02.100 It's Bank of America.
00:23:03.300 It's J.P. Morgan Chase.
00:23:05.120 It's Wells Fargo.
00:23:06.040 It's the big guys.
00:23:06.760 So they suggested putting an amendment on that would that would there was one hundred
00:23:11.460 billion dollars that only hit the twenty eight largest banks in the country because
00:23:15.380 that's the problem.
00:23:16.860 And so kind of thinking that that would back the Bankers Association off while the Bankers
00:23:20.620 Association represents the large banks as well.
00:23:23.540 And so they were in my office like last week pushing back saying they were uncomfortable
00:23:27.320 with the bill.
00:23:28.200 And Glenn, I just looked at him and said, listen, if you're uncomfortable with what's in
00:23:31.920 this, then that's the problem.
00:23:33.020 And that's why we have to run it.
00:23:34.200 But if you guys aren't doing these things, then you won't have a problem because they
00:23:37.820 like to say in a conservative in a conservative state like Tennessee, they immediately say,
00:23:41.980 well, guys, we're opposed to ESG.
00:23:43.920 And then here comes the but.
00:23:45.340 And then you've got these 15 different things they list out.
00:23:48.100 And so I've already worked the committee.
00:23:51.080 We have it's all we're supermajority in Tennessee, 75 Republicans in the House out of
00:23:56.500 99.
00:23:57.260 I've worked the committee.
00:23:58.720 The Republicans are with us.
00:23:59.940 We've only got one Democrat on the committee committee.
00:24:01.860 So I feel really confident wall builders and ADF have pulled some resources together.
00:24:06.840 A former Senator Brown back from Kansas is going to come in and testify ADF.
00:24:11.640 Some of the guys at wall builders are going to be there.
00:24:13.780 We've got an awesome team coming in because we've got this up in committee on Tuesday.
00:24:18.280 So it goes through committee.
00:24:19.940 If it makes it through and it sounds like it will, then what's the next step?
00:24:23.380 When will this actually be in front of the the the legislature to vote?
00:24:28.900 Yeah, good question.
00:24:29.680 And it's important for you, unlike Washington, that's the focus.
00:24:33.580 They don't read bills.
00:24:34.480 They don't go through committee and leadership makes decisions.
00:24:36.940 And most states like Tennessee, every bill is heard.
00:24:40.260 So it starts out in subcommittee.
00:24:41.680 It'll be in the banking subcommittee.
00:24:43.280 After it passes there, it would go to the full commerce committee, which is a much larger
00:24:47.240 committee.
00:24:47.960 Then it goes to the House floor.
00:24:49.880 And Glenn, you talk about this all the time.
00:24:51.640 But it's important for your listeners, especially your Tennesseans, to know they need to call
00:24:56.400 the members of the banking committee.
00:24:58.360 You don't need to worry about the full house right now because we've got a couple of weeks
00:25:01.540 till we get there.
00:25:02.200 But this next week, you call the banking committee and email them and say, hey, guys, we need
00:25:07.080 this.
00:25:07.360 This is something we need to pass to protect us.
00:25:09.400 And then the following week, you need to call the Commerce Committee, Tennesseans do.
00:25:13.640 And then three weeks from now, that's when you start emailing the whole house.
00:25:17.040 So it's very different than Congress.
00:25:18.520 And most people don't understand that.
00:25:20.440 And so you focus on one committee at a time because that's the most important.
00:25:24.140 We'll pass it in the House.
00:25:25.420 And Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, he's been right with me on this.
00:25:29.160 He'll then move it on the Senate side.
00:25:31.000 And then hopefully in probably four weeks or so, we could have this before the governor
00:25:35.160 to sign for a signature.
00:25:36.060 Are you getting any coverage in the state on this?
00:25:41.800 Man, Glenn, no.
00:25:42.900 I mean, really, man, you are truly, and I'm not just saying it because I'm on with you.
00:25:47.000 I literally, no lie, I was driving to the Capitol the morning you were talking about
00:25:52.160 the UCC bill and Christy Noem's veto.
00:25:55.360 And that bill happened to be in my committee the next day.
00:25:59.260 I went to the sponsor.
00:26:00.740 Man, we got that bill stopped because of what, and I'm serious, because of the
00:26:06.060 the information you brought forward.
00:26:07.780 I told Sarah, who was emailing me yesterday, man, I've read The Great Reset twice, your
00:26:13.320 discussions on ESG, the resources that you mentioned with Justin and the wall builders.
00:26:18.800 I just started reaching out and engaging them, Audrea at wall builders.
00:26:22.120 The resources that you've provided have been phenomenal.
00:26:25.900 But man, in conservative media, nobody else is talking about these things.
00:26:30.340 Like central bank digital currency shifting a little bit.
00:26:32.460 With the help of wall builders, I put an amendment on that UCC bill.
00:26:36.740 So if it were to pass, which I don't think it will, we've already gotten it rolled to
00:26:40.140 the last calendar.
00:26:40.980 If it were to pass, I've got that on there to change the definition of a deposit account.
00:26:45.620 And again, you're the only person talking about it.
00:26:48.260 Statewide, zero coverage.
00:26:50.260 Nobody's talking about it.
00:26:51.300 Jeez.
00:26:51.380 So if you're not getting any coverage, you don't have any backing.
00:26:58.920 If you are listening right now, you have got to get engaged.
00:27:05.420 This is the Tennessee ESG bill.
00:27:08.540 It is potentially one of the strongest, top two strongest laws in the country on ESG.
00:27:15.520 And each individual state has to protect itself from this.
00:27:22.520 And I know that they're repackaging right now.
00:27:24.700 Don't think that they're not giving up on this.
00:27:27.380 They're just renaming and repackaging it.
00:27:30.340 They will never give up on this.
00:27:32.420 This is the way they control everybody's life.
00:27:35.800 This and CBDC, a central bank digital currency.
00:27:40.360 When is that bill coming up?
00:27:42.580 So the UCC bill, we got that rolled to the last calendar.
00:27:47.720 And as most people know, we're part-time legislators.
00:27:50.700 We go from January to April.
00:27:51.900 So we got it pushed to the last calendar, hoping the sponsor will take it off.
00:27:56.160 I mean, it's a cold breeze blowing in that committee right now just because there's so
00:27:59.480 much uncertainty around it.
00:28:00.700 But I have a standalone bill to change the definition of deposit accounts to make it very
00:28:07.260 difficult to implement a central bank digital currency.
00:28:09.460 Because what happens, the federal government can roll it out.
00:28:12.840 People can use it.
00:28:14.160 There's only so much the states can do.
00:28:16.340 But like Florida's done in Alabama, North Dakota, we as Tennessee need to take that step
00:28:20.520 to ensure that it's not, that banks can't use it as collateral within their deposit accounts.
00:28:25.940 So then they push back on the federal government and say, listen, you can't implement this because
00:28:30.260 our 90 to 10 ratios, we can't maintain those if we can't count central bank digital currency
00:28:35.160 as a collateral.
00:28:35.900 And so, I mean, man, again, these are all factors.
00:28:39.380 And it's some of those, all these things we're talking about are so critically important,
00:28:43.740 but most people just know it from a surface level and don't think much can be done.
00:28:48.640 But Glenn, I'm five terms in serving in the House.
00:28:51.620 It's been the honor of my life to serve.
00:28:53.800 And under Governor Haslam, who was our previous governor, Republican, he used to say that the
00:28:58.500 federal government had become an unreliable partner.
00:29:00.780 Well, over the last five years under Governor Lee, who's our current governor, man, they've
00:29:05.600 become an adversarial partner.
00:29:06.980 I mean, literally, Joe Biden has called Governor Lee twice asking to dump illegals in our state.
00:29:11.600 He says, no, they do it anyway.
00:29:13.940 Everything that we do, the federal government is pushing back on us.
00:29:18.160 And so we were the first, we were the first state in the nation.
00:29:21.160 We passed a block grant for Medicaid.
00:29:23.360 We got it in right before Trump left office.
00:29:25.760 He signed off on it, and we have been able to save about $350 million a year with our
00:29:31.320 Medicaid program because we get to keep those shared savings.
00:29:34.500 But we're the only state that was able to do that because we got it under the gun.
00:29:37.900 And so, man, our conversation among our supermajority GOP has been we have to do everything we can
00:29:43.640 to firewall our state from these adversarial policies of the federal government.
00:29:48.060 You have to.
00:29:48.920 Wow.
00:29:49.440 It is a it's an honor and privilege to talk to you, Jason.
00:29:52.820 Thank you for everything that you guys are doing.
00:29:56.900 Thank you, Glenn.
00:29:57.620 Man, truly, you have no idea what a valuable resource you are to citizen legislators like
00:30:04.020 me.
00:30:04.240 Man, I don't have a staff.
00:30:05.240 I don't have people that can research.
00:30:07.200 And I literally listen to you on a daily basis.
00:30:10.720 And you inform and talk about things most people don't.
00:30:14.440 And it helps.
00:30:15.060 I mean, we as legislators, we talk about things you talk about on your show.
00:30:18.320 And what you talk about is impacting seven million Tennesseans.
00:30:22.580 And all I can speak for is Tennessee.
00:30:24.100 But, man, please keep bringing these issues to the forefront.
00:30:27.280 Sometimes people think they're so mundane.
00:30:29.580 But, man, this impacts the people I represent, every Tennessean, but people across the nation.
00:30:34.560 And we as red states, we've got to be bold in the steps we're taking.
00:30:38.880 And for most of us, like this ESG bill, man, this is common sense.
00:30:41.880 But these are the bold steps that we have to take to ensure that we preserve our way of
00:30:47.400 life.
00:30:47.720 Who knows what's going to happen in 2024?
00:30:49.520 You know, when you're done with all of this, I would like to talk to you because, for instance,
00:30:54.020 the Daily Wire is in your state now.
00:30:57.660 And they are coming after all digital and now all radio.
00:31:02.140 What the FCC did yesterday, the sale to Soros of the second largest media company in America,
00:31:10.980 radio broadcast company, and the third largest is being sold to a company 100% in the Philippines.
00:31:20.580 So it won't be American-owned anymore.
00:31:24.860 We're in trouble on radio.
00:31:27.140 We, I believe, are in trouble.
00:31:28.840 And I haven't felt that for a long time.
00:31:30.820 They're coming.
00:31:32.700 They are coming on digital and on radio.
00:31:34.940 And I'd love to talk to you about anything you can do.
00:31:37.460 The states have got to protect their local broadcasters.
00:31:41.660 Have to.
00:31:42.700 And Glenn, I keep saying your team, the team at Wall Builders with David Barton and his
00:31:48.480 group, if there are any legislators across the country listening and they have not reached
00:31:53.160 out or talked to that team, call Andrea Decker over at Wall Builders. 1.00
00:31:58.440 They are fantastic.
00:31:59.880 I literally, I'm sitting in front, I'm sitting here now in my car with pages of documentation
00:32:05.220 of white papers that they've provided that allow me to make a case for ESG, but other
00:32:10.780 things that they've provided.
00:32:12.000 So if there are any legislators out there listening, they need to reach out to Wall Builders because 1.00
00:32:16.200 that is an invaluable resource.
00:32:18.080 And again, those of us, I'm a part-time legislator.
00:32:20.660 We go from January to April and then we don't have session again to the following January.
00:32:25.580 We don't have the resources of like my Congressman Burchett, who's got just unlimited resources,
00:32:30.600 but he can't do anything in Washington.
00:32:32.320 So man, please reach out to the team at Wall Builders if you're a legislator, because they
00:32:36.640 can help and equip you to be able to pass some of these big bills.
00:32:40.160 I am.
00:32:40.600 I am so pleased that we got ahold of you and you just let us know when you need people in
00:32:46.200 Tennessee to know.
00:32:48.260 Hey, they need to please, I sent Sarah the link.
00:32:51.460 So if you guys, is there any way you could post that?
00:32:53.660 It's the link to the two committees.
00:32:55.740 Tennesseans can click on those links.
00:32:57.420 They can follow me on Twitter, Jason Zachary TN.
00:32:59.540 I'll go ahead and post those links there.
00:33:01.320 They can click on those links.
00:33:02.680 It'll show all the members of the banking committee.
00:33:04.900 They can click on their picture.
00:33:06.300 They can send them a nice email.
00:33:08.240 And Glenn, too, it's important from a legislator's perspective for your users.
00:33:11.960 Don't send your listeners, don't send canned emails like our system weeds out, like people 1.00
00:33:17.960 will say, hey, sign up here and send your legislative email.
00:33:20.700 We don't get those auto emails, but just a personal email.
00:33:23.720 Hey, Rep Zachary, man, please, please pass this bill or please vote for this bill.
00:33:28.380 It's important for us.
00:33:29.560 That stuff makes a difference.
00:33:31.040 Call the guys' offices.
00:33:32.720 I mean, again, we listen to that stuff.
00:33:34.600 We actually do receive the feedback directly.
00:33:36.740 OK, thank you so much.
00:33:37.820 I appreciate it.
00:33:38.540 God bless you.
00:33:39.080 I'm going to post this, and if the social media could actually do it by zip so we can
00:33:45.860 go into the region and go right into Tennessee so we hyperserve them on this, and I'll post
00:33:52.040 this at glenbeck.com also on my social media today so you have that information.
00:33:57.060 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:34:00.520 OK, I want you to hear this clip from MSNBC as they're talking about Christian nationalism.
00:34:07.780 Listen.
00:34:08.380 Remember when Trump ran in 2016, a lot of the mainline evangelicals wanted nothing to
00:34:14.160 do with the divorced, you know, real estate mogul who had cheated on his wife and with
00:34:19.960 a porn star and all of that, right?
00:34:21.540 So what happened was he was surrounded by this more extremist element.
00:34:26.640 You're going to hear words like Christian nationalism, like the new apostolic reformation.
00:34:31.860 These are groups that you should get very, very schooled on because they have a lot of...
00:34:37.640 Stop for a second.
00:34:38.240 Stop for a second.
00:34:39.580 These are the same people that...
00:34:42.640 She's talking about 2016.
00:34:45.600 You have to get to know them because they were around him in 2016, and they're very far
00:34:50.320 right, and they want a Christian nationalist nation, making it sound like some fascistic
00:34:56.040 thing.
00:34:57.240 No.
00:34:57.840 Did they do it in 2016?
00:35:00.000 What's changed?
00:35:01.440 What has changed other than the you, the media, which the media is...
00:35:07.100 You might as well just move it into, if you see it on mainstream media, you know it's coming
00:35:14.060 from a government agency.
00:35:15.820 It's coming from Intel somewhere or another.
00:35:18.320 That's their source on all this.
00:35:20.380 Why are they saying now that the same people that were around him in 2016 are extreme Christian
00:35:27.100 nationalists?
00:35:28.180 I'll tell you why.
00:35:29.540 Because that designation will allow the Department of Homeland Security and FBI and NSA to spot
00:35:37.100 or round up and use the Patriot Act to quash.
00:35:44.580 That's why this is being brought up.
00:35:47.880 Actual Christian nationalism, which is not what they're talking about, is very small, and
00:35:54.540 it is real, and it is dangerous.
00:35:57.960 We've talked about it before.
00:35:59.640 If you don't know, go back and listen.
00:36:01.880 We'll talk about it again.
00:36:03.260 But it is real, and it is dangerous.
00:36:05.100 But that's not what she's talking about, and I want you to listen to the rest of the clip.
00:36:09.040 ...of power in Trump's circle.
00:36:11.040 And the one thing that unites all of them, because there's many different groups orbiting
00:36:14.120 Trump, but the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians, by the way, because
00:36:19.960 Christian nationalists is very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans,
00:36:24.620 as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority.
00:36:28.580 They don't come from Congress, they don't come from their Supreme Court, they come from
00:36:31.360 God.
00:36:31.960 The problem with that is that they are determining, man, men, it is men, are determining what God
00:36:38.880 is telling them.
00:36:39.960 And in the past, that so-called natural law is, you know, it's a pillar of Catholicism,
00:36:45.200 for instance.
00:36:46.460 It's been used for good in social justice campaigns.
00:36:49.080 Martin Luther King evoked it in talking about civil rights, but now you have an extremist
00:36:55.200 element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including
00:37:01.200 abortion, gay marriage, and it's going much further than that.
00:37:04.580 As you see, for instance, with the ruling in Alabama this week, that judge is connected
00:37:08.440 to that dominion.
00:37:09.340 Have you ever heard something so crazy that all men are created equal and endowed by their 0.97
00:37:18.060 creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
00:37:24.920 Endowed by who?
00:37:26.280 Endowed by their creator.
00:37:28.420 I mean, are you a Christian nationalist?
00:37:30.660 Are you just making that up off the top of your head?
00:37:32.220 Where are you getting that phrasing from?
00:37:33.100 I'm just quoting, it's from an old dusty document.
00:37:35.260 Endowed by their creator with certain unchangeable, untouchable rights.
00:37:44.260 The reason why the founders wrote that is because they had a king who said, I create rights.
00:37:53.520 I will tell you the rights you have.
00:37:56.020 So, the founders settled on, you know, there are some things to nature's God, nature's law.
00:38:06.220 Now, nature's God, based on the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments and just the, you know, rule 0.89
00:38:13.260 of thumb, be good, be good to one another, love one another.
00:38:17.480 These things are wrong.
00:38:18.920 These things are not good.
00:38:22.220 Based on those laws and the laws of nature, this is what we would call today, follow the science.
00:38:35.280 Those things where we get our general understanding of rights.
00:38:40.760 And if you don't have that understanding, that rights are not printed up, are not, they're just
00:38:50.640 not changeable by men, and they're not printed up by men.
00:38:55.320 If you understand that, you know then where the limits of government are.
00:39:02.300 That's what made America different.
00:39:06.340 We have a charter of negative liberties.
00:39:10.100 We, those, that, the charter that we have for the government, it's all negative liberties.
00:39:16.600 You cannot do these things.
00:39:19.840 All other constitutions are reversed.
00:39:24.980 They have a charter of negative liberties on the people.
00:39:31.080 No, the government doesn't give us these rights.
00:39:34.840 We're restraining the government because something is bigger than government.
00:39:40.500 And it's not man, it's God.
00:39:44.040 And you can see how this might be a problem if you reverse this concept.
00:39:47.960 If you said, actually, all your rights are just gifts from government institutions and politicians.
00:39:54.340 You don't.
00:39:54.520 What happens when they change?
00:39:55.980 What happens if you're a group that's out of favor with the government?
00:40:00.100 You'd think someone on the left would understand this.
00:40:03.400 That could, you know, it's why it could create some issues.
00:40:05.820 Well, they do understand this.
00:40:06.380 This is why they're doing it with Donald Trump.
00:40:08.960 They are taking away his right to a fair, free trial.
00:40:15.040 That's what they're doing.
00:40:18.640 Now they're just taking away his right to have a business, to do business, because they want to.
00:40:28.480 There are certain things that our founders did that if we don't teach them, we don't understand them, we are going to lose the country.
00:40:41.680 This is why I've been saying, you know, what are we for?
00:40:44.620 I'm tired of being against stuff.
00:40:46.220 What are we for?
00:40:47.260 Well, I am for God-given rights.
00:40:52.600 And they're pretty obvious.
00:40:55.320 You have a right to be you.
00:40:58.900 But being you, everybody has the right to be you.
00:41:04.160 They can be them.
00:41:05.440 You can be you.
00:41:06.560 That's fine.
00:41:07.600 But you don't have a right to kill another person because they're not you.
00:41:15.020 They have a different point of view.
00:41:17.280 And they're not hurting anybody.
00:41:20.280 They have a right to liberty.
00:41:22.020 You can't just scoop them up off the street because you disagree with them.
00:41:26.600 They have a right to say what they feel, just like you have a right to say what you feel.
00:41:33.560 They have a right to collect with their own groups of people.
00:41:37.140 You have a right to do it, too.
00:41:43.100 Whatever rights you want, you better protect them for the people you don't like. 0.64
00:41:50.380 Like, that's the way we used to always be.
00:41:54.920 I don't agree with you, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it and believe it.
00:41:59.680 And that's not what we're doing now.
00:42:04.080 No, it's very true.
00:42:06.840 And when you look back at, you know, even the founding of this country, obviously, you point out, endowed by our creator, but with certain unalienable rights, which should prove it to almost anyone.
00:42:16.460 But you can go through the founding concepts of this country and find how it was designed with natural law in mind with almost no exception.
00:42:27.520 I mean, it's so fundamental to the country, let alone the misunderstanding going on here with Christianity, which is a whole different story.
00:42:35.180 But just that when you're talking about the country as a whole, every concept that we care about comes from natural law.
00:42:42.140 Everything from, you know, habeas corpus, you know, paying back someone you have wronged, that that concept is directly from natural law.
00:42:53.240 There's a whole list of them.
00:42:56.160 Life.
00:42:56.900 Limited government.
00:42:57.920 Separation of powers.
00:42:59.660 Checks and balances.
00:43:01.400 These things all come from natural law.
00:43:04.520 The right to contract comes from natural law.
00:43:09.220 The right to bear arms comes from natural law.
00:43:11.300 Oh, I don't want to use that necessarily in this example because they probably won't want to get rid of that one.
00:43:16.360 The right with talking about no taxation without representation.
00:43:21.420 That comes from natural law.
00:43:23.880 How about how about this?
00:43:24.740 These are some of them that they talked about, but they thought it was so obvious they didn't need to enumerate them.
00:43:31.300 OK, I want you to understand rights.
00:43:34.040 The declaration is our mission statement.
00:43:36.740 We tell the king we got to break up.
00:43:39.320 But because we want to be decent human beings, we have to tell you what we're going to do, why we need to break up with you.
00:43:47.020 And that's because we hold these things self-evident.
00:43:50.640 You don't.
00:43:51.280 We do.
00:43:51.740 OK, we don't want to war with you, but you won't listen to us because we're different.
00:43:58.420 We think differently.
00:43:59.480 We believe you believe that all rights come from you because you're appointed by God.
00:44:05.700 We don't think that we think every man is equal. 1.00
00:44:09.320 Every man is equal.
00:44:10.540 We're all created equal and we're all given certain rights.
00:44:15.340 You say as the king, only you have it or only parliament has it.
00:44:20.320 We don't think that.
00:44:23.300 And they list life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
00:44:25.760 Then later, because they knew people were going to be so stupid and actually it was because they just didn't trust the government.
00:44:32.600 None of none of them did.
00:44:33.760 The state said when we sign this constitution, we need to outline, you know, some rights here.
00:44:40.920 So everybody is clear because there are certain unalienable rights.
00:44:44.960 There's there's hundreds of thousands of millions of them.
00:44:47.620 I don't even I haven't even thought of.
00:44:49.480 You haven't thought of.
00:44:50.880 So it's an unlimited number of rights.
00:44:53.920 But they thought the really important ones ought to be written down.
00:44:56.780 And that's the bill of rights.
00:44:57.840 But here are some of the things they were talking about.
00:45:00.060 The unalienable or natural rights, meaning unalienable just means you can't take this right away.
00:45:06.200 You can't change it.
00:45:07.380 No man can change it because it is part of nature.
00:45:10.900 The right of self-government, which means you have a right to vote.
00:45:14.500 You have a right to be heard.
00:45:15.940 You have a right to campaign.
00:45:17.940 You have a right to serve in government.
00:45:20.300 A right to bear arms for self-defense.
00:45:22.780 A right to own, develop and sell property.
00:45:27.520 A right to make personal choices.
00:45:29.440 A right of a free conscience.
00:45:31.460 You can't tell me as a government what to believe.
00:45:38.420 The right to choose a profession.
00:45:40.660 The right to choose a mate.
00:45:42.360 The right to beget one's kind. 0.99
00:45:44.220 In other words, have children.
00:45:45.960 The right to assemble.
00:45:47.200 The right to petition.
00:45:48.400 The right to free speech.
00:45:49.500 Free press.
00:45:50.860 The right to enjoy the fruits of one's labors.
00:45:54.820 This is why the thing with Elon Musk is so horrific because he's being told he made a deal with his company and everybody said he'll never make it.
00:46:07.340 It's an outrageous deal.
00:46:08.680 He's a sucker for taking it because he'll never, ever be able to accomplish it.
00:46:14.020 He does.
00:46:15.100 And then the federal government steps in and says, that's an unfair deal.
00:46:18.480 You're giving him too much money.
00:46:19.820 They made the deal.
00:46:22.400 As free citizens, they made a contract.
00:46:25.560 They have a right to make a contract.
00:46:27.660 Government has no role in it.
00:46:30.180 Unless somebody's being defrauded.
00:46:32.840 But nobody's complaining about fraud.
00:46:35.900 In that or the Donald Trump case.
00:46:39.380 The government is.
00:46:41.180 They don't have that right.
00:46:42.700 They don't have that right.