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00:01:52.800 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I want to talk to you about some of the stuff that

00:01:57.500 Donald Trump has done. And just get your feelings on how you think things are going. Anything that

00:02:04.840 you're concerned about. 888-727-BECK. I've got a lot of stuff that's just happened over the last 24

00:02:11.760 hours that we have to talk about. But I want to check in with you first on the phones. Greg in Ohio.

00:02:16.720 Hello, Greg.

00:02:19.380 Hey, Glenn. How are you?

00:02:20.700 I'm great, man. Thanks for listening.

00:02:23.220 I just wanted to call. I've been voting since 1980. My first vote was for Reagan.

00:02:29.960 Yeah.

00:02:30.460 Which at the time also included McConnell. I've been waiting for the last 45 years for somebody

00:02:36.280 to come into our federal government and just turn the thing upside down. And I'm loving every bit of

00:02:43.220 this right now. I know.

00:02:45.000 The team that he's put together, I'm fully in the camp that it was actually good that what happened

00:02:53.420 in 2020 happened. The last four years were terrible. But that provided a lot of focus for Trump. He

00:03:00.260 learned a lot of lessons. And put together a team that every last one of them, I mean, they're just

00:03:05.560 every part of our government right now is going through an overhaul. And I couldn't be happy.

00:03:10.540 I know. It's amazing. I've never seen. Thank you, Greg, for your call. I've never seen

00:03:14.400 a an administration have every cabinet person so focused and working together. You know what I

00:03:23.560 mean? It's like they're finding something like, yeah, that needs to go over to justice. And justice

00:03:28.340 is saying I need this from Homeland Security. They're all working together. They're all working

00:03:32.800 in lockstep. And they seem to have the people underneath. I haven't seen a single person in the

00:03:40.440 cabinet yet kind of floundering like, I don't know, I'm being sabotaged by my people, except for Cash,

00:03:46.120 who's not in yet. Yeah, that's true. There hasn't been a lot of that, which you usually do get.

00:03:50.140 Actually, one of my favorite moments of the past couple of weeks was the other day when Elon Musk is

00:03:54.400 standing there with this kid. And they said something to him about something he, I guess,

00:04:01.040 tweeted that was wrong. And they fact checked it or whatever. And Elon Musk was like, you know,

00:04:06.340 some of the things I say will be wrong. And I was thinking to myself, like, that's not that you

00:04:11.820 shouldn't say that, right? Like every lesson you know about politics says you should not just say

00:04:18.260 that. But that's true. Everybody says that. It's true about every single person on earth. You know

00:04:23.060 what? Some of the stuff I say will be wrong. And you should know that. Yeah. And like, if we can,

00:04:27.700 and he's moving so fast, and he's going to break things. And sometimes these things are,

00:04:32.680 there's going to be mistakes made, there's going to be, but like, the intent here is to root all

00:04:37.960 this stuff out. And you wonder why all this stuff builds up over a long period of time. It's because

00:04:42.480 the intent is to keep it there. The intent is not, is this not a mistake? There's not $20 billion in

00:04:48.640 some account because, oh, gosh, we missed the $20 billion. It's because there's an entire,

00:04:54.780 you know, foundation and an entire city built on trying to keep those things in place. And we

00:05:03.740 finally have a couple of people who seem interested in rooting all that out. And it's not going to be

00:05:08.820 perfect. There are going to be things that go wrong, I'm sure. But like, wow, it's just great to see

00:05:13.660 that attitude and approach. But here's the problem. The complaints aren't even real. First of all,

00:05:18.640 you see the people that went into a Senate hearing yesterday, and they were, you know,

00:05:23.600 protesting. They're like, oh, you gotta fix the aid to AIDS in Africa. That's important. And they

00:05:30.860 were kicked out. And the secretary just looked up the Senate and said, they must not pay attention

00:05:37.420 at all, because that was fixed two weeks ago. We did that two weeks ago. To be fair, there's a lot

00:05:43.540 to follow right now. No, there is a lot to follow. But you think if you're going to organize a group,

00:05:47.620 that's your one thing? You should know. You should know that, you know. Let me go to

00:05:53.280 Jeff in Arizona. Hello, Jeff. Glenn, I'm going to get right to it, because this is such an important

00:05:59.420 thought. This is already a known thought. It's out there. And I believe Trump was actually talking

00:06:04.960 about during his 2020 election campaign. And that is a national citizenship ID card, which he can do as

00:06:13.320 the executive. With the pen and the phone, he can, from a national department, I'm going to suggest it's

00:06:19.900 the Treasury Department, order out national ID cards. And I think you know the reason why, is because

00:06:26.040 de facto, this can then act as voter ID. And this will then act as the death nail, the actual knife in the

00:06:36.020 heart of the Marxist progressive left to get control over our vote. And the way it de facto acts

00:06:42.740 as a voter ID card is the states just adopt it. And you're going to immediately have 15 to 20 states

00:06:51.240 who already want voter ID, who will just say, oh, we suddenly have a national citizenship ID card.

00:06:57.640 This will now be used as voter ID card. And you will create a wave across the country. And you will 0.74

00:07:04.400 kill the voting corruption from the progressive left. So I have a vision I want to cast on how he

00:07:11.560 gets to that. But yeah, hang on just a second. I just would like to say, I don't think I'm for a

00:07:17.480 national ID. I don't like anything national, especially when it comes to our ID. That sounds

00:07:24.300 like it's one step away from a digital ID, which I'm absolutely against. I could understand if you

00:07:33.700 are not here legally, if you are, you know, even here on a visa, you are not a natural born citizen,

00:07:42.520 you could be required to have a national ID. But I don't like the government with any more lists of

00:07:52.960 anybody else. Just don't like it. I'm surprised to hear you say that because everything in life

00:07:58.500 has a trade-off. And when you look at killing voter fraud, when you hear, I get what you're

00:08:04.400 saying, Glenn. But when you look at the upside of killing voter fraud and killing, you know, 0.85

00:08:09.800 these groups, Mecha, La Raza, leftist groups who want to literally overthrow our country by polluting 0.65

00:08:17.200 our votes, this would kill that. Because the national government can do that, and then the 0.99

00:08:23.020 states can just adopt it. And then here's the vision on how it would go through the Treasury

00:08:26.720 Department, is you already have a national card. This pathetic little piece of construction paper 0.96

00:08:33.180 that comes mailed to you, is literally the Social Security, because the most important number in your 1.00

00:08:38.580 life is to this day, just like we got this stupid mine seven stories down with paperwork for people's 0.99

00:08:45.860 retirement. The most important number in your life, this is why I said we come with the Treasury 0.98

00:08:50.140 Department. The Treasury Department just simply changes over to a hard card that protects, beyond

00:08:58.100 our Social Security number, protects the most important thing we have, Glenn, our citizenship.

00:09:04.040 Our citizenship. They've already been talking about it. It's already out there. And I would love to see

00:09:09.700 Trump sign on July 4th of this year, the Protect Secure Citizen Card, Secure Citizenship ID, July 4th of

00:09:20.400 this year, and everybody next year on the 250th anniversary of the declaration has a Protect

00:09:27.680 Citizenship ID card in their hand. Jeff, I'd like to hear more about it. I am against national ID, but 0.90

00:09:34.300 when you're bringing up the Social Security, if it's nothing more than a glorified, very, very, very

00:09:42.400 hard to recreate, and you actually have a fence around Social Security, maybe. Maybe, but I don't

00:09:48.680 know. I don't know. Again, they've talked about, when I've heard Trump talk about national ID, the idea

00:09:53.380 is more for, typically, we're talking about legal migrants, right? Like the idea that you would have 0.70

00:10:01.440 an identification for those who are here legally that have to hit a different standard than a U.S.

00:10:08.200 citizen would have to hit. Like a sophisticated green card. Yeah. I think that's a little bit 1.00

00:10:13.240 more, because you talk about this, you know, the states will adopt it. Well, what states?

00:10:17.440 Is California adopting it? Probably not, right? Like what you're going to do is, if anything,

00:10:22.040 you'd have red states doing it, which would be great, I guess. But I mean, there are probably a lot

00:10:26.160 less, fewer problems in those states anyway. And again, we have to also project past

00:10:31.180 Donald Trump. What does a national ID card look like when you have the next president in who

00:10:37.820 wants to, you know, do all sorts of things with it that are going to make you very uncomfortable?

00:10:42.700 You know, I, you know, I think giving, there are a lot of ways to push back against a voter. I mean,

00:10:50.700 a voter ID law is something that you could pass, but states would be the ones in control of that.

00:10:56.900 And I think that's a better approach. And states must be in control of the vote,

00:11:00.380 never the federal government. Right. It's really tempting, because we all are like,

00:11:04.200 oh, we want to get the vote results immediately on election night. We should just have a national

00:11:08.860 election. And it's very tempting to people, but those are, there's a very bad path that that leads

00:11:13.300 down. All right. Let me take Chuck in Kentucky. Hello, Chuck.

00:11:18.260 Hey, Glenn. Great to talk to you again. We met about 15 years ago in Melbourne, Florida.

00:11:23.800 Oh my gosh, Chuck. Ah, Chuck, we were just talking about you, Chuck.

00:11:27.660 Yeah, yeah, yeah. We love you. We love you. Thank you, man.

00:11:29.880 We love you. Thank you.

00:11:31.980 A couple of things. One, thank you for supporting Preborn. My wife and I support them as well.

00:11:37.780 Awesome. Great organization.

00:11:40.200 For the most part, I'm really happy with what Trump is doing. I love the Doge stuff. 0.99

00:11:45.760 Uh, I'm a little concerned about the Gaza stuff and how that's going to work out. 1.00

00:11:51.800 Yeah.

00:11:54.280 Hang on just a second. Let's say more than eh on that. Uh, if, if we're actually taking over

00:12:02.120 things in Gaza, I don't think that's a good idea.

00:12:05.660 What if they build a nice pickleball facility there? That would be nice.

00:12:08.120 Yeah, maybe we can just steamroll and just make a big pickleball court. 0.52

00:12:11.900 Doesn't this just strike you though? I, I, you know, I just, it just strikes me as just

00:12:15.320 pure Trump negotiation.

00:12:16.760 Yeah, it does. Except I saw a story today. Let me see if I can find it, uh, to where I

00:12:23.000 think it's the UAE said, the ambassador to America from the UAE said, I don't think there's

00:12:28.420 any way to stop that. I just think that's the best. You got a better idea. Go for it.

00:12:32.700 And I'm like, uh, somebody has got to come up with a better idea than that. Um, and now I

00:12:36.660 don't mind if we have American business over there, you know, the Waldorf Astoria wants

00:12:44.380 to build some hotels over there. Yeah. Go for it. And he's kind of said that it's not

00:12:48.360 going to be taxpayer dollars and not not us. I don't want any troops over there. But again,

00:12:52.820 I, I, I don't, it's not very America first. It's not consistent with, with most of his

00:12:58.660 platform here. To me, it's just very much him saying like, Hey guys, release these hostages.

00:13:03.300 Do it because we will just take this land from you and you will go to different countries 1.00

00:13:08.160 and we'll build resorts. Yeah. So get it done. And, and I think he's, what he has done is

00:13:13.180 he's changed the narrative. Yeah. You know, all of the countries around, we're not talking

00:13:19.160 about, uh, wait, the, the Gazans have to stay in the Gaza strip. No, no, no. Nobody was talking

00:13:25.960 about that. They were like, we can't have the United States come in and build anything there.

00:13:29.900 That's what I mean. And that's what you need in that situation is to change the conversation.

00:13:32.800 How long have we been talking about two state solution? It's going to work. Stop it. Stop

00:13:38.180 it. Change the, if you guys want to stay on this land, you will start acting like civilized

00:13:45.700 people. Yep. And while I'm sure there are some there that have generally speaking, when

00:13:50.340 you look at the polls, it's not all that encouraging. So change what you're doing or things are going

00:13:54.200 to change. All right. Let me, uh, let me go to Rob in Indiana. Glenn. Yeah. Thank you

00:14:02.260 so much for taking calls, man. There's so many of us that just want to get through and

00:14:06.700 talk to you. And I understand things have changed, but, but it just is what it is. So

00:14:11.680 we love taking calls. You guys call whenever, call whenever you, we don't solicit for them

00:14:14.980 enough anymore because we just get off ranting on stuff, but you're always welcome to call

00:14:18.600 the lines always open. BJ's in there screening your calls. He's yelling at people most of the

00:14:22.520 time. I don't know what he's doing in there, but triple eight, 727 back. Thank you.

00:14:26.480 That's right. Mr. Executive producer. You know, I've been a listener, you know, from

00:14:32.240 the beginning and, uh, uh, I'm a blaze subscriber. Uh, last night I purchased tickets to go to

00:14:39.840 the American journey experience. Really? Cool. I'm going to make a pilgrimage in March

00:14:44.560 in Dallas. I think I'm around in March. So you make sure you tell the, uh, the people

00:14:51.080 over at the museum that we spoke and I'd love to see you when you come, but anyway, go ahead.

00:14:55.940 Okay. Hey, I, that would be great. Yeah. But anyway, I love everything. You know, I can't

00:15:01.280 believe how close we came to the point of no return and you know, it's unbelievable. You

00:15:08.560 know, voting day, it was like this thing. We all knew it in our gut, in our soul, in, in

00:15:14.960 everything within us knew how close we were and how dire the, the, everything was. Thank

00:15:21.000 God, you know, that, that, that things went the way they did. Yeah. And, uh, literally

00:15:26.860 thank God. Cause I think he stepped in, uh, and, uh, did it real quick. What is the one

00:15:33.360 thing that you say concerns you? Oh, well, if people don't start going to jail, uh, all this

00:15:40.900 will just, uh, be a four-year blip. Yeah. Hmm. Well, here's the good news. Uh, cash

00:15:46.160 Patel got out of, uh, committee yesterday. He's going to be confirmed maybe early next

00:15:51.600 week. Um, because they just had to go to Germany. All these senators had to go to stay

00:15:56.840 home, take care of business here, quite honestly. Uh, but they're going to confirm him next week.

00:16:03.020 Now you have Pam Bondi. She's already issuing, um, you know, charges around the country. And

00:16:09.880 when cash Patel comes in, I think you're going to see a massive change in the FBI and DOJ.

00:16:16.760 And that's, you have to have the FBI to start putting people in jail. Uh, that's the last

00:16:23.860 piece to come in to play and it's going to happen next week. So let's watch what happens

00:16:28.860 beginning next week. Cause I think it's going to happen quickly.

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00:17:46.580 Glenn Beck program. And don't forget rate us on iTunes. Macri, how are you, sir?

00:17:53.380 I'm well, thank you, Glenn. Good to be back and talking to you.

00:17:56.140 Yeah, I know. So good. I thought you were coming in today, but, uh, Texas is a large state and you

00:18:01.440 have a cyber truck and what, you'd have to stop and plug that thing in three times.

00:18:07.620 I think it's a couple of charges to get up. Uh, well, good to talk to you again. I just watched

00:18:13.020 your movie last night, my wife and I, and just loved it. It is such a good movie.

00:18:19.540 Thank you. Yeah. I'm, I'm listen, I'm very grateful for the career that God's blessed me with over

00:18:24.440 these 25 years and very proud of lots of things that I've done, but I am particularly proud of

00:18:28.820 this film. I, I think it's honestly, it was, uh, it was kind of a miracle that it even happened.

00:18:33.980 It's very God breathed. It happened in the height of the pandemic. Um, and you know, just the right

00:18:41.080 of us, right. A number of us and people came together to make this very, you know, slice of

00:18:46.360 life. It's, it's a grounded film, as you know, as you've seen it, you know, there's nothing big

00:18:50.760 or splashy or, you know, big special effects or anything. It's a true story about a family,

00:18:56.220 you know, navigating life and all of its complexities, but specifically navigating

00:19:00.300 the waters of, uh, having a child on the autistic spectrum. And I have never seen or heard of a film

00:19:06.560 like ours that, that tackles it in such a, an authentic and beautiful way. And also,

00:19:11.480 you know, diving into the human condition of, uh, of the parents that, as they are trying to figure

00:19:16.980 out how to love themselves and each other and their children. And it's powerful, you know,

00:19:21.760 but it's also done with such a, such a, um, a big heart. And, and so it never feels like you're

00:19:29.540 trudging through the drama too much or too long. It's there to provide the, the groundedness of,

00:19:36.620 you know, and the redemption in the story, because as you know, we all go through our darkness. And if

00:19:41.680 we don't tell that part of the story, then I don't think you ever really get the triumph

00:19:45.660 of, of coming around at the end and having enlightenment and waking up to bigger and

00:19:50.320 better things in your life. I mean, my character specifically, the father, you know, his journey

00:19:55.460 is, and, and, you know, kind of then what the messaging in the film is. And the large part is

00:20:01.120 what it means to radically accept the life that God has given you and radically surrender to it.

00:20:06.760 And when you do, when we do that, you know, it's amazing. The, the peace and the love,

00:20:12.060 the radical love that flows from us and into those around us. And so I just think it's something

00:20:18.220 that's applicable to everybody, you know, and, and now, uh, as it turns out, because autism has

00:20:24.020 become so ubiquitous, you know, we're all touched by it in some way. And so I think it's, it, even that

00:20:29.180 resonates with almost everyone.

00:20:30.440 I have to tell you this, this rang so true in my life. I mean, it was almost in, in many ways,

00:20:35.980 many parts of it. And I probably think you are kind of in this world too, where so much of it rang so

00:20:42.560 true. Uh, I spent a lot of the time, uh, uh, crying in a way of relating, but also crying with tears of

00:20:53.020 joy, the kid that is represented, um, which he's a real kid. This is a true story, but the actor who plays

00:21:02.220 him is incredible. There is such joy in that kid. What's he like?

00:21:09.920 He's a really special kid. He's, he's got such a beautiful heart and we were so lucky to have found

00:21:15.960 him. Like I said, I mean, very God breathed everything and all the rest of the cast, Megan

00:21:20.580 Fahey, who plays my wife and Peter Faccinelli and Drew Powell and, uh, Amy Acker, Patty Heaton,

00:21:25.920 Patricia Heaton plays my mom.

00:21:27.200 She's great too.

00:21:28.260 Every, every, yeah. And everyone kind of slid right into their role and inhabited it so authentically,

00:21:33.580 but Jacob, as you were pointing out, really has such a special energy that he brings to this

00:21:39.020 character, Austin, who, as you, as you said, yes, is a real, a real kid who's about 31 now. Um,

00:21:45.460 but Jacob just brings that effervescence and optimism to life in a way that really, you know,

00:21:53.460 affects obviously us in the story, but affects the viewer, affects the audience. Like you, you can

00:21:57.960 feel it. It's, it's, um, it's real. It's palpable. Yeah. Uh, and, and he's, he doesn't have any

00:22:04.240 disabilities himself. He's just a, a regular kid. Uh, as far as I know, yeah, I've, uh, I've never heard

00:22:11.300 Jacob having been diagnosed with anything, uh, neurodivergent, although listen, man, at this

00:22:16.680 point, I wonder how many of us could probably all be, you know, um, categorized as being somewhere

00:22:22.600 on some, you know, spectrum, whatever it is. I mean, it's, it's fascinating to look at how all

00:22:29.460 of our minds and bodies, uh, continue to change, uh, and not always for the better as we progress

00:22:36.640 as a society, you know, specifically with all this technology. I mean, how wonderful it is that

00:22:41.920 we can be on the phone right now on your show that, or I could be, you know, zooming in or,

00:22:46.580 um, you know, the, the things that we have now at our disposal, at our fingertips, it's pretty

00:22:51.480 incredible. And also, um, it's, uh, it's been a real, uh, it's been a real toxic thing in our lives

00:23:00.820 and blue light EMF, like all of these things, they reprogram us. So, you know, even if we're

00:23:06.620 born and had nothing going on for a long time in our lives, you start introducing these types

00:23:12.860 of technologies where you might start reprogramming your brain in a lot of ways. So anyway, that's

00:23:16.760 kind of a tangent, but also I think in line with some of the stuff we're going to talk today,

00:23:20.000 like AI. Yeah. Um, I want to stay in the movie here for just a second longer. Um, as long as

00:23:27.160 you want, I want to talk about it. No, it's, it's just, I just really loved it. Um, the, um,

00:23:32.060 the, the, the kid doesn't only have, um, uh, you know, he's not only on the scale, but he also has

00:23:40.180 a disease that I, man, I can't even imagine. He has very breakable. What is it? Osteogenesis

00:23:49.980 imperfecta, brittle bones disease, essentially. Oh my gosh. I mean, and when the baby is born and you

00:23:55.380 find out that my wife and I were talking about it as she was giving birth, we were like that,

00:23:59.960 why didn't that break any bones? And you find out it did broke two ribs. And that's why the baby

00:24:04.400 was crying all the time, but you didn't know it at first. And then he's constantly falling and

00:24:10.160 breaking bones on the simplest of things. My gosh, what the real parents went through and what the

00:24:16.340 kid went through too. But I mean, my gosh, that's just turns your life upside down. Yeah, no, it's,

00:24:24.280 it's definitely, um, it's definitely, you know, part of this overall journey that they went on.

00:24:29.640 And again, a journey that they, they got pregnant on their third date. It was definitely a big curve

00:24:34.960 ball that they stepped up to the plate and were like, we're going to go have this child and we'll

00:24:39.120 figure out our relationship as we go. And so they were already kind of navigating those waters. Then

00:24:45.080 they've got this, this new baby that is crying nonstop and they don't even know why. And so years

00:24:50.560 later when they finally are able to diagnose that he in fact did inherit the genes from his mother to

00:24:56.220 have osteogenesis imperfecta and then to have them in pain and be worrying about them constantly that

00:25:02.080 they're going to break another bone. And I mean, it, it's, it's a, it's a ride, man. Like I can't

00:25:07.540 even imagine what Scott and Teresa were going through in that time and for them to continue to

00:25:11.960 stay strong and navigate through that, then just to find out, you know, later on in life after having

00:25:16.620 their second son, Logan, who, you know, God, God, you know, uh, thank God he was, he did not have

00:25:24.160 osteogenesis imperfecta and, and seemingly was, you know, operating in a normal level, but then Austin

00:25:29.260 was starting to operate in very atypical ways only for them to test him and find out that he indeed had

00:25:34.620 autism. Um, and that's a whole other challenge, you know, that's, um, that's, and that for Scott,

00:25:39.640 I think that was him. That was this real struggle with, with fighting his life. Like this is not my

00:25:47.660 life. This can't be my life. Like I I've got these expectations of what my life is supposed to be,

00:25:52.000 which I think is applicable to all of us, right? We all have these ideas of no, no, no, no. My life

00:25:56.880 is supposed to go this way or that way. And we fight and we fight God essentially in that we're

00:26:02.000 like, no, it's gotta be different. It's gotta be different as opposed to radically accepting that,

00:26:05.620 well, perhaps God knows better than me. And perhaps though my son, I wish my son would have

00:26:10.860 been born without having to battle these things through his life, that God is still going to use

00:26:16.260 my son in, in beautiful ways and has, and that's what was so transformative in that story.

00:26:20.840 Yeah. And the, the fact that you're running away, uh, to alcohol, um, and, and part of it being,

00:26:28.480 I'm just a bad dad. I mean, he's a, he's a normal guy. Uh, and you know, he's out on the

00:26:34.980 swings and his son, you know, has a horrible break. Um, and you know, his wife is like,

00:26:41.600 it always happens with, with you, not, not with me. And he just starts to think he's just such a bad

00:26:48.000 guy, uh, and runs from life with alcohol. And I mean, it's, uh, as somebody who's been there,

00:26:54.780 I get it. I get it. And I thought it was really well done. Thank you, man. I, uh, that really means a

00:27:01.140 lot. And I'm very grateful that you were able to see it before we even talked, you know, it's,

00:27:05.600 it, it gives it a lot more context for your viewers and listeners, because I really would

00:27:11.980 love for this movie to do well and not, you know, obviously biasly, I always want the things that I,

00:27:17.260 I do to do well, but I think that this is bigger than that. I think this story is bigger than that.

00:27:23.140 And, um, you know, particularly nowadays with so much content that's out there that I don't think

00:27:29.420 has good messaging or great messaging or, um, that a whole family can actually watch together.

00:27:36.760 Um, and it's the, the human condition and all of us. And so, yeah, I implore everyone listening,

00:27:42.640 please go see it. And if you enjoy it, please tell everybody that, you know, and also not for

00:27:46.880 nothing, but I do encourage people to go to movie theaters. And I think for, you know, some of the

00:27:52.180 same reasons that, that some people in my industry talk about it, but I think there's one thing that

00:27:56.900 is often overlooked and it's very important, which is theaters, you know, historically have

00:28:04.600 been places, um, that provide us the public of all different backgrounds and belief systems and

00:28:12.320 whatever to gather in the same place to experience the same thing. And what's really powerful about that

00:28:19.960 is, and I think something that's been lost as people have continued to like, kind of leave

00:28:23.460 theaters and watch things on television is that when you're in a public theater with a bunch of

00:28:28.240 people that are not you, that believe different things than you, and you know that, and you're all

00:28:32.840 watching a thing, but yet, even though you all have these different opinions and different belief

00:28:36.800 systems, you're all laughing at the same jokes. You're all crying with the same moments of despair and

00:28:43.280 pain. And that those types of things help to remind us that we are all on this planet together, that

00:28:50.600 we're on team human together. And yes, we might have differences of opinion and yes, we need to have

00:28:56.740 more conversations about trying to find more middle ground, but how can we even get to that point if we

00:29:02.160 don't see that the person on the other side of the aisle is a human being just like me that cries and

00:29:07.320 laughs at nearly all of the same moments. You know, there's something that's very unifying and all of that.

00:29:11.760 So I encourage people to go to theaters mainly for that reason. Go, go put yourself back into a

00:29:17.660 world where we start seeing each other again. And I think this movie has a lot of that, no matter

00:29:22.500 what background you have, you're going to laugh and cry at a lot of the same spots because it's just

00:29:26.240 about being a human. Zach, I have to tell you, I got in huge trouble when I got home after

00:29:30.980 interviewing you because my son was in town and he was staying for a couple of weeks and he said,

00:29:37.560 wait, wait, wait, who, who did you interview today? And I said, Zachary Levi. He's like, you,

00:29:43.700 you interviewed the guy who played Kurt Warner, one of my favorite movies, and you didn't even tell

00:29:48.620 me. So I got in, I got in huge trouble. Next time you're, you're coming up, I, I have to tell

00:29:54.700 him in advance if you don't mind. 100%. Yeah. Anyway, you know what that's like, you know what that's

00:30:00.200 like? You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck podcast. Hear more of this interview and

00:30:05.420 others with the full show podcast available wherever you get podcasts. Well, I got to tell

00:30:10.460 you, I think the, uh, the left just doesn't know what to do. Uh, they are on the ropes and then,

00:30:20.400 and then you put somebody like David Hoggan as, well, I mean, what are you thinking? Vice chair of

00:30:26.960 the DNC? Yeah. What are you thinking? They've learned nothing. Nothing. I think they're just

00:30:32.500 panicking right now. And there is a reason to believe if we're being honest here that the

00:30:37.820 American people are fickle and they usually just run out of gas for whoever's in office. And I, 1.00

00:30:45.860 you know, you can't look ahead and think, okay, this is 40 years of, of success ahead. Like they're

00:30:51.140 going to do something right now. They're flailing though. Yeah. I mean, three weeks into this,

00:30:55.780 we need to remember. But you also have to remember that it wasn't too long ago that books

00:31:00.620 were being written, how the Republican party will never come back. Yeah. It's over. It'll be a hundred

00:31:05.920 years of democratic rule. There was a book, I wonder, was it James Carville that wrote it about

00:31:10.580 how Republicans would be a regional party only? Yes. This is after Barack Obama's 2008 election.

00:31:17.160 The 2010 election was the biggest wave election in a hundred years. Yeah. That's how fast this stuff

00:31:23.480 can dry up. So this is why I'm so encouraged by what Trump is doing here in that we are at a

00:31:30.280 situation that he's realizing that he doesn't maybe have the longest road to do all of this stuff.

00:31:37.440 It's, he's got to get it done and hopefully it works and excites the American people. And we,

00:31:41.300 you know, don't lose the house, for example, in 2026, which is usually what happens.

00:31:46.660 You have to have somebody competent to run, somebody who has vision. I mean, you know,

00:31:51.400 when you're putting in as your vice chair, David Hogg, it doesn't show, you know,

00:31:56.140 It's a somewhat meaningless role, but still. I know that. But still, it shows me that you are,

00:32:02.980 you're still on the same message. You know, I was talking to somebody yesterday. Do we have that

00:32:07.500 picture of the front of Rockefeller Center? This is one of the buildings in Rockefeller Center.

00:32:14.000 Pull it up if you can online. And it is a glass cutting of the front of Rockefeller Center. Do you

00:32:24.060 have it? They're working on it. Okay. They are working on it, Glenn. Okay. There it is. So it's

00:32:29.720 hard to see, but see, there's two horses and then the strong guy naked standing, holding those horses

00:32:37.720 back. He's standing on a chariot and the two horses are being held back. Looks like he works out.

00:32:42.440 And there is a sunrise right in front of the horses and you'll see the youth in front of the horses,

00:32:50.280 kind of leading the horses. Okay. Yeah. All right. So what this means is this is, this is the,

00:32:57.200 the, the socialist movement, the democratic party. This is, uh, the horses represent industry.

00:33:06.100 The strong man in the chariot is the government and it's holding back the reins of industry. It's got

00:33:15.020 industry completely in its grip and control and the youth of tomorrow lead us into the sunrise and the

00:33:24.020 new chapter. This is socialism. This is what they're still offering us where Trump is saying,

00:33:31.080 no, we don't want the strong guy in the chariot. We don't, we don't, we don't, we don't want that.

00:33:36.280 Uh, and we just want competent people. I don't care if they're 12 or 112, if they're competent,

00:33:42.440 we just want competent people, uh, you know, setting the course for us. And that could be,

00:33:49.080 it doesn't necessarily have to be elected. The elected guy is in the chariot. I want that guy just

00:33:53.820 to be really small and really not even in the picture quite honestly. Yeah. I mean, this goes

00:34:01.540 back to the speech JD Vance made this week about AI, which we haven't really discussed all that

00:34:06.300 much, but it was like really encouraging. It was like saying, Hey, we're freaking America here.

00:34:12.380 You know, we're going to, of course, we're going to dominate this industry. Obviously. Do we want it?

00:34:17.660 Yeah. So we're going to take it. And like that, it, we're not going to lose to China. Like it was

00:34:24.280 like, uh, it wasn't, it wasn't apologizing for that. It wasn't saying, well, really we should

00:34:29.100 give this technology to everyone because everyone needs it. And no, it was just like, no, we're the

00:34:33.300 best at it and we're going to do it. And we're going to, we're going to, we're going to do everything

00:34:35.940 we can to make sure we're the ones in control of this because it's not only important for our

00:34:39.920 economy, but also for the nation's security and freedom of the world. Yeah. But honestly,

00:34:44.180 do you see what James Cameron came out and said? Normally I don't care what James Cameron

00:34:48.080 said, but because he's the guy, you know, with Skynet and, and the Terminator, he came

00:34:53.180 out and said, uh, you know, I wrote a fictional nightmare. He said, but this time it's not

00:35:00.400 fictional. It's not speculation. It's already happening. That's a quote from him. He said,

00:35:06.260 it's a scarier scenario than what I presented in Terminator 40 years ago. Uh, if for no other

00:35:11.740 reason that it's no longer science fiction, it's happening right now, you'll be living

00:35:16.420 in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, are forced to share with a super 0.96

00:35:21.940 intelligent entity that wants to follow the goals of a corporation. This entity will have

00:35:27.480 access to your communications, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every

00:35:31.900 person in the country through personal data. Um, he said it's ability to predict and influence

00:35:39.300 human behavior. Uh, this is surveillance capitalism. Um, and surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty

00:35:47.560 quickly into digital totalitarianism. This, this is the hard place is I don't want the government

00:35:53.500 to own it, but I also don't trust corporations to own it. I trust corporations more than I trust the

00:36:00.420 government. I do. That one's not a tough decision for me. I understand it's, I feel like it's a little

00:36:07.220 more difficult than maybe conservatives felt at one point. I mean, I, I distrust them equally.

00:36:13.020 It's not like I trust one more than the other. I distrust both of them. I, I, I trust corporations

00:36:19.400 more. And the reason is that there's that there's actual competition between them. And it's not,

00:36:23.920 I don't trust any individual corporation necessarily, but like the, the, the impacts of the market,

00:36:30.000 I think generally speaking, lead us to good things. Um, you know, but that it's up for debate,

00:36:35.220 of course. I mean, the problem of here is you, you sort of have to choose one path or another.

00:36:39.820 And I can tell you, I do not want centralized control of AI. No. Uh, you know, do I want,

00:36:44.340 um, guardrails around it for national security purposes? Sure. Um, but when it comes to whether

00:36:51.900 I, I don't love tech companies, for example, I think, you know, there's been a lot of good things,

00:36:57.080 but, but there's been a lot of bad things. That being said, the difference between that and the

00:37:01.360 government is to me, there's a pretty, pretty bright line there. Uh, I have to tell you that,

00:37:05.880 uh, you know, if you look at what's happening in Europe and Canada, I mean, did you hear that

00:37:10.620 Canada, they are, they are now trying to pass a bill that you can go to prison. If you say

00:37:15.580 anything favorable about oil, gas, or coal, go to jail. That's sensible. Yeah. That's going to work

00:37:24.060 out really well, isn't it? I mean, this is, these are products that have built our civilization.

00:37:30.420 Exactly right. Like that's how you can't run. Not, not, not just built it in the past.

00:37:34.880 Currently can't live without any of that stuff. Nope. And they're like, Oh, you can't even talk

00:37:40.060 about it positively. That's crazy. That's it's basically crazy about everything, let alone

00:37:45.360 something that's been really positive to her, to our world. Also, Linda McMahon, uh, yesterday,

00:37:50.400 she talked about in her confirmation hearing, um, she said, uh, fund educational freedom,

00:37:57.360 not government run systems. This is her plan. Uh, listen to the parents, not the politicians

00:38:02.460 build up careers, not college debt, empower States, not special interest, invest in teachers,

00:38:07.020 not Washington bureaucrats. November proved that Americans overwhelmingly support the president's

00:38:12.420 vision and I'm ready to enact it. Education is an issue that determines our national success

00:38:17.240 and prepares American workers to win the future. The legacy of our nation's leadership and education

00:38:22.760 is one that every person in this room embraces with pride. Unfortunately, many Americans today

00:38:28.020 are experiencing a system in decline. I think she's, I think, I mean, I don't know how you argue about

00:38:35.340 against these things. I really don't. We all know our schools are failing like crazy. And she was

00:38:41.960 asked, uh, does that mean you're going to cut off, uh, the funds for schools that need, you know,

00:38:48.340 help because they're in low tax base? No, no, we'll still help those, but we're going to get rid of

00:38:55.140 all of this crap that you're required to do to get any of that money. Um, they have to be run. 0.88

00:39:02.660 The classrooms need to be run by the parents and the teachers locally, not some bureaucrats in

00:39:09.440 Washington, D.C. Yeah. And she, McMahon's a real advocate for school choice. This is an

00:39:15.260 incredible, I mean, this is, we have a real opportunity to make a massive difference for

00:39:19.460 millions of children, uh, in this four year period. And, uh, it's really exciting. Even

00:39:25.240 here in Texas, where we had an election, um, uh, you know, we talked about the house speaker situation,

00:39:31.480 uh, who we did not go the way that conservatives were hoping here in Texas, but at least as of today,

00:39:37.480 uh, Burroughs, who's the guy who was not the, you know, more conservative option is claiming that

00:39:43.620 they are going to go forward with school choice in Texas. Even, I mean, we're at the point that

00:39:48.140 now, even, you know, what you might call, you know, the rhino contingency is like, okay, yeah,

00:39:52.340 we'll do that. This is incredible. Glenn, we've been talking about this policy for 20 years,

00:39:56.880 longer than that, but I mean, as long as, as long as the show's been on the air, we've been discussing

00:40:01.020 it as this sort of like pie in the sky. Hey, maybe that will have vouchers. Like, like it was this

00:40:05.780 thing that would never occur. And all of a sudden it's occurring all over the, all over the country.

00:40:09.760 So here's what concerns me is, uh, Donald Trump is, I love these people who are coming out from

00:40:15.480 the democratic side saying, Oh, you know, you have, you checked inflation. No, there is no

00:40:20.180 inflation. This is the greatest economy ever. What are you talking about? The, uh, Biden inflation is,

00:40:25.340 you know, the work against, uh, inflation that Biden has been doing by dynamics that's working.

00:40:29.980 It's, it's the greatest thing ever. I can't believe people who told us for four years,

00:40:33.420 there was no such thing as inflation are now crying, you know, the inflation numbers.

00:40:37.640 And I'm happy to say that our president is saying, yes, inflation is, it's going to go up and it's

00:40:42.960 going to be hard. And we're working to, to reverse that. He's at least recognizing the reality of the

00:40:50.840 situation. Uh, and it is going to go up and get worse before it gets better. We talked about this

00:40:56.820 before we talked about this before November. It's concerning though. It is concerning because if it

00:41:02.060 look, you know, you think about the average person, they don't, they're not sitting here

00:41:06.720 like you are listening to, you know, a bunch of talk radio and, and like, and thinking about these

00:41:12.300 issues, if these prices go up and they continue to, if it feels like Biden, they won't care what

00:41:18.100 the rest, what else is going on. You've got a very short runway with, Hey, there's going to be some

00:41:24.640 pain here. You just need to take it and it'll get better later. That, that can work, worked with

00:41:29.860 Reagan. I would argue. I mean, the early, remember, I mean, inflation in, in that, in 81, 82 was really

00:41:37.100 high and then it came down and everything was fine and he wanted a landslide. So it's, it's possible

00:41:41.420 to turn it around, but you know, it's, it's a, it's a tough tight, tight wire walk. You know, I'm

00:41:47.120 looking at the price of gold. What is the price of gold? It's almost $3,000 an ounce. Uh, it was

00:41:51.860 yesterday. It was a 26, nine or sorry, 2961. Um, um, I'm looking for that because this is

00:42:00.040 the seventh weekly gain on, uh, on gold and it has something to do with the, the trade

00:42:06.740 war. Uh, but also something else is happening with gold and we're not sure exactly what it

00:42:12.360 is. Um, but it looks as though some people are thinking that we're going to go back and

00:42:17.200 revalue all of our gold, which would be good if you had gold. Um, you know, really good

00:42:22.900 if you had gold, but, uh, it's going to be, it's going to cause problems because of the

00:42:29.680 dollar getting stronger, et cetera, et cetera. It's the, the cure is not going to be worse

00:42:34.820 than the disease, but the cure is going to make it seem as though the disease is getting

00:42:39.780 worse, uh, before it gets better. By the way, one other thing, uh, that happened yesterday,

00:42:44.640 you know, Rachel Maddow came on and she was like, uh, yeah, I told you, I told you Elon

00:42:49.920 Musk. I'm sorry. It's Rachel Maddow. I told you that Elon Musk was double dealing, right?

00:42:55.560 Am I right? MSNBC, Rachel Maddow viewers. I'm always right, right, right. So he's, you know

00:43:04.500 what he did? He just got the government to buy 400 million. That's almost half a billion

00:43:11.720 dollars of armored Tesla vehicles. And he got a contract through the state department.

00:43:17.000 What a jerk. Wow. What a bastard. That's unbelievable, Glenn. I know. You know, the fact 1.00

00:43:22.020 is he got, well, this is what happened, Glenn, is his money bought influence with Donald Trump.

00:43:26.280 Yeah. And then Donald Trump gets elected probably falsely, by the way. And then, uh,

00:43:32.220 Musk becomes the real president and just directs all this money to his own company.

00:43:36.580 Right. You are. Thank you. Says Rachel Maddow. Uh, unfortunately, 100% wrong. Uh, the government

00:43:42.540 because of green energy. Can you imagine how long these batteries last carrying around an armored

00:43:48.240 vehicle? Like what are the, you get like 10, 10 minutes out of the car. Uh, but, uh, I would not

00:43:54.580 agree with that. Yeah. So he's, uh, so the Biden wanted armored vehicles for the state department

00:44:01.440 and he wanted them all EVs. So he put out a bid. The only one that responded to the bid

00:44:07.700 was Tesla. Okay. Nobody else responded to the bid. Everybody else was like, uh, 10 minutes. I don't

00:44:15.620 think that'll be good. So he was, he was the high bidder on the government's, uh, list of, of providing

00:44:24.380 all of these vehicles. However, Trump stopped that said, it's not going to happen. So Rachel

00:44:31.420 Maddow is, Oh geez, man, I got to tell you a pack of cool cigarettes, maybe some Alka

00:44:36.020 Seltzer and I'm going to be fine. I'm going to get over this, but I'm telling you right

00:44:39.340 now, all lies, uh, all of that is, is not true. They are so desperate. Yeah. I'd be real.

00:44:47.700 I mean, if you had a network that cared, you'd be really concerned about that. I mean, she

00:44:52.240 does one show a week, right? The main focus of her monologue wasn't even true. Like that's

00:44:58.240 got to be really concerning as a network. You would think in any other circumstance,

00:45:02.000 you know, I was going to say, wow, I didn't know she was doing one show a week. And then

00:45:06.020 I thought, no, the real wow is wow. She's still doing one show a week. She's their star. 1.00

00:45:13.480 Go ahead. I know. I know she is.

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