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On today's show, host Glenn Beck talks about the first three weeks of President Trump's second term and answers some of your concerns. Also, Zach Levi promotes a new movie that comes out next week, The Unbreakable Boy.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. I want to talk to you about some of the stuff that
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Donald Trump has done. And just get your feelings on how you think things are going. Anything that
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you're concerned about. 888-727-BECK. I've got a lot of stuff that's just happened over the last 24
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hours that we have to talk about. But I want to check in with you first on the phones. Greg in Ohio.
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I just wanted to call. I've been voting since 1980. My first vote was for Reagan.
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Which at the time also included McConnell. I've been waiting for the last 45 years for somebody
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to come into our federal government and just turn the thing upside down. And I'm loving every bit of
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The team that he's put together, I'm fully in the camp that it was actually good that what happened
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in 2020 happened. The last four years were terrible. But that provided a lot of focus for Trump. He
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learned a lot of lessons. And put together a team that every last one of them, I mean, they're just
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every part of our government right now is going through an overhaul. And I couldn't be happy.
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I know. It's amazing. I've never seen. Thank you, Greg, for your call. I've never seen
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a an administration have every cabinet person so focused and working together. You know what I
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mean? It's like they're finding something like, yeah, that needs to go over to justice. And justice
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is saying I need this from Homeland Security. They're all working together. They're all working
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in lockstep. And they seem to have the people underneath. I haven't seen a single person in the
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cabinet yet kind of floundering like, I don't know, I'm being sabotaged by my people, except for Cash,
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who's not in yet. Yeah, that's true. There hasn't been a lot of that, which you usually do get.
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Actually, one of my favorite moments of the past couple of weeks was the other day when Elon Musk is
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standing there with this kid. And they said something to him about something he, I guess,
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tweeted that was wrong. And they fact checked it or whatever. And Elon Musk was like, you know,
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some of the things I say will be wrong. And I was thinking to myself, like, that's not that you
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shouldn't say that, right? Like every lesson you know about politics says you should not just say
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that. But that's true. Everybody says that. It's true about every single person on earth. You know
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what? Some of the stuff I say will be wrong. And you should know that. Yeah. And like, if we can,
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and he's moving so fast, and he's going to break things. And sometimes these things are,
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there's going to be mistakes made, there's going to be, but like, the intent here is to root all
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this stuff out. And you wonder why all this stuff builds up over a long period of time. It's because
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the intent is to keep it there. The intent is not, is this not a mistake? There's not $20 billion in
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some account because, oh, gosh, we missed the $20 billion. It's because there's an entire,
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you know, foundation and an entire city built on trying to keep those things in place. And we
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finally have a couple of people who seem interested in rooting all that out. And it's not going to be
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perfect. There are going to be things that go wrong, I'm sure. But like, wow, it's just great to see
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that attitude and approach. But here's the problem. The complaints aren't even real. First of all,
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you see the people that went into a Senate hearing yesterday, and they were, you know,
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protesting. They're like, oh, you gotta fix the aid to AIDS in Africa. That's important. And they
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were kicked out. And the secretary just looked up the Senate and said, they must not pay attention
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at all, because that was fixed two weeks ago. We did that two weeks ago. To be fair, there's a lot
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to follow right now. No, there is a lot to follow. But you think if you're going to organize a group,
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that's your one thing? You should know. You should know that, you know. Let me go to
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Jeff in Arizona. Hello, Jeff. Glenn, I'm going to get right to it, because this is such an important
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thought. This is already a known thought. It's out there. And I believe Trump was actually talking
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about during his 2020 election campaign. And that is a national citizenship ID card, which he can do as
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the executive. With the pen and the phone, he can, from a national department, I'm going to suggest it's
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the Treasury Department, order out national ID cards. And I think you know the reason why, is because
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de facto, this can then act as voter ID. And this will then act as the death nail, the actual knife in the
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heart of the Marxist progressive left to get control over our vote. And the way it de facto acts
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as a voter ID card is the states just adopt it. And you're going to immediately have 15 to 20 states
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who already want voter ID, who will just say, oh, we suddenly have a national citizenship ID card.
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This will now be used as voter ID card. And you will create a wave across the country. And you will
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kill the voting corruption from the progressive left. So I have a vision I want to cast on how he
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gets to that. But yeah, hang on just a second. I just would like to say, I don't think I'm for a
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national ID. I don't like anything national, especially when it comes to our ID. That sounds
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like it's one step away from a digital ID, which I'm absolutely against. I could understand if you
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are not here legally, if you are, you know, even here on a visa, you are not a natural born citizen,
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you could be required to have a national ID. But I don't like the government with any more lists of
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anybody else. Just don't like it. I'm surprised to hear you say that because everything in life
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has a trade-off. And when you look at killing voter fraud, when you hear, I get what you're
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saying, Glenn. But when you look at the upside of killing voter fraud and killing, you know,
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these groups, Mecha, La Raza, leftist groups who want to literally overthrow our country by polluting
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our votes, this would kill that. Because the national government can do that, and then the
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states can just adopt it. And then here's the vision on how it would go through the Treasury
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Department, is you already have a national card. This pathetic little piece of construction paper
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that comes mailed to you, is literally the Social Security, because the most important number in your
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life is to this day, just like we got this stupid mine seven stories down with paperwork for people's
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retirement. The most important number in your life, this is why I said we come with the Treasury
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Department. The Treasury Department just simply changes over to a hard card that protects, beyond
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our Social Security number, protects the most important thing we have, Glenn, our citizenship.
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Our citizenship. They've already been talking about it. It's already out there. And I would love to see
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Trump sign on July 4th of this year, the Protect Secure Citizen Card, Secure Citizenship ID, July 4th of
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this year, and everybody next year on the 250th anniversary of the declaration has a Protect
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Citizenship ID card in their hand. Jeff, I'd like to hear more about it. I am against national ID, but
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when you're bringing up the Social Security, if it's nothing more than a glorified, very, very, very
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hard to recreate, and you actually have a fence around Social Security, maybe. Maybe, but I don't
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know. I don't know. Again, they've talked about, when I've heard Trump talk about national ID, the idea
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is more for, typically, we're talking about legal migrants, right? Like the idea that you would have
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an identification for those who are here legally that have to hit a different standard than a U.S.
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citizen would have to hit. Like a sophisticated green card. Yeah. I think that's a little bit
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more, because you talk about this, you know, the states will adopt it. Well, what states?
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Is California adopting it? Probably not, right? Like what you're going to do is, if anything,
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you'd have red states doing it, which would be great, I guess. But I mean, there are probably a lot
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less, fewer problems in those states anyway. And again, we have to also project past
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Donald Trump. What does a national ID card look like when you have the next president in who
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wants to, you know, do all sorts of things with it that are going to make you very uncomfortable?
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You know, I, you know, I think giving, there are a lot of ways to push back against a voter. I mean,
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a voter ID law is something that you could pass, but states would be the ones in control of that.
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And I think that's a better approach. And states must be in control of the vote,
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never the federal government. Right. It's really tempting, because we all are like,
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oh, we want to get the vote results immediately on election night. We should just have a national
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election. And it's very tempting to people, but those are, there's a very bad path that that leads
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down. All right. Let me take Chuck in Kentucky. Hello, Chuck.
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Hey, Glenn. Great to talk to you again. We met about 15 years ago in Melbourne, Florida.
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Oh my gosh, Chuck. Ah, Chuck, we were just talking about you, Chuck.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. We love you. We love you. Thank you, man.
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A couple of things. One, thank you for supporting Preborn. My wife and I support them as well.
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For the most part, I'm really happy with what Trump is doing. I love the Doge stuff.
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Uh, I'm a little concerned about the Gaza stuff and how that's going to work out.
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Hang on just a second. Let's say more than eh on that. Uh, if, if we're actually taking over
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things in Gaza, I don't think that's a good idea.
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What if they build a nice pickleball facility there? That would be nice.
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Yeah, maybe we can just steamroll and just make a big pickleball court.
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Doesn't this just strike you though? I, I, you know, I just, it just strikes me as just
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Yeah, it does. Except I saw a story today. Let me see if I can find it, uh, to where I
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think it's the UAE said, the ambassador to America from the UAE said, I don't think there's
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any way to stop that. I just think that's the best. You got a better idea. Go for it.
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And I'm like, uh, somebody has got to come up with a better idea than that. Um, and now I
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don't mind if we have American business over there, you know, the Waldorf Astoria wants
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to build some hotels over there. Yeah. Go for it. And he's kind of said that it's not
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going to be taxpayer dollars and not not us. I don't want any troops over there. But again,
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I, I, I don't, it's not very America first. It's not consistent with, with most of his
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platform here. To me, it's just very much him saying like, Hey guys, release these hostages.
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Do it because we will just take this land from you and you will go to different countries
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and we'll build resorts. Yeah. So get it done. And, and I think he's, what he has done is
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he's changed the narrative. Yeah. You know, all of the countries around, we're not talking
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about, uh, wait, the, the Gazans have to stay in the Gaza strip. No, no, no. Nobody was talking
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about that. They were like, we can't have the United States come in and build anything there.
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That's what I mean. And that's what you need in that situation is to change the conversation.
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How long have we been talking about two state solution? It's going to work. Stop it. Stop
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it. Change the, if you guys want to stay on this land, you will start acting like civilized
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people. Yep. And while I'm sure there are some there that have generally speaking, when
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you look at the polls, it's not all that encouraging. So change what you're doing or things are going
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to change. All right. Let me, uh, let me go to Rob in Indiana. Glenn. Yeah. Thank you
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so much for taking calls, man. There's so many of us that just want to get through and
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talk to you. And I understand things have changed, but, but it just is what it is. So
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we love taking calls. You guys call whenever, call whenever you, we don't solicit for them
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enough anymore because we just get off ranting on stuff, but you're always welcome to call
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the lines always open. BJ's in there screening your calls. He's yelling at people most of the
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time. I don't know what he's doing in there, but triple eight, 727 back. Thank you.
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That's right. Mr. Executive producer. You know, I've been a listener, you know, from
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the beginning and, uh, uh, I'm a blaze subscriber. Uh, last night I purchased tickets to go to
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the American journey experience. Really? Cool. I'm going to make a pilgrimage in March
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in Dallas. I think I'm around in March. So you make sure you tell the, uh, the people
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over at the museum that we spoke and I'd love to see you when you come, but anyway, go ahead.
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Okay. Hey, I, that would be great. Yeah. But anyway, I love everything. You know, I can't
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believe how close we came to the point of no return and you know, it's unbelievable. You
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know, voting day, it was like this thing. We all knew it in our gut, in our soul, in, in
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everything within us knew how close we were and how dire the, the, everything was. Thank
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God, you know, that, that, that things went the way they did. Yeah. And, uh, literally
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thank God. Cause I think he stepped in, uh, and, uh, did it real quick. What is the one
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thing that you say concerns you? Oh, well, if people don't start going to jail, uh, all this
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will just, uh, be a four-year blip. Yeah. Hmm. Well, here's the good news. Uh, cash
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Patel got out of, uh, committee yesterday. He's going to be confirmed maybe early next
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week. Um, because they just had to go to Germany. All these senators had to go to stay
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home, take care of business here, quite honestly. Uh, but they're going to confirm him next week.
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Now you have Pam Bondi. She's already issuing, um, you know, charges around the country. And
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when cash Patel comes in, I think you're going to see a massive change in the FBI and DOJ.
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And that's, you have to have the FBI to start putting people in jail. Uh, that's the last
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piece to come in to play and it's going to happen next week. So let's watch what happens
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beginning next week. Cause I think it's going to happen quickly.
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with real estate, real estate agents. I trust.com. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the
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Glenn Beck program. And don't forget rate us on iTunes. Macri, how are you, sir?
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I'm well, thank you, Glenn. Good to be back and talking to you.
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Yeah, I know. So good. I thought you were coming in today, but, uh, Texas is a large state and you
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have a cyber truck and what, you'd have to stop and plug that thing in three times.
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I think it's a couple of charges to get up. Uh, well, good to talk to you again. I just watched
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your movie last night, my wife and I, and just loved it. It is such a good movie.
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Thank you. Yeah. I'm, I'm listen, I'm very grateful for the career that God's blessed me with over
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these 25 years and very proud of lots of things that I've done, but I am particularly proud of
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this film. I, I think it's honestly, it was, uh, it was kind of a miracle that it even happened.
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It's very God breathed. It happened in the height of the pandemic. Um, and you know, just the right
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of us, right. A number of us and people came together to make this very, you know, slice of
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life. It's, it's a grounded film, as you know, as you've seen it, you know, there's nothing big
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or splashy or, you know, big special effects or anything. It's a true story about a family,
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you know, navigating life and all of its complexities, but specifically navigating
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the waters of, uh, having a child on the autistic spectrum. And I have never seen or heard of a film
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like ours that, that tackles it in such a, an authentic and beautiful way. And also,
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you know, diving into the human condition of, uh, of the parents that, as they are trying to figure
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out how to love themselves and each other and their children. And it's powerful, you know,
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but it's also done with such a, such a, um, a big heart. And, and so it never feels like you're
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trudging through the drama too much or too long. It's there to provide the, the groundedness of,
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you know, and the redemption in the story, because as you know, we all go through our darkness. And if
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we don't tell that part of the story, then I don't think you ever really get the triumph
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of, of coming around at the end and having enlightenment and waking up to bigger and
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better things in your life. I mean, my character specifically, the father, you know, his journey
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is, and, and, you know, kind of then what the messaging in the film is. And the large part is
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what it means to radically accept the life that God has given you and radically surrender to it.
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And when you do, when we do that, you know, it's amazing. The, the peace and the love,
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the radical love that flows from us and into those around us. And so I just think it's something
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that's applicable to everybody, you know, and, and now, uh, as it turns out, because autism has
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become so ubiquitous, you know, we're all touched by it in some way. And so I think it's, it, even that
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I have to tell you this, this rang so true in my life. I mean, it was almost in, in many ways,
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many parts of it. And I probably think you are kind of in this world too, where so much of it rang so
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true. Uh, I spent a lot of the time, uh, uh, crying in a way of relating, but also crying with tears of
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joy, the kid that is represented, um, which he's a real kid. This is a true story, but the actor who plays
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him is incredible. There is such joy in that kid. What's he like?
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He's a really special kid. He's, he's got such a beautiful heart and we were so lucky to have found
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him. Like I said, I mean, very God breathed everything and all the rest of the cast, Megan
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Fahey, who plays my wife and Peter Faccinelli and Drew Powell and, uh, Amy Acker, Patty Heaton,
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Every, every, yeah. And everyone kind of slid right into their role and inhabited it so authentically,
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but Jacob, as you were pointing out, really has such a special energy that he brings to this
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character, Austin, who, as you, as you said, yes, is a real, a real kid who's about 31 now. Um,
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but Jacob just brings that effervescence and optimism to life in a way that really, you know,
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affects obviously us in the story, but affects the viewer, affects the audience. Like you, you can
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feel it. It's, it's, um, it's real. It's palpable. Yeah. Uh, and, and he's, he doesn't have any
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disabilities himself. He's just a, a regular kid. Uh, as far as I know, yeah, I've, uh, I've never heard
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Jacob having been diagnosed with anything, uh, neurodivergent, although listen, man, at this
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point, I wonder how many of us could probably all be, you know, um, categorized as being somewhere
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on some, you know, spectrum, whatever it is. I mean, it's, it's fascinating to look at how all
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of our minds and bodies, uh, continue to change, uh, and not always for the better as we progress
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as a society, you know, specifically with all this technology. I mean, how wonderful it is that
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we can be on the phone right now on your show that, or I could be, you know, zooming in or,
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um, you know, the, the things that we have now at our disposal, at our fingertips, it's pretty
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incredible. And also, um, it's, uh, it's been a real, uh, it's been a real toxic thing in our lives
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and blue light EMF, like all of these things, they reprogram us. So, you know, even if we're
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born and had nothing going on for a long time in our lives, you start introducing these types
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of technologies where you might start reprogramming your brain in a lot of ways. So anyway, that's
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kind of a tangent, but also I think in line with some of the stuff we're going to talk today,
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like AI. Yeah. Um, I want to stay in the movie here for just a second longer. Um, as long as
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you want, I want to talk about it. No, it's, it's just, I just really loved it. Um, the, um,
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the, the, the kid doesn't only have, um, uh, you know, he's not only on the scale, but he also has
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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,
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
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.
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
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.