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Glenn Beck's Hot Air Balloon Party with Hunter Biden and a Tuna-sized moon landing. Glenn Beck's Dark Future, a new book by Justin Haskins, the author of The Great Reset, is out now.
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I gotta, I gotta get out of here as soon as we're done with this, because I got lots of
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You have a hot air balloon you're going up in, you can only do it in early morning.
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Yes, and I will be doing drugs on it and partying.
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Yeah, so it's the big hot air balloon party with Hunter Biden today for me.
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And the captain, if you can call him that, is a hooker.
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If I'm actually up there doing that, please shoot it down immediately.
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Today's a great podcast you don't want to miss.
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Going about your daily life when you're living with pain sucks.
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That's something that gives me so much joy and clears my mind.
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My hands were in so much pain, I couldn't hold a paintbrush.
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My wife convinced me to take it because I'm like, it reduces inflammation.
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70% of the people who try this go on to take more month after month because it works for them.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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At important meetings in 21 and 22, powerful leaders from government, finance, media, business,
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all who support the World Economic Forum's plan for a great reset of capitalism,
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launched a new call to action titled The Great Narrative.
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The Great Narrative campaign seeks to use the decay of traditional values throughout the West
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and new and future advancements in technology, including the areas of artificial intelligence,
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automation, the metaverse, robotics, and more, to seize control of economies and societies in North America and Europe.
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They will impact your life all over the planet.
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It is going to change the definition of free will, freedom, and even what it means to be a human.
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According to the leaders of the Great Reset, the Great Narrative movement, by the year 2030,
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your world will be fundamentally transformed, and you're going to be happy about it.
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This is the topic of the next book in the Great Reset series.
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Glenn Beck with Justin Haskins' Dark Future, Uncovering the Great Reset's Terrifying Next Phase.
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Man, I'm proud to say that Bill Gates, somehow or another, is on the cover, too.
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You have the number one book in America in the category of fascism.
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But what's fascinating is you also now have the number one book in America on Amazon,
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When You Search for Dark Future, which is the title of your book, which has not been the case until right now.
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Now when you search for the title of your book, it actually shows up.
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You can order it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, wherever you buy your books.
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Asteroid, the size of 22 tuna, fly closer to Earth than the moon.
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Now, I don't know what the hell's happening, but I've never measured things by the size of tuna.
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Tuna could be the size of a car, size of a suitcase.
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I've never, I've never had to go out and hunt my own tuna, you know, and gut and clean it and then go, hey, who wants tuna fish sandwiches?
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I mean, we just have to hope that it's not a Costco, you know, economy-sized can of tuna.
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I mean, we, I mean, I was just starting to get down with the measuring of asteroids by the size of camels.
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I'm telling you, aliens have taken over and they're like, yeah, it's about the size of 22 tuna.
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Those are the two competing systems, like English and metric.
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I mean, if you said three Mustangs, I would go, okay, we're not talking about horses.
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There's got to be something that's 22 times the size of a tuna.
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Anyway, did you see the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro?
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So the last ones are coming off the line this year.
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It'll be the 2024, but the last one off the line is January 2024, which I hate.
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There's like five names there, but man, that thing's impressive.
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Let me just say, if you happen to be in the car business and you have a lot coming in,
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a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, I know a customer, his name kind of sounds like Len Eck, which
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And for anybody who might, maybe my wife listening, I am not saying for me.
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I know somebody who would like one of these and can't find one of these.
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And I'm just saying, you should call 888-727-BCK so I could pass your information as a dealer
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I mean, I've already, I've called around and everybody's like, I mean, my friend has called
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And he said he was calling around like, let me get on the phone.
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Because they're only making 3,000 of these things.
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I mean, we, how can we abandon this technology when we're just getting good at it?
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Like, we're just nailing the combustion engine and having it do incredible things.
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Everybody, did you see that Ford just lost $2 billion in 2022 because of EVs?
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And it's, by the way, there was a big story that I think might have been in the Times as
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well talking about the effects on local economies because of the electric cars.
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These areas that have been built on parts manufacturing and all of this are just being
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And look, you know, as a guy who likes innovation, that is part of capitalism.
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But what usually is the reason for it is you have new superior technology, technology that
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people are choosing and want and desire, and therefore the older industry goes away.
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It's not like people are choosing, like, I got to have an electric car.
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But like, I, you know, I really like the Tesla.
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I don't own a Tesla because it's impossible to recharge if you're going on a long trip.
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You know, you get something where it is, you know, I'm able to go someplace and I can,
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you know, stop at a electric fueling station and it takes me, you know, 10 minutes to recharge
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I also don't like the fact that, you know, you can burn up in your car, but those two
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We do not have the transmission lines to be able to deliver this kind of electricity.
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California leads the country in number of electric vehicles.
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Where are you going to get the electric, the electricity?
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It's just, I mean, it makes absolutely no sense.
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Almost as frustrated as I am trying to figure out what the average length of a tuna is, which
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is, I, I've been trying to do this entire time and they range from, let's see, 4.6 feet
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For an adult male, these are larger tuna, obviously.
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You're talking about doubling the size of this asteroid.
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We have no idea if this asteroid is a blue, Pacific blue, albacore tuna or Pacific bluefin
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We have no idea what could possibly hit the earth today.
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I mean, you're, you're, is it 22 times 4 or 22 times 3 or 22 times 10?
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I mean, and me in it, not my family, just me, just take me out.
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Yeah, I know they do, but Dodge, Dodge dealers, they do not agree.
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So you should call and I'll pass your number on to Len Eck.
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And, uh, good dude, that Len Eck, he is a good dude, good dude, good dude.
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Keeping America running by buying one of these Dodge, you know, cause they may, they may not
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Would this be something, now this is something, a totally different conversation.
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I hate to bring it up here, but like, would this be something your wife would oppose if
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Now I know you don't, but I'm saying if, if I wanted one, no, she would be, are you kidding
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But I would like a Dodge dealer that has access to one just to call.
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Probably pretty done deal on that one, but he'd have to talk to his wife, but his wife
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You can't design it from scratch, but that your friend Len, right.
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Vaughn in Oklahoma is on, you are, uh, you're with a Dodge dealership.
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I was, uh, I was calling to maybe get in touch with this friend of yours.
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Now, uh, you'll have to be careful cause his wife doesn't know about this.
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We'll keep it between, uh, keep it between and any friend of, uh, Len X wife, you'll
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If you tell his wife, you tell his wife about this, why would he, why would, why would
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And just might, you know, he'll break it to his wife slowly.
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Um, anyway, uh, he'll talk about how much money they're saving by buying this.
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And, uh, I think one of them, uh, might've had a customer's name on it that rhymed with
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Well, I've heard this guy, this friend of yours occasionally misspells his name and it
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So, uh, Vaughn, um, uh, we're going to get your phone number and then my friend may
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Uh, now he sounds like me, but don't be fooled.
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No, we'll, we'll make sure that, uh, that you properly identify this individual.
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So for people that are, are looking to buy one of these are, um, do you get to design
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No, they're, they're, they're what's called the last call.
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It's the last time they're going to make this engine.
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But I mean, there's no, there's no features that you can upgrade.
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Uh, and I believe if I'm not mistaken, only 1500 are coming to the U S 3000.
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I think it was 3000, 3000 total in the U S 300 in Canada.
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Well, he'll call you or somebody from his office.
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Cause sometimes they get very busy in his office.
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He's a, I don't know what he does, but, uh, so, you know, and if he's, he happens to
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be a, you know, a short drive from Oklahoma city.
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We should get, we should get Vaughn's information.
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Bob Howard Dodge in Oklahoma city has one, uh, challenger.
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The guy, he said it was already had a name on it.
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I want to make sure we have your, your information and we will, uh, I'll have my friend reach out
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So you said yourself, is anybody, does anybody have any advice on how to remain married when
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you have to tell your wife, you want a challenger is, has anybody done that successfully?
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So, um, probably anybody who is my generation or, or a little, uh, younger, uh, their favorite
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And in Ferris Bueller, there is this scene in 1930, the Republican controlled house of
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representatives in an effort to alleviate the effects of the anyone, anyone, the great
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depression past the anyone, anyone, the tariff bill, the Holly Smoot tariff act, which anyone
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raised or lowered, raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government.
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And the United States sank deeper into the great depression.
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It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue
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Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980?
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Art Laffer, who the Laffer curve is named after.
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So, Art, you are always the most optimistic guy because you have gone into countries that
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What your feeling is with all of the pressures that are, I mean, we're shutting off energy.
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We have a possible banking collapse in our horizon.
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And then what do we, what are the most important things that we should do to encourage Congress
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Well, let me just say the things you listed there, we are in those troubles.
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We do have a very muddled policy of the government.
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And there is a land war in Europe that is going on that's quite serious and is threatening.
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Now, that doesn't mean it has to be true going forward.
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I mean, just when we came into office in January 20th, 1981, Glenn, we had Jimmy Carter.
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We had four presidents, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter.
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The largest assemblage of bipartisan ignorance ever on planet Earth.
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The stock market fell by like 65% in real terms.
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So, we were at the tail end of a really bad hurricane.
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I mean, I'm feeling very depressed about the policies that are going on, as you mentioned.
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And everyone knows all of them every day, all the time.
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You have people flipping you off all around the world.
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But right now, I feel that this is the time for a cataclysmic change in U.S. policies.
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It gives us the opportunity to really change the face of the earth all for the better.
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And I think the election of 2024 portends to be a really good election for truth, beauty, and the American way.
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Now, the Republicans are right now as much a problem as are the Democrats.
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Don't think of this in Republican-Democrat terms.
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Think of this in pro-growth, pro-freedom, tax cut, controlled spending, sound money.
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Think of it in those terms, not in terms of parties.
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So, that's my friend who's trying to buy a car and his wife doesn't know about it.
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So, by the way, have you talked to Ben recently?
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Oh, if you talk to him, say hi to him for me, will you?
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So, Art, can we just take this apart here for just a second?
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Have you seen, and I'm not talking about what we can do, because I do believe if we unleash the ingenuity of the American people, really free them, and then, you know, stop all this insanity, we can rescue our country.
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But have you ever seen us in this kind of situation historically, where we seem to have all of the decks stacked against the Republic?
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I think, you know, when I mentioned 1980, before 80, I think it was all stacked against us.
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I know you were really young then, maybe not even born yet.
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But we didn't have the, we didn't have the debt that we have now.
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But we also didn't have the tax rates then that we have now.
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Our tax rate now, highest income tax rate, 37%.
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You know, we had in 1976, now that's just a little bit before, every single state in the United States except Nevada had a death tax.
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Every single one today, 33 states have gotten rid of their death taxes.
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Lake Erie, back then when I was a kid, to prove that you were the Christ, you wouldn't have to walk on the water.
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And then, you know, we were facing a horrible enemy at that time in 1980.
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You know, Russia wasn't a joke back then like it is now.
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I mean, so, you know, I think these times, we all tend to think of our own time as being the worst ever.
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I don't know if you remember, Democrats hated Republicans like mad.
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There wasn't a libertarian, a private person in the place that wasn't pilloried by the lefties.
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Well, I don't mean to be lecturing at you, but these are very bad times today.
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But bad times lead to great changes in public policy.
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And if you look at the long picture, we're winning.
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The conservatives in this world are winning big time.
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Do you see, and you don't have to name, but do you see one or more politicians that could actually be a Reagan and pull this off?
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You know, the potential here in these people, there are some really qualified people.
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They have flaws and stuff like that, but they move.
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I want to see people who can read and can learn from their own mistakes and other people's mistakes to do a better job.
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Not a doctrinal locked in the mud, you know, type of people.
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He passed all the anti-abortion statutes in the state of California.
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And Reagan became the best president because he learned.
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I see people all over the place that have the potential of being a great president.
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And as a Democrat, let me just put you, there's a guy who's governor of Colorado named Jared Polis, who is doing an amazing job.
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He was right along with the Republican governors.
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You know, he shipped groups of illegal immigrants to Chicago and New York.
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I mean, there are people all around who have the potential of being great.
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So, Art, when you look at what's happening with the Federal Reserve, I mean, you when you were with Reagan, interest rates were 18 or 19 percent, if I remember right.
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Yeah, 21 and a half percent when we took office on January 20th.
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How how when you look at the Fed and they were saying, oh, this is transitory and now it's not.
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And you've got the banking crisis that's that's just underlying everything right now.
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That should tell you they're freaking out now about inflation.
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Well, I think there's a difference today than there was then.
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The Fed has made huge mistakes of keeping interest rates at zero percent for a long, long, long, long, long, long time.
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And banks have developed their portfolio strategies, all their actions based upon zero interest rates.
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So now once they've made the mistake of thinking the world is zero interest and they've got those portfolios, there is no way we can adjust back to market rates without having grave ramifications.
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And the banking system and other financial institutions as well.
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So how do we how do we get out of the business of controlling interest rates, the better off we'll be.
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Not not some Jay Powell, who is the credentials are nothing like Volcker's or Greenspan or McChesney Martins.
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I mean, these people are not the competent gravitas people of the past.
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You now have the central bank of Switzerland guaranteeing Credit Suisse.
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Germany, central bank said, you know, if there's problems with Deutsche Bank.
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If I remember correctly, you told me once that you were an alcoholic and you got rid of it.
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What is it when you have a state running monetary system, which it should not be there when you have a state running every tax, every government spending?
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One's been a lifelong smoker and the other one's never had a cigarette.
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And you ask them both to not smoke for the next three months for the guy who's never had a cigarette.
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The guy who's the three-pack-a-day smoker, oh, my God, it's the end of the world.
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We have allowed ourselves to be addicted to socialist economic policies over the last 20-plus years.
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And I know of only one way of getting back to free markets is doing it right now.
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I mean, we have a budget proposed of $6.9 trillion.
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All of these things, Glenn, need to be stopped.
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Now, when we got in, we went a little cold turkey with you.
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If you remember 1981, 82, 83, it wasn't the prettiest period.
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But tell me how you liked the story and the ending of that story.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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It is so clear and so obvious, and no one is really talking about it.
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Bill, the U.S. attorney nominee that Joe Biden just put up is a guy who was in the District of Pennsylvania,
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and while the Delaware's U.S. attorney's office was investigating this health care company,
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Well, that case and the defrauding of the health care company,
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the guy who was accused of defrauding it is Jim Biden,
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and he had been interviewed by this lawyer several times.
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Now, the last person that he nominated was, let's see, Chung, Cindy Chung.
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She was confirmed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Chung, whom President Biden had nominated for the federal appellate court,
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had been overseeing the criminal investigation into the bankrupt health care business AmeriCorps,
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a business Jim Biden allegedly siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from,
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Well, we need Elliot Ness to come on in, don't we?
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for people listening to the Glenn Beck radio program,
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Holly, not at all, we all know about Jim Biden, okay?
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But anyway, does anybody, and I'm asking this seriously,
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not think the Biden administration is corrupt at this point in history?
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Is there anybody who doesn't think so, besides Joey Bayar?
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I mean, it's so, but then the frustration comes back,
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and then people write to you, they write to me,
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because 80 million Americans voted for Joe Biden.
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And, you know, you get what you pay for when you go to the store,
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how many people research congresspeople's background.
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and I voted for him because the guy he ran against
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So I got, you know, I really don't want a far-left loon representing me.
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So I vote for George Santos, who turns out to be Dracula.
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I can mock him on the radio and television, which I do,
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Okay, I know people who hate Trump, still hate him.
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You know, when I had my supper with Trump last week,
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What is the difference between dinner and supper?
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But I went over some questions that I needed to know
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That was what the O'Reilly-Trump history tour was all about.
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And now we got an update with Putin and Xi and the cartels.
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Look, you may hate Donald Trump with, you know, a passion,
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And he governed, in my opinion, in a responsible manner.
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Now, once he starts on the road to, you know, ranking out,
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But by just as an administrator and trying to get the country in a strong position,
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But you'll never get that from the corporate media or the people who hate him.
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So, if he, I mean, he's, you know, running again.
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I really, I mean, he's a symbol of, I want to fight back.
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You know, he's almost been adopted as people's proxy in some way.
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Every time he's hit, they feel the hit that they've taken.
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And I can guarantee you that there will be so much emotion in that speech.
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I mean, just today, he called Alvin Bragg a demented psychopath or something like that.
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So, you know, Trump will give the red meat speech.
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But if you look at the crowd that goes there tomorrow in Texas to see him, they have emotion invested in the man.
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One, if he gets the nomination, do you think he can gain anyone who wasn't on his side last time?
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So, the independents who don't necessarily hate him, but are not approving of his demeanor, they got to go to the grocery store.
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And then, depending on who he picks as vice president, and I hope it's DeSantis, even though now they're slinging mud at each other again.
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And I told him flat out, I was cutting my Dover soul.
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I looked up and I said, you want to get back in that Oval Office?
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He's got to move up to Georgia, rent a little condo, and you guys have got to run together.
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If he wants to be president, that's your best shot.
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If you put Carrie Lake on the second, you'll lose.
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But at one in the morning, I'm not sure the reality zone is there.
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And is there anything that is bad enough to open this lead up?
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If the recession kicks in, you've already seen Amazon and Apple and Meta and all these people
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And you're going to see that, unfortunately, and I say that sincerely.
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So this time next year, and we'll have four or five primaries already under our belt.
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If the country goes into recession, there's even more pain at the grocery store than Trump gains.
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And I want you to join you and Stu, Team Normal, on BillOReilly.com.
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And I guess as part of BillOReilly.com, you're getting these insights of private meetings