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00:00:00.400 I gotta, I gotta get out of here as soon as we're done with this, because I got lots of

00:00:06.560 stuff going on today.

00:00:07.820 What is that mean?

00:00:10.260 What are you, what are you doing?

00:00:11.320 You have a hot air balloon you're going up in, you can only do it in early morning.

00:00:15.960 Yes, and I will be doing drugs on it and partying.

00:00:18.620 Really?

00:00:18.980 Yes, with Hunter Biden.

00:00:20.760 Wow.

00:00:21.200 Yeah, so it's the big hot air balloon party with Hunter Biden today for me. 1.00

00:00:25.740 And the captain, if you can call him that, is a hooker. 1.00

00:00:28.340 A Russian hooker. 1.00

00:00:29.640 Yes, yeah. 1.00

00:00:30.280 And his name is Y.

00:00:31.040 Please don't shoot down any balloons.

00:00:33.480 No, please do.

00:00:34.280 If I'm actually up there doing that, please shoot it down immediately.

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00:01:46.240 At important meetings in 21 and 22, powerful leaders from government, finance, media, business,

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00:04:11.660 Let's go through a couple of other things.

00:04:14.640 Just read this story.

00:04:17.880 Asteroid, the size of 22 tuna, fly closer to Earth than the moon.

00:04:25.800 Now, I don't know what the hell's happening, but I've never measured things by the size of tuna.

00:04:40.260 I don't know.

00:04:41.340 Tuna could be the size of a car, size of a suitcase.

00:04:45.260 I don't know the size of tuna.

00:04:47.460 I have no idea.

00:04:48.600 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?

00:04:58.620 I mean, we just have to hope that it's not a Costco, you know, economy-sized can of tuna.

00:05:03.980 Right.

00:05:04.480 That could blow up the entire world.

00:05:06.840 I mean, we, I mean, I was just starting to get down with the measuring of asteroids by the size of camels.

00:05:15.260 Remember that came out?

00:05:16.080 That was weird, too.

00:05:17.120 What the hell is going on?

00:05:19.320 I'm telling you, aliens have taken over and they're like, yeah, it's about the size of 22 tuna.

00:05:25.180 That's what they say, right?

00:05:26.420 That's what the humans, they measure by tuna?

00:05:28.300 No, I thought it was camels. 0.98

00:05:29.660 What the hell?

00:05:30.500 It's tuna or camels. 0.63

00:05:31.740 We know that.

00:05:32.640 Those are the two competing systems, like English and metric.

00:05:35.060 You got tuna and camels.

00:05:36.140 That's the only way people understand things.

00:05:37.900 I mean, if you said three Mustangs, I would go, okay, we're not talking about horses.

00:05:43.980 I don't think we're talking about cars, right?

00:05:47.320 Couldn't you just say three cars?

00:05:48.900 Yes, you could.

00:05:49.880 Yes, you could.

00:05:50.500 Three cars would make sense.

00:05:51.580 Yes, you could.

00:05:52.600 How many tunas is this thing? 1.00

00:05:54.200 22.

00:05:54.840 22 tuna?

00:05:55.420 22 tuna.

00:05:56.120 There's got to be something that's 22 times the size of a tuna.

00:05:59.900 It's like.

00:06:00.300 That would be better to summarize this.

00:06:01.820 It's like Noah's Ark.

00:06:03.680 You know, cubits.

00:06:05.220 How big is a cubit?

00:06:06.100 I don't know.

00:06:06.840 Compare it to a tuna.

00:06:07.680 How many tunas does this ship need to be? 1.00

00:06:10.120 Anyway, did you see the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro?

00:06:14.240 Dead.

00:06:15.540 As of January 2024.

00:06:18.520 Going to be electric.

00:06:20.360 So the last ones are coming off the line this year.

00:06:25.280 It'll be the 2024, but the last one off the line is January 2024, which I hate.

00:06:31.780 And have you seen the SRT Demon?

00:06:35.320 Yes.

00:06:35.620 The Challenger?

00:06:36.620 Yeah, the Dodge Challenger Demon SRT.

00:06:40.780 Yeah.

00:06:41.020 There's like five names there, but man, that thing's impressive.

00:06:44.380 Let me just say, if you happen to be in the car business and you have a lot coming in,

00:06:54.080 a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, I know a customer, his name kind of sounds like Len Eck, which

00:07:06.120 is weird.

00:07:07.380 And for anybody who might, maybe my wife listening, I am not saying for me.

00:07:13.380 You say you know someone.

00:07:14.420 I know somebody who would like one of these and can't find one of these.

00:07:20.060 And I'm just saying, you should call 888-727-BCK so I could pass your information as a dealer

00:07:27.840 on to this friend.

00:07:31.100 That friend.

00:07:31.640 Yeah.

00:07:31.780 Yeah.

00:07:32.000 I think they don't go on sale until Monday.

00:07:34.360 I think it's the 27th.

00:07:36.000 I mean, I've already, I've called around and everybody's like, I mean, my friend has called

00:07:40.280 around.

00:07:40.940 Oh, you called around for your friend.

00:07:42.420 Yeah.

00:07:42.960 Yeah.

00:07:43.400 And he said he was calling around like, let me get on the phone.

00:07:46.420 Maybe that'll, you know, sway some.

00:07:48.300 No, no.

00:07:49.360 Because they're only making 3,000 of these things.

00:07:51.300 3,000.

00:07:51.900 1,025 horsepower, I believe.

00:07:54.420 Yeah.

00:07:55.840 It is zero to 60.

00:07:58.480 Not zero, actually.

00:07:59.560 Rolling start to 60 in 1.66 seconds.

00:08:03.920 Okay.

00:08:06.580 Holy cow. 0.89

00:08:07.380 It comes with a parachute.

00:08:10.200 I mean, we, how can we abandon this technology when we're just getting good at it?

00:08:14.700 Just pisses me off.

00:08:15.440 Like, we're just nailing the combustion engine and having it do incredible things.

00:08:19.700 We're like, oh, let's just bail completely.

00:08:21.440 I know.

00:08:21.960 It just, it drives me out of my mind.

00:08:24.460 It really drives me out of my mind.

00:08:26.540 Everybody, did you see that Ford just lost $2 billion in 2022 because of EVs?

00:08:35.900 They're electric vehicles.

00:08:36.860 That division lost $2 billion.

00:08:43.720 I mean, that's, you know.

00:08:46.480 And it's, by the way, there was a big story that I think might have been in the Times as

00:08:49.560 well talking about the effects on local economies because of the electric cars.

00:08:56.720 These areas that have been built on parts manufacturing and all of this are just being

00:09:02.260 destroyed.

00:09:02.780 And look, you know, as a guy who likes innovation, that is part of capitalism.

00:09:07.240 It does happen when you have new technology.

00:09:09.500 But what usually is the reason for it is you have new superior technology, technology that

00:09:15.200 people are choosing and want and desire, and therefore the older industry goes away.

00:09:19.860 That's not what's happening here.

00:09:21.240 No.

00:09:21.560 It's not like people are choosing, like, I got to have an electric car.

00:09:23.620 Some people are, and they're great.

00:09:25.060 Some of them are incredible cars.

00:09:26.880 But like, I, you know, I really like the Tesla.

00:09:29.820 I don't own a Tesla because it's impossible to recharge if you're going on a long trip.

00:09:37.740 And I like to drive cross country.

00:09:39.820 So I'm not buying a Tesla.

00:09:42.040 You know, you get something where it is, you know, I'm able to go someplace and I can,

00:09:46.780 you know, stop at a electric fueling station and it takes me, you know, 10 minutes to recharge

00:09:52.480 it.

00:09:53.040 I'm good.

00:09:54.360 But no, I don't think the technology is.

00:09:57.260 I also don't like the fact that, you know, you can burn up in your car, but those two

00:10:04.120 things, you know, I'm good with it.

00:10:06.420 This is, this is, this is insane.

00:10:09.620 We do not have the transmission lines to be able to deliver this kind of electricity.

00:10:18.100 California leads the country in number of electric vehicles.

00:10:23.440 You already have brownouts and blackouts. 0.97

00:10:28.200 What are you crazy?

00:10:29.920 Where are you going to get the electric, the electricity? 0.98

00:10:33.640 Where is that coming?

00:10:36.580 I mean, you're, you already don't have enough.

00:10:40.560 It's just, I mean, it makes absolutely no sense.

00:10:45.420 You seem frustrated.

00:10:46.440 Almost as frustrated as I am trying to figure out what the average length of a tuna is, which

00:10:51.800 is, I, I've been trying to do this entire time and they range from, let's see, 4.6 feet

00:11:00.840 to 9.8 feet.

00:11:05.140 For an adult male, these are larger tuna, obviously.

00:11:10.500 So we don't know if it's male or female.

00:11:12.040 We don't know.

00:11:12.820 But like, is it an albacore at 4.6 feet?

00:11:16.020 Is it a Pacific bluefin tuna at 9.8 feet?

00:11:19.380 That's incredibly important here, right?

00:11:22.400 You're talking about doubling the size of this asteroid.

00:11:25.780 We have no idea if this asteroid is a blue, Pacific blue, albacore tuna or Pacific bluefin

00:11:34.200 tuna.

00:11:34.580 Bluefin tuna.

00:11:35.100 We have no idea what could possibly hit the earth today.

00:11:39.440 No idea the size of it.

00:11:40.820 It's 22 times that.

00:11:42.400 So that's a lot.

00:11:43.620 That's a lot.

00:11:44.460 I mean, you're, you're, is it 22 times 4 or 22 times 3 or 22 times 10?

00:11:50.040 If it hits earth, I hope it lands on my house.

00:11:52.280 I mean, and me in it, not my family, just me, just take me out.

00:11:58.520 Your family agrees.

00:11:59.700 Yeah, I know they do, but Dodge, Dodge dealers, they do not agree.

00:12:05.900 They don't make decisions for Len Eck.

00:12:07.660 No, they, they don't.

00:12:09.200 Oh, he's a totally different person.

00:12:10.860 He wants one of these SRT demons like crazy.

00:12:15.320 So you should call and I'll pass your number on to Len Eck.

00:12:20.680 And, uh, good dude, that Len Eck, he is a good dude, good dude, good dude.

00:12:25.840 Keeping America running by buying one of these Dodge, you know, cause they may, they may not

00:12:31.500 sell out.

00:12:32.300 Would this be something, now this is something, a totally different conversation.

00:12:35.120 I hate to bring it up here, but like, would this be something your wife would oppose if

00:12:38.880 you wanted one?

00:12:39.700 Now I know you don't, but I'm saying if, if I wanted one, no, she would be, are you kidding

00:12:46.180 me? 0.99

00:12:46.480 I wish he'd kill me. 0.99

00:12:48.360 That's why I don't want one. 0.99

00:12:50.380 No, I don't, I know.

00:12:50.980 I know you don't want one.

00:12:51.680 Yeah.

00:12:51.920 But I would like a Dodge dealer that has access to one just to call.

00:12:58.640 Cause my friend might buy one.

00:13:01.260 Probably pretty done deal on that one, but he'd have to talk to his wife, but his wife 0.98

00:13:07.820 is so cool.

00:13:09.340 Anyway, 888-727-BECK.

00:13:12.520 Welcome to the, uh, right.

00:13:14.600 You can't design it from scratch, but that your friend Len, right.

00:13:17.540 Len Eck could do it.

00:13:19.440 Vaughn in Oklahoma is on, you are, uh, you're with a Dodge dealership.

00:13:24.660 Yeah, that's right.

00:13:25.460 I was, uh, I was calling to maybe get in touch with this friend of yours.

00:13:30.020 Yeah.

00:13:30.240 Now, uh, you'll have to be careful cause his wife doesn't know about this.

00:13:35.580 Okay.

00:13:35.700 We'll keep it between, uh, keep it between and any friend of, uh, Len X wife, you'll 0.90

00:13:43.340 be dead to me. 0.96

00:13:44.340 If you tell his wife, you tell his wife about this, why would he, why would, why would 0.99

00:13:48.500 you care?

00:13:49.040 I'm just a good friend with him.

00:13:50.440 Just a good friend.

00:13:51.320 And just might, you know, he'll break it to his wife slowly.

00:13:55.080 Um, anyway, uh, he'll talk about how much money they're saving by buying this.

00:14:00.580 Oh, okay.

00:14:01.080 You see what you see?

00:14:02.620 Right.

00:14:04.100 Yeah.

00:14:04.640 Yeah.

00:14:04.820 Yeah.

00:14:05.040 So you, you have some allocated.

00:14:07.980 We do.

00:14:08.840 We have two, uh, allocated to our store.

00:14:11.380 Okay.

00:14:11.940 And, uh, I think one of them, uh, might've had a customer's name on it that rhymed with

00:14:16.900 Len X.

00:14:18.440 I don't know. 1.00

00:14:19.280 Shut up. 0.99

00:14:20.420 Well, I've heard this guy, this friend of yours occasionally misspells his name and it 1.00

00:14:25.600 looks like your name.

00:14:26.780 It's very similar. 1.00

00:14:27.740 That bastard only does it on contracts. 0.99

00:14:29.840 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:14:31.000 Yeah.

00:14:31.600 Yeah.

00:14:32.120 Yeah.

00:14:32.420 Yeah.

00:14:32.440 So, uh, Vaughn, um, uh, we're going to get your phone number and then my friend may

00:14:39.000 call you later about this.

00:14:41.460 Uh, now he sounds like me, but don't be fooled.

00:14:44.220 Okay.

00:14:44.600 Don't let him pull a prank on you like that.

00:14:46.860 Absolutely.

00:14:47.520 No, we'll, we'll make sure that, uh, that you properly identify this individual.

00:14:51.860 So for people that are, are looking to buy one of these are, um, do you get to design

00:14:59.380 them or are they just coming?

00:15:02.520 No, they're just coming.

00:15:03.980 They're just coming.

00:15:04.640 No, they're, they're, they're what's called the last call.

00:15:06.800 It's the last time they're going to make this engine.

00:15:09.760 Right.

00:15:10.020 But I mean, there's no, there's no features that you can upgrade.

00:15:13.420 Right.

00:15:14.240 Can you do that?

00:15:15.740 Not, no, not at the moment.

00:15:17.860 Wow.

00:15:18.180 Okay.

00:15:18.900 Hmm.

00:15:19.280 All right.

00:15:19.800 Interesting.

00:15:20.420 Because they're set for a set amount.

00:15:22.960 Uh, and I believe if I'm not mistaken, only 1500 are coming to the U S 3000.

00:15:28.940 I think it was 3000, 3000 total in the U S 300 in Canada.

00:15:34.260 I think 300 in Canada.

00:15:35.860 Right.

00:15:36.340 So, so they're coming as Dodge builds them.

00:15:39.280 They're not, they're not customized.

00:15:40.920 Okay.

00:15:41.640 All right.

00:15:42.760 Okay.

00:15:43.080 Well, he'll call you or somebody from his office.

00:15:45.660 Cause sometimes they get very busy in his office.

00:15:48.780 He's a, I don't know what he does, but, uh, so, you know, and if he's, he happens to

00:15:54.500 be a, you know, a short drive from Oklahoma city.

00:15:56.660 I don't know that it's weird.

00:15:58.440 I think he lives by Oklahoma city or yeah.

00:16:01.480 Or near Oklahoma, right?

00:16:03.940 He lives right near Oklahoma city.

00:16:07.300 Yeah.

00:16:07.660 I mean, it was meant to be.

00:16:09.440 Yeah.

00:16:09.780 It was.

00:16:10.620 All right, Vaughn.

00:16:11.820 We should get, we should get Vaughn's information.

00:16:13.420 Yeah.

00:16:13.640 We should at least say what the dealership is.

00:16:15.460 What is your dealership?

00:16:16.880 What dealership?

00:16:17.720 Bob Howard Dodge.

00:16:18.960 Bob Howard Dodge in Oklahoma city has one, uh, challenger.

00:16:27.140 Wow.

00:16:27.360 Has one been sold?

00:16:28.220 Yeah.

00:16:29.080 Apparently.

00:16:29.840 I don't know.

00:16:30.420 Yeah.

00:16:30.580 The guy, he said it was already had a name on it.

00:16:32.740 So, uh, thank you so much, Vaughn.

00:16:34.520 Hang on.

00:16:34.920 I want to make sure we have your, your information and we will, uh, I'll have my friend reach out

00:16:39.500 to you.

00:16:39.860 So you said yourself, is anybody, does anybody have any advice on how to remain married when

00:16:52.540 you have to tell your wife, you want a challenger is, has anybody done that successfully?

00:17:02.320 Uh, love to hear from you.

00:17:09.440 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:12.400 So, um, probably anybody who is my generation or, or a little, uh, younger, uh, their favorite

00:17:26.180 movie is Ferris Bueller.

00:17:28.920 And in Ferris Bueller, there is this scene in 1930, the Republican controlled house of

00:17:36.760 representatives in an effort to alleviate the effects of the anyone, anyone, the great

00:17:42.940 depression past the anyone, anyone, the tariff bill, the Holly Smoot tariff act, which anyone

00:17:55.100 raised or lowered, raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government.

00:18:03.220 Did it work?

00:18:04.100 Anyone?

00:18:04.700 Anyone know the effects?

00:18:06.760 It did not work.

00:18:07.900 And the United States sank deeper into the great depression.

00:18:11.500 Today, we have a similar debate over this.

00:18:14.120 Anyone know what this is class?

00:18:16.140 Anyone?

00:18:17.900 Anyone?

00:18:18.860 Anyone seen this before?

00:18:20.580 The laugher curve.

00:18:22.060 Anyone know what this says?

00:18:23.920 It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue

00:18:30.900 as at this point, this is very controversial.

00:18:35.240 Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980?

00:18:39.400 Anyone?

00:18:41.360 Something D-O-O economics.

00:18:44.640 Voodoo economics.

00:18:46.360 Okay.

00:18:47.160 Art Laffer, who the Laffer curve is named after.

00:18:51.220 Welcome to the program.

00:18:52.440 Hi, Art.

00:18:52.860 Thank you.

00:18:53.280 It's so good talking to you, Glenn.

00:18:54.960 You're a hero of mine.

00:18:56.420 Thank you.

00:18:57.120 You are mine as well.

00:18:58.680 So, Art, you are always the most optimistic guy because you have gone into countries that

00:19:06.660 have collapsed and turned it around.

00:19:10.300 So, I know we can do it.

00:19:12.460 I'd like to ask a couple of things.

00:19:15.200 What your feeling is with all of the pressures that are, I mean, we're shutting off energy.

00:19:22.420 We are on the verge of a war.

00:19:25.900 I hope to God not.

00:19:27.020 We have a possible banking collapse in our horizon.

00:19:32.560 I hope to God not.

00:19:35.480 And inflation.

00:19:37.560 So, what is your outlook?

00:19:40.020 And then what do we, what are the most important things that we should do to encourage Congress

00:19:45.920 and look for in the next president?

00:19:48.180 Well, let me just say the things you listed there, we are in those troubles.

00:19:52.260 We do have a banking crisis.

00:19:53.720 We do have inflation.

00:19:55.480 We do have a very muddled policy of the government.

00:19:58.880 And there is a land war in Europe that is going on that's quite serious and is threatening.

00:20:03.760 All those true.

00:20:04.740 Now, that doesn't mean it has to be true going forward.

00:20:07.060 I mean, just when we came into office in January 20th, 1981, Glenn, we had Jimmy Carter.

00:20:13.260 We had four presidents, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter.

00:20:16.520 What I call the four stooges. 0.96

00:20:19.020 The largest assemblage of bipartisan ignorance ever on planet Earth. 0.98

00:20:23.320 The economy had tumbled.

00:20:24.480 The stock market had fallen from 1966 to 1982.

00:20:29.800 The stock market fell by like 65% in real terms.

00:20:34.380 So, we were at the tail end of a really bad hurricane.

00:20:38.200 But we could turn it around.

00:20:39.400 And I think right now is the same way.

00:20:41.760 I mean, I'm feeling very depressed about the policies that are going on, as you mentioned.

00:20:45.520 And everyone knows all of them every day, all the time.

00:20:48.380 Biden wants more taxes.

00:20:49.900 His budget, $6.9 trillion.

00:20:52.100 You have people flipping you off all around the world.

00:20:54.260 It is a bad picture.

00:20:56.060 But right now, I feel that this is the time for a cataclysmic change in U.S. policies.

00:21:02.360 It gives us the opportunity to really change the face of the earth all for the better.

00:21:07.320 And I think the election of 2024 portends to be a really good election for truth, beauty, and the American way.

00:21:13.800 That's me talking.

00:21:15.020 Now, the Republicans are right now as much a problem as are the Democrats.

00:21:19.280 Don't think of this in Republican-Democrat terms.

00:21:21.680 Think of this in pro-growth, pro-freedom, tax cut, controlled spending, sound money.

00:21:27.440 Think of it in those terms, not in terms of parties.

00:21:30.260 And I think we can do it, Ben.

00:21:32.200 I mean, Glenn.

00:21:32.640 So, that's my friend who's trying to buy a car and his wife doesn't know about it.

00:21:38.320 No, I was thinking of Ben Stein.

00:21:40.320 Play that video, that clip.

00:21:42.920 Sorry.

00:21:43.020 So, that's all right.

00:21:43.920 So, by the way, have you talked to Ben recently?

00:21:47.060 He's such a great guy.

00:21:47.980 I have.

00:21:48.000 I talked to him about six months ago.

00:21:50.080 I spent a lot of time with him.

00:21:51.240 Yeah.

00:21:51.500 And he wasn't doing well at the time.

00:21:53.080 He was not well.

00:21:54.360 Oh, if you talk to him, say hi to him for me, will you?

00:21:56.480 I sure will.

00:21:57.340 He's a great guy.

00:21:58.300 Great guy.

00:21:59.140 Such a great guy.

00:22:00.520 All right.

00:22:00.900 So, Art, can we just take this apart here for just a second?

00:22:04.720 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.

00:22:23.460 I agree with that.

00:22:24.340 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?

00:22:38.180 Yeah.

00:22:38.500 I think, you know, when I mentioned 1980, before 80, I think it was all stacked against us.

00:22:43.420 It was really depressing, Glenn.

00:22:44.820 I know you were really young then, maybe not even born yet.

00:22:47.700 No, I was.

00:22:48.820 But the world was really grisly.

00:22:51.420 It was dark.

00:22:52.160 It was grim.

00:22:52.800 But we didn't have the, we didn't have the debt that we have now.

00:22:58.300 We don't, we didn't have the.

00:22:59.920 Oh, there are differences.

00:23:01.020 They're true.

00:23:01.420 But we also didn't have the tax rates then that we have now.

00:23:04.000 Our tax rate now, highest income tax rate, 37%.

00:23:07.360 Back then, it was 70%, Glenn.

00:23:09.860 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.

00:23:20.360 Every single one today, 33 states have gotten rid of their death taxes.

00:23:24.900 So, there are lots of things.

00:23:26.240 I mean, pollution.

00:23:27.240 I come from Cleveland, Ohio.

00:23:28.820 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.

00:23:33.600 Hell, anyone could do that.

00:23:34.820 You know, we had smog in L.A.

00:23:38.500 We had like 25, three-stage smog alerts.

00:23:43.240 And then, you know, we were facing a horrible enemy at that time in 1980.

00:23:47.860 You know, Russia wasn't a joke back then like it is now. 0.95

00:23:51.380 I mean, so, you know, I think these times, we all tend to think of our own time as being the worst ever.

00:23:56.940 But it's just as bad back then.

00:23:59.160 And partisanship was horrible post-Nixon.

00:24:02.320 I don't know if you remember, Democrats hated Republicans like mad. 0.88

00:24:05.520 They wanted to kill every Republican.

00:24:07.580 It was just like it is now.

00:24:10.340 I mean, there wasn't a civil libertarian.

00:24:12.120 There wasn't a libertarian, a private person in the place that wasn't pilloried by the lefties.

00:24:19.320 And that's the same thing now.

00:24:20.740 Crime was horrendously high back then.

00:24:23.340 Well, I don't mean to be lecturing at you, but these are very bad times today.

00:24:28.820 But bad times lead to great changes in public policy.

00:24:32.900 And if you look at the long picture, we're winning.

00:24:35.100 We're not losing.

00:24:36.040 The conservatives in this world are winning big time.

00:24:38.440 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?

00:24:51.760 I see tons of them who could be.

00:24:54.360 You know, the potential here in these people, there are some really qualified people.

00:24:59.240 They have flaws and stuff like that, but they move.

00:25:01.960 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.

00:25:07.840 Not a doctrinal locked in the mud, you know, type of people.

00:25:11.660 Reagan learned a lot when he was governor.

00:25:13.640 He was the biggest tax increase or ever.

00:25:15.380 He passed all the anti-abortion statutes in the state of California.

00:25:18.960 He chaired the Equal Rights Amendment.

00:25:20.600 He was a union leader.

00:25:21.700 It called nationwide strikes.

00:25:23.300 And Reagan became the best president because he learned.

00:25:26.240 But I see people like DeSantis.

00:25:27.720 I see people like Cruz.

00:25:29.180 I see people, even Trump.

00:25:30.880 I see people all over the place that have the potential of being a great president.

00:25:34.480 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.

00:25:43.740 He did not do a lockdown in Colorado.

00:25:46.860 He did not.

00:25:47.940 He was right along with the Republican governors.

00:25:50.180 He wants to get rid of the income tax there.

00:25:52.360 He's cut property taxes.

00:25:54.240 You know, he shipped groups of illegal immigrants to Chicago and New York.

00:25:58.500 I mean, there are people all around who have the potential of being great.

00:26:03.420 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.

00:26:15.940 Yeah, 21 and a half percent when we took office on January 20th.

00:26:19.000 There you go.

00:26:19.900 Twenty one.

00:26:20.940 Twenty one would miss the half.

00:26:22.640 I know.

00:26:23.460 Twenty one and a half.

00:26:24.780 You are. 0.98

00:26:25.780 That would kill everything in America today.

00:26:30.040 How how when you look at the Fed and they were saying, oh, this is transitory and now it's not.

00:26:35.660 And you've got the banking crisis that's that's just underlying everything right now.

00:26:40.860 And they still raise the rates.

00:26:42.960 That should tell you they're freaking out now about inflation.

00:26:47.380 Is that true or not?

00:26:48.380 Well, I think there's a difference today than there was then.

00:26:51.620 And let me do the one today.

00:26:53.380 The Fed has made huge mistakes of keeping interest rates at zero percent for a long, long, long, long, long, long time.

00:26:59.420 And banks have developed their portfolio strategies, all their actions based upon zero interest rates.

00:27:05.400 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.

00:27:16.080 And the banking system and other financial institutions as well.

00:27:19.620 So how do we how do we get out of the business of controlling interest rates, the better off we'll be.

00:27:25.480 So that's the market should do that.

00:27:27.040 Not not some Jay Powell, who is the credentials are nothing like Volcker's or Greenspan or McChesney Martins.

00:27:34.200 I mean, these people are not the competent gravitas people of the past.

00:27:38.020 You now have the central bank of Switzerland guaranteeing Credit Suisse.

00:27:46.000 Germany, central bank said, you know, if there's problems with Deutsche Bank.

00:27:51.060 And so everybody is doing this.

00:27:53.540 How do you reverse that?

00:27:55.880 Yeah, I know.

00:27:56.560 It's tough once you once you're in the suit.

00:27:58.400 It's like this is an example.

00:28:00.180 If I remember correctly, you told me once that you were an alcoholic and you got rid of it.

00:28:04.620 And, you know, it's going cold turkey.

00:28:08.240 You know, you got to stop drinking.

00:28:10.660 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?

00:28:17.580 Just stop already.

00:28:19.400 You know, two people standing there, Glenn.

00:28:21.820 One's been a lifelong smoker and the other one's never had a cigarette.

00:28:25.560 And you ask them both to not smoke for the next three months for the guy who's never had a cigarette.

00:28:30.200 That's fine.

00:28:30.760 Let's go.

00:28:31.280 I'm fine with that.

00:28:32.160 The guy who's the three-pack-a-day smoker, oh, my God, it's the end of the world.

00:28:36.360 We have allowed ourselves to be addicted to socialist economic policies over the last 20-plus years.

00:28:43.400 And it's wreaking havoc on the U.S.

00:28:45.960 How do we get back to free markets?

00:28:48.520 And I know of only one way of getting back to free markets is doing it right now.

00:28:52.780 The Fed's balance sheet is almost $9 trillion.

00:28:56.340 I know.

00:28:56.960 I mean, we have a budget proposed of $6.9 trillion.

00:29:00.400 We have a national debt of 125% of GDP.

00:29:04.360 All of these things, Glenn, need to be stopped.

00:29:07.360 Now, how do you stop it?

00:29:09.680 You know, you stop it by going cold turkey.

00:29:11.500 Now, when we got in, we went a little cold turkey with you.

00:29:14.600 If you remember 1981, 82, 83, it wasn't the prettiest period.

00:29:18.280 No, it wasn't.

00:29:18.760 But tell me how you liked the story and the ending of that story.

00:29:21.300 I did.

00:29:21.640 Wasn't it beautiful?

00:29:22.240 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:32.700 That's amazing.

00:29:35.140 The corruption is just startling to me.

00:29:39.860 It is so clear and so obvious, and no one is really talking about it.

00:29:44.840 It's just all about politics.

00:29:46.500 Bill O'Reilly joins us.

00:29:48.780 Bill, the U.S. attorney nominee that Joe Biden just put up is a guy who was in the District of Pennsylvania,

00:30:00.480 and while the Delaware's U.S. attorney's office was investigating this health care company,

00:30:11.740 he was the guy who was working on that case.

00:30:16.680 Well, that case and the defrauding of the health care company,

00:30:20.280 the guy who was accused of defrauding it is Jim Biden,

00:30:23.600 and he had been interviewed by this lawyer several times.

00:30:31.860 Now, the last person that he nominated was, let's see, Chung, Cindy Chung. 0.98

00:30:39.340 She was confirmed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:30:43.060 Chung, whom President Biden had nominated for the federal appellate court,

00:30:46.480 had been overseeing the criminal investigation into the bankrupt health care business AmeriCorps,

00:30:51.980 a business Jim Biden allegedly siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from,

00:30:57.080 to finance repairs for his beach house.

00:31:01.120 I mean, what is going on there?

00:31:04.140 Two attorneys?

00:31:04.620 Well, we need Elliot Ness to come on in, don't we?

00:31:10.420 Boy, we do.

00:31:11.500 You know, look, I don't think at this point,

00:31:14.120 for people listening to the Glenn Beck radio program,

00:31:16.880 and you've got my corgi all upset now.

00:31:20.140 I'm sorry, didn't mean to mention Jim Biden.

00:31:22.860 Holly, not at all, we all know about Jim Biden, okay?

00:31:25.420 Holly apparently did not know about Jim Biden.

00:31:27.940 Yeah, it's a shock when you hear it.

00:31:29.480 Yeah, and so she's really upset.

00:31:31.840 But anyway, does anybody, and I'm asking this seriously,

00:31:37.140 not think the Biden administration is corrupt at this point in history?

00:31:41.100 Is there anybody who doesn't think so, besides Joey Bayar?

00:31:46.280 I mean, it's so, but then the frustration comes back,

00:31:51.520 and then people write to you, they write to me,

00:31:53.740 well, what can we do about it?

00:31:56.880 And the answer is nothing,

00:31:59.720 because 80 million Americans voted for Joe Biden.

00:32:03.220 And, you know, you get what you pay for when you go to the store,

00:32:10.040 and you get who you vote for.

00:32:13.340 So my congressman is George Santos.

00:32:16.760 I voted for George Santos, right?

00:32:20.760 I mean, I didn't know, you know,

00:32:25.200 how many people research congresspeople's background.

00:32:29.320 I never met him, but he's my congressman,

00:32:33.580 and I voted for him because the guy he ran against

00:32:36.140 was a far-left loon, Zimmerman, okay?

00:32:39.540 So I got, you know, I really don't want a far-left loon representing me.

00:32:44.780 So I vote for George Santos, who turns out to be Dracula.

00:32:49.620 I mean, so what can I do about it?

00:32:53.540 I can mock him on the radio and television, which I do,

00:32:57.740 but votes are votes.

00:33:00.880 So yesterday, an AP poll comes out.

00:33:05.040 Joe Biden's approval rating is at 38%.

00:33:08.060 Now, I don't know anybody among those 38.

00:33:12.400 Do you know anybody who's voting?

00:33:14.060 I don't.

00:33:14.880 Okay, I know people who hate Trump, still hate him.

00:33:17.640 Yeah.

00:33:17.880 And still won't repudiate their Biden vote

00:33:20.500 because they hate Trump so much.

00:33:22.600 I know people like that.

00:33:24.060 I do.

00:33:24.420 But I don't know anyone who goes,

00:33:26.940 I want that Joe Biden to run again.

00:33:29.660 I'm doing them a little Muhammad Ali. 0.95

00:33:31.180 Oh, Joe Biden to run again, okay?

00:33:34.300 He's the greatest.

00:33:36.020 Right.

00:33:36.820 So we all know.

00:33:39.320 The country knows.

00:33:40.880 But here's the key question.

00:33:42.640 Will the country learn?

00:33:45.620 And I'm sorry, but I don't think so.

00:33:48.200 We're just too poisoned with ideology,

00:33:51.520 too emotional now.

00:33:52.840 We don't step back and really understand

00:33:55.920 that you have to vote competency.

00:33:59.120 You know, when I had my supper with Trump last week,

00:34:02.480 last Tuesday,

00:34:04.120 number one, he paid for supper,

00:34:07.020 and it was good at Ma'a Lago.

00:34:08.900 There's good food there.

00:34:10.120 May I ask, are you a hobbit?

00:34:12.500 What is the difference between dinner and supper?

00:34:14.880 Supper is for working class people. 1.00

00:34:17.400 Okay.

00:34:17.960 All right.

00:34:18.380 Okay.

00:34:18.840 Dinner is for...

00:34:20.520 Okay.

00:34:21.420 All right.

00:34:21.940 Okay.

00:34:22.380 Ma'a Lago. 1.00

00:34:23.780 But anyway, two hours.

00:34:27.300 It was just Trump at me.

00:34:28.900 Out on a little patio, you know, and all that.

00:34:32.740 And I went over.

00:34:33.960 Some of us on the record.

00:34:35.020 Some of us off the record.

00:34:35.860 But I went over some questions that I needed to know

00:34:41.340 about how he did what he did.

00:34:43.400 That was what the O'Reilly-Trump history tour was all about.

00:34:46.720 Okay.

00:34:47.040 And now we got an update with Putin and Xi and the cartels.

00:34:51.840 Look, you may hate Donald Trump with, you know, a passion,

00:34:56.980 but he has a grasp of the issues.

00:35:02.760 That's the bottom line.

00:35:05.640 He understands the dynamic.

00:35:09.200 He understands economics.

00:35:11.200 He understands foreign affairs.

00:35:13.180 He knows who the players are.

00:35:14.900 And he governed, in my opinion, in a responsible manner.

00:35:18.500 Now, once he starts on the road to, you know, ranking out,

00:35:23.760 remember ranking out when you were a kid?

00:35:25.780 I'm going to rank you out by insulting you.

00:35:28.520 Then it all just goes crazy.

00:35:31.340 But by just as an administrator and trying to get the country in a strong position,

00:35:38.940 Trump succeeded.

00:35:40.140 But you'll never get that from the corporate media or the people who hate him.

00:35:45.580 Never.

00:35:46.060 So, if he, I mean, he's, you know, running again.

00:35:49.760 If he gets the nomination.

00:35:51.540 And he probably will.

00:35:53.140 Yeah, I think so too.

00:35:53.780 Because this all will help him.

00:35:55.320 Yes.

00:35:55.640 All of this crazy stuff will help him.

00:35:57.900 He's not a person anymore.

00:36:00.120 He's a symbol.

00:36:02.320 I really, I mean, he's a symbol of, I want to fight back.

00:36:06.080 You know, he's almost been adopted as people's proxy in some way.

00:36:16.000 Every time he's hit, they feel the hit that they've taken.

00:36:21.000 And so.

00:36:21.440 Very good.

00:36:22.000 Very good.

00:36:22.740 Very, very good.

00:36:24.440 It's a transferal of emotion.

00:36:27.280 Yes.

00:36:27.840 So, Trump is going to be in Texas tomorrow.

00:36:32.080 He's giving a speech in Texas.

00:36:33.860 Yep.

00:36:34.080 And I can guarantee you that there will be so much emotion in that speech.

00:36:42.800 Not on the part of Trump.

00:36:44.440 And you know what he's going to do. 0.94

00:36:46.420 I mean, just today, he called Alvin Bragg a demented psychopath or something like that.

00:36:52.780 In his usual, very casual way.

00:36:57.440 So, you know, Trump will give the red meat speech.

00:37:00.200 But if you look at the crowd that goes there tomorrow in Texas to see him, they have emotion invested in the man.

00:37:09.920 Yes.

00:37:11.260 Yes, they do.

00:37:12.640 So, let me ask you two things.

00:37:15.460 One, if he gets the nomination, do you think he can gain anyone who wasn't on his side last time?

00:37:23.600 Yes, because it's the grocery store vote.

00:37:29.740 Okay.

00:37:30.500 So, the independents who don't necessarily hate him, but are not approving of his demeanor, they got to go to the grocery store.

00:37:41.040 And this is getting worse and worse and worse.

00:37:47.280 So, he'll get a portion of those votes.

00:37:51.580 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.

00:38:01.240 And I did talk to him about that.

00:38:02.840 And I told him flat out, I was cutting my Dover soul.

00:38:07.260 I looked up and I said, you want to get back in that Oval Office?

00:38:11.160 You got to put DeSantis on the two.

00:38:13.320 He's got to move up to Georgia, rent a little condo, and you guys have got to run together.

00:38:18.420 He did not push back on that, Beck.

00:38:23.820 That would be a way to get the ticket through.

00:38:29.340 That's right.

00:38:29.760 If he wants to be president, that's your best shot.

00:38:34.480 Okay?

00:38:35.360 If you put Carrie Lake on the second, you'll lose. 0.67

00:38:38.600 Yeah.

00:38:39.280 Do you think he knows that?

00:38:41.180 I'm not sure.

00:38:42.840 Because he goes in and out.

00:38:44.340 When he's with me, the reality zone descends.

00:38:48.780 But at one in the morning, I'm not sure the reality zone is there.

00:38:54.020 Wow.

00:38:55.520 And is there anything that is bad enough to open this lead up?

00:39:06.440 Yes, yes.

00:39:08.140 If the recession kicks in, you've already seen Amazon and Apple and Meta and all these people

00:39:14.180 laying people off.

00:39:15.520 Big, big time layoffs.

00:39:17.420 And you're going to see that, unfortunately, and I say that sincerely.

00:39:21.320 At Fox, you're going to see layoffs now.

00:39:26.040 And that can lead to a recession.

00:39:31.100 So this time next year, and we'll have four or five primaries already under our belt.

00:39:36.760 It's coming up fast.

00:39:37.820 If the country goes into recession, there's even more pain at the grocery store than Trump gains.

00:39:44.480 Mr. Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much.

00:39:47.780 We'll talk to you again.

00:39:49.280 Okay, Beck.

00:39:49.780 Thanks for having me.

00:39:50.760 And I want you to join you and Stu, Team Normal, on BillOReilly.com.

00:39:55.380 I'm sending you gear this week.

00:39:57.180 Oh, nice.

00:39:57.560 And you'll have it.

00:39:59.160 And Team Normal is what we're doing right now.

00:40:02.560 Okay.

00:40:02.740 And I guess as part of BillOReilly.com, you're getting these insights of private meetings

00:40:07.360 with Donald Trump all the time.

00:40:09.580 I mean, this is incredible.

00:40:11.020 And you're a genius, Stu.

00:40:12.520 I just want you to let me know.

00:40:13.300 Thank you.

00:40:14.920 Thanks a lot, Bill.

00:40:15.780 Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.

00:40:18.300 Na, na, na, na.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 24, 2023

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