The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Bernie Marcus & Justin Haskins ｜ 3⧸21⧸23

00:00:00.420 It was cool to have Bernie Marcus.

00:00:02.420 Really cool.

00:00:03.400 We were talking about George Soros at the end of the show.

00:00:05.640 We were talking about the opposite side of that 90-year-old coin.

00:00:08.140 Boy, you ain't kidding.

00:00:09.260 I mean, totally different guy who's done a lot of good things for the world.

00:00:14.420 Bernie Marcus is the co-founder of Home Depot.

00:00:18.000 He's a little outspoken right now.

00:00:20.200 He's very concerned about the free market and our freedom.

00:00:24.440 And is, I mean, listen to him at 93 and then listen to our present.

00:00:30.000 There's just no comparison.

00:00:31.720 There's no comparison.

00:00:33.660 And he's sharp with it and knows what the price is that we're about to pay.

00:00:40.400 You don't want to miss that with the co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, on today's podcast.

00:00:47.520 Also, we really kind of gave you an in-depth look at what is coming with the Federal Reserve.

00:00:56.740 The Fed Now.

00:00:57.720 It's a new program that is definitely not the mark of the beast.

00:01:02.920 It's definitely not cryptocurrency from the Fed.

00:01:06.200 No, no, no.

00:01:07.100 This is an alternative to central bank digital currency.

00:01:12.020 Is it now?

00:01:13.820 We also have Justin Haskins on to talk about that and to give you real indication on what's coming from the Fed.

00:01:20.760 And we announce the latest in the Great Reset series.

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00:03:18.520 All right, Justin Haskins is with us.

00:03:25.320 Justin is with the Socialism Research Center at the Heartland Institute where he is the director.

00:03:35.120 He has been working tirelessly on stopping socialism.

00:03:40.820 He is also, he was one of our main contributors to our Arguing with Socialists book.

00:03:48.160 He is also my co-author of the book, The Great Reset.

00:03:52.140 And our fourth coming book, We're All Going to Die.

00:03:57.960 I'm not sure exactly what we, what did we name it, Justin?

00:04:01.880 That was my working title for quite some time.

00:04:04.420 Are we telling people?

00:04:06.720 Is this the first time?

00:04:07.480 I don't know.

00:04:08.120 Can we?

00:04:08.740 Is it?

00:04:09.020 You know what?

00:04:09.620 Check somebody.

00:04:10.000 I don't hear the boss.

00:04:10.560 Hang on.

00:04:10.940 Check Amazon.

00:04:11.860 See if it's up for sale.

00:04:13.040 If it's up for sale, we'll announce it.

00:04:14.760 It's supposed to be in the next few days.

00:04:16.860 The name of the book.

00:04:17.820 No, no, no.

00:04:18.240 Don't say it.

00:04:18.700 Don't say it.

00:04:19.080 Okay.

00:04:19.480 Don't say it.

00:04:20.080 Okay.

00:04:20.680 So, Justin, you wrote to me something kind of disturbing.

00:04:25.540 Last hour, I played these happy little commercials from the Federal Reserve about the Fed now.

00:04:35.960 It's a new service for all of the banks, which will make the transfer of funds, you know, whether you're out shopping or you're a business owner or you're doing bank-to-bank transactions,

00:04:48.380 you just run everything through the Federal Reserve and it'll happen fast.

00:04:53.520 Yeah, isn't that exciting?

00:04:56.160 It's very exciting.

00:04:57.960 Now, they're claiming that this is the alternative to a CBDC, which is a central bank digital currency.

00:05:07.420 It doesn't really sound so much like an alternative as much as a, I don't know, system to run that on.

00:05:15.760 Yeah, I mean, basically, this is like Jason Batrell, your head researcher, because he and I are now best friends and we exchange emails all the time.

00:05:25.540 He's my best.

00:05:26.340 He came up with this great analogy.

00:05:28.340 This is like the drug dealer who's new on the block and he's not just going to start injecting people with heroin.

00:05:34.640 That's not how you sell lots of drugs.

00:05:36.340 That's not how you do it.

00:05:37.500 First, you get them hooked.

00:05:38.560 You just give them a little taste.

00:05:39.900 And then after they get a little taste, now they're hooked.

00:05:42.800 Then you can start really pushing the hard stuff.

00:05:45.400 That's what this is all about.

00:05:46.940 Okay, the Federal Reserve is basically a drug pusher.

00:05:50.020 Okay, and this is the start of it.

00:05:52.480 Normally, regular folks like you and me and people in the audience, we don't interact with the Fed.

00:05:57.460 We're not used to that.

00:05:58.500 We don't like the Fed.

00:05:59.560 We don't trust them very much.

00:06:01.000 And so what they want to do is say, just have a little taste.

00:06:04.040 You'll see.

00:06:04.700 It's going to be great.

00:06:05.740 Just have a little taste.

00:06:06.680 This is a stepping stone to a CBDC.

00:06:11.180 This is our first interaction to using the Fed directly so that we can become more comfortable with it so it's normalized.

00:06:18.540 And then after this, you're going to get a central bank digital currency.

00:06:21.760 We already know this because there's a billion government reports talking about how they're going to design it, what it's going to look like, why people should use it, what the principles should be behind it, all of that kind of stuff.

00:06:33.020 So we know a CBDC is coming.

00:06:34.640 This is just the first step in that process to try to normalize people interacting directly with the Fed in this sort of high-tech instant transfer payment portal.

00:06:45.760 So we've been talking about the Uniform Commercial Code, which is complicated, and it's usually nothing anyone should ever have to think about.

00:06:56.780 However, they have included central bank digital currency as the new definition of money.

00:07:05.200 But money makes us think of money that you can take from the bank, that you own it, you get paid, you get to do what you want with it.

00:07:16.260 But central bank digital currency is not really money, correct?

00:07:23.720 Yeah, what's happening in more than 20 states across the country right now, and it's going to happen in all 50 states eventually, is lawmakers are looking at updating the Uniform Commercial Code so that a foundation is being laid for a future central bank digital currency.

00:07:42.800 And not just any kind of central bank digital currency, but a central bank digital currency that is programmable, trackable, that you won't have any privacy with the things that you're doing with the CBDC, that it can be controlled and manipulated.

00:07:55.300 This kind of thing is actually being written into the code.

00:07:58.380 They don't use the word central bank digital currency, but they outline it in such a way so that that has to be what they're talking about.

00:08:05.500 So it's not creating the CBDC.

00:08:07.560 That's not what this is aiming to do.

00:08:09.540 It's just laying the foundation to make it easier to use it in certain kinds of commercial transactions.

00:08:15.420 So people know, and this is what you really have to understand.

00:08:18.660 This is not like Bitcoin.

00:08:20.300 Bitcoin is such a danger because you get to do with it what you want to do with it, and the Federal Reserve is not aware of anything and can't do anything.

00:08:33.640 You have the ultimate power with your money.

00:08:36.480 The opposite is true with the Fed coin that they will be introducing, and this is what makes it so dangerous.

00:08:43.960 Not just the tracking, they will not just know absolutely everything that you spend, but Justin just said a key word that most people don't really understand.

00:08:56.360 It's programmable, meaning it is programmable for the individual.

00:09:03.020 So, in other words, if the government decides that they're going to, you know, we need to cut down on fat, fat, fatties, then my digital coin will not allow me to buy fatty foods.

00:09:18.700 I wouldn't be able to go to McDonald's.

00:09:20.620 I'm using this as an example.

00:09:22.380 There is not, you know, anything in the works to do this, except this is what programmable means.

00:09:28.540 They can program it so if they say, you know what, nobody's going to work, you're not an essential employee, your coin will not buy gas.

00:09:40.620 So, you can go to try to fill up, but when you put your digital card in from the Fed, it will say denied, and you won't have any way other than that card to be able to buy what you need.

00:09:54.480 It is absolute control of your life.

00:09:57.160 Yes, that is exactly right.

00:10:00.560 And there actually has been things, statements that have been made by the Biden administration itself, where it is said, as part of its reports studying CBDCs and the benefits of it and how it would be designed if it were going to make a CBDC, even though they haven't committed to doing that exactly, they've done all the groundwork for it.

00:10:21.000 They've said flat out that a CBDC needs to account for climate change, it needs to have financial inclusion built into it, it needs to have equity built into it, it needs to have concerns about pollution built into it.

00:10:36.460 They have worked with hundreds of stakeholders, and we all know what that means, nonprofit groups and labor organizations and others, who helped design the CBDC.

00:10:48.220 See, so why are they doing all that?

00:10:50.340 Because it's going to be programmed so that you can use it in certain ways, so that it can be prohibited in other ways, and it can change on a dime.

00:10:57.840 See, that's the other important thing.

00:10:59.080 It's not, when it's programmable, they can change the rules whenever they want.

00:11:03.100 It's not as though they set the rules at the beginning and that's the rules forever.

00:11:06.320 They can change the rules as they go.

00:11:09.140 That's the threat of a programmable currency.

00:11:11.000 So it is a huge threat to liberty.

00:11:13.300 And all they will concentrate on is the one fact, and mark my words, this way it's going to happen.

00:11:21.080 We're going to have a banking collapse.

00:11:23.280 Because there's a banking collapse, that will cause the dollar to skyrocket in inflation, possibly hyperinflation,

00:11:31.860 because you won't be able to have a supply chain anymore.

00:11:36.640 So many people will be unemployed.

00:11:38.380 There's so much money awash that if you want to buy something, well, you got $100?

00:11:45.420 Yeah, I'll buy that for $100.

00:11:47.460 And it might be something that was worth $4 before the collapse.

00:11:51.920 And people will pay it.

00:11:53.860 Hyperinflation will go crazy.

00:11:55.660 The Fed will say, look, we got to stop this.

00:11:58.720 Inflation is too much.

00:11:59.900 We're going to give you a digital currency.

00:12:02.220 It's already in a bank with your name.

00:12:04.600 All you have to do is sign in, and it will give you the money, and that's what's going to control inflation.

00:12:12.620 How do we know this?

00:12:14.040 Because we wrote about it in arguing, I believe it was in Arguing with Socialists,

00:12:19.260 a chapter that we almost didn't put in on modern monetary theory.

00:12:24.900 And modern monetary theory is what we're operating on.

00:12:28.620 We can spend as much money as you want.

00:12:30.840 Don't worry about inflation if they have digital control of everyone's spending.

00:12:40.020 Right.

00:12:41.100 Exactly right.

00:12:42.000 We talked about it both in Arguing with Socialists and the Great Reset.

00:12:45.080 It's a huge part of both Socialist plans and Great Reset elites plans, and those are not necessarily the same groups.

00:12:53.920 But there's no doubt about it that that's the goal.

00:12:56.640 So why are there 20-some-odd states in the United States right now?

00:13:01.320 Many of them are red states, Texas, Kentucky, Arizona, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Missouri, Montana, Arkansas, etc.

00:13:09.380 Why are they all doing whatever they possibly can on the UCC code, updating it,

00:13:15.540 to make it at least a little bit easier for a CBDC to be utilized in the future?

00:13:21.020 When a CBDC doesn't even exist yet, why would they be doing that?

00:13:24.540 That is a really, really important question.

00:13:28.600 But it's much worse than everything that we've said so far.

00:13:32.960 And having worked with these lawmakers across the country, we've started to discover things in the UCC,

00:13:39.800 in the commercial code, that are incredibly, incredibly disturbing, things that most of us just didn't realize were true.

00:13:46.680 And if CBDCs happen, we're in for a world of hurt that we didn't see coming.

00:13:52.940 And the reason for that is because under commercial code, when you take money,

00:13:58.320 like if you have cash right now under the current code, and you go to the bank, and you put money in the bank,

00:14:03.200 that money is no longer your money.

00:14:06.160 That money actually now is owned by the bank.

00:14:08.680 Hang on just a second.

00:14:09.860 This is why you, and this changed, this part of this changed in 2008.

00:14:16.180 You are the lender of last resort, right?

00:14:20.860 You are the last person in line to get money if you have deposited into the bank.

00:14:26.520 Because the bank, when you give them that money and deposit it, they are then taking that money.

00:14:33.760 They don't have to ask for permission to loan it out.

00:14:36.300 They take that money as theirs, and they loan it out.

00:14:40.740 So what happens to your money?

00:14:43.440 Well, you don't have money.

00:14:45.740 What you have is a number in the bank that the bank can now give back to you.

00:14:52.160 Or if they go belly up, well, then you lose your money because it wasn't yours anyway.

00:14:58.040 Correct?

00:14:59.120 Yes.

00:14:59.580 It's not your money.

00:15:00.880 It's owned by the bank now.

00:15:02.740 Now, you can go to the bank and say, I want my money back.

00:15:05.860 And then they hand you the money back in cash.

00:15:08.040 And you can walk out the door, and that money is yours.

00:15:10.440 You own that money.

00:15:11.500 But here's the thing about a central bank digital currency.

00:15:14.500 And this is what we're beginning to learn, how the commercial code deals with that.

00:15:18.100 When you can't put central bank digital dollars, okay, a digital Fed coin, you can't put that in your pocket and walk out the door, can you?

00:15:27.000 It has to be somewhere.

00:15:28.720 It can't be in your actual possession.

00:15:31.560 And because of that...

00:15:32.520 Well, but wait, in Bitcoin, you can put on a thumb drive, and so you can walk away with it.

00:15:38.080 Yes.

00:15:38.400 But digital currency, central bank, no?

00:15:41.420 Correct.

00:15:42.000 They're not going to design it so that you can put it into a hard drive or something like that.

00:15:46.420 But even if they did, the uniform...

00:15:50.160 And that's why they're updating the uniform commercial code the way they are.

00:15:53.400 They're putting rules into place so that you could use a CBDC even if it is possible to download it onto a hard drive or something like that.

00:16:01.440 But the lawyers behind the uniform commercial code acknowledge in their various meetings and comments and other things that it is highly unlikely that a CBDC would ever be designed in that way.

00:16:13.120 It's not...you're going to have to put it into some kind of account.

00:16:16.440 So what does that mean?

00:16:17.720 What it means, in effect, is that all of the money, all of the CBDC money that exists in society will be owned by whoever owns the account, which means the Fed or the bank or whoever is designated by the federal government to operate that system.

00:16:33.320 But you, the individual person, will not own any money.

00:16:37.960 The money will belong to someone else.

00:16:39.680 It will not belong to you.

00:16:41.060 You will not own it.

00:16:42.100 Under the commercial code as it is written right now, forget about what they're revising it to.

00:16:46.680 Under it right now, you would not own any money.

00:16:50.560 It would all belong to someone else.

00:16:53.160 So forget about whether it's programmable from a design perspective.

00:16:56.600 In practice, it's not going to be your money anyway.

00:17:00.560 And so how can you not think of that famous article for the World Economic Forum we've talked about a thousand times?

00:17:07.380 In the future, you will own nothing.

00:17:09.920 And you'll have no privacy.

00:17:11.400 Well, it seems like that is exactly what the purpose of this is.

00:17:16.280 So it is not enough to simply kill the UCC bill updates that we're talking about all across the country.

00:17:23.200 That is essential.

00:17:24.360 But we need to do more than that.

00:17:25.880 We need to rewrite that code so that CBDCs cannot be used in a variety of other contexts as well.

00:17:31.980 All right, Justin, we have been talking about the UCC code, and we've been telling people not to allow it to pass.

00:17:42.440 Now you've been working with legislatures all over the country, and these legislators are telling you, no, there's much more to the code.

00:17:53.400 We have to change it.

00:17:54.220 Would it be better just to go for states passing law that CBDCs cannot be used for commerce?

00:18:04.300 So it's a really complicated question because there are all sorts of issues related to the Constitution and who has the authority to regulate money

00:18:16.060 and whether or not a state can even pass a law that outright rejects the use of an established form of money at the federal level because it's a federal responsibility to coin money.

00:18:30.280 Of course, there are people who say, well, yeah, but coining money means physical money, not digital money, and so maybe they are allowed to do it.

00:18:37.680 And so I think there's a lot of open questions about that that we don't necessarily know.

00:18:42.440 I think that the most effective thing that legislators can do, and legislators actually do not know a lot of the things that I've told you today.

00:18:51.240 I've gotten that from a lot of UCC lawyers, actually.

00:18:54.680 But what they need to do is they need to focus first, in my opinion, I think Americans would be much better off if lawmakers killed the UCC bills, okay?

00:19:05.500 If they killed the UCC bills, to update them right now, they would be much better off.

00:19:10.320 But then they also need to update the UCC and all other state laws that they can possibly find in ways that would make it so that a central bank digital currency is undermined in the state in financial transactions.

00:19:24.140 For example, can you use a CBDC, a programmable digital currency, when you're using for collateral in a loan, let's say, okay?

00:19:35.340 State laws dictate some of that.

00:19:40.560 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:19:47.920 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:49.840 We're glad you're here.

00:19:50.540 So, yesterday, I tweeted and put something, I think, on Instagram, a video of my wife, and I went shopping at Costco yesterday.

00:20:03.300 And so, I just tweeted, not saying you should go to Costco, but I'm not not saying it either.

00:20:09.820 Just assuming, like a dummy, that people would understand that I'm concerned about the banking system.

00:20:17.560 And, you know, just a good idea to stock up on aspirin and children's Tylenol and allergy medicine and things that, you know, you're going to need.

00:20:28.460 If there's a breakdown of the supply chain, you don't want to be without medicine and toothpaste and things like that.

00:20:35.080 So, that's what I did yesterday, and then, immediately, it caught fire with, Glenn Beck is suggesting that there will be so much unrest due to Trump being indicted that people should stock up on essentials.

00:20:48.920 You suggested that?

00:20:50.600 That's what I suggested, apparently.

00:20:52.880 So, that was what I was really worried about.

00:20:55.780 It had nothing to do with the banks.

00:20:58.740 Nope.

00:20:59.320 Uh-uh.

00:20:59.580 It had nothing to do with that.

00:21:00.540 I feel like that was in the news.

00:21:01.660 People may have heard of it.

00:21:02.640 Yeah, I know.

00:21:03.320 It might have been something that I've been known to talk about, being prepared.

00:21:07.840 And speaking of that, I have the results of this audience, and I think it's going to shock you.

00:21:14.100 This audience, we took a poll of 10,000 audience members.

00:21:19.920 How prepared are you?

00:21:21.240 Now, we took this last week. 0.99

00:21:22.820 Stu, you didn't get a chance to participate, darn it. 0.93

00:21:25.480 So, for mainly entertainment purposes, I thought we would have you take the poll. 0.97

00:21:32.800 How much food do you have saved with a long shelf life?

00:21:37.840 I only order takeout, maybe till the end of a work week.

00:21:42.560 At least two weeks worth of food.

00:21:45.340 My food stockpile can last several months.

00:21:47.920 That's three.

00:21:49.520 I'm good for at least a year.

00:21:52.600 I mean, definitely at least two weeks.

00:21:54.540 I would say, the question is, can I get to several months?

00:21:58.440 And I think...

00:21:58.840 Can you get several months?

00:22:00.480 Three.

00:22:01.260 I think I could get to...

00:22:02.200 I'll go with that one.

00:22:03.360 I think I could get to that.

00:22:04.100 I do have a...

00:22:05.400 I had a place in order a couple years ago, my Patriot Supply.

00:22:08.960 Got some stuff.

00:22:09.600 For what?

00:22:10.100 Like your 48-hour kit for my Patriot Supply?

00:22:12.720 No, it was like a couple of big boxes.

00:22:15.120 Okay.

00:22:15.520 It's got lots of packets in there.

00:22:16.960 Do you even know where they are?

00:22:18.620 Yeah.

00:22:18.840 Oh, boy.

00:22:19.340 Yes, I loosely...

00:22:21.160 They're in what I know kind of where they are.

00:22:23.020 Okay.

00:22:23.260 I could find them in a pinch.

00:22:25.340 How much bottled water do you have stored in case of an emergency?

00:22:28.960 Tap water doesn't count.

00:22:31.080 None.

00:22:31.700 I'd be dead within three days.

00:22:34.080 I have a large pack of plastic water bottles from my kids' soccer games that could last a

00:22:39.380 couple of days.

00:22:40.020 Definitely at least this high.

00:22:42.000 I have a few Costco-sized water bottle packs that could last a week or two.

00:22:47.040 My water stockpile could last several months.

00:22:50.400 I'm good for at least a year.

00:22:51.860 I think there's a big gap between a couple of weeks and several months.

00:22:55.600 Yeah, I know.

00:22:56.020 I feel like I'm falling in that window quite a bit because I do have a few of those big

00:23:00.480 water cooler jugs.

00:23:02.500 Yeah.

00:23:02.860 You know, I kept...

00:23:03.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:23:03.620 We had a water cooler for a while.

00:23:05.020 We don't have it anymore.

00:23:05.880 Right.

00:23:06.020 But I kept a bunch of the extra bottles just in case because I was thinking about you.

00:23:09.280 You're always talking about how we need things.

00:23:10.360 When, let's say, power goes out, you'll be able to not fill those right away.

00:23:16.520 No, they're filled.

00:23:17.400 Oh, they're filled.

00:23:18.000 They're sealed.

00:23:18.580 Good for you.

00:23:19.580 When they were first delivered.

00:23:21.020 Good for you.

00:23:21.520 Now, you probably have a better water supply than I have.

00:23:24.940 Really?

00:23:25.480 Yeah.

00:23:25.800 I knew it.

00:23:26.520 Yeah, I knew it.

00:23:27.460 I'm the one who's prepared around here.

00:23:28.920 Oh, well, I...

00:23:29.660 Anyway.

00:23:30.060 How many of the following basic supplies do you have?

00:23:33.780 A flashlight with extra batteries.

00:23:36.480 I probably...

00:23:37.160 Yeah, almost definitely.

00:23:37.740 I'm like a battery central, man.

00:23:39.300 Yeah.

00:23:39.760 My wife has...

00:23:40.560 My wife is like batteries. 1.00

00:23:42.620 Battery-powered, solar-powered radio.

00:23:46.280 Solar-powered radio.

00:23:47.820 Radio or battery-powered radio.

00:23:50.280 I might have that.

00:23:52.700 Cell phones and chargers.

00:23:54.860 Cell phones and chargers.

00:23:56.880 Yes, I've got cell phones and chargers.

00:23:58.260 And matches.

00:24:00.060 Hey, we have a few lighters.

00:24:03.100 Yeah.

00:24:03.540 Does that count?

00:24:04.180 Well, I guess.

00:24:06.000 Doesn't say lighters, but...

00:24:07.660 But, yeah.

00:24:08.340 Matches.

00:24:08.620 I mean, I think I was pretty good on that one.

00:24:10.220 Okay, yeah.

00:24:10.560 Okay, yeah.

00:24:12.060 I mean, this is...

00:24:13.060 I'm basically a prepper is what we're learning here.

00:24:16.060 How secure is your home or your shelter?

00:24:18.700 Not prepared at all.

00:24:20.240 I have a fireplace and firewood.

00:24:25.300 Okay.

00:24:25.820 Yeah.

00:24:26.380 I do have a fireplace.

00:24:27.280 Yeah, but it's gas, isn't it?

00:24:28.680 I do have a gas fireplace.

00:24:30.500 Yeah.

00:24:30.600 I do have one of those little outdoor fire pits.

00:24:35.120 Does that count?

00:24:36.000 I just got a propane tank.

00:24:37.280 No.

00:24:37.740 No, it really doesn't.

00:24:38.880 No.

00:24:39.240 All right.

00:24:39.540 We can slide that right into the house.

00:24:41.260 What could go wrong?

00:24:41.720 Yeah.

00:24:42.320 I have an alternate source of heat to cook food, like a charcoal grill or camping stove.

00:24:48.700 That's...

00:24:49.020 There you are.

00:24:49.620 I have a gas grill.

00:24:50.320 In addition to a heat source, I have a backup generator in case of power outages.

00:24:56.980 I have a very...

00:24:58.340 I have a little backup generator.

00:24:59.920 Okay.

00:25:00.380 We used it because we lost power.

00:25:02.180 Right.

00:25:02.420 And I was able to power the refrigerator for like eight straight hours.

00:25:06.620 There you go.

00:25:07.060 We didn't lose our food.

00:25:08.040 Yeah.

00:25:08.380 I have an entire bunker that's ready to go if power goes out.

00:25:12.360 I do not have that.

00:25:13.200 You do not have that.

00:25:13.660 No, I have that.

00:25:14.260 That's Glenn's house.

00:25:15.180 Yeah.

00:25:15.440 We think of Glenn's house as our bunker.

00:25:17.580 I have guns if I wouldn't have lost them in that fishing...

00:25:19.980 That's why I'm happy you lost them in the fishing accident.

00:25:22.580 Right.

00:25:22.600 Because now I can come over and you probably won't shoot at me at least early.

00:25:26.160 How strong is your emergency fund?

00:25:28.200 This one is really very important because if the banks go down, which do not panic, all

00:25:35.700 you have to do is prepare.

00:25:36.660 If you have enough money for a few days of what it would cost to, you know, get gas and

00:25:44.360 food or whatever, you should have that in cash.

00:25:48.580 It would be great to have, you know, your monthly bills in cash for a month.

00:25:54.500 Okay.

00:25:54.980 But you should have some cash just in case there's a banking holiday.

00:25:58.900 I love that.

00:25:59.740 I mean, the bank is collapsed.

00:26:01.060 I mean, I'm not paying bills.

00:26:02.580 What are they going to do?

00:26:03.980 I just tell them the bank's collapsed.

00:26:05.480 Sorry, I can't make those payments.

00:26:06.780 Okay.

00:26:07.260 How strong is your emergency fund?

00:26:08.820 I don't have an emergency fund.

00:26:11.060 My emergency fund can cover one to two months of expenses.

00:26:14.280 This is not cash on hand.

00:26:15.600 This is what you would have in the bank.

00:26:17.120 Okay.

00:26:17.720 Three to five months of expenses, six to eight months of expenses, a year's worth of expenses.

00:26:24.800 I mean, I could go easily into multiple years.

00:26:26.900 I got it all stored over at FTX.

00:26:28.680 I don't remember.

00:26:29.500 I haven't checked in a while.

00:26:31.660 How much do you have invested in silver, gold, or other precious metals?

00:26:35.540 None.

00:26:35.940 I bought half a gram of silver just for kicks.

00:26:39.340 Precious metals are a small part of what I have.

00:26:42.860 Precious metals, medium, or precious metals, large part.

00:26:45.700 Oh, you know, I mean, that's just, I mean.

00:26:50.620 This is entertainment purposes only.

00:26:52.420 This is entertainment purposes.

00:26:52.920 My social security number?

00:26:54.240 Is that the next question on this?

00:26:55.100 How many of these barter skills do you know?

00:26:58.320 Oh, gosh.

00:26:58.900 Oh, I was bad on this one.

00:27:01.360 Carpentry, sewing, auto repair, medical expertise, or zero?

00:27:08.360 When do you get to talk on radio?

00:27:11.360 Do you get that?

00:27:12.060 That's zero.

00:27:12.520 Okay.

00:27:12.980 Yeah, that's zero.

00:27:14.200 I had to punch zero on that one.

00:27:15.540 Yeah, definitely zero.

00:27:16.280 How much emergency fuel do you have stored for your car?

00:27:19.160 None.

00:27:19.980 I have an extra gallon of gas in the garage.

00:27:22.200 I have enough extra gas for the last a month.

00:27:25.040 Gas stored for the last six months.

00:27:27.260 What are you supposed to do with the extra gas?

00:27:29.080 You put it in, you know, plastic containers, the big red plastic containers, okay?

00:27:34.360 And then what?

00:27:35.000 And then you fill them up, and then over about a two-month period, you cycle through that gas.

00:27:42.260 So if you need gas instead of-

00:27:44.180 I've read horror stories about the, because I had the, because we lost power, I had to

00:27:48.220 go get gas at the, you know, for the generator.

00:27:50.920 Right.

00:27:51.480 And I did that, and then I had left, once the power came back on, I had leftover gas.

00:27:57.340 Right.

00:27:57.620 And then I was like, well, what am I supposed to do with this gas?

00:28:00.380 And then I started to read, I went online, I made the mistake of searching for what I

00:28:03.700 should do, and it was like, your house will burn down if you keep this gas anywhere within

00:28:07.320 500 feet of your home.

00:28:09.180 That's basically what they said.

00:28:10.540 So then I just started, I just started running my car in the driveway, burning gas and filling

00:28:14.280 it back up.

00:28:15.420 That's legitimately what I did.

00:28:16.820 Is that really what you did?

00:28:17.740 I just ran my gas in the driveway for like eight straight hours, and just kept filling it

00:28:22.900 up until I burned all the gas.

00:28:25.060 Directly into the atmosphere.

00:28:26.140 If you have a shed or something like that, just keep it in the shed.

00:28:29.740 Then the shed burns down.

00:28:31.080 That's what the online said.

00:28:31.620 Then there'll be an explosion.

00:28:34.560 How well do you know how to use a paper map?

00:28:38.720 I'm good at that.

00:28:39.860 Hopeless without an iPhone.

00:28:41.500 Could possibly navigate to the other side of the neighborhood.

00:28:44.160 Navigate around a new city.

00:28:45.840 Can handle long haul roadmap trips with a paper map.

00:28:48.840 I'm Bear Grylls.

00:28:51.660 Drop me in the middle of a Mongolian desert with a map and a compass, and I can find my

00:28:56.380 way back to civilization.

00:28:58.120 I mean, I probably am not to that level, but I can read a paper map.

00:29:00.920 I will say this is the same thing that's going to happen with AI.

00:29:03.400 I was thinking of you the other day when I was thinking of this, because what happened

00:29:07.280 from maps to GPS is about what's about to happen with our writing skills.

00:29:12.980 Everything.

00:29:13.940 Everything.

00:29:14.360 Everything.

00:29:15.080 You're not going to do any of it anymore.

00:29:16.540 You're just going to look.

00:29:17.100 You're going to click chat GPT.

00:29:20.300 It's going to write something up for you to glance at it.

00:29:22.300 You'll go, I need report for school.

00:29:26.840 Yes, we got it.

00:29:28.980 Idiocracy is going to happen.

00:29:30.260 It's going to happen.

00:29:31.200 It's going to happen.

00:29:31.840 All right.

00:29:32.120 Did you actually take it and click on it or not?

00:29:34.260 I thought you were doing it.

00:29:35.180 No, I was doing it for me.

00:29:37.020 I'm Mad Max, by the way.

00:29:39.160 100%.

00:29:39.520 You have to be.

00:29:40.380 Even with no skills.

00:29:41.400 No skills.

00:29:42.160 Anyway.

00:29:42.980 I'm quickly going through it.

00:29:43.960 You go through it.

00:29:44.740 10,000 people took the quiz in this audience.

00:29:49.020 Where do you think most of this audience is?

00:29:56.300 I mean, I would think you'd think this audience is super well prepared, right?

00:30:00.820 So 1.7 are toast.

00:30:07.680 You won't survive if your kitchen table breaks.

00:30:11.280 Okay.

00:30:11.480 You won't.

00:30:12.100 It's like, I don't know what to do.

00:30:14.060 I had to eat the children.

00:30:16.100 So it's 1.7 that took it, not prepared at all.

00:30:20.660 13% could survive a mild disaster.

00:30:23.980 They've tucked, you know, they've tucked, you know, some finances away for emergencies.

00:30:28.520 They have useful tools or skills, you know, and a little bit of food.

00:30:33.760 Um, most of this audience could survive.

00:30:38.380 They could survive a big disaster.

00:30:39.760 In fact, 69.8% of this audience.

00:30:44.740 Congratulations.

00:30:45.900 You have some investment in precious metals, an emergency fund, some food and supplies stockpiled, maybe an extra generator.

00:30:53.020 Even though you may not be a prepper, you've taken steps to prepare for hard times, which will protect you and your loved ones for weeks, even months.

00:31:01.560 That's 70% of this audience.

00:31:04.740 And then there's then there's this Mad Max category of 15%, 14.7%, 15% of this audience is Mad Max.

00:31:16.520 Um, you're one of the few people, uh, who could actually survive a nuclear apocalypse.

00:31:23.040 Uh, there are, you know, there's few that I bet you in the general population, I can't even imagine what 1% less than 1%.

00:31:30.060 Your bunker is stocked with food, water supplies to last you months.

00:31:34.480 Silver gold emergency fund will help you cruise in times of financial distress.

00:31:38.560 You can secure more goods because you have learned a bunch of barter skills.

00:31:43.240 You are Mad Max.

00:31:45.400 It's great.

00:31:46.100 Now, if you haven't taken this test, you could just take it for yourself now.

00:31:50.060 But we have the ultimate preparation, uh, guide, which is filled with really easy.

00:31:57.460 Do this.

00:31:58.340 Do you have this?

00:31:59.080 Just a checklist.

00:32:00.120 And you can go as far as you want on the list, but it is a really easy guide to be prepared for whatever may come your way.

00:32:08.600 Um, go to glennbeck.com now and, um, see how prepared you actually are.

00:32:15.220 Uh, and then prepare.

00:32:17.860 If you want that list, you can find it at glennbeck.com.

00:32:20.800 I think it's, it's no longer on the front page.

00:32:22.660 So I think you have to go down at glennbeck.com and click on what is it?

00:32:26.600 Extra stories or something like that.

00:32:29.080 Um, if you just go to the front page, let me see what it says.

00:32:31.400 You'll, you'll load more content, load more content.

00:32:34.540 It's right before my big fat face with the radio and TV on it.

00:32:38.100 Uh, load more content.

00:32:39.320 Hit that and then you'll find it on that second page.

00:32:43.680 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:46.160 I don't think, I mean, usually I introduce somebody and I'll say, Hey, he's the co-founder of a home Depot, but this man's, uh, accomplishments are just astounding.

00:33:01.940 Um, by the time he was 15, he held, he had already held more than a dozen jobs.

00:33:08.560 He had joined a gang, worked as a hypnotist in the Catskills.

00:33:13.280 He's a son of a cabinet maker and garment worker.

00:33:16.280 His dad survived the triangle shirtwaist factory fire, which is incredible in and of itself.

00:33:21.520 He became, uh, somebody who is well known what he did.

00:33:28.480 Uh, he is the guy who co-founded home Depot.

00:33:32.360 If things were so bad the first day on opening day that his wife said, you're not shaving because she said, I don't want to raise her anywhere near you, your throat.

00:33:42.200 From there, they've gone to 500,000 associates, 2300 stores.

00:33:48.580 Um, and this is a guy that was a son of a Russian immigrant who just believed in the United States being that golden land.

00:33:58.360 He has since retired from home Depot and he and his wife, Billy started the Marcus foundation.

00:34:04.620 They have given more than $2 billion in grants.

00:34:08.380 They're both, uh, strong believers in, you know, helping out as much as you possibly can.

00:34:14.860 The Marcus Institute has programs for children with disorders of the brain.

00:34:19.480 Um, it also has, they also have the autism center, which offers expanded services for children with autism.

00:34:26.980 He has founded or funded the Grady health system for the Marcus stroke and neuroscience center.

00:34:33.360 The Marcus trauma center, the Piedmont heart Institute.

00:34:37.020 He established the nation's first heart valve reference center, um, MDA out of Israel.

00:34:42.920 He, he partnered with them to build a critically needed new national blood center in Israel.

00:34:48.920 Um, he created projects share to ensure that the members of the military and veterans get diagnosed and cared for without any financial constraint.

00:34:58.520 By underwriting the housing, transportation, and care costs of any military personnel with brain or spinal injuries who are sent to shepherd hospital.

00:35:08.400 He founded the nanotechnology research center building at Georgia Institute of technology.

00:35:15.420 He's the guy who's responsible.

00:35:17.480 He and his wife created the Georgia aquarium.

00:35:19.600 It's the largest aquarium in the world, 60 exhibits, 550,000 square feet, 10 million gallons of water, 125,000 animals.

00:35:30.840 And it's the world's only aquarium and vet medicine teaching hospital in the world.

00:35:37.900 He funded and created the jobs creator network, a group of current retired CEOs and entrepreneurs who have come together to preserve the free enterprise system.

00:35:47.920 Uh, during the pandemic, uh, he, uh, granted money to, uh, study the effects of high doses of vitamin C, uh, also for those who have issues that prevent the use of hydro hydroxychloroquine.

00:35:58.900 He created a clinical trial for blood tests for Corona-19 antibodies.

00:36:04.520 He supported two hospitals that opened floors specifically for the Corona virus patients.

00:36:09.340 Um, his job creators network was instrumental in securing funding and for small and medium sized business.

00:36:16.260 Um, he was also, he and his wife, Billy, one of the first to sign the giving pledge.

00:36:22.680 My gosh.

00:36:23.600 Oh, and he has a new book out.

00:36:25.260 Uh, he came out last year, kick up some dust lessons on thinking big, giving back and doing it yourself.

00:36:32.460 What an honor to welcome Bernie Marcus onto the program.

00:36:36.660 Hi, Bernie.

00:36:38.260 God, Glenn, I'm worn out just listening to you on the introduction.

00:36:43.220 Yeah.

00:36:43.440 I mean, that is, that's an incredible life, an incredible life.

00:36:48.060 Wow.

00:36:48.840 Thank you.

00:36:49.840 Well, well, you look, you know, uh,

00:36:53.520 you put on this earth for a very short time and you're hoping that you're going to do the best you can.

00:36:59.880 And God willing, uh, you're able to do it.

00:37:04.120 Now we grew up very poor.

00:37:06.820 My parents were Russian immigrants.

00:37:10.200 Uh, we lived in a fourth floor tenement in Newark, New Jersey.

00:37:14.940 And to say we were poor would be an understatement.

00:37:19.000 And it's, it's, it's, we virtually had nothing.

00:37:22.360 And in those days, they didn't have the umbrella.

00:37:25.720 You didn't have food stamps.

00:37:27.720 You didn't, they didn't give out, you know, cell phones to people.

00:37:31.760 Uh, we just made it if we, my father didn't, uh, and he was a lousy businessman and a great carpenter, but not a good businessman.

00:37:40.540 If he didn't make any money, we didn't eat.

00:37:43.880 And it was as simple as that.

00:37:46.060 But I, one thing that we had, we had the family and we had the love in the family.

00:37:51.700 And my mother, who really ran the family, you know, believed in America.

00:37:57.980 She thought this is the golden land.

00:37:59.780 And she kept saying to me, no matter what you want to be, you can be it in America.

00:38:06.120 This is the golden land.

00:38:07.960 And she was a hundred percent right.

00:38:10.300 And she said, if you work hard and you keep focused and you don't let the, uh, bad problems affect you and knock you down, if you keep going, that you will be successful or whatever you want to be.

00:38:27.680 She said, you could be the president of the United States.

00:38:30.500 Although why, Glenn, why would I want to do that?

00:38:34.520 No, not, uh, yeah, I know.

00:38:37.220 God, I know what Trump is going through is unbelievable.

00:38:41.640 I, I, I, I, I, I am just like you.

00:38:44.700 I am so worried about, um, freedom and the free market, the ability to think and become it's all going away so quickly.

00:38:55.280 And it just seems like America is asleep or they don't realize that it won't always be like it was.

00:39:05.080 You know, I think people have this, ah, well, these things happen and, you know, no, we're on the verge of losing everything that our founders worked for and people like you built over the last 250 years.

00:39:19.080 Well, I'm sorry to say that you're probably right.

00:39:24.840 You know, I'm 93 years old and I've lived through so many administrations, uh, Republican, Democrat.

00:39:32.860 And, uh, I never thought that the world could change so quickly in two years.

00:39:38.740 Uh, Biden got into office and he is extreme, extreme in every, every day way you could think of.

00:39:48.860 And I'm a great believer, believer in the capitalist system.

00:39:52.740 I think capitalism built America made us the strongest land in the country in the world.

00:40:00.140 That's why people have come across the border.

00:40:02.500 They want to come here and they want to have their own American dream.

00:40:07.220 It's the only place you can't have it in India, China or Russia or, you know, uh, Venezuela,

00:40:14.780 even Europe or the UK or anywhere.

00:40:16.840 Yeah.

00:40:17.540 And you can have, you can have it here as long as you believe in what you want and what you're doing and work hard,

00:40:24.600 but that's not the case anymore.

00:40:25.940 I was going to say, could you, is it true?

00:40:28.000 Cause could you start Home Depot today?

00:40:31.500 Uh, like you did, you know, back when you started it?

00:40:35.800 I don't think so, Glenn.

00:40:37.360 And, and I think the reason is, uh, the, the, they have so many, uh, obstacles for small businesses.

00:40:45.840 We're a small business.

00:40:47.700 And, uh, that's why I started job creators network to protect small businesses, because I know it's the backbone of America.

00:40:55.940 You know, 70%, uh, about 70 million people work in small businesses.

00:41:03.580 I'm not talking about the pizza shop, the cleaning store, the drug store.

00:41:08.640 Uh, these are all small businesses and we never had the red, the regulations that they have today.

00:41:17.640 And what he's trying to do, and I'm talking about Biden now and a democratic Congress,

00:41:23.800 they want to pass laws that raise taxes, that'll knock out half the American or half the small businesses in America. 0.73

00:41:34.840 They're not going to survive.

00:41:36.460 They can't survive now.

00:41:38.560 They can better, they, they're barely making it now because they can't find people that want to work.

00:41:44.400 I mean, think about this in America, you can't find people that want to work.

00:41:50.140 And it's amazing.

00:41:51.940 You know, why would people work when they, in some cases with, uh, two, two in a family, maybe a couple of kids,

00:41:59.200 you can make 80, 90, 90, $90,000 a year sitting on your rear end at home and not working.

00:42:07.880 So, um, the American dream is starting to fade and it's, it's shameful.

00:42:15.680 Hey, kids coming out of college that are being taught these woke policies believe in socialism.

00:42:23.620 And they did a survey.

00:42:26.340 I think there were 35% believe that socialism is better than capitalism.

00:42:31.480 And let me tell you something, capitalism is what made the Home Depot.

00:42:37.420 If we weren't able to sell stock on a street, because when we opened, when we opened the store,

00:42:43.560 I'm talking about the first Home Depot store, we were terribly undercapitalized.

00:42:49.760 And the only thing that kept us alive was being able to go to the capital markets and raise money.

00:42:56.240 And we did that.

00:42:57.920 And today, you know, Home Depot is, you know, a hundred and a hundred billion dollars in sales plus, uh, 500,000 associates in the United States,

00:43:09.440 in Mexico, in Canada, in Guam and Hawaii, and is a very profitable company.

00:43:16.100 But if you look at what they're trying to do, uh, with this ESG, which is, you know, they're not, they're now doing it with the financial institutions and with, uh, it was the, uh, investment funds, uh, we're going to destroy America.

00:43:37.000 They're killing off the goose and I don't get it.

00:43:40.680 Well, why, why, why would they want to do this?

00:43:43.440 Well, that's, I think why so many people, um, don't understand, or don't accept, uh, anything as a plan.

00:43:54.460 They just think maybe this is incompetence, maybe, but it, there's too much that has happened for, you know, anybody's batting average to be that bad, unless it's intentional.

00:44:05.400 And what they're doing is resetting capitalism.

00:44:09.820 They're resetting it to a, uh, a stakeholder capitalism.

00:44:14.800 And the stakeholders are the businesses, the community leaders, if you will, uh, and, um, and the government.

00:44:23.100 And they're directing us into this, this new system and destroying the value of our dollar to be able to reset into something that they have more control over.

00:44:35.520 It's, uh, it's something that, you know, I don't think people really, you know, most people are not, are not evil.

00:44:44.540 Most people aren't really even bad.

00:44:46.160 So they, when they see somebody who's doing something that is really bad or evil, they, they have a hard time accepting it.

00:44:53.480 Cause they'd be like, why, what people don't do that?

00:44:57.520 Why would they do that?

00:44:58.620 But power and money and greed, powerful.

00:45:02.260 Yeah.

00:45:02.560 I, I, I think that many people, I'm talking about the invest, the, uh, the American people today, uh, are, are really thinking with their hearts, but they're not thinking with their brains.

00:45:15.440 Uh, look at this inflation, what it's doing to this country and what it's doing to the middle class and lower class is just outrageous.

00:45:25.280 People can't afford to put meat on the table, eggs, or, you know, the simple things because of the inflation and it's all manufactured by the policies of Biden.

00:45:39.440 So it didn't come out of nowhere.

00:45:41.660 It didn't just happen.

00:45:44.100 This was done purposely.

00:45:46.760 Um, now is he, does, does he want to bring down this country?

00:45:50.940 I don't know.

00:45:51.680 He's doing a hell of a good job of it.

00:45:55.280 I don't know.

The Glenn Beck Program - March 21, 2023

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