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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by John Cornyn, Buck Sexton, and Brendan Carr of the FCC. They discuss the current state of the economy, the future of Bitcoin and much, much more!
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I'm just looking at the latest polls here on voting.
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Um, let's see, nearly six in 10 Americans, 59% disagree with president Trump that Republicans should take over the voting in 15 states in order to nationalize the 2026 midterm elections.
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And that is not, uh, what the, uh, constitution says.
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That's also in the constitution, but I don't like nationalizing elections.
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Um, asked who is more likely to rig November's midterm elections.
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44% say the Republicans, 33% say the Democrats, 11 point margin.
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Democrats bring undocumented immigrants to our country to vote and help them vote illegally.
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Americans are more divided over the question, whether fraudulent voting by undocumented immigrants is rare and it does not influence the outcome of elections.
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36% say it is common and it does influence the outcome of elections.
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And then they split right down the middle when asked the same question about fraudulent voting mail in voting.
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Far more Americans say they would favor 62% then oppose 23% requiring proof of citizenship.
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Now, usually in the form of a passport or a birth certificate in order to register to vote.
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That can, that is completely different than what we have been seeing.
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Making it harder to vote by mail, 46% opposed, 38% favor.
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Making it harder to vote early in person, 57% opposed, 21% favor.
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Banning or cutting back on mail in ballot drop boxes, 42% opposed.
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Shortening the early or absentee voting period, 41% opposed.
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Uh, I, I find this really hard to believe, but if those numbers are true, I mean, you're going to see, you're going to see, this is what they're going to, this is what they're going to go after.
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If they try to, you know, drag this, you know, uh, vote out, this is what they're going to go after.
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They're going to go after, you know, the Republicans are rigging it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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If this is true, maybe it is working, but I, I don't, this just doesn't feel right to me because it's too much of a swing, but God only knows America changes on a dime.
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Now, John Cornyn is warning that there is going to be a GOP massacre.
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If Texas votes for Ken Paxton as the AG, he wins the primary.
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You, you are the reason the GOP is going to be massacred all over the country.
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Maybe, maybe not, but I'm not listening to John Cornyn.
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Tell me anything about what the Republicans can do because it's people like John Cornyn.
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That has, that has gotten the Republican party where it is.
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He's, he is a guy who's turning the tables over.
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He's, he's spent the last 10 years trying to get enough momentum so he can actually change.
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And John Cornyn is one of the main leaders of that.
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You know, Republicans this time around, if they don't stand for the things that they've told us they were going to do.
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And I'm telling you, the save act is one of them.
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You're, you're not only risking the midterms, you're risking the, uh, the party.
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If you keep pretending that procedure is principle, you're, you're going to help lose the Republic.
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And this time, if you fail this time, you're not going to be just blamed by the left.
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You will be blamed by your own voters and you'll deserve it.
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Look at, look at the difference between John Cornyn.
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How long has he been in office and what has he accomplished?
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He moved like a man who understood the clock was ticking executive orders.
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Because he couldn't get Congress to move regulatory rollbacks.
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He moved faster than any other president in U S history.
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He is literally reshaping the entire world, trying to get rid of the people who are trying
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to force the U S taxpayer and citizen to live under their unelected officials and rules.
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John Cornyn, you and the Republicans have done.
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You passed one big, beautiful bill that he practically had to jam down your throats.
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That's hiding behind a man doing your job for you.
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So let me, let me talk about the excuse of the hour.
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If I read one more time from a conservative, you can't touch the filibuster.
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Enforcing a talking filibuster does not eliminate the filibuster.
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Cloture, a word nobody knows about that was added in 1917.
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Cloture gives you the 60 vote threshold and they weaponized it in the late 20th century.
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And that drift was, that ball was starting to drift.
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If you wanted to block a bill, you had to stand up on your feet and you talked.
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You read, you read from cookbooks if you had to.
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It's requiring that the democratic or whoever uses it, the senators who literally can barely
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How many of the 90 year olds can stand that long?
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And here's the real problem with the Republicans.
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The reason why the Republicans are trying not to do it is because it's going to require
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Historically, the talking filibuster was used to delay banking legislation in the 19th century.
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It was infamously used by the Southern Democrats to try to stop civil rights legislation.
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Strom Thurmond had his 24 hour speech against the civil rights act in 1957.
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When, when somebody believed that something mattered, whether they were right or wrong,
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they had to stand there and they had to pay the price.
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Today, a Senator just sends a little email to leadership.
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And then suddenly it's 60 votes to get this thing on the floor to vote.
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The save America act has passed the house multiple times.
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It's overwhelmingly popular with the U S population.
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Voter ID pulls through the roof, including among Democrats.
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Make them defend opposing voter ID in front of the American people for days, weeks, months.
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Republicans, conservatives, pundits are, you're not this stupid.
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If they wanted to destroy the filibuster, I'd be with you.
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But I did my homework because I thought originally, wait a minute, we're changing the filibuster.
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It was with, you know, Jimmy Stewart and Mr. Smith goes to why.
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And either you don't understand Senate history, which is unacceptable, or you do understand it and you're choosing comfort over confrontation.
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Meanwhile, what do the voters who want to vote Republicans see?
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Republicans joining Democrats on bloated appropriations.
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Millions for gender transition clinics while you're telling us you're against it.
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Votes to protect agencies that Americans now see as ideological enforcement arms.
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And then, of course, we get the speeches on fiscal discipline.
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They see members who are more afraid of a nasty op-ed in the stupid Washington Post than a primary challenger back at home.
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And here's the fatal miscalculation, John Cornyn and all you like him.
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They're done being told, well, now is not the time.
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We're done watching the left use power ruthlessly while we don't even want to use anything that's legal.
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If Republicans lose the majority, you are going to be blamed by the left for extremism.
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If you lose your base, you're going to be blamed by constitutional conservatives for cowardice.
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When you're blamed by both the left and the right, history tends to be a little unkind to you.
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This is truly about whether the Republican Party still believes it's an instrument of constitutional government or just a speed bump in front of progressive expansion.
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What did you do other than protect procedure, other than protect comfort, other than protect incumbency?
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It's not too late, but I'm telling you the clock is ticking.
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The save act can be forced to the floor and you can win.
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It requires senators who are willing to sweat on the floor instead of sweat in the green room explaining why nothing can be done.
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If you as a Republican, if you keep running out the clock, you're not going to just lose the chamber.
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And in the vacuum created by inaction, something far worse always grows.
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History teaches us when institutions refuse to act while the public loses faith, republics don't stabilize, they destabilize.
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And this time, if it collapses, nobody's going to believe it was an accident.
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They will say to you, you had the house, you had the Senate, you had the presidency, you had the mandate, and you chose alibis over action.
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Uh, it's Saturday afternoon, youth soccer game, dozens of parents lined up, you know, along the sidelines.
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You know, they got chairs and coffee cups and you know, everybody's trying to pretend they're, they're not more competitive than their kids.
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Until two dads, two dads decide, you know, it is in fact, the world cup and voices rise and shoulders square.
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And one of them takes a step forward, a little too aggressive.
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And now you got a crowd, you got kids watching situation escalating faster than it should.
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Here's the thing, moments like this can get out of hand and go from that to life and death at a drop of a hat.
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It starts out sometimes as ego as heat and somebody who doesn't know how to back down.
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And that is the situation to where, you know, you do not want to get involved.
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Uh, but if it starts to really get out of hand, you, you have a burner launcher, chemical irritant projectiles that will stop the threat coming at you and create distance without using any kind of deadly force.
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And thank you for convincing me 15 years ago, not to go to an Ivy league business school and to come work for you instead at your company.
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I mean, imagine how different you would be if you had gone to that Ivy league.
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Maybe it would have been different for you because I mean, you're, you talk about it.
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Manufacturing delusion, you know, the tricks of indoctrination.
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So maybe it would have been different from you.
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I would hope that I could have continued to stay sane.
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I mean, look, the basis of this book, the basic idea, it comes out of the madness of covid, but it's not a covid book.
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We're familiar with mind control in the Soviet Union with the culture revolution in Maoist China and how insane that got with the reality of North Korea today.
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We know that that all exists and that all has happened.
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But how is it that in this country, we basically collectively, not all of us, but as a country went insane during covid.
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And I was like, well, if it's possible on that, you know, it's possible on other things, too.
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And there's actually smaller bouts of of politicized insanity, BLM, climate change, the gender madness.
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I mean, I have a whole chapter, Glenn, and you would you would love this by legitimately.
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I'm sure people says, Glenn, you will actually love this book.
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I go back into the writings of a World War Two Dutch psychiatrist named Dr.
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He sat down with Nazis, Nazi prisoners of war to say, how did you do this?
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Basically, how did you make a whole country go insane?
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And he approached this as a psychiatrist, as a practitioner and came up with this framework.
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Well, the framework, Glenn, is applicable to some of the brainwashing, some of the things we see going on here in America today.
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And so that's why the book, it's it's history, but it's a history that informs what's happening right now.
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The gender madness we're seeing is a huge part of chapter two.
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So, but I just want you to know you had me at former German scientist.
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Because I think it's we're being hit by education.
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We're being hit by we're being hit by Marxists.
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Now, the reason I broke it down into into the chapters, the chapters are essentially all variations on the theme of what we call brainwashing.
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Brainwashing. That's the most general term practitioners, Glenn, psychiatrists.
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They actually call it mind control or coercive mind control.
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And that will include things like cult indoctrination in the book.
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I get into under the identity construction chapter.
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And that's stuff that people should be very aware of as well, because it's effectively a totalitarian state without the state.
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It's the full control of individuals that is achieved through this mind control process without having a massive secret police.
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You know, it's one thing for the Soviet Union to do it.
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But to operate on an individual or much smaller basis, that's obviously what you see going on in cults.
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Fascinating stuff about Ivan Pavlov, Nobel laureate.
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And really the beginning of our scientific conception of understanding that what your brain is taking in affects your body directly.
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Right. And there's this that you get into the sort of the reflex and the conditional reflex, which is initially what it was called.
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Now it's a whole series of behavioralism training, but conditional reflex.
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But here's what Pavlov learned that was really interesting, Glenn.
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There was a it was at the time was Leningrad, St. Petersburg.
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They've changed name a bunch of times, but there was a flood at his lab and the dogs in the lab almost drowned.
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And it was one of these things where the water was rising.
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But the dogs were freaking out and freaking out.
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The lab technician, not Pavlov, got there, freed the dogs last minute.
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And they had not only a complete erasure of the conditioning that they had had because of this trauma.
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They also had extreme behavioral changes apart from that, meaning some that were docile became aggressive.
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And you know who thought it was really interesting that there was this new series of behavioralism training going on?
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And they started paying very close attention to this.
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And they came up with, Glenn, some step by step and some here's how you do it.
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And that's a lot of the meat of the book is looking into those practices, you know, isolation, keeping people confused, keeping people frack atomized in society.
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You know, I've heard from, cause I've changed my approach to the show, um, recently, you know, in the last, it's been happening over the last three, four or five months.
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Um, and I'm trying just to explain things more than anything else.
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Just try to help clarify things so people can understand it less opinion, maybe, and more just here's what's actually happening and how it works.
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Um, and, and my gut has told me that is so important because the world doesn't need more opinions and it doesn't need more electric shocks to it.
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You see any evidence that, I mean, how do you get out of this?
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This is where the book, uh, sort of finishes in the last chapter.
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And, and the, the final arguments are people need to understand that the, uh, the city advice, uh, the call to arms, if you will, uh, from souls and needs in the great Soviet dissident of live, not live.
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You have people ask me, how do we avoid this stuff?
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It lays out confusion and degradation as the twin pillars of mental side.
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For example, it lays out, wait, wait, wait, wait, just wait, explain each of those as you go through them real quickly.
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So, so, so in the mental side of process, in order to unmoor you from your ethics, your sense of self, your sense of reality around you, um, they want to keep you confused.
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Now they can lock you in a cell, cut you off from all daylight and, you know, blast music in.
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There's things that they can physically do, but also there are ways that you can just try to keep people confused through propaganda, confused through messaging.
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So they don't have the basic moral understanding.
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And degradation is really a degradation of your ability to understand the most fundamental truth.
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And this is why I get into the transgender madness that sees this country.
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Because Glenn, under a menticidal framework, if you are willing to affirm the most obvious madness, which is that a man can become a woman and that there's no biological advantage, these sorts of things, you are not just conceding on that issue.
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You are degrading your own brain's ability to make the most basic distinctions and undermining the confidence that you have in your perception of reality.
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This is a key step in how, and this is why it can be done with extreme force, but it can also be done with extreme messaging all throughout the society around us.
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It was, I mean, some of, some of that is through extreme force, because if you didn't, if you didn't go along with it, you were ostracized.
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Yeah, it's just a difference of what the punishments are.
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I mean, one of them, there's a whole, there's a whole chapter, Glenn, where I get into what really happened in China and the incredible, now the Chinese, the Maoists, borrowed from the Stalinists, who of course were like, hey, we have this new Soviet man that we're going to build.
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This guy Pavlov, you know, Pavlov, by the way, actually hated the Soviets, the whole other thing, but this guy Pavlov, we can build on his scientific knowledge and we can just basically turn people into robots.
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That's, that's one of the good news parts of this is that every human being, you could say, because of our underlying makeup, you could say, because of our soul, you can't just flip a switch and get the same outcome.
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It's not actually a machine, but there is a process here and what they would do in Maoist China.
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And there was a psychologist, Robert Lifton, who traveled there right at the early phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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And he said, one of the things they would come up with is people would have to, they would force confessions, Glenn.
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And the people would write things that were crazy.
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And the point was they had them go through it over and over and over again.
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And they would tell them, your confession is not sincere enough.
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They're confessing to crazy crimes, you know, treason that they never could have done.
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It'd be like me sitting here writing that I assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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They're like, well, that is not a sincere enough confession.
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When you don't use the preferred pronouns, maybe you get fired.
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Maybe you get an excuse from the corporate meeting.
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These are, are trends in mind control that have seized this country.
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In Pavlovian conditioning, wear a mask, even when everyone knows you're outside.
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I mean, all these things that we did, these physical manifestations of obedience are meant
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to train our minds into a way that we can be molded and weaponized for politics.
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And to what you're saying about all the messages everywhere and why it's so important not to
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So because of technology and AI, I'm glad I'm sure you come across this too.
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Sometimes even among my own staff on the show, we'll say, oh guys, is this, is this AI?
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And we do this for a living trying to figure out what's real, what's not.
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And once you add neural implants, which are just over the horizon into the game, mechanistic
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mind control, I mean, really controlling the synapses becomes more of a scientific reality.
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So the ultimate control is control over your mind and in manufacturing delusion, you will
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understand how the bad guys do this and how you avoid this.
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And I really think that everybody, it's meant to be read and it can even be read chapter
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You don't have to read the whole thing at once, although I think some people get through
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And I throw some cool CIA stories in there that I've never told before because the time
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Well, I like your introduction because this is a crisis unlike any other crisis that we're
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We're facing a lot of crises, Glenn, and this one I think should be at the top of the agenda
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simply because we don't know what the solution is.
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I think every other crisis, we could kind of come up with ideas of solutions, nuclear
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If you want to go down other avenues in the environment, you can at least have a conversation.
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But this one, really, there's no example of a nation that's ever recovered from this.
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I'm going to get into the stats here in a second with you.
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I want you to explain, you know, how bad the problem is, but do we even know what's
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Well, we've, we've a pretty good idea of what it's not.
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The numbers are showing two things that to me, you know, really take us down to a much
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deeper understanding than saying that we've got a birth rate problem.
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I guess fathers too, but we got so much data on mothers.
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Do you know that mothers in the U S are having more children now than they were in the eighties?
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Even mothers in Japan are having the same number of children as 1970, same across much of Europe.
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So once you have your first child, you're actually going on to have two, maybe three children,
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I mean, this is through incredible shifts in education opportunities for women, political
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shifts, cultural shifts, and many depart parts of the world.
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Mothers are to me incredibly resilient and by inference, fathers too.
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And I believe the majority of them did plan to become parents.
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This is about the people who probably would have wanted to become a parent, but things didn't
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work out and that really takes us down to a much deeper understanding of why is it that
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many people who plan to become a parent, and I know this will resonate with many of your
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listeners and, and, and to be honest with you, the people I have met who have been in
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So my heart goes out to any of your listeners who dreamed of a family and for whatever reason,
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not meeting the right partner, things not lining up, divorce, breakup.
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And if you look at the data from Japan to Europe, US, even now Southern India is saying the same
00:34:17.940
You're finding the number of people with no children who dreamed of it is the real heart
00:34:25.760
So is that possibly linked at all with the way our society now is saying, don't get
00:34:34.840
And so you're in your 30s sometimes before you get married and then things, you, you just
00:34:40.340
wait a couple more years and all of a sudden you've just timed out.
00:34:46.760
I mean, I mean, you're exactly, you're exactly on the money.
00:34:50.080
Um, it, it, it's not only linked to it from data, we can take data now from about 40 different
00:34:57.360
nations where we've, where we've got good data.
00:35:00.640
And all we need to know is what's the average age that a woman is having her first child
00:35:06.980
and a little bit about, you know, how early are people starting family, how late, but it's
00:35:13.960
And for the U S right now, that's 28 years old for many countries that 30 or older for
00:35:19.560
first child, that alone predicts about 80 to 90% of birth rates.
00:35:28.240
And again, to me, what's quite remarkable, we're very good.
00:35:38.920
It's, you know, Southern Europe, it's youth unemployment, uh, it's gender issues in Korea.
00:35:43.960
But no, you look at the data and it cuts through all of this.
00:35:48.220
The reality is without exception, every nation has a straight line in terms of the age of
00:36:02.240
And, uh, you're going, we're noticing this, uh, right now, Glenn, you know, it's in the
00:36:09.760
The reality is this started in the seventies, but we didn't really know this because people
00:36:14.760
who delayed parenthood in the early seventies, mostly had a chance to catch up and have a
00:36:22.740
We're now at a point where people are starting so late.
00:36:26.080
It gets more and more challenging for different reasons to really have your first child, you
00:36:33.200
You hear, of course it can happen, but for more and more people, it simply doesn't.
00:36:50.800
So the average, uh, woman in South Korea is having 0.7 children.
00:37:03.220
That's not good because we need around two, 2.1 children per family.
00:37:07.820
Basically everyone having two kids on average for a population to remain stable.
00:37:20.840
Well, they've got the double, triple, triple whammy going on.
00:37:24.840
What has happened is not only has the age of motherhood now reached nearly 33 years old.
00:37:32.360
It's reached so late that the likelihood of a woman ever becoming a mother in South Korea
00:37:45.960
And the extra challenge they now have because it's happening so late, 40% of women there only
00:37:54.440
have one child, usually it's around 20% of most nations, even neighboring Japan, it's around
00:38:01.660
So not only is incredibly unlikely now for a woman of a child in South Korea, it's more and
00:38:10.240
So is this at all caused by Western civilization?
00:38:18.920
I mean, the way we have, the way we've prioritized our lives now, and in many cases away from,
00:38:29.680
you know, creationism, away from the family is sacred that, you know, that humans are supposed
00:38:36.120
to multiply and be fruitful instead, you know, put yourself first, put the, you know, your,
00:38:42.100
your, um, your business first or whatever, because is this happening across all cultures
00:38:52.220
Uh, Glenn, this is every culture you research and even Southern India now has birth rates
00:38:58.220
as low as 1.6, the same as the U S and has been at that level.
00:39:02.820
So, uh, in some cases, it's not, it's not, it's not Islam, is it?
00:39:08.760
Uh, well, do you know, I, I get to, you know, I'm lucky I get to speak in places around the
00:39:14.020
I get to meet governments around the world and I've been to the Middle East three times
00:39:18.700
in the past year with governments deeply worried about the rapid falling birth rates
00:39:28.360
Well, to be honest with you, you were, you were, you were really right.
00:39:34.100
And what is it driven by perhaps innocently, perhaps otherwise we have turned our twenties
00:39:41.460
into a decade of education, education, education, without thinking about family, future family
00:39:48.560
and then career development, career development, career development.
00:39:51.680
And when you, when I get to talk to young people that in the U S today, a woman turning
00:40:00.340
30 without a child has at most a 50% chance of ever becoming a mother, age 30, if you haven't
00:40:13.560
So we have put so much focus on other things other than family and frankly, having been
00:40:22.800
honest to ourselves, partly because few people have known the data.
00:40:27.000
I hope that changes that unless the societies, yeah, I get the reality.
00:40:32.620
CDC data will tell you that around 90% of women either have or want kids.
00:40:40.780
It's come down a little bit, but not what you might hear in the press.
00:40:48.840
I see all the time, 90% or more of women do want children one day.
00:40:54.420
But when you hear the reality today for the U S is we're looking at close to as few as six
00:41:00.420
out of 10 ever becoming mothers, you know, that gap in, I think people's dreams for family,
00:41:07.780
and young people's assumptions that, Hey, society's got me covered.
00:41:14.320
And of course, then I'm going to be able to meet someone and settle down because that's
00:41:19.860
And then finding out as many as 30% of women dreaming of a family end up childless.
00:41:26.260
Steven, um, does the, the fact that for some reason, this new generation is not having
00:41:37.540
as much sex, uh, as every other generation before, is that going to pile on to this and
00:41:48.860
And I'm not sure it will, but when I, when you look at all of the challenges that my kids
00:41:54.440
are in their twenties, you know, you see the challenges of this generation, um, you know,
00:42:00.520
relationship, sex, certainly in terms of devoting time to, you know, spending time alone and
00:42:14.140
It used to be in all societies that a young man and woman would have a family by mid twenties.
00:42:27.420
Right now, let's say you're 20 years old and there's someone you're quite interested in.
00:42:32.500
You're not thinking at that age, mostly they might be the person I settled down and have
00:42:37.320
a family with because for many people that's 10 years away.
00:42:46.100
What's the point of investing in a relationship?
00:42:48.920
What's the point of, you know, developing a path in life that would prepare me for our
00:42:57.060
And I think my speculation is a lot of the current issues and challenges with, with younger
00:43:07.480
We're no longer doing what we used to do in our twenties, which was start to raise a
00:43:12.600
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You know, I find this next topic so fascinating because there is a difference between equal time
00:43:29.580
and the fairness doctrine and people always confuse the two.
00:43:35.780
I think if you've ever been, you know, regulated by the FCC, most people don't even understand
00:43:40.700
what they are, but there are rules on public airwaves and they're different than cable and
00:43:47.760
everything else because those are public airwaves.
00:43:54.820
I'd love to see the FCC pretty much go away except for very few things to make sure that
00:44:00.480
we are, you know, you know, that we're still safe.
00:44:03.860
Um, but, uh, at the same time, we are living with a bunch of conservatives that always say
00:44:13.140
And that is, you know, the left uses every weapon in the chest and then, and then, then
00:44:17.700
they, they make up other weapons that aren't even in the constitutional chest, you know,
00:44:22.680
we got to fight back and use our, well, here's the FCC using the actual law, the way it is
00:44:28.780
supposed to be, um, applying those and then conservatives get upset.
00:44:34.100
I, I want you to hear it from the horse's mouth on what is actually, what is the law,
00:44:41.560
And then we can have the conversation of should that be that way or not?
00:44:49.800
Um, and, uh, he is here to talk to us about what's happening with the view and Colbert.
00:45:02.480
So did the FCC give CBS legal guidance about the interview, uh, with, uh, Tallarico, the
00:45:13.620
I woke up, uh, Tuesday morning and logged on to, uh, social media.
00:45:17.900
And that was the first time that I'd even heard about this.
00:45:20.640
And I woke up to a politician claiming, uh, that the FCC had somehow not aired is what
00:45:31.740
Not only was that not true, but the subsequent claim that, well, it was CBS that refused to
00:45:40.000
That in fact, CBS apparently had advised Colbert they could run the exact interview that they
00:45:45.300
And they just need to be mindful that it could trigger an equal time obligation for other
00:45:51.620
And again, that would be a circumstance in which Colbert himself wouldn't even have had
00:45:59.520
Broadcast TV is fundamentally different, as you noted, than cable and streaming and social
00:46:03.700
media because you've got licensed by the government.
00:46:05.740
And the reason you have a license is because we can't have multiple people on the same
00:46:11.060
So the government in broadcast, but not cable, not streaming picks winners and losers.
00:46:15.620
They say, you get a license and necessarily that means your friend or your neighbor don't
00:46:21.900
And so when you broadcast, you're supposed to stand in the shoes, not just of yourself,
00:46:26.440
which is what you do on cable and everything else.
00:46:29.640
You're supposed to operate in what we call the public interest and to look out for the views
00:46:34.040
and interests of those that were denied by the government, a license.
00:46:38.020
And so one of those specific statute requirements is called equal time.
00:46:42.260
And the idea here was that Congress didn't want media gatekeepers picking winners and losers
00:46:50.540
They wanted individual people, the voters, to make those decisions.
00:46:54.720
But they knew that the powerful broadcasters could put a thumb on the scale and tip elections
00:46:59.640
by putting preferred candidate on the airways and denying others.
00:47:05.820
If you're going to have one candidate on, provide equal time for the other.
00:47:09.460
And it's funny for me to see people claiming that this is censorship.
00:47:15.140
There is nothing about the equal time rule that would ever prohibit anybody from having
00:47:22.160
It simply says their opposition candidates should get an equal opportunity potentially
00:47:32.860
Let me, let me just speak as a broadcaster, but what it does do this, what the fairness
00:47:37.060
And again, they're separate, but what the fairness doctrine did is it made broadcasters,
00:47:42.320
I know because I lived it, say it's not worth the hassle.
00:47:45.240
I just don't want to just forget the interview.
00:47:47.640
And so it is limiting only because they choose to limit.
00:47:52.100
I mean, you're going to have to have three different candidates on.
00:47:54.800
If you do that candidate, you're going to have to have three candidates on for the equal
00:47:59.600
And then they get to decide, is that worth it or not?
00:48:04.260
Well, one reason that's slightly different than the fairness doctrine is the fairness
00:48:08.540
doctrine said, if you're going to cover a controversial issue of public importance right then and there,
00:48:13.700
you got to give the left perspective and the right perspective with equal timing is you can
00:48:18.740
have just one candidate on your broadcast TV or radio program, but at some point in the
00:48:25.340
future, a different coast, a different time, they get equal comparable airtimes.
00:48:32.140
It doesn't require you to do it in the moment the same way that the fairness doctrine would
00:48:40.240
And they create exceptions for what are known as bonafide news programs.
00:48:44.160
So if you're a bonafide news program, Congress was thinking about Meet the Press and different
00:48:48.680
programs like that, that you're just actually doing sort of journalistic work.
00:48:53.800
You're not trying to put a thumb on the scale for a candidate.
00:48:56.300
You're just trying to interview someone with, you know, normal journalistic questions.
00:49:03.860
Over the last 30 or 40 years, everybody came to the FCC and they were getting dexterity
00:49:10.640
rulings to say that they were bonafide news programs and therefore exempt.
00:49:15.020
And people effectively read the exception as swallowing the rule.
00:49:18.960
And they said, anything goes, any TV program, any radio program is now bonafide news.
00:49:25.200
And what we did at the beginning of the year was we said, listen, that's not what the statute
00:49:29.580
That's not actually what the FCC case law says.
00:49:34.800
There's legally qualified candidates that you're going to have on and be mindful of the
00:49:40.280
And again, on the Colbert episode, they were apparently given advice that they could do
00:49:44.920
this, but Colbert apparently did not want to have Jasmine Crockett on, who's running in
00:49:49.340
opposition in the Democrat primary to James Tallarico.
00:49:53.660
And it appears to be that he ran a hoax, that he knew he could fool the mainstream media,
00:49:58.020
the legacy media, by claiming he was censored and he could drive clicks and donations and
00:50:05.660
And the national news media just went along hook, line and sinker because it fit with all
00:50:13.700
But this was a decision by Colbert and by Tallarico to put a hoax out there that they knew
00:50:18.820
the media would run for purposes of Tallarico, apparently scoring political points against
00:50:24.400
If I was Jasmine Crockett, I'd be pretty upset by that.
00:50:34.880
So the view apparently is claiming that they are a bonafide news program and therefore can
00:50:42.220
have one political candidate on and not afford equal opportunity to other candidates.
00:50:47.980
And what we have said is that the view has not established, they've not made the case to
00:50:52.900
the FCC that they do in fact qualify for the exception to the rule.
00:50:57.900
And so we have started an enforcement inquiry, taking enforcement actions to explore this
00:51:07.700
Again, they have not made the case that they are a bonafide news program and we're actively
00:51:13.020
So the one thing, Brendan, that I've always loved about you is you're a small government
00:51:20.340
And I will tell you one of the effects of this, I don't know if I'm sure you saw it, the Washington
00:51:26.200
Post editorial today about the abolition of the FCC rules.
00:51:32.080
I mean, it is, let me see if I can pull it up here.
00:51:36.640
They are now talking about how maybe, listen to this, the Trump presidency ought to be an
00:51:44.520
education for progressives in the ways government over and the way government over regulation
00:51:49.800
can distort politics and business passed by Congress as part of 1934 communications act
00:51:55.740
equal time rule says, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:51:59.800
The government shouldn't be dictating the political content of late night television, nor any other
00:52:07.120
But that's exactly what the equal time rule does.
00:52:09.720
It says that it is outdated and needs to be deregulated.
00:52:17.040
Could we maybe have an opportunity here where we can get rid of a lot of this regulation because
00:52:25.000
Well, I don't think everything they're saying there in terms of their understanding of the
00:52:29.820
But listen, if a collateral unintended consequence of me doing my job is we've got a lot more converts
00:52:35.680
to a small government conservatism, I guess I'll take that as a win.
00:52:42.100
A lot of times the Republicans are in government and they get gavels.
00:52:45.440
They take their gavel and they go to the farthest flung corners of the earth and they bury the
00:52:52.340
And they say, if we were to actually just apply the law in a even handed way, then Democrats
00:52:57.920
will get the gavel again and they'll weaponize it.
00:53:00.200
And what that fundamentally misreads, among other things, is we have a job to do.
00:53:08.360
Let's not be biased about it, but let's apply it in an even handed way.
00:53:12.240
Now, what Democrats do when they get gavels is they weaponize it.
00:53:16.620
When the Democrats were charged in the FCC during the Biden years, they went after Fox
00:53:21.220
broadcast TV station and threatened to not renew their license for programming they didn't
00:53:27.000
like on Fox News cable, which is not regulated by the FCC.
00:53:31.000
You had Democrats that pressured cable companies to drop Fox News and OAN and Newsmax.
00:53:36.720
You had senators on the Democrat side calling for the FCC to investigate Sinclair, a broadcaster,
00:53:42.720
for news distortion because they were viewed as a conservative outlet.
00:53:49.840
Whenever Democrats get gavels again at the FCC, let me tell you something.
00:53:54.080
What we need to do is that when we're here, let's just apply the law.
00:53:58.240
Let's not weaponize it against Republicans or Democrats, but the law is on the books.
00:54:02.340
If people want to get together and go to Congress and say, change the law, then they should do
00:54:07.220
But up until then, we're just going to do this in a fair, even handed and balanced way.
00:54:11.700
Honestly, Brendan, if you said to me, Glenn, you haven't applied for news status or whatever
00:54:18.840
has to be done, and it's in question that the Democrats are saying it's in question that
00:54:24.740
you're a legitimate news program, and I say, well, what does that mean?
00:54:28.180
And you'd say, you can't have just one politician on that's running for office.
00:54:33.760
You at some point would have to have, you know, the others on as well.
00:54:45.840
I just, I wouldn't, I think it might make the show better.
00:54:48.780
I think it might make Colbert even better by not having them on.
00:54:52.300
Um, but that's the only consequence of this, right?
00:55:01.400
If you air them and you're not a legitimate news source, you or the network has to have
00:55:08.300
the other candidates on in an equal kind of time, uh, uh, scenario, correct?
00:55:19.840
And again, the idea here is let's let individual people, voters get more information and they
00:55:29.020
Let's not have the media gatekeepers abuse their position of power, the position of public
00:55:35.140
trust of being on the airwaves to unfairly advantage one candidate or party over another.
00:55:42.460
It's about more speech, not less, but again, people can go to Congress and try to change
00:55:47.340
I would love for anybody who wants to make the FCC smaller or any government agency smaller.
00:55:53.500
Um, and well, you're right enough to know that you're, and we are doing it.
00:55:59.260
We're actually running the largest deregulatory initiative in the agency's history.
00:56:03.640
We've gone through our big stack of code of federal regulations and we are deleting and
00:56:09.580
We've gotten rid of hundreds of regulations at this point, a lot of dead wood, a lot of
00:56:14.800
regulations we don't need on the broadcast side though.
00:56:17.280
Again, it's just, it's a fundamentally different medium and on social media, my position is
00:56:21.540
very clear and continues to be, we want wide open, robust, uninhibited debate.
00:56:29.260
But if you want to be on the unique medium of broadcast TV, you've got to comply with the
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