Glenn Beck and Carol Roth discuss inflation, the L.A. port fines, and the new accessories to cars. Plus, we have more on COVID and a couple of examples of people who are standing up and helping you.
00:01:07.560Yesterday, I told you about the L.A. ports, that they were going to start assessing fines, which would have cost in the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars within a week.
00:01:20.120The officials have delayed that until November 22nd.
00:03:10.760So last time you were on, we talked about, you know, preparing and and I, I, I asked you specifically about, you know, gas and oil and natural gas for for heat.
00:03:48.180The fact that somebody like Ms. Amarova could be considered to be that near to our money supply and decision making is absolutely indicative of the fact that we should all be very concerned saying things aloud.
00:04:06.280I mean, this is this used to be the quiet part.
00:04:08.640Now they're just saying it out loud, saying things like we should bankrupt oil and gas and particularly the small guys, you know, in pursuit of climate change and climate justice, saying things like we should be getting rid of private banks so that they could.
00:04:25.500So we could all deposit our money with the Federal Reserve.
00:04:28.440I mean, this is a woman who was trained at the University of Moscow and her thesis that was about Karl Marx and capital.
00:04:38.280The sole copy has magically disappeared from the Internet.
00:04:41.840So if that gives you any sense of the kind of thought process that's going on.
00:04:48.940I'm not sure how much of this is sort of an evil plan versus central planning stupidity.
00:04:55.900But it really doesn't matter, does it?
00:04:58.120Because the outcome is always going to be the same, whether it's intentional or just because they think they know better.
00:05:05.540We're the ones that pay the economic damage.
00:05:09.320And it's not only in proactive, you know, additional dollars that need to be spent to convert to things that we may not want or need, but it's lost productivity.
00:05:20.900And it's the taking away of choice and the impact on our individual lives that happen when a handful of people think they know better than the free market in terms of what we're doing.
00:05:33.800And certainly we're seeing that in the energy arena from everything from the administration to what they've done more broadly with this, quote, unquote, ESG investing.
00:05:45.340We have we have we have John Kerry saying every coal plant in America will be closed down by 2030.
00:05:53.820I think that's an impossible standard to keep and would would end in massive, massive blackouts and brownouts.
00:06:12.080Usually when I go out and talk to experts in areas, you know, that are not, you know, 100 percent core to my expertise and I say, you know, I like to give you credit on air.
00:06:21.140If I talk about this, usually you get the OK, you know, here's how you credit me.
00:06:25.480Everyone's like, no, no, I don't I don't want to talk about this.
00:06:56.060So forget about 2030, but now because we're not making the level of investments to keep what we do have up in this in this push for transition, you know, we want to have maintenance of what we already have.
00:07:10.280And that's becoming more and more difficult.
00:07:13.120And obviously we're seeing it just, you know, countrywide in terms of our energy dependence.
00:07:17.880So I have been told reliably, you know, again, even in Texas, that you want to have a backup source of power.
00:07:26.760And I have been told almost everybody said either a propane, diesel or combo generator is something that you're going to want to have because, you know, in a state, for example, like Texas, the quote was once the state loses power, it will take a minimum of two weeks to restore plants back to operations.
00:07:45.120And customers able to use grid power again.
00:07:48.480So this isn't something that, you know, we've got nine years or whatever to be thinking about.
00:07:54.300We should be planning and preparing now.
00:07:58.640It's worse in California because you can't buy the generators, right?
00:08:03.300You can't use diesel generators or gas power generators.
00:08:07.260I think that depending on which city you are located in and, you know, kind of like where you are within the state, I mean, I think you still can get in certain places like a propane based generator.
00:08:24.940But they are starting, you know, whether it's the limitation of natural gas and new construction, taking gas out of commercial kitchens.
00:08:45.580The California Restaurant Association filed the suit on behalf of restaurants and it was dismissed.
00:08:50.520So if you want to have, you know, your natural gas cooked, you know, walk food or burgers or whatnot, like you can't do that anymore in certain cities.
00:09:00.680And so they are completely taking away even just the ability to cook certain types of food because they want to make sure that you only have an electric hookup.
00:09:12.660And, you know, I'm not I'm not a chef, Glenn.
00:10:00.980Unfortunately, the technology isn't there for what the proponents of it would like for it to be.
00:10:09.340Not to say that it might not be in the future, but, you know, we're not there.
00:10:13.620And that's the problem is that they're trying to push us in a direction, you know, where we're just not prepared for it.
00:10:20.360And it's going to create issues, you know, on a financial and personal level for people.
00:10:25.780And who's going to end up suffering the most?
00:10:28.340Of course, it's going to be the middle class.
00:10:30.700I'm sure that the folks who are, you know, the most poor will get some sort of benefit from the government.
00:10:36.140And if you're super wealthy, they'll, you know, figure out some workaround for you.
00:10:40.340But this is once again something that the middle class is going to end up bearing the cost of.
00:10:46.580And by the way, the cost that they're estimating are out of this world.
00:10:51.740And those are just the dollars that we're putting out, not economic damage or personal damage.
00:10:56.640You know, I've seen anywhere from $5 trillion to $10 trillion on the lowest side, which we know that that's never going to be the case, to north of $90 trillion in some of these estimates.
00:11:07.120And we know the financial engineering that they always do that, oh, well, we're just going to look at it at a certain period of time.
00:11:13.500So, you know, if you look at it over a long period of time, it's a ton of money.
00:11:17.300This is a ton of money towards something that a lot of people don't want.
00:11:22.040And if they really cared about the environment, we'd be looking at things like carbon recapture technology and nuclear energy and all these things that we know America can lead on instead of forcing an agenda that all of these folks are probably invested in.
00:11:39.320And that's probably why they're pushing it.
00:11:52.040Carol, what are we looking at for inflation, do you think?
00:11:56.680I mean, how long before it is so bad that everyone is screaming in pain?
00:12:03.740Well, so the challenge and sort of the, I hate to use the smart thing, let's say the evil thing that they've done, is that it's going to affect different people differently.
00:12:15.440And I think that's part of why they've been trying to sell that it's not happening.
00:12:19.580You know, we first, we heard it's not going to happen.
00:12:53.800So the issue here is that the, because of all of the money printing that's happened and all the stimulus that has increased inflation, it has increased asset value.
00:13:04.860So if you own a house or a bunch of houses, if you have a huge stock portfolio, if you've had access to capital, to debt capital, to go out and buy these big assets, you know, those assets are going to probably continue to inflate in price because there's all of these dollars out there and they need to go somewhere.
00:13:23.700But if you are in the middle, middle class again, or if you're poor and you need to go out and buy the things that your family needs to live, you know, the food to put on your table and the gas to get to work, this is, you know, it's already really painful.
00:13:40.700And unfortunately, the elites in the media who are supposed to be pointing this out and acting as a check and balance are now laughing at the average American saying, oh, why do you need to drink that much milk?
00:13:54.200Or, you know, maybe you should cut back on your expenditures instead of holding the people who are creating these policies to task.
00:14:00.920And then, oh, by the way, you know, they just signed a $1.2 trillion bill yesterday and are trying to spend trillions more and then selling us on, oh, that's going to bring down inflation.
00:14:12.440Like, I don't know, that didn't show up in any of my economics classes.
00:14:17.020But, you know, it's a really bad situation.
00:14:20.700And it's kind of like what happened in COVID, right?
00:14:23.020When they shut down small businesses, but they kept the big businesses open, even though the average people were screaming because those who are connected were benefiting, nothing happened.
00:14:34.120And I see the same kind of split and great consolidation of power and wealth, as I've been calling it.
00:14:41.520And, you know, some of this, even if you fix some of the supply chain, things like the wage increases, those aren't going to slow down.
00:14:49.080You know, you can't pay somebody $20 an hour today to start and then, you know, three months from now think you're going to be paying entry-level people $7.
00:15:36.680But there is a parallel economy that is being built now.
00:15:40.760People are realizing what is coming, and they are starting to build banks and insurance companies that will be outside of the system because they're just going to make it impossible for anybody to have any money, any loans, to do anything that they want unless you play along.
00:16:04.600And we're already seeing this now in our own businesses, and I think there's a great opportunity to get really good employees right now.
00:16:18.740If you're working in a company where they're telling you you have to get vaccinated, you have to go through that whites are all evil seminar, what if you don't want to?
00:16:48.160Then he became the CEO and founding member of MC, which was a consulting company of three employees, and he turned it into an international economic data firm with over 250 employees nationwide.
00:19:48.140But it became clear that a lot of the people, especially in the tech world, were using their company to do this.
00:19:55.100And then I saw a lot of my fellow employees who were just, not fellow employees, but fellow colleagues around the country, just keeping their head down.
00:20:04.480And what's funny is when I started Red Balloon, a lot of people who are executives wrote me and said,
00:20:10.300you know, I love what you're doing, but I can't like what you're doing.
00:21:17.560And I had a good friend who lost his job because he didn't use the right pronoun.
00:21:22.180So, the vaccine issue is obviously the most recent and pressing for a lot of people because you have to put it in your body.
00:21:30.760But they have been pushing this for a long time, whether it's CRT, whether it's the right pronouns.
00:21:37.240And I think it is time for conservatives and Christians to stand up because the reality is that these conservatives, all of you who are listening, are the hardest workers.
00:21:47.780You're the people who are making the company go.
00:21:51.460And so, I started Red Balloon partly because of this wokeness in the workplace and partly because I saw this enormous gap in the labor market where we simply don't have enough people to get all the work done.
00:22:03.800And the administration, the Biden administration, has seen fit to demotivate people to actually participate in the labor market.
00:22:12.720And now, with a vaccine mandate, to tell them they're not allowed to participate in the labor market.
00:22:18.100So, we have an unprecedented tight labor market.
00:22:22.060We have an economy that's trying to get going but simply is not allowed to.
00:22:29.000We need to start creating these alternative economies because, I'll tell you, it is really fun to be an unapologetic conservative Christian and a public one.
00:22:39.680And I encourage everyone out there, it's time to raise your hands, raise your head, raise the pirate flag, and come out.
00:22:48.020I was talking on a different show yesterday and I thought we need to start using the hashtag coming out conservative and just tell people, you know, start proclaiming who you are.
00:23:28.980Let's just be human beings to each other.
00:23:31.680So, you started Red Balloon and how is this going?
00:23:35.980Yeah, no, so RedBalloon.Work has blown me away because I've started a number of businesses before.
00:23:44.780And I'll tell you, Glenn, I've never been part of a business before where I get unsolicited thank you notes from perfect strangers all over the country literally every day.
00:23:53.440People just saying thank you for standing up for freedom.
00:23:56.280And that's my encouragement to all of you listening is stand up for freedom and you'd be surprised.
00:24:00.240There's a lot of people who want to follow that.
00:24:02.620So, I started RedBalloon.Work three months ago and we now have had over 400,000 people on the site looking for freedom.
00:24:11.740We have over 1,200 employers who have signed up and every single day we have tens of thousands of job searches on the site.
00:24:20.580It's still new and I want to have millions of jobs, but I've been super encouraged by this.
00:24:27.200And we've also just seen an overwhelming amount of support from people like someone sent me a thank you note and said, hey, would you like a billboard in Times Square?
00:24:37.160And as a side note, if someone asks you that, the answer is yes.
00:24:41.040And so, RedBalloon has a billboard in Times Square and will through the end of the year because they said, look, this is an important moment and we need to stand up for freedom.
00:24:49.640So, there are powerful people out there who maybe aren't ready to raise their pirate flag, but they're definitely behind the cause.
00:24:57.180I will tell you this, too, that it's really important that business people, if you're looking for a job, I hear from people all the time that are living behind, you know, the iron curtain in the east of our country.
00:25:12.540And they want out, but they can't move without a job.
00:25:22.760And I encourage everyone, every company that is taking a stand to register and become part of this.
00:25:31.680And when you have a job opening, open it up to RedBalloon.Work and let's get people working together.
00:25:40.880Absolutely, because what you do as an employer is you're not only getting access to really the best kind of workers, right, the workers who aren't an HR nightmare, who are constantly complaining.
00:25:53.600You're getting people who just want to focus on work, which is phenomenal.
00:25:57.380So, the best kind of workers, but you're also giving encouragement to millions of Americans and saying, look, you're not the only one.
00:26:04.560Because the liberal media today desperately wants us all to believe that we're the only one that believes the way we do and that we're all crazy.
00:26:12.840And the more people, especially employers, who stand up and say, no, I'm going to put my logo on here.
00:26:18.080I talked to one CEO who said, look, I have been keeping my head down as a conservative Christian for years, but I feel like if I don't die on this hill, there might not be any left.
00:27:41.940So Nathan has written a book, and he brought it to me about a year ago, and I didn't know all of the story at the time that you brought it.
00:27:51.820I didn't know the back story, but you were working here years before I came here?
00:27:57.520Yeah, before Mercury Studios was even a glint in your eye.
00:28:06.920I guess you were doing your Fox show at the time.
00:28:10.520And yeah, I worked for a separate media company that was housed in the studio building.
00:28:15.040And so in the aftermath of that 2008 financial crisis, this company I was working for started having some financial problems of their own.
00:28:26.880They were having trouble making payroll.
00:28:28.380And sort of longish story shorter, I had done some minor league screenwriting early in my career, and this particular story that is now this book, I wrote as a screenplay.
00:28:44.440And I really needed a sale at the time because they were having trouble making payroll, right?
00:28:53.440The agent that I was working with at the time, she was very enthusiastic about it, made it to the final level at this cable network that she'll remain nameless.
00:29:17.480The sort of the reasoning, and you never know these things.
00:29:20.700The screenwriting business is very horrible.
00:29:23.660But yeah, that was one of the final, you know, the final decision maker was like, well, you kind of have to know too much about that movie, you know, to understand what's going on.
00:29:52.000I, it's overwhelming, honestly, the fact that I'm here sitting in this building again talking to you because it's really, this book represents, I mean, this is God's kindness.
00:30:04.660God's paying attention to the details of our lives, you know, and redeeming things that you think is hopeless, situations that you think are hopeless.
00:30:13.140Because, yeah, I mean, I actually, because I wasn't getting paid at the time, and I stayed on at that media company in the hopes that it was going to turn around while I'm applying to other jobs, you know, and then I had that rejection of the script sale.
00:30:29.200And so I stayed late in, actually, it's in the office where Stu's producer works now.
00:30:36.200I sat up there for a few hours one night, just cranked out the first chapter thinking, could I turn this into a book?
00:30:43.060And then I was like, no, I don't have time for this.
00:30:46.940You know, I got a third child was on the way at the time, not getting paid.
00:30:51.940I mean, it was a desperate situation, you know.
00:30:53.960And so I did the old proverbial, put it in a drawer.
00:32:15.440It is, it's basically about a 31-year-old small-town woman who watches It's a Wonderful Life for the very first time.
00:32:24.320And shortly after she does, she starts to notice some unusual similarities between things that happened to her and things that happened in the movie.
00:32:33.420And so, essentially, her quest to figure out why these things might be happening and what it might mean, if anything, leads to this life-changing encounter with a stranger on Christmas Eve.
00:32:44.700And she starts out, she's not watched the movie.