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00:00:30.000 Finally, we have yet another reason to hate Woodrow Wilson.

00:00:34.320 On today's podcast, I'll tie it all together and show you that Donald Trump got it right.

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00:01:49.480 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:01.440 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:03.220 We're glad you're here.

00:02:05.040 I'm Stu.

00:02:06.120 This is your last day.

00:02:07.640 It is.

00:02:09.600 It's been great working with you.

00:02:11.580 Wait.

00:02:12.200 No, before vacation, you mean.

00:02:15.140 Oh, yeah.

00:02:15.840 That's what I meant.

00:02:16.760 How?

00:02:17.080 Yeah.

00:02:17.340 And I got a card for you after the show.

00:02:22.680 Is that why they were going through my office before?

00:02:24.780 Are they setting me up with some sort of Christmas surprise?

00:02:27.240 Different office for you.

00:02:28.420 Anyway.

00:02:29.020 It's Stu's last day before Christmas.

00:02:31.220 And then he'll come back, you know, before I do.

00:02:35.660 My last day is Friday.

00:02:38.380 So, Liz Wheeler, we've upgraded.

00:02:41.280 We have upgraded.

00:02:42.740 Fair.

00:02:43.520 Massively.

00:02:44.240 Fair.

00:02:44.480 Liz Wheeler is going to be filling in for you for the next couple of days, which will 1.00

00:02:48.740 be really interesting.

00:02:50.160 I find her fascinating.

00:02:51.540 She's great.

00:02:52.140 Really smart.

00:02:53.060 By the way, available on Blaze TV.

00:02:54.860 She's a new Blaze TV host this year, right?

00:02:56.760 It's this year she started.

00:02:57.760 I thought you were going to like, I thought it was like a dating service all of a sudden.

00:03:00.520 By the way, she's available.

00:03:02.140 And I'm like, what are you doing?

00:03:04.300 You're the one telling everybody she's an upgrade.

00:03:06.680 I mean.

00:03:06.880 Well, because of you.

00:03:10.060 Right.

00:03:10.520 Everybody knew what that meant.

00:03:11.900 Yes, I know.

00:03:12.520 All right.

00:03:13.100 Yesterday, we were kind of having this argument, I think off air, of daylight savings time.

00:03:18.440 And I was like, I seem to remember it has something to do with farmers.

00:03:23.740 Okay.

00:03:23.940 They have too much, you know, they need more sunlight.

00:03:27.340 I can't remember.

00:03:29.040 And I'm like, it's farmers.

00:03:31.320 I'm sure it's farmers.

00:03:32.700 And so I got to check this out.

00:03:35.060 Because if it's about farming, I'm for it.

00:03:37.840 It's a good stance.

00:03:39.140 Good stance.

00:03:39.480 That's how we get a giant $500 billion farm bill every year. 1.00

00:03:43.300 Right, right.

00:03:43.580 Is it about farming?

00:03:44.920 But I'm for it.

00:03:45.760 I'm for it.

00:03:46.640 So here is the, so I said to you yesterday, I'll do my homework.

00:03:52.040 Yeah.

00:03:52.280 Let me look into where it started.

00:03:53.900 I'm very interested in where it landed on this.

00:03:55.700 Oh, you are not going to believe.

00:03:57.240 Okay.

00:03:58.180 So if you start looking in all the dark corners of human history, you find a man named Benjamin

00:04:05.660 Franklin.

00:04:07.020 That's not a dark corner.

00:04:08.080 He's my favorite founder.

00:04:09.440 Right.

00:04:09.900 Founding father, inventor, lover of lightning, lover of libraries.

00:04:14.340 Yes.

00:04:15.040 Pretty good guy.

00:04:15.860 Pretty good guy.

00:04:16.400 I love him.

00:04:17.220 So he's in Paris.

00:04:19.180 And in 1784, he writes.

00:04:22.020 Now, remember in America, he wrote an op-ed under a pseudonym, a nom de plume.

00:04:32.440 Uh, and it was all just comedy.

00:04:35.720 Basically.

00:04:36.280 He was just ripping things apart comedically.

00:04:39.720 Okay.

00:04:40.080 Well, he does this in the journal de Paris.

00:04:44.980 And he writes this letter because he's, he thinks the Parisians are lazy.

00:04:50.900 Now, who would have thought, where did that come from?

00:04:54.440 Geez.

00:04:54.840 I don't know.

00:04:55.340 How things have changed.

00:04:57.020 So he said, uh, I've got an idea.

00:05:01.020 First of all, I can save you a fortune on candles.

00:05:04.080 Uh, and candles, if you woke up a little earlier, you wouldn't need the candle at night because

00:05:12.160 you'd be tired and you'd go to bed.

00:05:14.600 So in this, he said, uh, and we should tax shutters because if you don't have a shutter,

00:05:22.360 the light would come in and you'd wake up and you'd go to work.

00:05:26.760 Okay.

00:05:27.500 And if that doesn't work, we should fire cannons at sunrise.

00:05:31.680 Get out of bed.

00:05:34.640 Okay.

00:05:34.860 So he's writing this about basically making fun of the French for being lazy and laying

00:05:40.480 in bed.

00:05:41.020 Okay.

00:05:41.800 He didn't mean it, but a seed had been planted.

00:05:45.800 So now you have to go a hundred years to the future.

00:05:49.260 Another guy who's becomes very serious about the clocks is George Vernon Hudson.

00:05:55.340 He's an entomologist in New Zealand.

00:06:00.060 Okay.

00:06:00.620 And he's like, you know, Benjamin Franklin was right.

00:06:05.320 Why?

00:06:06.480 Because this guy collected butterflies after his job and it got dark too early.

00:06:16.020 For his butterfly collection.

00:06:17.940 For his butterfly collecting.

00:06:19.440 Okay.

00:06:19.860 Okay.

00:06:20.580 This is, I mean, this is insane.

00:06:22.700 So he stirs up a big deal.

00:06:25.460 He's like, we've got to drop our clock clocks back.

00:06:28.320 But he didn't say an hour.

00:06:29.880 He said like 20 minutes.

00:06:32.060 Set it back 20 minutes.

00:06:33.880 20.

00:06:35.380 20 minutes.

00:06:36.140 What are you talking?

00:06:37.180 You know how screwed up everything would be if we set our clock?

00:06:40.120 I'm going to set him back 16 and a half minutes.

00:06:42.820 Imagine that.

00:06:43.560 Jeez.

00:06:44.320 We can't handle the most basic of tasks.

00:06:46.420 I know.

00:06:46.940 Okay.

00:06:47.220 Imagine that.

00:06:47.840 All right.

00:06:48.260 So he's, you know, he's doing this because again, he's collecting insects.

00:06:54.020 All right.

00:06:56.300 1895 is when he did that.

00:06:58.900 It didn't come back again until William Willett in 1907.

00:07:05.240 He was a wealthy Englishman.

00:07:08.200 He said, just like Benjamin Franklin, except he was sincere about it.

00:07:14.920 Nobody's working anymore.

00:07:17.100 Why can't?

00:07:18.020 Now this is the, you got to remember, this is a wealthy Englishman.

00:07:21.060 So he's like, why aren't my workers out on the plantation early in the morning?

00:07:26.120 I should be woken up by the sound of hard work.

00:07:28.900 So, uh, he says, this is a waste and he writes a pamphlet, a waste of daylight.

00:07:36.720 He also suggests we only turn the clocks back 20 minutes.

00:07:41.180 All right.

00:07:42.340 So he lobbied parliament.

00:07:45.180 Nobody listened to him.

00:07:46.260 Okay.

00:07:48.820 1916.

00:07:51.660 1916.

00:07:52.540 The beginning of the great war all across Europe.

00:07:56.820 Uh, countries are desperate to do what, what are they fighting?

00:08:02.940 What are they doing?

00:08:03.720 They're fighting, right?

00:08:04.680 If you're fighting, what do you need?

00:08:06.340 Don't think daylight.

00:08:07.420 What do you need?

00:08:08.480 Night.

00:08:09.660 No, no, no.

00:08:11.680 Forget the time.

00:08:12.820 What, what is valuable?

00:08:15.160 What's valuable is armaments.

00:08:17.980 Okay.

00:08:18.640 Okay.

00:08:19.100 And how do you make armaments back there?

00:08:20.980 Back then?

00:08:21.740 Coal.

00:08:22.900 Okay.

00:08:23.420 So they want the light to last as long at night as possible.

00:08:27.720 So the coal plants can, are taking all the coal instead of giving it to people for energy

00:08:36.220 in their houses so they can turn on all their lights, they can make armaments.

00:08:40.640 So they have a shortage of fuel, of coal.

00:08:44.400 All right.

00:08:44.520 That was a winding road.

00:08:45.380 I would not have gotten that on my own.

00:08:46.760 This is why I did this dusty, dusty work yesterday.

00:08:51.540 Okay.

00:08:52.540 Suddenly, uh, Germany is like, hey, wait a minute. 0.68

00:08:59.480 Remember that guy that was, Germany did this, not England.

00:09:02.660 Germany said, remember that guy who was in parliament who said that you should set the

00:09:07.960 clock back?

00:09:08.840 And they're like, yeah, 20 minutes.

00:09:10.480 And so a German said, how about a full hour? 0.56

00:09:15.420 Would that save things?

00:09:18.360 April 30th, 1916, Germany was nothing good comes from Germany.

00:09:24.060 I'm sorry.

00:09:25.200 Really good desserts.

00:09:26.440 Really good desserts.

00:09:27.640 Other than that, nothing good.

00:09:29.700 Well, okay.

00:09:30.520 BMWs are pretty nice.

00:09:32.320 Mercedes, pretty nice.

00:09:35.200 But other than that, nothing comes out of Germany that is good. 0.82

00:09:39.100 Aren't you German?

00:09:41.440 There's a few exceptions.

00:09:43.780 Okay.

00:09:45.020 So all across Europe, uh, the war is raging.

00:09:49.220 Germany sets their clocks back so they can have the daylight.

00:09:53.280 So they're not, they're not wasting coal.

00:09:55.840 And England is like, hey, wait a minute.

00:09:59.140 Six weeks later, England joins in.

00:10:01.780 Then Europe joins it. 0.61

00:10:04.220 Everybody's doing this for the war effort.

00:10:06.760 And then Wilson, then Wilson comes in and he does it as well in the United States.

00:10:15.100 So the first time it ever happened was under Woodrow Wilson.

00:10:17.680 I could end the story there.

00:10:20.140 And that explains why I'm now not for daylight savings.

00:10:24.560 I could edit there.

00:10:25.900 So after Wilson, because of the progressives, this is so amazing.

00:10:32.740 Think about this in history.

00:10:33.820 The progressives in 1919, uh, were, became very unpopular because Woodrow Wilson had had a stroke.

00:10:42.580 His last year in office was absolutely incapable of running anything in the White House.

00:10:48.180 He wasn't in charge.

00:10:50.600 His wife was, does any of this sound familiar?

00:10:55.020 And he had taken America and pushed it into socialism.

00:11:00.480 And we had, we had lost freedom.

00:11:03.560 And it scared the American people because at that time they knew the constitution.

00:11:08.700 And it had happened in eight years.

00:11:10.660 And they're like, we got to get away from this.

00:11:12.240 And so they reversed it and all the things he did, they reversed, including daylight savings time.

00:11:21.340 And then World War II happened and, uh, FDR came in and he called it war time.

00:11:31.160 And he did it for the same reason to save on coal, save energy.

00:11:37.080 So to conserve resources, again, we put in war time.

00:11:42.240 And then we never let it go.

00:11:45.920 So 70 countries now still observe daylight savings time.

00:11:50.820 That's a third of the world.

00:11:53.780 Across Europe, the clocks spring forward, fall back like clockwork, pun intended.

00:11:58.700 It's called, over in Europe, it's called summertime.

00:12:01.960 In North America, United States, Canada, and Mexico, we're still dancing to this tune,

00:12:07.060 except Mexico is starting to opt out.

00:12:09.820 Parts of Australia and New Zealand still observe it. 1.00

00:12:13.500 But in Asia, Africa, and most of South America, they feel they'd be like, these guys are stupid. 1.00

00:12:18.680 What are you doing? 0.99

00:12:20.400 They're like, yeah, that's, um, that's not a really, I mean, we don't have candles anymore or coal.

00:12:27.620 So, you know, I think we're, we're, you know, I think we're pretty good with this.

00:12:31.920 Uh, and it messes with our bodies.

00:12:33.560 And doctors show, uh, that the time change increases heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, and grumpiness.

00:12:42.840 Uh, the one thing it is, it's on a Saturday, and you're like, oh, I miss church.

00:12:47.540 Gosh darn it, I didn't send my car.

00:12:49.920 Now, that's not a very good, that's not a good reason to be against it. 0.94

00:12:54.300 Wilson is.

00:12:55.880 Um, your kids miss buses.

00:12:58.840 Anyway, so that is what happened.

00:13:02.500 Now, if we don't, if Donald Trump comes in and says, we're getting rid of daylight savings time, that means the sun in Boston will come up at 4.07 a.m.

00:13:16.680 Like 4.11 in Minneapolis.

00:13:20.540 Around the same in Seattle.

00:13:23.640 That is significant.

00:13:25.260 4.20, I think, in Los Angeles.

00:13:28.220 But it's still light until 7 o'clock at night, 8 o'clock at night.

00:13:31.680 I, I'm pretty cool with that.

00:13:34.120 I'm pretty cool with that.

00:13:36.800 I, I don't like it when, you know, the problem is, in the winter, it gets dark so early, you, you, you, you kind of like, I don't, wait, I don't need it to be darker, you know, at 3 in the afternoon.

00:13:51.160 I went to, where was that?

00:13:53.600 Copenhagen, I think.

00:13:54.520 I was doing a deal on, uh, I was in Sweden.

00:13:57.880 And I was doing a deal, uh, on the Muslim uprisings over there.

00:14:02.760 This is years ago.

00:14:04.320 And, like, the sun rises at, like, 9.30, 9.45, and goes down at 3, you know, 2.45, and it never gets past, like, the sunset.

00:14:14.940 It's never above, like, 20 degrees horizon.

00:14:18.000 And so it just kind of circles the edge.

00:14:21.740 It always looks like Donnerdusk.

00:14:24.840 I think I'd kill myself.

00:14:27.800 I don't care how good the chocolate is or whatever. 0.97

00:14:31.460 I think the Swiss miss would be fashioning a rope for me really quickly. 1.00

00:14:37.920 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:39.140 I don't think I could handle it.

00:14:40.220 So, anyway, that's the story.

00:14:42.640 Donald Trump, right again.

00:14:44.460 He is right.

00:14:45.200 Anything that goes.

00:14:46.160 On this one.

00:14:46.760 Anything that goes against Woodrow Wilson and FDR, I fully 100% back.

00:14:56.100 And, by the way, it all started as a joke.

00:14:58.340 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:15:04.500 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:15:06.200 If you are somebody who gets our free morning newsletter, which is all of my show prep, you just sign up for it at glennbeck.com,

00:15:14.840 you will see absolutely every story that's legit or from a legit source about the drones.

00:15:29.080 And none of them agree with each other except that it's happening.

00:15:33.840 Well, I can't say that because they don't agree on that either.

00:15:36.500 Some people are saying, well, you're just seeing stars.

00:15:39.880 I've seen stars my whole life.

00:15:42.040 I know what a star looks like.

00:15:45.160 I know what a plane looks like.

00:15:49.660 Potential drone sightings in Vermont.

00:15:52.860 Potential drone sightings in New York.

00:15:56.720 Are these drone sightings over Georgia?

00:15:59.780 Michigan Man reports mystery drone sighting.

00:16:03.240 Mystery drones over UK air bases and threat of Russian sleeper agents.

00:16:08.460 So now the English are saying the drones over there are from Russia.

00:16:14.420 Mystery drones spotted in Tacoma.

00:16:18.860 You know what the number one drone sighting state is?

00:16:23.920 You would say New Jersey, right?

00:16:25.380 I guess New Jersey, yeah.

00:16:26.080 Oklahoma.

00:16:27.500 What?

00:16:28.240 Yeah.

00:16:28.840 Oklahoma is the number one drone sighting capital, apparently, of the world.

00:16:34.880 And the governor just said they're there every night.

00:16:42.660 You can see them when the sky is cleared.

00:16:46.220 He said, I've been watching these for over a year, and they're not hunters looking for pigs or coyotes or anything like that because they're flying around in an observational way.

00:16:54.360 He said he has asked the White House to give Oklahoma the same things that they're supposedly giving to New York.

00:17:05.020 I mean, if it was nothing to worry about, why would they be giving all these states this really high, sophisticated drone stuff?

00:17:15.160 Well, I guess maybe because if it is if it is actually a mystery drone and the government's not involved and it's nothing to worry about, then it's just people just messing with the FAA drone sightings in San Diego, in Kentucky.

00:17:32.680 And now they're saying these people with lasers, when you point them at a drone, you might be pointing them at an aircraft and we'll come and arrest you.

00:17:43.080 Why can't you just track the signal back on the drones to fight?

00:17:47.540 Why is that not even threatened?

00:17:50.060 If you're flying any of these drones, we will find you because we can track your signal from the drone back to you, the operator, and we'll do it.

00:17:59.980 I mean, with all the technology they have and all the monitoring that they do, you'd think that would be possible.

00:18:07.960 No, it is. It is possible.

00:18:09.140 I know. But I mean, so why wouldn't they be doing it?

00:18:12.600 Right. Why wouldn't we be doing it?

00:18:13.700 So my guess is maybe it's not as easy as we think it is.

00:18:19.000 Maybe.

00:18:19.640 I mean, you see this happen all the time.

00:18:20.800 Like, hey, this guy just murdered a CEO in the middle of Manhattan.

00:18:24.100 Oh, he got all the way to Pennsylvania.

00:18:26.000 Like, what?

00:18:26.600 So here is Whoopi Goldberg's explanation.

00:18:31.100 You heard this?

00:18:31.620 No, I have not heard of Whoopi.

00:18:33.160 I think this, I think they know what it is.

00:18:35.920 I think they're not going to really be able to say it.

00:18:38.720 Or we're going to get a really hell of a big party for New Year's Eve.

00:18:45.040 It's going to be like a dome over all 50 states of these drones.

00:18:50.340 It could be something like that.

00:18:51.720 Well, why not?

00:18:52.520 I mean, stranger things have happened.

00:18:55.120 Then a New Year's Eve party with drones.

00:18:58.960 Okay.

00:19:00.060 These people are out of their mind.

00:19:00.980 A dome of drones over all 50 states.

00:19:03.340 Stranger things have happened.

00:19:04.440 No.

00:19:05.160 Not really.

00:19:06.600 And strange things have happened.

00:19:08.080 I give her credit on that.

00:19:09.020 Yes.

00:19:09.300 Really unexpected things have happened, but not stranger than that, I don't think.

00:19:13.860 Donald Trump says yesterday, he was asked about it.

00:19:16.920 He said, he was asked, have you been briefed in your president-elect briefings?

00:19:24.540 And all he said is, the government knows what they are.

00:19:28.320 And they're just not telling the American people.

00:19:31.460 That's what he said.

00:19:34.720 Hopefully he will.

00:19:36.320 Maybe we find out on January 20th.

00:19:38.360 I have to tell you, I heard somebody yesterday give what I think is the answer, without question, mathematically, the answer.

00:19:49.300 I'll give that to you here in just a second.

00:19:50.840 First, I have a – hang on just a second.

00:19:54.560 Let me pull it up here.

00:19:57.000 I have a New Jersey state senator.

00:19:59.340 His name is John Bramnick.

00:20:01.200 He is – he thinks he knows why the federal government is not telling the truth on the drones.

00:20:09.780 Welcome to the program, state senator, John Bramnick.

00:20:14.560 Good to be with you, Glenn.

00:20:15.980 Thank you.

00:20:16.920 So, you've been on this now for a while.

00:20:21.600 Apparently in New Jersey.

00:20:23.080 It's a very big deal.

00:20:23.960 But Mallorca said it might be stars, but I think we've all seen stars before.

00:20:30.660 What have you found?

00:20:33.040 And why isn't – if the government knows what it is, why aren't they telling us?

00:20:39.020 Well, let me talk about the evolution of this.

00:20:41.160 First, people saw these drones, large drones, including the state police.

00:20:45.120 The colonel and the state police had a briefing with us where one of their helicopters saw a large SUV-sized drone that was flying next to the helicopter, turn off its lights, and fled.

00:20:58.240 Now, that's not some citizen.

00:21:00.240 That's the helicopter pilots for the state police.

00:21:02.680 So, it started off with clear observations of unusually large drones that were turning off their lights and leaving the area.

00:21:11.040 So, then people started to see this.

00:21:13.220 And then why I think it's such a big deal is both sides of the aisle.

00:21:18.820 You had Schumer and Trump on the same side of this issue.

00:21:24.020 You had Governor Murphy, a Democrat, and Governor Christie both asking for more information.

00:21:30.560 So, when you have both sides saying there's not enough information, United States senators were going out with local police because they couldn't get information from the federal government.

00:21:41.660 So, then what happened?

00:21:43.880 All of a sudden, there were these private briefings.

00:21:46.480 And all of a sudden, it started to change.

00:21:48.820 They said, well, it's not a threat.

00:21:50.540 But they still didn't release any other information.

00:21:54.580 So, I think slowly the federal government is privately giving information to elected officials to try to calm down the public.

00:22:03.560 But that doesn't answer why we see in New Jersey over military bases, over reservoirs, and even over Governor Christie's house, large drones.

00:22:14.980 And we see what we see.

00:22:17.600 So, I think what happened here is they try to tap all this down, and it backfired on the Biden administration.

00:22:24.380 So, any clue?

00:22:28.300 Is it us?

00:22:30.360 Is it the Pentagon?

00:22:32.160 What is it?

00:22:33.360 Any clue?

00:22:34.060 No, it's not.

00:22:34.920 It's definitely not Martians, okay? 1.00

00:22:37.140 Because they never land in Jersey, I'll tell you that.

00:22:39.840 It's so expensive here.

00:22:41.540 They're going down the floor, and I can tell you that.

00:22:44.020 But we know it's not outer space people.

00:22:46.660 Right.

00:22:47.380 It may be some spaced out people.

00:22:49.700 Yeah.

00:22:49.820 So, here's what we're left with.

00:22:52.440 I've heard three or four theories, and everyone calls me and says, you know, I heard this, et cetera.

00:22:58.240 Everything from some sort of mapping of the heat on the earth in order to do security, from radioactivity.

00:23:06.240 Somebody sent me something yesterday that said the amount of radioactivity in the New York, New Jersey area is raised, has been increased.

00:23:14.600 They wanted to send me a website on that.

00:23:17.320 So, I don't know, but I do know something.

00:23:19.820 The Department of Defense has to know.

00:23:23.020 And if they don't know, we're in big trouble.

00:23:27.320 You know, in the U.K., they're blaming – the drones just started showing up over the air bases over there.

00:23:32.400 And in the U.K., they're blaming Russia.

00:23:35.520 I mean, it's not good.

00:23:38.120 You're telling me, okay, in 2024, that the Department of Defense doesn't know what an SUV-sized drone is doing flying over military bases.

00:23:51.600 Now, if that's the case, then we better look closely at our military.

00:23:57.680 So, we did – I mean, this administration is the one that let a balloon that they said had nothing – it was not sending information back – go across the United States and denied it half the time and then said it was nothing until they shot it down after it had transmitted all of its information.

00:24:15.620 I mean –

00:24:16.620 And how about the president-elect saying the government knows but isn't telling us?

00:24:24.320 Now, I would suspect that the president-elect has sufficient information to make that statement.

00:24:31.820 Otherwise, I doubt he would have said that.

00:24:34.960 Well, he said that in response to a question in your president-elect briefings on national security.

00:24:44.440 Has they said anything?

00:24:46.480 And that was his response.

00:24:48.000 So, it would lead you to believe he's telling you without telling you what he got briefed.

00:24:52.760 The bottom line is when you have this many millions of people, wherever I go in New Jersey, the first question is, hey, Senator, can you please tell me?

00:25:02.760 Don't worry.

00:25:03.360 I won't tell anybody.

00:25:05.040 You know what?

00:25:05.860 You know what?

00:25:06.400 My rule is if you want to keep a secret, don't tell anybody.

00:25:09.280 Right.

00:25:09.640 So, all I got to tell you is we don't have enough information to calm down the public.

00:25:16.640 So, just give us enough information to calm down the public.

00:25:20.460 That's all we're asking for.

00:25:21.980 You said that they are too fearful of the public reaction.

00:25:26.940 What did you mean by that?

00:25:29.060 Well, I figured that the Defense Department must know what these drones are doing.

00:25:34.780 So, either if they don't know, that's a problem.

00:25:37.720 But if they do know, they must figure that they cannot release this information because it's such a top secret plan or it would create fear in the public.

00:25:49.980 It's got to be one or the other.

00:25:52.980 And my guess is they have to know based on my confidence in the military.

00:25:57.840 So, therefore, they want to release it because they don't want to either scare the public or provide secret information to our adversaries.

00:26:07.420 What other explanation is?

00:26:10.140 Now, the explanation is, well, it's just a bunch of planes and, you know, it's birds with lights on them.

00:26:17.740 You know, that's not the smart people who've seen these drones.

00:26:21.900 This is not somebody who saw a Bigfoot and then comes back from the woods.

00:26:26.920 Right.

00:26:27.260 I saw a Bigfoot.

00:26:28.540 This is the governor.

00:26:29.660 You know, whether it be Governor Christie or senators who live down the shore, they've seen it.

00:26:35.520 So, I don't know how you tell them it was just a plane, especially when it's hovering over somebody's house.

00:26:42.880 Right.

00:26:43.620 Right.

00:26:44.320 Senator, I'd love to have you back because I know that you were an assistant professor at, I think it was Ryder University.

00:26:50.700 He won the Inspirational Professor of the Year, and you also hold the title of Funniest Lawyer in New Jersey.

00:27:02.760 And you think that was easy to win?

00:27:05.840 Let me tell you something.

00:27:07.180 The competition, the only competition that's not as hard is the Funniest Accountant in New Jersey.

00:27:14.640 Now, that competition, anybody can win.

00:27:17.040 But I beat the pants off nine other finalists in the Funniest Lawyer in New Jersey, and people pay to come see a lawyer and tell jokes.

00:27:25.540 That's how crazy the public is.

00:27:27.740 Thank you so much, Senator.

00:27:28.820 I appreciate it.

00:27:29.660 God bless you.

00:27:30.760 Merry Christmas.

00:27:31.660 You bet.

00:27:32.100 Bye-bye.

00:27:33.520 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:27:40.780 A hero, really, of the Canadian people, Ezra Levant.

00:27:46.140 Hello, Ezra.

00:27:47.700 Glenn, it's great to talk with you today.

00:27:50.320 I heard your introduction about Christia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister.

00:27:55.860 She's much more than that.

00:27:57.200 It would be like Dick Cheney was to George Bush Jr.

00:28:01.280 I mean, the everything fixer, totally involved in all the files.

00:28:06.020 That was Christia Freeland.

00:28:07.200 And she quit yesterday, and she timed her leaving to detonate the morning she was supposed to deliver a mini budget. 0.95

00:28:15.600 So that whole thing was thrown into a mess.

00:28:21.560 And basically, didn't she say that because we're spending all of our money and we have to stop because we might get into a trade war with America?

00:28:30.460 She did.

00:28:32.000 And in her resignation letter, which she published, she accused Trudeau of being a narcissist, of being in it for himself.

00:28:39.820 No.

00:28:40.100 She didn't use the word narcissist, but she said, we've got to think about more than just ourselves.

00:28:43.740 We've got to think about the country.

00:28:44.940 She accused him of, quote, political gimmicks.

00:28:48.400 And the thing is, she was his right-hand woman since the very beginning.

00:28:54.060 And I want to tell you one more thing about Christia Freeland.

00:28:56.820 She is on the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum.

00:29:02.320 And what was her job right before she became a member of parliament to join Trudeau?

00:29:07.480 You're not going to believe me.

00:29:09.220 She was the authorized biographer of George Soros.

00:29:13.940 Oh, my gosh.

00:29:15.000 So the deputy prime minister and finance minister, but really the everything minister of Canada, she was, like I say, like Dick Cheney to George Bush, she was the right-hand man on every file.

00:29:27.000 So was she more of the architect of this, or is Trudeau capable of doing it?

00:29:34.880 What I'm asking is, is Trudeau more of a Biden and she's more of an Obama, or is it Dick Cheney and George W.

00:29:43.940 Bush?

00:29:45.160 Trudeau loves the sizzle of being prime minister.

00:29:49.140 He loves the adulation.

00:29:50.900 It's hard to come by.

00:29:51.880 So, for example, he went to the recent Taylor Swift concert and he exchanged friendship bracelets with teenage girls.

00:29:59.400 That's his market these days.

00:30:00.800 Everyone else shouts at him.

00:30:02.380 So he was never a policy guy.

00:30:06.240 He would leave that to the grown-ups.

00:30:08.440 And Chrystia Freeland and George Soros would fill that void.

00:30:11.240 And I'm not just saying George Soros is a throwaway line.

00:30:14.440 A few years ago, Canada signed a contract with the Open Societies Foundation to draft our refugee policy.

00:30:22.440 So this is not a rumor.

00:30:23.480 Oh, my gosh.

00:30:24.620 Totally outsourced.

00:30:25.880 So Chrystia Freeland departing is an enormous blow.

00:30:29.820 But look, Canadians can hardly wait to get rid of Trudeau.

00:30:33.060 I don't want to sound overconfident, but the conservative opposition leader, his name is Pierre Polyev, he's excellent.

00:30:41.580 He's way out ahead in the polls.

00:30:43.800 Remember, we have a multi-party system.

00:30:45.680 So there's about five parties in Parliament.

00:30:48.040 The conservatives are at 43.

00:30:49.600 Now, I know that might sound low in an American two-party system.

00:30:52.760 But when you've got five parties, 43% means you're going to have a massive victory.

00:30:58.160 And last night, after Chrystia Freeland detonated Trudeau and quit, there was a pollster named Abacus Data that went into the field immediately.

00:31:06.600 And his results were just being posted.

00:31:08.220 Only 11% of Canadians approve of Trudeau.

00:31:14.600 11%.

00:31:15.080 It's going to be a massacre.

00:31:16.580 Last factoid, here's a little data point.

00:31:18.660 This is happy news.

00:31:20.200 This is really happy news.

00:31:22.000 While everyone was focused on the intrigues in Ottawa, there was a special election in the province of British Columbia for one of these members of Parliament.

00:31:30.600 And the conservatives, led by Pierre Polyev, got 66% in the local district.

00:31:36.680 In Vancouver, B.C.?

00:31:38.660 Not in Vancouver proper, but nearby.

00:31:42.840 So in B.C., which is sort of like Washington State.

00:31:45.340 Yeah.

00:31:45.600 It's a little bit hippie.

00:31:46.640 It's a little bit eco.

00:31:47.280 A little bit?

00:31:47.980 A little bit.

00:31:48.720 Yeah.

00:31:50.580 But then I got to tell you, people of every background, according to the pollsters, men and women, young and old and minorities, they all want Trudeau gone.

00:32:00.740 Which is so interesting, because he came to power as the woke guy.

00:32:04.580 Oh, yeah.

00:32:04.960 Who, you know, I'm a male feminist, he said, etc.

00:32:09.020 Canadians are finally done with them.

00:32:11.760 We just need that moment where we get to go to vote.

00:32:13.960 And Ezra, I hate to simplify your country's politics in this way, but Glenn, Polyev is the guy who, the apple guy.

00:32:22.280 Remember the viral video where he was just sitting there answering questions?

00:32:25.080 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:32:25.700 Eating the apple?

00:32:26.580 That's the guy.

00:32:27.000 Oh, I love that guy.

00:32:27.820 Yes!

00:32:28.360 I think everybody in America that saw that video loves this guy.

00:32:31.240 Oh, I love that guy.

00:32:33.200 Now, that apple eating thing, give me 30 seconds on that.

00:32:36.780 Yeah.

00:32:36.920 You know, he was answering questions from a left-wing journalist while casually eating an apple.

00:32:41.760 And whenever, the journalist would say things like, well, aren't you, people say you're like Trump.

00:32:47.720 And he would say, what people?

00:32:49.420 And what did they say?

00:32:51.500 And he just did this a bunch of times, proving that the journalist was just, you know, taking cheap shots.

00:32:57.900 And when he said people say, he was just saying, I say.

00:33:01.320 It was masterful.

00:33:02.640 And the reason, why is that important?

00:33:03.900 There was no real policy talked about.

00:33:05.680 The reason that was important, Len, is because it shows that Pierre Polyev has a Trump-like disdain for journalists.

00:33:14.400 And why is that important?

00:33:15.800 Because too many Canadian conservatives are so worried about what the media will say about them.

00:33:20.960 They respond to the peer pressure of journalists.

00:33:23.940 They want to give journalists the answer that the journalists want.

00:33:27.100 Polyev is not afraid to look at our version of CNN in the eyes and say, you know, and attack them.

00:33:35.240 And insult them and poke back.

00:33:36.720 So I know that if he's elected prime minister, that he will be largely immune to the mean girls club of the media party. 0.96

00:33:44.700 And that's saying something because you have the CBC.

00:33:48.100 That's like our PBS, except that's the main.

00:33:51.560 I mean, they control the they are the CNN, NBC, ABC.

00:33:55.500 They're everything up there.

00:33:56.640 They're larger than all other media combined.

00:33:59.820 Our state broadcaster has more journalists than every other media company combined.

00:34:05.380 You can imagine how that really distorts the national conversation.

00:34:09.820 But a lot of Canadians get their info through social media, which is why Trudeau's introduced legislation that would criminalize, including with a life in prison.

00:34:20.560 There's a Trudeau has introduced a bill called C63 that has a life in prison component for, quote, hate crimes, including hate speech.

00:34:29.980 That's one of the reasons Jordan Peterson cited for moving to America.

00:34:33.640 Yeah, this bill C63 and we're going to fight that bill if it becomes law.

00:34:38.380 But the way things are looking, I think Trudeau might not last long enough to make it into law.

00:34:42.540 So what happened?

00:34:45.700 I mean, parliamentary systems are so weird.

00:34:49.720 You can just call an election at any time, which is kind of weird.

00:34:53.600 But does he have to call for one or does he have to step down or can there be a vote of no confidence?

00:34:59.860 What happens next?

00:35:01.100 Well, he only has a minority in our parliament.

00:35:04.680 He's propped up by a hardcore socialist party called the NDP, the New Democrats.

00:35:09.420 Right.

00:35:09.800 And didn't they just come out and pretty much say, we're done with you?

00:35:14.060 No, it's trickier.

00:35:16.260 They said, we demand Trudeau resign.

00:35:19.200 Right.

00:35:19.580 And then when they said, will you vote non-confidence in him?

00:35:22.880 They refused to.

00:35:24.000 So they like to pretend they're against Trudeau.

00:35:26.060 Oh, okay, okay.

00:35:26.640 But they have never opposed him.

00:35:28.500 So Trudeau is the master of his own destiny as long as no one has the courage to push him out.

00:35:35.700 And if there was a non-confidence vote, he could be thrown out and an election would be forced.

00:35:41.680 But I don't think his critics have the courage to do that.

00:35:45.280 I don't think they have the numbers.

00:35:46.580 And look, these polls are so awful, Glenn.

00:35:50.240 A lot of the liberals who are sick of Trudeau and worry he's tanking things, they know they're going to lose whether the election is now or in six months.

00:35:57.920 So why not drag it out for six more months, get paid, enjoy their power, run things a little longer.

00:36:03.900 If you're a liberal MP and you know you're going to lose the next election, why wouldn't you at least stretch it out three, six, nine months to, you know, get as much from your job as possible, get as much money, power, influence?

00:36:17.200 Unbelievable.

00:36:17.400 I think the liberals are going to be smashed, but Trudeau will probably, listen, he is stubborn and he's a fighter.

00:36:25.260 I've never seen him apologize.

00:36:27.080 I've never seen him quit.

00:36:28.560 He has a lot of flaws, but tenacity is not one of them.

00:36:32.940 How much of a role did the election of Donald Trump play in this?

00:36:37.600 Are you guys just right, just behind us on what's happening here in America?

00:36:42.380 That's such a great question.

00:36:43.660 And in a way, a Trump tweet started the dominoes falling here.

00:36:48.740 I don't know if you remember.

00:36:49.560 I knew it.

00:36:49.960 About a month ago, about a month ago, Trump tweeted 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada if they don't seal their borders, stop the illegal drugs, stop illegal immigrants. 0.86

00:37:00.660 So it was, and Mexico immediately got on the phone.

00:37:04.080 Yeah, hang on just a second.

00:37:05.440 Why did Trude, why does Canada have such a hard time with that?

00:37:08.620 It's like just, we need you to enforce your laws.

00:37:12.300 That's all we need.

00:37:14.640 And Pierre Pauly of the conservative leader said, look, I don't want to do those things because Donald Trump tells me to.

00:37:20.060 I want to do those things because it's in the Canadian interest.

00:37:22.660 Right.

00:37:22.820 Why would any Canadian, and Trump is worried about fentanyl coming through Canada into the States.

00:37:28.800 Well, Canadians should be worried about that too.

00:37:30.560 In fact, we are.

00:37:31.240 We've had a huge crime wave under Trudeau.

00:37:33.180 So the smart, grown-up answer is, okay, Trump is asking sort of roughly, like he's being a little bit, he's got that, you know, he's walking, he's throwing a big stick.

00:37:42.440 Yeah.

00:37:42.560 But just deal with him.

00:37:44.360 The man's a transactional dealmaker.

00:37:46.500 He's not actually asking Canadians for anything that we don't want.

00:37:49.520 Just do it.

00:37:50.580 But instead, here's, let me throw one last thing at you, Glenn.

00:37:53.140 Here's my theory of why Trudeau is fighting.

00:37:58.120 As I mentioned, Trudeau is so low in the polls and this conservative leader is so high.

00:38:03.100 But what if Trudeau could flip it?

00:38:05.120 And instead of running against Pierre Pauly of the conservative leader, what if Trudeau would say, I'm running against Trump?

00:38:11.480 Because Trump is not that popular in Canada because the media has bashed him for 10 years.

00:38:17.380 And what if Trump puts on the tariffs?

00:38:19.740 You know, here.

00:38:20.320 What if Trump brings in the...

00:38:21.780 We just stopped listening to that.

00:38:23.100 It's even worse up here.

00:38:23.700 Yeah, I know.

00:38:24.100 It's even worse up here.

00:38:25.200 But one more move.

00:38:26.620 What if Trump actually implements the tariff on Canada?

00:38:30.620 It hurts our economy.

00:38:32.360 So now Trudeau can say, this terrible economy is not my fault.

00:38:36.640 It's Trump's fault.

00:38:38.020 Vote for me if you want to stand up to Trump.

00:38:39.780 Vote for me if you don't like Trump.

00:38:42.100 Vote for me and we'll bring Trump together for the woes.

00:38:45.840 I think Trudeau is willing to sacrifice Canada's economy for this desperate chance to run and win again.

00:38:53.620 That's my theory, at least.

00:38:54.520 You know what?

00:38:55.380 To me, that makes sense.

00:38:57.400 And you know what?

00:38:58.520 Honestly, to understand Donald Trump, you have to understand he never, when he's negotiating, he never threatens.

00:39:07.760 He's never threatening.

00:39:08.940 He just makes promises.

00:39:11.860 If you do this, I'll do that.

00:39:14.600 If you do this, I'll do that.

00:39:17.700 And he will.

00:39:19.220 He will.

00:39:20.060 So he's not threatening.

00:39:21.080 Yesterday.

00:39:21.660 Just making promises.

00:39:23.260 Well, and why wouldn't Canada say, all right, you've got our attention.

00:39:27.280 We agree.

00:39:27.980 We've got a border problem.

00:39:29.100 By the way, it goes both ways.

00:39:30.340 When Trump is going to deport a large number of illegal migrants, some of them will say, oh, we'd better come into Canada because there's such a soft touch.

00:39:38.880 So we have an interest in having a strong border because we don't want all the folks Trump's going to deport, including those who committed crimes.

00:39:46.480 And those who are going to self-deport.

00:39:48.420 Self-deport.

00:39:49.100 Yeah, I mean, all those Haitians, they're going to want to go to Montreal, a French-speaking city, rather than go back to Haiti, wouldn't you? 1.00

00:39:56.140 So we need a strong border also.

00:39:58.660 Trudeau would rather fight with Trump for the media kudos than actually fix a problem.

00:40:04.460 It's his last desperate chance.

00:40:06.740 But you know what?

00:40:07.340 I hope Canada comes back and the Trump revolution is not just a political and economic one.

00:40:12.600 It's a freedom revolution.

00:40:14.400 Free speech, Elon Musk, RFK Jr.

00:40:17.720 basically rebuking the COVID mentality.

00:40:21.540 Hopefully some of that freedom will slosh over the border into us, Glenn.

00:40:25.220 Yeah.

00:40:25.820 One last thing.

00:40:26.920 We both have to run.

00:40:28.260 You have one in every 20 persons now selecting suicide and more women are electing for euthanasia than men are.

00:40:42.820 I mean, this is getting way out of control, euthanasia in Canada.

00:40:47.380 And our veterans affairs department is suggesting euthanasia for soldiers who have PTSD.

00:40:54.600 If you say you're depressed, they will literally use that as a reason to give.

00:41:00.600 They call it up here MAID, medical assistance in dying. 0.99

00:41:03.240 It's the new word for euthanasia.

00:41:05.220 Canada is now ahead of the Netherlands for this.

00:41:08.500 And partly it's socialized medicine because if you kill someone, they're not going to cost $100,000 a year on intensive care.

00:41:15.120 Part of it is also the war on the concept of life.

00:41:18.000 Trudeau is an absolutist for abortion.

00:41:20.500 And this is an extension of sort of a eugenics approach. 0.79

00:41:24.220 It's dark days for those who value life in Canada, Glenn.

00:41:27.840 I hope your theory is absolutely wrong, but I've watched you long enough to know your theory probably is right.

00:41:34.540 I hope you're wrong, though.

00:41:35.820 Thank you so much, Ezra.

00:41:37.620 Thanks, Glenn.

00:41:38.360 Bye-bye.

00:41:38.740 Bye-bye.

00:41:40.000 That guy is one of the bravest people up in Canada that I know.

00:41:43.180 Na-na-na-na.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 17, 2024

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