Glenn and Stu talk about the Super Bowl, Shakespeare and the future of the Republican Party, and much, much more. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and host of the Glenn Beck Program on the conservative radio network Glenn Beck Radio.
00:04:13.460That sort of insightful analysis will be there.
00:04:16.380Now, the president and the Pentagon and everybody else, they knew about the balloon.
00:04:22.340He decided not to tell anybody about the Chinese balloon because he didn't want it to mess up their global warming conversation that they were going to have last weekend with China.
00:04:35.240Unfortunately, just a regular citizen looks up and like, what's that?
00:04:40.380takes a picture of it, and the Chinese spy balloon is now out in the open.
00:04:47.260The picture goes viral everywhere, and the Pentagon has to admit, oh, that's a spy balloon.
00:05:07.120So, when you looked up in the sky, and you saw the balloon, what did you, you just thought it was just a regular weather balloon, or what did you think?
00:05:22.140I knew that we had a ground stop in place, so there were airspace restrictions at our airport, and outside of my office window, I looked straight out onto the airport.
00:05:35.420You probably don't know much about the Billings Airport, but we have cliffs here in town.
00:05:40.860You are on top of a butte, and I've been there, my friend.
00:05:52.420Yeah, so I just happened to be looking out because I wanted to see what was going on.
00:05:56.380I thought there might be a military exercise, or somebody important might be flying in, and it turned out that it was just this thing in the sky, and I had no idea what it was.
00:06:07.120So, they had closed the airport, or restricted the airspace.
00:06:37.640But, you know, it's still pretty surreal for me, but I didn't know when I was taking the photo that it was going to lead to something like this.
00:09:02.380Would you do me a favor and write out in your own words what you saw and everything else in your own handwriting and sign it for me so we can put it in our museum and our vault?
00:09:15.360Yeah, I would absolutely be happy to do that.
00:18:57.180We need to start policing the content of what our children, held captive in the classroom, are being fed to them.
00:19:03.620So our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com, over the course of the last 30 days, we've uncovered quite a story of how the Newsoms, Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, are using taxpayer dollars through her film and curriculum nonprofit to promote radical ideologies in our public schools.
00:19:23.520So this film, and you're going to describe it here in a second, it has now been seen by 2.6 million students, 11,500 classrooms, 5,000 schools, and in all 50 states.
00:19:50.160Yeah, look, Glenn, yours is a family program.
00:20:25.380The best way I can simply describe it, when you click the links in the study, is that this is triple X-rated content.
00:20:33.260You're going to see women who are naked or nearly naked being slapped, handcuffed, brutalized, and still photos taken from pornography videos.
00:20:44.200And Glenn, if that wasn't bad enough, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who produces these films, directs these films, she includes the website addresses to the porn sites, where students, when they leave the classroom, it is a roadmap to them for further exploration.
00:21:00.760You know, where's anyone that is standing up for women in the first place, being slapped around S&M, handcuffs?
00:21:14.080This is what we're showing, not only to our children, but we're now endorsing it with public figures, and you'll get into this, with public figures, giving their endorsement of this kind of behavior.
00:21:28.820And what does that do to our young men?
00:21:43.820And that's why I say that parents, fathers, mothers, you need to police the content in your local classrooms.
00:21:50.300As you pointed out at the top here, that this content is in 5,000 schools in all 50 states.
00:21:58.7402.6 million of the students have reviewed this in 11,200 classrooms.
00:22:05.560And although we, you know, for months we reached out to the Representation Project, this is Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit, and we can't get a response.
00:22:13.120They will not respond to any of our questions, asking for their side of the story, asking for further context, their response to what we've uncovered in their films.
00:22:22.380But what they did do, just a couple of days ago, the executive director of the nonprofit tweeted out that although they're happy that their films have received greater scrutiny over the course of the last couple of weeks because of our exposure,
00:22:35.980she pointed out they're proud that they've been seen over 30 million times online and in the classroom.
00:22:43.020So, look, this is a real problem, Glenn.
00:24:15.400Number one, you have to ask the teachers for the curriculum.
00:24:18.180Number two, the second step, says who with what proof.
00:24:22.520File an official Freedom of Information Act sunshine request in your state with your school district to get an official copy of the curriculum.
00:24:30.040You know, if you see that the teachings, you know, are what we're talking about or something similar,
00:24:36.600you have to bring it to public comment at a board meeting.
00:24:39.300You have to ask questions and hold the school board accountable.
00:24:41.880Oftentimes, the school board will not answer your questions.
00:24:44.620So, you have to network up to 50 to 500 of your friends and family in the community into those school board meetings.
00:27:05.680So, first off, Governor Newsom engaged in a highly unethical practice of soliciting state vendors, up to 1,000 of them, for campaign cash.
00:27:17.340Those 1,000 state vendors gave his campaign fund $10.6 million.
00:27:21.980And while he was doing that, we found that his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was soliciting state vendors for donations to her nonprofit,
00:27:30.600this film and curriculum nonprofit, to cover the operating costs.
00:27:33.760So, state vendors gave five- and six-figure donations to the nonprofit.
00:27:39.240Okay, so Jennifer Siebel Newsom has received in salary from the nonprofit over the last decade $1.5 million.
00:27:45.560The nonprofit, which produces the films and curricula for schools, up to 5,000 schools, has received, on license fees, of licensing the films and curricula, up to $1.5 million on license fees.
00:29:51.480We light up Republicans, like in the latest omnibus spending bill.
00:29:55.200You know, Republicans were some of the biggest earmarkers.
00:29:57.380We had a field day with them showcasing them for participating and earmarking the currency of corruption in Congress.
00:30:04.240But, look, when you follow the money right here on the Newsom's in California, that's where we get this investigation.
00:30:11.400And somebody should have filed a, you know, an election campaign violation.
00:30:16.620You got a nonprofit charitable educational organization set up under IRS section 501c3.
00:30:23.700And they are drawing the line between, you know, cultivating activists out of the classroom and urging people to vote for politicians that espouse the same principles as Governor Gavin Newsom, who appears in the curriculum and the film.
00:31:21.540Nothing like this is happening in your school.
00:31:25.120You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:31:34.660In a world where there is no trust of anything, even formally trusted institutions, you really have to do your homework and watch people's not just their words, but their actions.
00:31:47.640The actions always speak louder than their words.
00:31:49.580We have been working with the Heritage Foundation, wall builders and I, along with the Heartland Institute all over the country on ESG.
00:32:01.380And there was a an understanding that was growing, unfortunately, that that the Heritage Foundation and and what we were trying to do were sort of going in opposite directions on ESG legislation.
00:32:20.700And it was hurting the whole anti ESG movement.
00:32:29.140He is the new president of the Heritage Foundation.
00:32:31.920He is he was the chief executive officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is why I initially was like, OK, there's got to be a misunderstanding here.
00:32:44.140And what could have been real contentious conversations happened between a group of people really led by Kevin who believe in the Bill of Rights and want to do the right thing and understand we all can't do the same thing.
00:33:01.800Or we all need each other to cover up or to cover all of the bases and things like ESG.
00:33:08.660So I just wanted to thank Kevin for his his hard work and his time that he has spent to really understand what is going on on the lowest of levels and being able to help and then support what he believes in.
00:33:28.500Well, Glenn, thanks so much for having me.
00:33:30.540Thanks so much for for your kindness in that comment and also in the conversations we've had about this this issue of confronting ESG.
00:33:38.500And then what I've learned from leading a couple of schools and certainly in policy work, always wanting to work in coalitions with friends like you who also want to sustain the Bill of Rights.
00:33:49.320Is that when you encounter those those potential tensions to stop, have a private conversation if possible, which is what you initiated and realize, oh, gosh, this this is how we can make an adjustment to make sure that friends remain friends.
00:34:03.160But most importantly, as you and our friends of all builders would say to to go stop the problem, the scourge of ESG.
00:34:11.820So most of all, heartfelt from all of us at Heritage for everything you're doing to lead that effort.
00:34:18.580I will tell you that you are doing something now that I talked about last week at Heritage that I'm really excited about.
00:34:28.400And some people might roll their eyes and go, geez, is this another white paper or is this a bunch of, you know, the rhinos getting together and developing policy?
00:34:38.480What excited me is, A, I know you and B, I am seeing for the first time from anybody on the right with some with some decent leverage, a a willingness to develop a very strategic plan for whoever the next conservative president is.
00:35:02.920And and and this is something the the Democrats do all the time, they have everything written before they even get into office.
00:35:11.840They have a strong plan and that's why they can hit the ground running.
00:35:19.920Well, we are. And I'll just say not not that I deserve the credit for this.
00:35:24.920I was just the the initiator of it. Some really smart people came came around to it.
00:35:29.420But to your point about the skepticism that people in your audience, a lot of friends of mine, family members of mine, I know that.
00:35:36.420Well, I have one would have about a D.C. headquartered organization heading up this effort.
00:35:42.260I get it. And in fact, one of the reasons I took the job at Heritage, in spite of the fact that I wanted to stay in Texas, is because I wanted to correct that.
00:35:50.820And the reason is Heritage has so much credibility, so many resources, frankly, and we're so connected to the everyday American.
00:35:58.920You know, we're supported by several hundred thousand people each year outside D.C.
00:36:03.740We are decidedly not of D.C., all of that to say.
00:36:06.620The most important thing that we could be doing for the republic right now at Heritage is convening a wide group of people across the conservative movement, across the country.
00:36:17.720This is there's not a rhino involved in this effort to create what I might say is an administration in waiting.
00:36:24.560And to put it succinctly, Glenn, this is the set of policies that need to be initiated.
00:36:29.480These are not only finding the people to go into key positions, and by that I don't mean a few hundred at the secretary or cabinet secretary level, but several thousand who can populate the administration, but also the playbook that will not just be for the first hundred days, but we're going, this is not an exaggeration, my friend, we're going minute by minute.
00:36:52.200The president, whoever he or she is, takes the oath of office, scurries back to the White House, and minute by minute, these are the executive orders to roll back the damage of the Biden regime.
00:37:03.100Okay, so we know that we can't, that's one of the things that happens at the last gasps of a republic, historically speaking, is it has wild swings back and forth from the right to the left, from the right to the left, and it's all edicts.
00:37:18.520And that, a republic can't last very long with that and have credibility.
00:37:23.880So, I'm hoping that this also includes a bunch of people like, let me throw Bain Capital out there, the kind of people that come in to turn a company around but end up just, you know, firing almost everybody and then selling it off for parts.
00:37:43.160Are we, is there a plan to shut these administrative behemoths down?
00:37:51.800There's not only a plan to do that, but that's really the core of the plan because, I'll just give you an example.
00:37:58.220In a couple of months, as part of this effort, which we call Project 2025, Heritage and the 50 other conservative organizations, none of them swampy, who've been working on this, nearly 400 policy experts, none of them swampy, we're going to issue the book of policies that the administration needs to issue.
00:38:18.560The point to your question, Glenn, is that all of that is immaterial if we don't, first and foremost, do what you were just describing, which is, and even before the first minutes of power, preparing for this during the transition, identify those clowns who need to be thrown out.
00:38:36.860But to replace them, every single one of them, with men and women who are ready to take the country back.
00:38:44.020You see, that's the missed opportunity in the first months of the Trump administration.
00:38:48.480And I don't mean that as a gratuitous criticism of the former president, whose inclinations were heroic.
00:38:55.360It's just that D.C. inertia overtook that particular phase.
00:40:01.620That gives you a sense of the vigor of this plan.
00:40:05.240So is this going to be something that will be able to be adopted and talked about and given to people so they can, say, hold the president, whoever it's going to be, accountable and say, we want you to do this if you win?
00:40:37.540And so the very reason that we're issuing this plan or parts of the plan in April of this year is precisely so that two things can happen.
00:40:47.220Number one, Americans, everyday Americans, can be part of this and talking about it, asking people who want to be their elected officials about it.
00:40:55.340But secondly, to the heart of your question, when we start having debates among the Republican presidential aspirants, they're talking about that plan.
00:41:04.360The plan becomes the very reason that we, as Republicans, will nominate someone.
00:41:10.580You hold your PhD in American history from the University of Texas.
00:41:17.420I think you have a master's at Virginia Tech, bachelor's of history, University of Louisiana.
00:41:51.180And instead, because of my faith, I'm cautiously optimistic that if men and women of faith in God, in the American Republic, are willing to fight, we're actually going to write several chapters in the next couple of decades before we have to write the epilogue.
00:42:09.200That's what the plan is about, in that you hear, Glenn, my cautious optimism, but also my realism that having studied history and the history of republics and knowing that, as you said, we're in this swinging of the pendulum from left to right, the time is finite.
00:42:27.440And I am not willing to leave anything on the field for my kids, if we were to have grandkids, but most of all, for the men and women alive this day who've sacrificed so much for you and me to be able to do what we do.
00:42:43.580Kevin Roberts, he was named the president of the Heritage Foundation in 2021, and he is looking for a new heritage, take all the best things from the Heritage Foundation and conserve them and get rid of all the worst things about heritage.
00:42:59.720And so far, I'm really impressed by what you do and just how you are behaving as somebody in charge of something like this.
00:43:17.220AI, we are in this revolution right now.
00:43:20.520I've been talking about it for 30 years and saying someday the day is going to come.
00:43:24.480Well, the day is here now, and it's going to start accelerating rapidly.
00:43:30.160And big tech and government in these public-private partnerships, how are you thinking about AI and the public-private partnerships with big tech?
00:43:40.520Well, AI scares the daylight out of me.
00:43:44.420I mean, color me a conservative or even a troglodyte.
00:43:46.980But the point is there's got to be a policy response.
00:43:50.060And so probably the first thing that I initiated at Heritage that surprised some people, including some friends on the right, was saying that big tech is an enemy of the people.
00:44:00.480And in particular, big tech, in collusion with big government, are working against the American people.
00:44:07.340And so what Heritage does is not just talk about things but actually do them.
00:44:11.200We've been working very closely with the House Republicans and a few Senate Republicans on shattering that.
00:44:16.640There has to be a reckoning among conservatives in Congress, Glenn, about the threats posed not just by big tech but in particular this AI effort.
00:44:28.140And I'm really grateful because the best pressure is the pressure that comes from the outside, that you're spending so much time and your own credibility fighting against that as well.