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00:00:00.000 Hey, here's some great news that the mainstream media probably won't really tell you about.

00:00:05.360 And if they do, it'll be a different spin than mine.

00:00:07.780 The president is having all of these people, like from Microsoft and Salesforce,

00:00:14.000 all these great CEOs that love the Great Reset,

00:00:18.600 all meeting at the White House today so they can try to encourage people to get behind Build Back Better.

00:00:24.400 Because once we do that, that'll fix all of our problems.

00:00:29.060 It will certainly fix the catastrophic existential threat of global climate change.

00:00:37.320 It's the most important thing we can do right now.

00:00:39.760 And also, I explain a little bit about inflation today.

00:00:44.360 What causes it? I don't know. Who knows? Who knows?

00:00:47.420 But we have a way from the Wall Street Journal on how you can have it not affect you all that much.

00:00:53.860 I'm going to give you a little hint. Spoiler alert. Just accept it.

00:00:59.060 OK, because we don't know what really causes it. So just lower your standards, America. 0.99

00:01:05.020 Or, as I will tell you on today's show, the exact opposite.

00:01:08.840 Also, Peter Swiser is on with us.

00:01:11.080 Red-handed, stunning information about elites and Biden selling America out to the Chinese.

00:01:19.040 And don't miss the special on Glenn TV tonight, blazetv.com slash Glenn.

00:01:23.840 The promo code is Glenn. You'll save $10 off your subscription to Blaze TV.

00:01:27.380 And it happens right after a brand new Stew Does America.

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00:01:50.100 Joe Biden is...

00:01:52.220 Yesterday, he had ice cream.

00:01:53.900 They couldn't say what he had on his schedule, but we now know what he had on his schedule.

00:01:58.020 He had a stop at an ice cream parlor.

00:01:59.520 And he got a nice ice cream cone.

00:02:01.880 I don't know what flavor.

00:02:03.180 I don't know who asked him.

00:02:05.440 But today, he's got a big day in front of him.

00:02:09.840 He's going to meet in person with CEOs of 10 major corporations

00:02:15.140 to discuss the potential benefits to business of his Build Back Better Act.

00:02:21.880 Now, this is how it's being described.

00:02:24.180 The social safety net bill that passed the House last year, but stalled in the Senate.

00:02:29.940 That's not what this is.

00:02:31.300 This is not a social safety net bill.

00:02:33.460 The Build Back Better bill is the Great Reset.

00:02:39.000 That's the slogan for the Great Reset.

00:02:43.260 According to the White House official who requested anonymity on Tuesday,

00:02:47.260 probably because they don't want anybody to know they're associated with the White House

00:02:51.700 at this point, to preview the event.

00:02:55.560 They were asked to preview it.

00:02:57.120 It's still being finalized.

00:02:58.440 The executives will all be there in person.

00:03:01.540 No one will be attending virtually.

00:03:03.360 That's a change from past CEO events that he has hosted.

00:03:07.620 And here are the people that are expected to be with him today.

00:03:10.260 Mary Barra, she is the chair and chief executive officer of General Motors.

00:03:16.380 Mark Beninoff, chair, co-chief, executive officer, and founder of Salesforce.

00:03:22.800 He is one of, he's also on the WEF board of directors.

00:03:27.500 He is the chief salesman when it comes to the Great Reset.

00:03:35.160 The Sunda Brown Duckett, president, chief officer of TIAA.

00:03:40.060 Jim Farley, the chief executive officer of Ford.

00:03:44.360 Barbara Humpton, president, CEO of Siemens.

00:03:48.180 Tom Leinbarger, he's the CEO of Cummins.

00:03:52.660 Enrique Lores, the executive officer of HP.

00:03:57.140 Josh Silverman, the chief executive officer of Etsy.

00:04:00.660 Brad Smith, what a surprise.

00:04:02.760 President and vice chairman of Microsoft.

00:04:05.860 Wendell Weeks, chairman and CEO of Corning.

00:04:09.560 These are all people that are in and fully supportive of the Build Back Better Act and the Great Reset.

00:04:19.000 So he is having a PR meeting today, bringing in all the people that are all deeply on board for the Great Reset.

00:04:29.300 And he's going to have a little meeting with them.

00:04:32.100 And then they're all going to go out to the media and say, this is going to help our economy.

00:04:35.720 It's going to help.

00:04:36.620 No, it's going to help our economy.

00:04:38.620 So what is the big thing that's going to help our economy?

00:04:41.360 Well, a reset of capitalism.

00:04:43.220 That's what's going to help.

00:04:44.220 And something called ESG scores, environmental, social justice and governance scores.

00:04:50.960 And these governance scores are going to help people navigate the very tricky financial waters that we're going into because of climate change.

00:05:00.500 Let me give you this regulators, federal regulators today, a new story from Politico, are likely to press banks to prepare for the fallout from a warming planet.

00:05:16.480 So the planet is getting so warm right now that federal regulators are saying, you better, as banks, you better prepare for this.

00:05:28.540 And one of the things you need to do is stop financing fossil fuels.

00:05:34.180 If you think your gas price is high today, give it a year.

00:05:39.120 You must stand up in your state.

00:05:43.160 You have to call your congressman and your senator.

00:05:46.840 You cannot let the the build back better bill or anything like it to pass.

00:05:54.440 You've got to get into regulation because it's everywhere.

00:05:57.800 It's in everybody's company.

00:05:59.140 If you work for a big company, it's in your company.

00:06:02.060 The way to stop it is through the financial sector.

00:06:05.760 You've got to get to the banks and to the credit card companies because they're the ones that are pushing all of this.

00:06:14.780 And they're the ones that are going to affect everything all the way down to your auto loan.

00:06:20.180 So the job of the regulators is to ensure safety and soundness of financial institutions and promote financial stability.

00:06:29.100 Now, this actually makes sense.

00:06:30.780 That's Andy Barr.

00:06:32.480 He's the GOP representative from Kentucky.

00:06:36.680 He says their job is not to pick winners and losers in credit markets and politicize the allocation of capital or to solve climate change.

00:06:47.520 Now, Biden has just tapped Sarah Bloom Raskin.

00:06:50.980 She is a warrior against fossil fuels.

00:06:55.020 She's been saying fossil fuels.

00:06:58.680 That is a horrible, horrible investment.

00:07:02.100 She's now going to be she's been picked for the top job for the regulations at the Federal Reserve.

00:07:10.480 Martin Grunberg, he's taking over the FDIC.

00:07:15.300 And, you know, Trump's person, they forced her to resign.

00:07:20.640 And now you've got another climate warrior at the top of FDIC.

00:07:27.500 You also have the comptroller of the currency is now being led on an acting basis by Michael Hsu, who has put climate issues front and center.

00:07:38.840 You have Security and Exchange Committee's chair, Gary Gensler.

00:07:42.560 He is he is enacting sweeping rules that will require banks and other public companies to disclose their contributions to climate change and environmental risks.

00:07:53.420 A huge, massive shift faster than anyone could imagine is coming.

00:08:00.800 Now, let me give you what's happening overseas with our own Treasury secretary.

00:08:07.580 So Janet Yellen met for the WF Davos Agenda annual meeting.

00:08:15.780 It just ended.

00:08:17.480 And there was a conversation with Janet Yellen, secretary of the Treasury, with Klaus Schwab actually hosting.

00:08:25.140 And after telling Schwab that the old supply side model for lower taxes and reduced regulations just doesn't work and Biden's new build back better is just so much more promising, she said, importantly, the Biden administration, their economic strategy embraces rather than rejects something kind of important.

00:08:49.460 Here she is.

00:08:50.340 Listen.

00:08:50.640 Importantly, the Biden administration's economic strategy embraces rather than rejects collaboration with the private sector through a combination of improved market based incentives and direct spending based on empirically proven strategies.

00:09:10.960 OK, so what she's saying here is the Biden administration through the Treasury and through the Federal Reserve are going to now partner with businesses.

00:09:21.040 Do you want your government partnering with all of the biggest businesses?

00:09:25.680 Exactly what's happening in the White House today.

00:09:28.340 Do you want that?

00:09:29.360 Because that is fascism.

00:09:30.820 I just want you to know that is the technical definition of fascism.

00:09:34.840 Do you want the United States government to through what did she just say through market based incentives and direct spending?

00:09:47.220 So, in other words, the government will put direct spending your tax dollars into these companies for proven strategies.

00:09:56.060 And they will have market based incentives, another in other words, ESG scores.

00:10:02.480 Get out of that business and you can you can have your business.

00:10:06.860 Otherwise, you'll be destroyed.

00:10:08.960 That is fascism.

00:10:10.920 That is not the free market.

00:10:13.560 Now.

00:10:14.880 She goes on to say we just have a different focus.

00:10:21.180 Listen to this.

00:10:21.720 Essentially, we aren't just focused on achieving a high top line growth number that is unsustainable.

00:10:31.440 We're instead aiming for growth that is inclusive and green.

00:10:37.300 The economic moment is well suited to accommodate such a modern supply side expansion.

00:10:44.060 So we are not focused on high top line economic growth.

00:10:50.240 Well, that's pretty obvious.

00:10:51.460 A year ago, our growth was 30 percent with everything shut down.

00:10:55.000 Our GDP was 30 percent.

00:10:57.460 Our GDP today is what, three, three and a half percent.

00:11:01.080 So they're clearly not interested in any kind of top line economic growth.

00:11:06.440 They're only interested in growth that is sustainable, green and inclusive.

00:11:16.220 ESG.

00:11:16.780 So they want to make sure that we spread the wealth around.

00:11:22.600 And the best way to do that is to pick winners and losers.

00:11:27.340 Then Klaus Schwab had something to say.

00:11:30.840 He is the head of the World Economic Forum.

00:11:33.340 He is the guy who is really spearheading the Great Reset.

00:11:37.840 Here's what he just said.

00:11:39.260 Remember, this conference ended two days ago.

00:11:41.520 Here's what he said.

00:11:42.100 It was fascinating certainly for our participants to hear from you how the different aspects of your economic approach of the administration,

00:11:56.440 Biden administration approach, is integrated into an overall concept of the modern supply side economics.

00:12:06.100 And I think, just in a nutshell, that's probably the pathway which we have to choose in the context of today and to create a modern economy which is not just successful in creating prosperity,

00:12:25.100 prosperity, but creating inclusive prosperity, also sustainable and also resilient prosperity.

00:12:36.620 Yes.

00:12:36.880 Yes, as Janet Yellen.

00:12:38.920 So we're not looking for, you know, we have to choose.

00:12:42.240 Are we going to are we going to have a a system that creates prosperity or inclusive prosperity and sustainable and green prosperity?

00:12:54.160 That's what we have to choose.

00:12:55.860 They're not choosing.

00:12:57.300 They are going to continue to eat their caviar and ski the ski slopes.

00:13:02.360 You you are going to feel the impact.

00:13:05.960 But don't worry.

00:13:06.680 The elites are here.

00:13:08.240 The elites have a plan for you.

00:13:12.240 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:13:19.020 We have Mr. Peter Swiser on the phone with us.

00:13:22.700 Hello, Peter.

00:13:23.180 How are you?

00:13:24.480 Hey, it's great to be on with you.

00:13:26.160 Thanks for having me.

00:13:26.840 I have been waiting to have this interview.

00:13:30.260 And I know we're doing a longer in-depth interview next week and chalkboard and everything else to show.

00:13:36.060 Yeah.

00:13:37.180 All of the connections to China.

00:13:38.980 And it is it's disgusting.

00:13:41.140 We are committing suicide, aren't we?

00:13:45.140 Well, our elites are committing suicide, right?

00:13:47.920 It's it's I begin the book talking about Vladimir Lenin's prediction about, you know, the capitalists will sell us the rope by which we'll hang them.

00:13:55.640 And he talked about how the elites were going to be deaf, dumb and blind in the light of what the Soviets were doing.

00:14:02.560 Of course, the Soviets couldn't afford to do it.

00:14:04.600 They didn't have any money to buy off people in the West.

00:14:07.560 China does.

00:14:08.760 And what Lenin predicted is absolutely happening.

00:14:11.900 The American elites, large numbers of them are selling out the country for personal profit and because they have this kind of affection for the dictatorial model that that Beijing follows.

00:14:24.600 So that is something that people don't understand.

00:14:26.740 I'm going to get into some of the meat of this and we're going to start with Joe Biden.

00:14:30.720 But first, I think you need to explain because people will say, why would these capitalists want to be in bed with these guys?

00:14:40.580 What why would they want this to spread even over here?

00:14:45.300 Well, it's a great question.

00:14:48.040 I mean, if you look at China, China is not really a Marxist country, but they're a Leninist country.

00:14:54.680 And what I mean by that is, you know, they have companies, they have corporations and they have a very powerful elite that governs things.

00:15:05.700 So the elite not only is rich, but they also have political power in the United States.

00:15:10.700 It's slightly different.

00:15:11.840 It doesn't mean the rich people don't have political power, but it's more broken up.

00:15:15.480 That was the genius of the founders.

00:15:17.360 What you find is with guys like Bill Gates, guys like Elon Musk, I quote them extensively in the book.

00:15:25.040 They actually like the Chinese system.

00:15:27.360 The Chinese system is more efficient.

00:15:29.180 They get things done more effectively.

00:15:31.960 One guy says, you know, they know how to get things across the finish line.

00:15:36.520 Dictatorship has that example.

00:15:38.040 So when you look at a guy like, you know, Bill Gates or Elon Musk or, you know, some of the big guys on Wall Street that I name, do they really need the money?

00:15:45.860 No.

00:15:46.240 I mean, Bill Gates is worth more than $100 billion.

00:15:48.700 But there's this notion, this sense that China knows how to govern and address world problems better than the United States does.

00:15:57.540 Because that's what I think part of the reason is they get in bed with them because they feel like there's kind of this joint effort in tackling these global problems.

00:16:04.740 Right.

00:16:04.980 So, but is this, is, how do they shut their eyes to the atrocities in China?

00:16:11.640 Very simply, they either explain them away or ignore them or believe that there are other bigger problems.

00:16:20.840 One of the things I talk about in the book is, you know, the issues related to climate change, you know, not getting into the whole debate of what causes it.

00:16:29.460 But, you know, China has very effectively said, you know, if you bring up human rights, we're not going to cooperate with you on climate change.

00:16:37.900 And that's actually part of a strategy I outline in the book, how the origins of the Paris Climate Accord really came from a Chinese United Front group.

00:16:47.640 The point is, is that they turn a blind eye because they feel like there are, quote unquote, bigger problems to tackle, ignoring the fact that the very nature of the Chinese regime is the reason we can't trust them to keep their word. 0.65

00:17:01.620 They ignore that.

00:17:02.680 And that's the calculation that they've made.

00:17:05.180 We're going to ignore the internment of the Uyghurs.

00:17:09.280 We're going to ignore human rights violations.

00:17:11.580 We're going to ignore the fact that they covered up the COVID virus, leading to, you know, millions of additional global deaths because of the conduct.

00:17:21.200 They're going to ignore all that because they feel like President Xi and what China wants is common cause with them on a lot of these issues.

00:17:28.800 And by the way, they can make a lot of money at the same time.

00:17:31.300 So, you said that this is the most disturbing work you've ever done, the most disturbing personally to you, and you think it's the most disturbing message to put out.

00:17:45.100 Can you give me a bit more on that feeling and why?

00:17:50.220 Sure.

00:17:51.840 You know, Glenn, you and I have known each other for a very long time, and we've talked a lot about corruption.

00:17:56.740 We've talked about insider trading in the stock market by members of Congress.

00:18:00.000 We've talked about Hillary Clinton.

00:18:01.720 We've talked about the Bidens.

00:18:03.480 The Bushes.

00:18:04.860 The Bushes, absolutely.

00:18:06.360 Those are all, you know, important individual cases.

00:18:11.480 What we're dealing here is with an entire class of people.

00:18:16.060 I mean, if you look at the section on Silicon Valley in the book, you know, you've got Google, you've got Zuckerberg, you've got Bill Gates, you've got Elon Musk.

00:18:25.180 These are the most powerful people in Silicon Valley, and they all say the most outrageous things about the Chinese regime.

00:18:32.360 Will you do me a favor, because I think this one story about Zuckerberg meeting President Xi with his wife is truly unnerving.

00:18:44.060 Yeah, so Zuckerberg has a long history of kowtowing to Beijing.

00:18:48.840 Zuckerberg, of course, is married to a woman who's ethnically Chinese.

00:18:53.780 He meets President Xi at a state dinner that then-President Barack Obama is holding in 2015.

00:18:59.840 Zuckerberg, obviously eager to do business in China, ends up doing some deals in China, goes up to President Xi at the state dinner with his wife, who is pregnant.

00:19:10.500 And he asks the dictator of China if he would provide a name for his child, a Chinese name.

00:19:18.340 You know, he's going to have an American name, but also have a Chinese name.

00:19:21.240 Will you name my child?

00:19:22.820 To me, that is really disturbing, because, first of all, he's a dictator.

00:19:31.860 He's this oppressive guy.

00:19:33.520 But second of all, this is a very personal thing.

00:19:35.780 This is the naming of your child, and he's asking Xi to do it.

00:19:39.160 And Xi basically says, oh, that's too great a responsibility.

00:19:43.160 Even Xi thinks this is creepy, in my mind, and says, no, thank you.

00:19:47.280 I'm not going to do it.

00:19:48.540 But there are multiple examples with Zuckerberg.

00:19:50.860 And another one is the head of the Chinese Communist Party propaganda department visits Facebook headquarters.

00:19:58.980 And, of course, Zuckerberg gives him the tour.

00:20:01.680 Then he takes him into his office.

00:20:04.400 Zuckerberg takes him into his executive office, where the propaganda chief sits down.

00:20:08.140 And he notices a familiar book, a 500-page book, sitting on Zuckerberg's desk.

00:20:13.380 It's the collective speeches and statements of China's President Xi.

00:20:17.980 And the propaganda chief picks it up and says, oh, this is interesting.

00:20:21.540 And Zuckerberg tells him, oh, yes, I'm reading it, and I'm having all the senior executives in my company read this,

00:20:28.460 so they can understand socialism with Chinese characteristics.

00:20:33.980 What kind of tech executive does that? 0.76

00:20:36.880 To me, it's very disturbing.

00:20:38.800 And it's not just pandering.

00:20:40.300 It speaks, I think, to a deeper problem with a lot of these people.

00:20:44.400 It reminds me an awful lot of IBM in the 1930s.

00:20:49.380 We're talking to Peter Swiser.

00:20:51.400 He is the author of Red Handed.

00:20:53.540 It comes out today.

00:20:56.060 The real meat is all about China, but the one that will capture a lot of people's attention, of course, not the press at all.

00:21:06.420 Peter is the guy who broke the story in 2018 of Hunter Biden's massive business deals in China made while Joe Biden was vice president.

00:21:17.280 They said that, oh, well, he didn't really make a lot of money on that, blah, blah, blah.

00:21:22.040 Peter has new details.

00:21:23.600 Peter has the laptop.

00:21:25.480 And he has gone through it with a fine-tooth comb.

00:21:30.200 It's not the whole book, and that should really disturb you.

00:21:34.140 It is a portion of the book on the Bidens.

00:21:38.260 The book that is coming out today, Red Handed, How American Elites Get Rich, Helping China Win, with Peter Swiser.

00:21:48.040 Okay, so, Peter, you broke the story in 2018.

00:21:52.760 Nobody paid attention, said it was conspiracy.

00:21:55.720 They said that he didn't really make any money.

00:21:58.380 You now have the goods that not only did he make a lot of money, but his father was directly involved in these business dealings with the highest levels of the Chinese party.

00:22:13.960 Yeah, I mean, this is the interesting and, I think, very troubling evolution of the story.

00:22:20.820 You know, you and I talked about this when the book came out in 2018, and it was a story of cronyism and corruption and self-dealing by American politician Joe Biden.

00:22:31.500 And what we did was take the new material, which are the email collections of a couple of Hunter Biden's business partners, the laptop itself, Secret Service travel records that was released by the U.S. Senate.

00:22:44.720 And what we really wanted to find out, Glenn, is how did these deals happen in China?

00:22:49.560 How does a guy who's the son of a vice president go to China and line up these deals?

00:22:53.920 No, no, no, wait, wait, wait, not just the son of a vice president, an out-of-control drug user, a guy who is a very risky bet on any level, get those meetings.

00:23:06.120 Yes, very, very important point to make.

00:23:08.420 You're exactly right.

00:23:09.620 So we wanted to know who opened these doors in China.

00:23:12.220 And what we found by going through the emails is that there were basically five deals that the Biden family got, and there were a collection of businessmen that opened those doors.

00:23:25.560 And each one of those businessmen has direct ties to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence.

00:23:33.620 So, for example, the Bohai Harvest deal, BHR, that we talked about, this is a private equity deal.

00:23:41.680 Hunter gets on this board seat.

00:23:43.080 He has no background in finance.

00:23:45.060 One of the guys that made that happen is a Chinese businessman, kind of sketchy guy named Che Feng. 0.60

00:23:50.460 Che Feng, at that time, was business partners with the vice minister of state security in China, a guy named Ma Jian.

00:23:59.420 Ma Jian was in charge of the so-called No. 8 Bureau, and his responsibilities included recruiting foreigners to spy for China.

00:24:10.100 He had additional responsibility for North American intelligence operations.

00:24:15.100 That's the first businessman that is opening a door for Hunter Biden, put some on the board of this private equity fund.

00:24:22.220 His valuation ownership is around $20 million for basically doing nothing.

00:24:27.120 The second businessman that helps with that deal, and then also sends another $5 million to another one of Hunter Biden's businesses, is a guy named Mr. Zhao.

00:24:39.000 Mr. Zhao, at the time, was business partners with the daughter of the former minister of state security, which is the guy that runs the entire spy apparatus for China.

00:24:50.800 So, you have those deals.

00:24:54.480 This would be like getting President Z's son business deals, and they have all been brokered by the head of the FBI, CIA, and NSA.

00:25:07.100 Am I wrong?

00:25:07.900 Correct.

00:25:08.600 That's exactly right.

00:25:09.680 Use a Cold War example.

00:25:10.940 Imagine if we would have tolerated in the Cold War, you know, Harry Truman's daughter, you know, or Eisenhower's kids getting deals with people directly tied to the head of the KGB.

00:25:23.540 I mean, it's unfathomable, but that's exactly where we are.

00:25:28.420 So, we trace these deals back, Glenn.

00:25:30.740 It's all sourced in the book.

00:25:32.080 It's all open source information, but in sum, the Bidens got five deals totaling some $31 million, and every single one of those deals trace back to individuals with links to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence.

00:25:48.360 And the part that is important that you touched on at the beginning is this is not just a Hunter Biden story, because the other thing that is revealed by these new email collections is that Hunter Biden was getting money from foreign sources, and he was sharing that money with his father.

00:26:09.440 In fact, there are messages where Hunter's complaining to other family members, saying, I have to give half my money to Pop, meaning his dad.

00:26:16.800 And you could say, well, you know, maybe it's just, you know, he's on drugs, or he's just mad.

00:26:21.520 But that assertion is supported by the emails, and you find that Hunter Biden is paying for repairs and renovations on Joe Biden's property up in Delaware.

00:26:33.980 This is when Joe Biden is vice president of the United States.

00:26:37.600 He's paying for things like his monthly phone bill.

00:26:41.020 I mean, we found tens of thousands of dollars.

00:26:43.560 I'm sure there's a lot more.

00:26:45.000 He is effectively subsidizing his father's lifestyle, and he's using foreign money to do it.

00:26:52.920 And by the way, that is not legal.

00:26:55.580 If you are a politician, you can accept occasional gifts from family members, but family members and their businesses cannot subsidize your lifestyle and pay your bills.

00:27:07.460 But that's precisely what Hunter Biden has been doing for Joe Biden, and, you know, it's directly linked to these foreign deals that he's making.

00:27:16.900 So we have a president who is compromised on almost every front.

00:27:23.980 You know, he says that that Donald Trump was compromised by Vladimir Putin, except everything that Donald Trump did with Vladimir Putin did not work to Putin's advantage.

00:27:35.380 Here, the case is is is dramatically the opposite.

00:27:41.560 But we're living in a time now where because of China and because of Biden.

00:27:48.060 The press isn't going to I mean, this is the most stunning, illegal, clearly un-American activity I have ever seen produced outside of the guy who was actually a spy for the FBI.

00:28:07.580 I remember his name that was arrested during the Reagan administration.

00:28:11.080 It's that kind of level and no one's going to talk about it.

00:28:16.560 Nothing's going to happen, Peter.

00:28:19.180 Well, here's the thing we have to keep in mind.

00:28:21.840 We have to keep in mind that the American people did not know a lot about this.

00:28:27.020 Remember, in the 2020 election, they suppressed when The New York Post first started running stories about the laptop.

00:28:33.120 I believe that I think it's the reason, Glenn, you get out of bed in the morning and come to work is the American people cares about these things.

00:28:42.200 And there are enough people in Washington, elected people in Washington, whether they believe in the republic or whether they simply want to keep their jobs.

00:28:51.720 When the American people rise up and raise this as an issue that is important to them, it cannot be ignored.

00:28:58.480 And the important thing to keep in mind is that Joe Biden in his presidency is doing what Beijing wants to do.

00:29:06.620 Now, it's important to keep in mind, you know, people say, well, you know, Joe Biden, he put this diplomatic boycott for the Olympics or, you know, he criticized them as leaders.

00:29:17.440 One of the things I point out in the book is the Chinese have a concept called big help with a little bad mouth. 0.99

00:29:23.380 As long as you're doing the big things to help them, if you say some negative things, they're not worried about it.

00:29:28.920 Holy cow. 0.89

00:29:30.080 Peter Swiser, we will talk to you next week.

00:29:32.680 You will be in studio with us.

00:29:34.520 We're going to spend the morning with you.

00:29:36.380 And then next week's Wednesday night special, Red Handed.

00:29:40.420 We'll have it all on a chalkboard for you.

00:29:42.940 That's next week.

00:29:43.860 The book is available now.

00:29:45.300 It's a must own Red Handed by Peter Swiser.

00:29:48.900 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:06.240 In the first hour of today's radio podcast, I spoke about the American spirit and I talked about people who just were not stopped.

00:30:16.040 They just it no matter what happened to them, the American experience, the American spirit fuels you.

00:30:24.540 You don't stop and give up.

00:30:26.580 You're like, well, guess we're going to have to live with that.

00:30:31.000 Instead, we innovate.

00:30:32.480 We find different ways to do things.

00:30:36.160 Yeah.

00:30:37.180 But she is the supply chain. 1.00

00:30:41.620 So.

00:30:43.480 Hard.

00:30:44.040 What did we do before we had that?

00:30:50.220 I bet we acted locally.

00:30:55.200 Yeah, but you don't know the locals around here.

00:30:59.880 They're all hicks.

00:31:03.380 Right now you're spending a lot more in your grocery store.

00:31:07.040 And so we could sit around and complain about it.

00:31:09.120 Or we can showcase people who are doing something about it every day.

00:31:13.200 I want to show you some people that are thinking out of the box and quite honestly, will be the ones that restore us.

00:31:20.840 Today, I want to share with you a story that I I had that I found yesterday.

00:31:26.100 And it all revolves around a guy named Scott Carnes.

00:31:30.560 He is a second generation family member of Carnes Quality Foods.

00:31:35.340 This is in, I think, Western Pennsylvania.

00:31:38.560 He's well, I'll just ask him, Scott, how many stores do you have?

00:31:42.780 Well, we have 10 stores, Glenn, and we're all in central Pennsylvania, central Pennsylvania.

00:31:46.760 And I read yesterday what you're doing with just meat alone is game changing.

00:31:56.040 And I hope other people will do this in grocery stores.

00:31:59.340 Tell me the problem with the grocery stores that, you know, you were spotting and what you were trying to solve.

00:32:05.300 Well, what we saw, we had a supply problem during the early times of COVID and, you know, big issues with getting enough beef and pork, eggs, those type of items.

00:32:17.940 So we went out and sourced out and actually are setting up farms here in central Pennsylvania.

00:32:24.280 And we currently have over 800 head of cattle out on local family farms being raised for our stores.

00:32:31.020 And they will be hitting the stores in just a few months.

00:32:34.020 Good for you.

00:32:37.160 Tell me how hard was that, first of all.

00:32:41.720 It was extremely hard.

00:32:43.260 I am working with a company called Keystone Farm Future, and they have been working with me.

00:32:49.880 We had to get veterinarians on war.

00:32:51.800 We had to get herd managers, nutritionists.

00:32:56.100 They're well-tended cattle, you know, great Angus cattle that we're raising here.

00:33:01.900 A lot of the farms used to be dairy farms that just couldn't keep it going in small dairy.

00:33:08.100 So, you know, we gave them a way to raise beef cattle, which is a little easier than dairy, but farmers are still great people.

00:33:15.540 The farmers are, I mean, the farmers right now, because of these big, you know, four big meat processing plants, which you'll never convince me they're not the mob.

00:33:23.300 I'm a rancher myself.

00:33:25.360 It is.

00:33:26.380 It's impossible for a rancher to make money because they're taking all of the money.

00:33:31.640 It's, you know, they're taking it and buying cows for a less amount of money than you can and you can raise them for.

00:33:38.440 And so that's really hurting any farmer, any rancher at all.

00:33:43.780 So these are all local farms.

00:33:46.080 This is not, you're not going to some big industry.

00:33:51.040 No, I've got, right now I've got 14 farms that are participating.

00:33:55.280 We've got loads of farms that said they want to get involved in it.

00:33:58.260 Each week we add more cattle and we're out.

00:34:01.500 The biggest farm I have out there is just a hundred head of cattle.

00:34:07.400 And what will the, what will the difference be in price between you and everybody else?

00:34:14.400 Well, I will tell you, we are, are paying our farms, farmers a little bit more for their weight of gain than what they would be making on their own.

00:34:22.840 So we're just hoping that there will be a break even point for us on the cost.

00:34:29.620 We're not looking at this being a big savings.

00:34:31.520 It's going to give us.

00:34:32.440 No, I meant for the, I meant for the consumer.

00:34:37.400 Yeah, the consumer will not be seeing any price increase from this because of the way that we're doing it.

00:34:42.500 There will not be big savings, you know, because corn, corn prices are up.

00:34:47.180 You know, the cost of transportation to the, to the farms, getting this cattle out there is all up.

00:34:52.340 Well, the good news is, is that we're, we have it.

00:34:55.720 I'm so tired of living in a country that is, is saying, well, we're just going to have to get used to it.

00:35:00.240 Since when people need to innovate like you are.

00:35:03.720 And the best thing we can do is, is go local.

00:35:07.160 What is the reaction from the community?

00:35:09.520 I have to tell you, the community has been ecstatic about it, but you know, they keep asking me, when is the beef going to hit the markets?

00:35:17.620 And we have, we have 10 stores here and that's the great part.

00:35:20.640 I know that I can sell this beef.

00:35:22.520 It's going to be, you know, federally inspected, federally graded, you know, so that we have that assurance out there for the consumer.

00:35:28.580 But we're using small processors here.

00:35:31.020 We have just some small processors here in Pennsylvania.

00:35:34.680 Fortunately, we're lucky to have that.

00:35:36.560 Yeah.

00:35:36.780 And, you know, from the farm to the processors, short travel and right to my stores, even.

00:35:41.380 Fantastic.

00:35:41.980 And, and you're not having a pushback at all from the federal government.

00:35:45.240 Cause I know, you know, I know about 10 years ago, those Amish making that butter. 0.98

00:35:51.560 Federal government had a problem with that, but you're not getting pushback from the federal government.

00:35:56.060 But we have gotten no pushback at all.

00:35:58.880 Actually, I've gotten great, great cooperation from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has been helping me find different sources and farms out there.

00:36:08.620 I'm glad to hear that.

00:36:09.720 Scott, thank you for what you're doing for the farmers, the ranchers.

00:36:13.880 Thank you for what you're doing for your customers and, and, and re-stabilizing us in your own hometown, in your own way.

00:36:22.540 Thank you.

00:36:23.360 I really appreciate it.

00:36:24.940 I appreciate it.

00:36:25.760 We're really excited about this beef program.

00:36:27.580 Well, you'll have to let us know when it's available.

00:36:30.500 So I can mention it.

00:36:31.580 I will do that.

00:36:31.940 Thank you very much.

00:36:32.940 Thank you.

00:36:33.400 You bet.

00:36:33.740 Scott Carnes, he's the CEO, president of Carnes Food.

00:36:36.360 That's, I think, around Harrisburg, a, a small, you know, group of, of grocery stores.

00:36:43.740 These are the kinds of things that we need to be doing.

00:36:46.660 We, the more we can focus locally, the better off we are.

00:36:52.160 And it's, it's, you know, we, we, we put together a supply chain that once we all really understood the supply chain, didn't we all go, wait, really?

00:37:09.680 See, that's how it works?

00:37:11.940 Thinking, that's miraculous the way it was working.

00:37:16.080 Did you have that reaction?

00:37:17.960 Just in time, the supply chain just in time?

00:37:20.980 Yeah.

00:37:21.240 I mean, it's incredible.

00:37:22.080 It's incredible.

00:37:22.720 It is a modern miracle.

00:37:25.660 It's eye pencil to the 50th degree.

00:37:27.680 Yeah.

00:37:28.220 And it's literally a modern miracle.

00:37:31.840 The problem with it is, is once you have a disruption, how do you bring it back online?

00:37:38.280 And if you have a disruption or a war or anything else, what do people do?

00:37:43.580 Because if it's just in time and that food chain and that supply chain is breaking down, you got nothing.

00:37:50.940 You got nothing.

00:37:52.460 The best thing we can do, as it may take five years to get the just in time supply chain back, if it ever really comes back, the best thing we can do is be self-sufficient.

00:38:04.860 And you don't need the government's help on it.

00:38:07.880 You just need to reinvent.

00:38:10.700 I'm telling you, Carnes Food will expand in the future.

00:38:15.260 They may not make any money and people may not have big savings on the meat, but they'll have meat.

00:38:23.800 And more importantly, they will see a company that is reinvesting in their neighbors, their friends, and their area.

00:38:31.360 And that's important.

00:38:32.920 If you have a business, you need to start investing in your local area.

00:38:40.080 That's why I've been telling you, get away from these big banks, find a local bank.

00:38:44.460 And what that means is a locally owned and operated.

00:38:47.340 We're going to talk about this tonight on the TV show at nine.

00:38:51.060 A locally owned and operated.

00:38:53.440 One that is not, you know, it might say, Bob's Bank of Milwaukee.

00:38:58.180 And you look at it and you're like, you're Wells Fargo.

00:39:00.840 You're looking for things that are locally owned and operated and that the money and just go ask the banker.

00:39:09.380 I'm thinking about doing my banking here.

00:39:11.440 They'll tell you anything, you know, as long as it's true.

00:39:14.900 And you you go in and you say your loans.

00:39:18.500 Do you sell your loans or do you keep your loans here?

00:39:22.480 We keep our loans here.

00:39:24.000 Why is that important?

00:39:25.000 That's important because, you know, that bank doesn't do risky stuff because they're on the hook for it.

00:39:32.460 And they're not doing it and saying, I just get that off our books.

00:39:36.540 So they're responsible people.

00:39:39.960 And if you keep your loans here, you're you're making sure that you're investing and you actually care.

00:39:47.460 What happens to that business?

00:39:50.000 I do everything with a bank called Southlake Bank and it's local.

00:39:54.940 And I picked them to purchase our studios.

00:39:59.820 They'll stop by from time to time.

00:40:02.240 I know them.

00:40:03.720 They'll be like, hey, how are things going?

00:40:06.060 They care.

00:40:07.740 They care because it's their money, too.

00:40:10.720 So it's really important.

00:40:14.880 Local, local, local.

00:40:17.600 Everything you do.

00:40:19.200 Local.

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