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00:02:44.960 Hello, America.

00:02:45.960 Hello.

00:02:46.380 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:47.840 We're glad that you're here.

00:02:49.040 I want to talk to you about, I mean, strangely, student loans.

00:02:55.100 Joe Biden.

00:02:56.120 Joe Biden is spending the last week and two weeks in office just lighting brush fires that President Trump is going to have to put out.

00:03:04.900 So we're going to talk about fires today, progressive fires.

00:03:09.760 We begin there in 60 seconds.

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00:04:22.240 Welcome to the program.

00:04:26.160 I'm going to just quickly start with a personal note, and I want to get into some of the things later on that kind of go through your head.

00:04:33.020 Yesterday and Sunday, I was in the hospital here at Baylor White, and what an incredible hospital that is.

00:04:40.440 But I had a blood clot in my leg, or so they thought, last week.

00:04:47.060 And then on Sunday, it kept getting worse, and I went back to the hospital, and they couldn't find the blood clot.

00:04:54.100 They couldn't find veins.

00:04:56.600 It was really weird.

00:04:57.560 And long story short, I am okay and great, but boy, when you go through that, you know, I didn't share this with my family.

00:05:09.800 But when you go through that and you realize, oh, wow, it could be today, it plays on you a great deal.

00:05:18.480 And I know there's a lot of people that, I just want to talk to you about it, because I've learned some things doing that.

00:05:29.680 But let me go into first what is happening in California.

00:05:37.020 The fires are still burning, and, you know, good for them.

00:05:40.720 Good for them.

00:05:41.340 Meanwhile, we have Newsom talking about his Marshall Plan to rebuild Los Angeles, and let's go cut three there, please.

00:05:53.660 Over the course of the next several years, Los Angeles will be host to the World Cup, and then the Super Bowl, and then the Olympics.

00:05:59.200 With this rebuilding effort needing to take place, is LA going to be ready for all of those global events?

00:06:05.080 All that opportunity and that pride and spirit that comes from not just hosting those three iconic games and venues, but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the same time.

00:06:14.780 And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall Plan.

00:06:17.860 We already have a team of looking and reimagining LA 2.0, and we're making sure everyone's included, not just the folks on the coast, people here that were ravaged by this disaster.

00:06:27.620 You just said you're organizing a Marshall Plan for the rebuilding of California.

00:06:31.220 What is that Marshall Plan?

00:06:32.340 For this region, we're just starting to lay out.

00:06:34.460 I mean, we're still fighting these fires, so we're already talking to city leaders.

00:06:38.600 We're already talking to civic leaders.

00:06:40.260 We're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits.

00:06:43.440 We're talking to labor leaders.

00:06:44.800 We're starting to organize how we can put together a collection of individuals on philanthropy for recovery, how we can organize the region, how we can make sure that we are seeking federal assistance for the Olympics more broadly,

00:06:57.940 but also federal assistance for the recovery efforts, and how we can galvanize the community.

00:07:04.460 Okay, so I'm glad he's talking about the future.

00:07:08.500 This brings us to Mike Johnson, something that I haven't talked about, had a chance to talk about yet.

00:07:17.260 He wants to put some restrictions.

00:07:20.640 His aid proposal for California is that he's trying to put conditions on the aid sent to California, and people are saying, that's insane.

00:07:30.220 You don't do that.

00:07:31.000 Where is your compassion?

00:07:32.880 I want to talk to you about how compassion is sometimes difficult.

00:07:38.040 Compassion, true compassion, is sometimes the hardest thing to muster because you want to give until you can't give anymore.

00:07:49.880 You want to help.

00:07:51.460 You want to be there.

00:07:52.440 But you have an alcoholic in California. 0.55

00:07:57.760 California is the political system is an alcoholic, and it is destroying the entire state.

00:08:08.940 And you don't say when an alcoholic is suddenly, you know, in the hospital or, you know, really, really down and, you know, out on the streets, you know what?

00:08:20.260 I'm going to give you all the money you need to get back into your house because the alcoholic will spend that and just end up in the same place, if not worse.

00:08:31.540 Sometimes you have to have tough love, you know, this with your family, any kind of aid that goes to California, I think it is only responsible to aid the people as quickly as possible, aid the homeowners as quickly as possible, help them make sure that they have a place to go, make sure that they, you know, like they like the government wasn't doing.

00:09:01.540 In North Carolina, making sure that they have hotel rooms for as long as they need them within reason.

00:09:08.380 Now, within reason, many of these people are wildly wealthy.

00:09:14.840 Some are very poor.

00:09:18.120 There needs to be some understanding that the wildly wealthy, you know, we're not going to put you up at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

00:09:25.540 That's just the way it is.

00:09:27.080 Sorry.

00:09:27.500 But we're going to help the people.

00:09:31.920 But when it comes to the state, if they cannot admit that this is not climate change,

00:09:39.960 that this happened because of their policies, if they cannot admit that, they shouldn't get a dime.

00:09:48.880 I'm a taxpayer.

00:09:51.840 I want to help California, just like I want to help all the other states when they have a problem that they cannot handle, that is too big for their state.

00:10:02.300 But they took all of their resources.

00:10:05.800 And honestly, you could make the case.

00:10:09.380 I'm not.

00:10:10.420 But you could make the case.

00:10:12.160 This was intentional sabotage.

00:10:14.260 Now, I want to tell you about the three-fold problem in California as I see it.

00:10:25.580 There are three things that are happening in California.

00:10:29.220 One, the Santa Ana winds, low humidity, and uncleared brush always causes fires.

00:10:41.320 Always.

00:10:41.800 They are known to cause fires.

00:10:45.700 They have been known throughout history.

00:10:48.760 Do you know why the great redwoods and the sequoias have grown for a thousand years?

00:10:55.520 Do you know how those trees got so big?

00:10:57.480 They're in California.

00:10:58.460 How is that possible?

00:10:59.580 How have they not been wiped out by fire?

00:11:02.440 We've got to protect the sequoias.

00:11:04.500 Do we?

00:11:06.040 Do you know that the sap in sequoias is fire retardant? 1.00

00:11:10.780 That's why they can grow for a thousand years.

00:11:15.820 God gave them.

00:11:17.580 God knew there'd be fires in California.

00:11:21.480 Those trees have fire retardant as part of their life's blood.

00:11:26.320 That's why they haven't burned down over and over and over again.

00:11:30.460 normal trees don't have that.

00:11:37.160 That's why fires burn all the time.

00:11:41.380 And if you don't have regular maintenance on your forests and on your property, you are going to have a brush fire.

00:11:53.400 And a brush fire turns into a forest fire.

00:11:56.340 And if you add 75 to 100 mile an hour winds, you could burn down the entire state.

00:12:04.200 Except it seems for the sequoias and the redwoods.

00:12:06.860 What this government of California has done has stopped people in the name of the good of the forest and the good of the land is to deny science.

00:12:22.220 They have been denying science for decades.

00:12:27.400 They have been playing God for over a century.

00:12:32.020 They want to tell you that a woman can be a man and a man can be a woman and a man can have a baby. 0.79

00:12:37.440 That's not true.

00:12:38.880 That's denying science.

00:12:41.140 To say that we can prevent the forest fires is a lie.

00:12:46.900 That is as arrogant as saying we can change the weather.

00:12:51.480 Now, don't think our government and governments all over the world aren't trying to change the weather.

00:12:57.880 But let me ask you honestly.

00:12:59.860 How do you think that's going to work out in the end?

00:13:02.880 How do you think cloud seeding and putting gases and different things up into the atmosphere or giant shades in space to block the sun, how do you think that's going to work out in the end?

00:13:19.160 Well, or will it end the same way our arrogance always ends?

00:13:26.000 There are things that we can do to mitigate natural occurrences.

00:13:35.580 For instance, if you were, let's say you got on December 2nd.

00:13:42.660 Can we get that weather warning up from the National Weather Service?

00:13:47.160 It's January 2nd.

00:13:50.640 Next Tuesday through Thursday, January 7th through the 9th.

00:13:54.780 A chance of moderate to strong Santa Ana winds.

00:13:58.860 This is from the National Weather Service.

00:14:03.940 Ready, set, go.

00:14:06.300 Ready for wildfire.org.

00:14:09.480 Impacts.

00:14:11.040 Extreme fire growth behavior possible if a fire starts and power outages.

00:14:17.460 Use extra caution with potential fire sources.

00:14:20.600 Now, this was added the week before the fires.

00:14:27.920 Now, that's the National Weather Service giving a warning to the people of California.

00:14:34.340 You can bet that government agency let other government agencies know at the same time.

00:14:42.800 It just didn't go out to your house.

00:14:44.520 It went out to everybody's house.

00:14:46.800 It went to the firehouses.

00:14:49.000 It went to the governor's house.

00:14:50.640 It went to the mayor's house.

00:14:52.580 They knew in advance.

00:14:56.420 So let me ask you, in a non-progressive state, what would somebody like Ron DeSantis do?

00:15:02.080 What do we do for hurricanes?

00:15:04.680 Hurricanes are like fires in California.

00:15:07.760 You know you're going to have them every single year.

00:15:12.100 Am I wrong?

00:15:13.280 Okay, if you have them and you get a warning, one is potentially coming that could be record-setting, what do you do?

00:15:26.020 Well, I'll tell you what a non-progressive state like Florida, with a governor who is embracing reality,

00:15:34.180 what he does is he pre-positions all of the utility trucks.

00:15:39.960 He pre-positions all of the life-saving trucks.

00:15:43.900 He makes sure that we have plenty of chainsaws.

00:15:48.260 He makes sure that the state is ready and literally waiting.

00:15:55.200 So what should Gavin Newsom have done?

00:15:57.160 When he got that warning, a hundred-year warning of a fire,

00:16:01.840 he should have said, make sure all the reservoirs are full.

00:16:08.800 Make sure that we have all of the fire trucks positioned.

00:16:12.700 Put them in the high-risk areas.

00:16:15.400 Just let them sit there.

00:16:17.120 Have the firemen sit there in really dangerous areas.

00:16:23.100 Make sure that if you see a fire or smoke, that thing is out right away.

00:16:27.720 You can't get up these hills with fire equipment quickly.

00:16:32.200 If you've ever been to California, it's honestly like navigating the Appalachia.

00:16:38.880 It's like going to North Carolina.

00:16:41.440 Why were so many people trapped?

00:16:43.820 Because it's impossible to navigate those hills and those mountains quickly.

00:16:49.160 The same thing in California.

00:16:51.560 Did they do that?

00:16:55.100 No.

00:16:56.620 Did they make sure that they had things in advance?

00:16:59.820 No.

00:17:00.760 What is the one given if you're living in California?

00:17:04.420 What is the one thing that you know is going to happen in California besides political insanity?

00:17:11.300 You know there's a chance of an earthquake.

00:17:14.420 So what do you do?

00:17:15.380 You build your building stronger, right?

00:17:17.080 You know that there's a chance of a mudslide.

00:17:21.320 So what do you do?

00:17:22.620 You make sure that you have your foundations deep.

00:17:27.460 But then you also, when you buy it, know I'm gambling here.

00:17:31.260 My house could slide down the side of this mountain.

00:17:35.480 You're charged extra for insurance.

00:17:38.140 But the one thing you know is going to happen every year is fire.

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00:19:27.460 So I think there are three things happening in California, and that's why we're having this conversation today.

00:19:33.200 And we're having to make tough decisions.

00:19:35.300 One, fires are natural, especially in California.

00:19:42.060 They're going to happen due to global warming or not.

00:19:46.860 When you have out-of-control homeless problems, your risk of fire increases.

00:19:53.180 Why?

00:19:55.060 Because people who take meth, one of the side effects is you like to see things burn.

00:20:03.020 Also, you have homeless people who start fires, maybe to stay warm, maybe just to eat.

00:20:10.640 But when you have huge homeless problems, your risk of fire goes up.

00:20:15.120 You also have the Santa Ana winds and the natural history of California.

00:20:21.340 They were unprepared.

00:20:24.080 That's number two.

00:20:25.520 Number one is, it's going to happen. 1.00

00:20:28.120 Any moron could see this happen. 0.99

00:20:30.180 This wasn't 9-11 where, wow, we never thought planes could fly into the buildings. 1.00

00:20:34.540 This is a wildfire in California.

00:20:38.260 It happens every year, just like the sun comes up every morning.

00:20:45.340 Two, they were not prepared.

00:20:50.780 They knew it was going to happen.

00:20:53.140 They were not prepared.

00:20:56.780 Okay.

00:20:58.540 Next thing. 0.79

00:20:59.540 Their incompetence is borderline criminal.

00:21:10.060 What they've done, not just in their incompetence, but by shifting funds away from fires, away from preparedness for something you knew that was going to happen to, I don't know, 0.98

00:21:24.420 give more job opportunities for, you know, equal opportunity for lesbian lizard cults. 1.00

00:21:31.100 By doing that and taking money away from the state, I'm sorry, that's not just incompetence. 0.98

00:21:39.040 That's borderline criminal.

00:21:43.060 And three, you have people who are now just joining in.

00:21:48.020 What a surprise.

00:21:50.680 It looks as though you have foreigners here illegally on our streets setting fires. 1.00

00:21:58.260 Who could have seen that one coming?

00:22:02.680 That's what's happening in California.

00:22:06.760 It's natural.

00:22:08.460 It happens every year.

00:22:10.340 They didn't prepare.

00:22:11.860 They went the opposite direction.

00:22:17.940 You have people joining in to help.

00:22:20.820 I believe this fire started naturally.

00:22:24.380 And then it's been helped by forces that I don't understand yet.

00:22:29.180 I don't know if this was a plot or just, you know, lone wolves setting fires.

00:22:35.580 But also nature helped by Santa Ana winds, which we understand.

00:22:42.400 And the incompetence.

00:22:44.240 Why would we give California a dime without restrictions?

00:22:49.740 I'm not talking about the people who are suffering right now and have no money and no place to go.

00:22:54.820 I'm talking about rebuilding in California.

00:22:58.280 Every dollar should have restrictions on it to the government of California.

00:23:02.720 Because I'm not paying for this twice.

00:23:04.620 Because I'm not doing it.

00:23:08.180 They need to learn their lesson.

00:23:10.740 Not the people.

00:23:12.460 The people in government.

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00:24:57.780 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:24:59.440 There are so many things going on in the world that we have to talk about.

00:25:04.080 We have to talk about the transition and Biden just setting little fires for Trump to put out when he gets in.

00:25:12.140 It is disgusting what is going on.

00:25:14.960 And the fires all around the world.

00:25:17.280 The fires all around the world.

00:25:19.280 We haven't.

00:25:20.380 I mean, it's just been too much stuff going on here that I haven't been paying attention to it.

00:25:23.600 But the stuff in Europe that's going on is really weird, isn't it?

00:25:27.340 So like Romania. 0.51

00:25:28.600 Romania and Germany is in real trouble.

00:25:33.000 Romania and Germany.

00:25:35.340 The Germans want the ADF. 0.84

00:25:39.700 And that is the or the sorry, the AFD. 0.97

00:25:42.760 And that's the party they say is, oh, it's crazy Nazi group. 0.65

00:25:46.660 I'm not sure it is. 0.76

00:25:48.280 The far right.

00:25:49.140 They always say the far right wing.

00:25:50.820 Yeah.

00:25:51.080 Yeah. 0.89

00:25:51.280 And they're xenophobes and they, you know, they're racist and everything else. 0.55

00:25:55.160 I've read their their their documents. 0.81

00:25:59.500 I've read their platform.

00:26:00.780 It doesn't seem to be, you know, round people up that are different than us.

00:26:05.060 It is.

00:26:05.940 We would like to make sure of who's in our country exactly like we're doing. 0.99

00:26:10.860 We'd also like to see the end of the of the the government just destroying our country.

00:26:16.860 So they're afraid of them.

00:26:18.880 And the EU just came out and said, if the AFD looks like it's going to win, we're going to cancel the election.

00:26:29.460 What?

00:26:30.700 What?

00:26:31.620 And they just did it in Romania.

00:26:34.560 Yeah, they didn't just say they did.

00:26:37.280 They actually did cancel the they canceled it.

00:26:39.520 OK, so it looks like the far right, the one that cares about Romania, the one that cares about, you know, having Romanian culture, the one that's saying, hey, you know, we don't want all these migrants coming in from Africa. 1.00

00:26:57.120 We think this is very dangerous.

00:26:59.160 We're losing our culture.

00:27:00.780 You're spending us into oblivion and you're giving more and more power to the EU.

00:27:05.860 We would like our identity to remain.

00:27:09.220 Those people are being called far rightists and xenophobes and racists and everything that you've been called, except we have the Constitution.

00:27:19.320 They have the EU and the EU threatened Romania and Romania buckled under.

00:27:25.800 And so their Supreme Court, if you will, just just canceled the election.

00:27:31.600 That's not going to end well.

00:27:33.900 I don't know if the elites understand this.

00:27:36.860 You can't do that to people.

00:27:39.280 You're only going to make things worse and you're going to push people further and further into some sort of radicalism.

00:27:48.200 You have to let the people vote it.

00:27:53.720 What part of democracy does the left not understand?

00:27:58.580 Trying to figure that one out.

00:28:00.240 By the way, in Romania, they also are blaming it.

00:28:05.500 I mean, it is exactly the same thing they're doing to Donald Trump or did to Donald Trump.

00:28:10.820 And they're claiming that, you know, it's Russian interference.

00:28:16.020 Russia denies it.

00:28:17.000 I don't know if it's true.

00:28:18.100 We're supposed to have one of the parliamentarians on from Romania today.

00:28:24.100 He's a big fan.

00:28:24.800 Been watching me since 2008 and been watching because of what I say about George Soros.

00:28:30.620 I think Romania is one of those places that either banned or tried to ban George Soros.

00:28:35.840 It's something that we should be doing, not giving him awards.

00:28:41.500 But if he calls, let me know.

00:28:43.840 Is he on?

00:28:44.840 Oh, he's on.

00:28:46.040 How do you say his last name?

00:28:48.080 Okay.

00:28:48.600 I think he's going to understand.

00:28:50.380 He's just going to understand.

00:28:51.840 Mikhail.

00:28:54.860 This is a Romanian parliamentarian.

00:28:58.400 Parliamentarian.

00:28:58.980 Yes.

00:28:59.320 That's what you're trying to say.

00:29:00.140 Thank you.

00:29:00.580 Yes, it is.

00:29:00.820 You don't know how to pronounce English words, let alone his name.

00:29:02.840 I almost had a stroke.

00:29:03.780 That's your new excuse for everything?

00:29:06.480 Yeah, it is.

00:29:06.860 I was close to a stroke.

00:29:08.220 Okay.

00:29:08.900 Mikhail, are you there?

00:29:10.900 Mikhail?

00:29:12.320 Yes.

00:29:12.840 How are you?

00:29:13.580 How do you say your last name?

00:29:14.800 I'm sorry.

00:29:15.080 I want to get it right.

00:29:16.300 Do you remember Gorbachev?

00:29:17.820 Yes.

00:29:18.360 It's Mikhail Gorbachev.

00:29:19.560 Yes.

00:29:19.880 It's Mikhail Niamsu.

00:29:21.060 I go by Niamsu.

00:29:22.620 I'm Romanian, but my name sounds like a Russian name.

00:29:27.080 Okay.

00:29:27.500 That's Romanian.

00:29:27.900 Niamsu.

00:29:28.380 Well, welcome to the program.

00:29:29.680 I'm glad that you're here.

00:29:30.700 I understand that you hate George Soros as much as I do.

00:29:34.760 Well, sir, I've been instructed by you maybe 15 years ago.

00:29:38.740 I was listening to all your shows about George Soros, and we are very grateful for the contribution

00:29:43.580 you've made to our, you know, enlightenment.

00:29:46.720 Wow.

00:29:47.000 Let's put it this way.

00:29:47.680 Wow.

00:29:47.800 I was a student.

00:29:48.500 I grew up in Bucharest when communism was collapsing.

00:29:52.280 My father took it to the streets of Timisoara in the western part of Romania, and we certainly

00:29:59.480 grew up in that part of my country with a sense of admiration for America, for especially

00:30:06.760 Ronald Reagan, and people like you.

00:30:09.260 Oh, thank you.

00:30:09.800 And not just like you.

00:30:10.660 Like William F. Buckley and others.

00:30:12.380 Yeah, thank you.

00:30:13.040 So then we saw the Trump phenomenon, and we realized we see, we are witnessing actually

00:30:19.880 a global movement, a coalescence of patriots from all over the place.

00:30:25.960 And in Europe right now, we are fighting for freedom, just like you fought against Obama

00:30:30.620 and all the rest.

00:30:31.460 Yeah, so I think we're fighting, what people don't understand is in America, they think

00:30:35.680 of this as being something Democrat versus Republican.

00:30:38.500 It's not.

00:30:39.300 It's the people versus the elites that are making all of the decisions for us without

00:30:44.580 really informing us of what's going on.

00:30:47.180 And when we stand up against it because we see what's happening to our countries, they

00:30:51.860 call us racist and xenophobes, et cetera, et cetera.

00:30:54.820 Now, I'm not familiar with the, quote, far-right party in Romania, but if you listen to any media, 0.81

00:31:07.180 they say you're all xenophobes and racists and Nazis.

00:31:11.280 Can you tell us who these people are? 0.74

00:31:14.540 No, sir.

00:31:15.140 I'm more of a Christian orthodox who is going to church with his family every Sunday, I believe,

00:31:22.060 in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

00:31:23.340 I do not endorse racism or any form of extremism, but of course we are used to this kind of

00:31:30.140 labeling, and this shows their weakness.

00:31:32.460 When they have no argument, they just label people.

00:31:35.840 And labels, of course, tend to be misleading.

00:31:40.660 Now, as I said, I'm a conservative.

00:31:43.240 I'm a pro-Republican individual member of the Romanian Parliament.

00:31:47.720 I recently joined the party, and the party is called the Alliance for the Union of All Romanians.

00:31:54.520 Now, my party belongs to a political group in which Giorgia Meloni, the new darling, not of Elon Musk,

00:32:02.420 but perhaps more of Donald Trump, the prime minister of Italy is the leader of this European movement.

00:32:09.480 And we have the polls, and you remember Donald Trump visiting Warsaw in 2017, I suppose.

00:32:15.920 And we have other very sound conservative parties belonging to the same family.

00:32:22.820 And it's a shame that we are branded as extremists or far-right.

00:32:27.780 We are just average, you know, good Christians, paying their taxes, family people, family individuals

00:32:35.120 who just want to have a peaceful life.

00:32:37.520 That's it.

00:32:38.720 A peaceful and prosperous life.

00:32:40.020 And you want to have your country, remain your country, and you're fighting against the EU,

00:32:47.580 which is, I think, the reason why you are coming under such attack.

00:32:51.640 And the same in Italy, also in Germany, because you're saying enough is enough to the EU.

00:32:58.840 You're changing fundamentally who all of us are in each individual country,

00:33:03.860 and we've had enough of it because it's not going well, correct?

00:33:08.180 Yes. Just to be more specific here, maybe we're not fighting the EU as such,

00:33:14.100 but we are fighting the European Commission and the bureaucrats.

00:33:16.820 Yes.

00:33:17.120 Because the project has been hijacked, right?

00:33:19.980 Initially, the EU was a project to bring about peace, especially between France and Germany.

00:33:25.280 And that was a good thing.

00:33:26.220 You brought peace to the old continent with the great and brave soldiers from Normandy.

00:33:31.260 You established a new sort of political order in which peace could flourish.

00:33:36.220 And, of course, economic prosperity was made possible by the American security institutions.

00:33:42.000 And that was all good.

00:33:43.720 But now, starting with the 2000s, I suppose, George Soros inserted his, you know,

00:33:50.180 open society individuals, and they started to hijack the project, just like with the American Republic.

00:33:56.140 Initially, it was a good thing.

00:33:57.880 Now, it became more and more of a centralized government, and people started to feel the pressure

00:34:03.680 and the disasters, including the disasters which you have so clearly reported from California.

00:34:09.680 So we are happy to be part of a free union of nations, of sovereign nations.

00:34:16.500 We are not happy to be basically told what to think and what to do by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats.

00:34:24.060 And now what we witnessed was, I mean, a true shocking event.

00:34:29.220 Our presidential elections were canceled out of the blue just because nine members of the constitutional court

00:34:37.720 decided that they don't like the winner of the competition.

00:34:42.300 And just because the European Commission said they don't like the populist candidate,

00:34:48.320 they canceled the elections.

00:34:49.540 In your case, in 2020, they stole the elections.

00:34:53.240 In our case, they just canceled the elections.

00:34:56.780 And that's why we have 100,000 people.

00:34:59.380 Right.

00:34:59.940 You had 100,000 people on the street.

00:35:02.620 They are talking about doing the same thing in Germany now.

00:35:07.460 What does that lead to?

00:35:09.080 Here in America, thank God, we had the Constitution and we pulled it out.

00:35:13.600 I mean, it was a miracle that America has turned this corner.

00:35:16.620 But the the progressives are not giving up, you know, so to speak.

00:35:22.560 The Biden administration is setting forest fires all over our government for Donald Trump to put out.

00:35:29.400 But they're still fighting here.

00:35:31.560 But we survived the electoral process without, you know, with with a group of elites just canceling your election.

00:35:42.120 What is that going to lead to?

00:35:43.840 That's a good question, sir.

00:35:46.760 If if you don't mind, may I ask you, what is your background in terms of your family roots?

00:35:51.000 Are they all American or do you have roots in Europe?

00:35:54.100 Roots way, way, way, way back into Europe.

00:35:57.420 But for at least 100 and some years here in America, which is a long time or Irish or German, English, German and German.

00:36:07.820 Yeah.

00:36:08.040 The reason why I'm asking is because, you know, the same applies to Donald Trump.

00:36:13.680 His great grandfather came from I mean, was a German and his mother came from Scotland.

00:36:18.900 And I'm emphasizing because you have such a distinguished audience.

00:36:22.740 Europe has contributed to America in many, in many good ways for centuries.

00:36:28.200 I mean, the best minds sometimes left Europe in order to find, you know, shelter, including Albert Einstein in the 40s.

00:36:37.160 So in the 1930s and 1940s.

00:36:39.760 So it's such a beautiful story.

00:36:42.340 The story of, I would say, strategic partnership and even friendship between Europe and America is a good story.

00:36:50.520 But unfortunately, this alliance has been weakened, as I said, by Brussels.

00:36:55.980 People hate Trump in Brussels.

00:36:57.740 People hate Elon Musk in Brussels.

00:36:59.800 And we are representing a small party.

00:37:02.720 I mean, it's the second largest party in Romania.

00:37:05.140 But comparatively to compared to the Republican Party, still a small party.

00:37:09.900 Right.

00:37:10.500 That wants that wants to recreate this alliance, which was flourishing in the 80s and also in the 70s when Ronald Reagan was running for office.

00:37:18.760 Now, how can we do that?

00:37:20.280 We have to go back to the sources, to the, to the, to the roots, to the cultural roots of our both continents.

00:37:28.020 And those roots, I'm sorry to put it maybe for the third time, are Judeo-Christian values.

00:37:33.700 I mean, these are the roots that made Europe and America great in the first place.

00:37:38.380 Now, the elites don't like that.

00:37:40.120 They don't love God.

00:37:41.940 They don't like traditional families. 1.00

00:37:44.300 They don't like basically ordinary and average people.

00:37:46.900 Because once these people have been liberated from sin and also from poverty, they can stand up for the elites on their own and take trust to power.

00:37:57.960 And that's something they don't like.

00:37:59.680 We need to do something.

00:38:01.660 Like, for instance, we expect, and if I can beg you to do that more, we expect our conservative friends in America to pay closer attention to the future elections in Poland.

00:38:11.840 Yes.

00:38:12.020 We will have presidential elections in Poland, future elections in February in Germany.

00:38:17.020 And obviously, also, we expect you to pay attention to what's happening in our country, Romania, because we've been friends forever.

00:38:25.520 America gave us the right to stand up against communism in 1989.

00:38:30.740 America gave us in 1918 the possibility to basically create all these small independent nations in Central Europe.

00:38:39.560 And so we love you, guys, and we take a lot of inspiration from the founding fathers, and we hope this conservative global alliance will flourish in the next four years or so.

00:38:51.380 Well, good news is Donald Trump is in office, and I know his administration will be watching.

00:38:57.240 Right now, America is really focused on our forest fires, but I've been watching you closely, and we will continue to watch you and the rest of Europe in your elections.

00:39:06.860 Thank you so much, Mikhail.

00:39:09.560 Thank you so much.

00:39:10.260 You bet.

00:39:10.640 Bye-bye.

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00:39:21.360 I don't know about you, but I want to be listed among the people who fought up, stood, and fought up against this.

00:39:27.580 Today, the abortion pill accounts for over 60% of all abortions.

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00:39:34.380 This is why the ministry of pre-born is so important.

00:39:37.720 They have rescued over 300,000 babies from abortion, and every day, on average, they rescue 200 more.

00:39:43.480 When a woman is considering an abortion, she hears her baby's heartbeat and sees that baby on ultrasound, and the baby's chance at life is doubled.

00:39:49.900 They're doing everything they can in many ways.

00:39:53.620 I'm going to be at a fundraiser for them in Florida on Saturday.

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00:39:59.240 I hope that we'll be able to announce some things that they are doing to become even stronger, but when the time is right, the time will be right.

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00:40:35.260 Can't believe he used to be a top 40 disc jockey.

00:40:39.100 But anyway, we still love him.

00:40:42.900 Glenn Beck will be right back.

00:40:51.480 I have to tell you, I'm disgusted by what the Biden administration is doing in this transition period.

00:41:12.820 I mean, he is blocking every single—he is making more work and just dogpiling work on for the Trump administration.

00:41:20.940 840 acres in California, no kind of drilling.

00:41:25.540 Back 600 million acres, took offshore for drilling.

00:41:30.120 Can't do that.

00:41:31.160 He just did—can you believe it?

00:41:33.980 Again, he's saying college loans.

00:41:37.820 Again.

00:41:39.000 How many times are you going to do this?

00:41:42.160 Over and over and over again, trying to obstruct the will of the people.

00:41:48.020 Thank God Donald Trump is strong enough to handle it.

00:41:51.840 And he gets in on Monday.

00:41:55.860 This is Glenn Beck.

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00:42:52.920 All right.

00:42:53.820 Pete Hegseth is in his confirmation hearing.

00:42:57.760 We'll have more on that.

00:42:59.960 Also, Elon Musk and the fires coming up.

00:43:27.760 Of course, Elon Musk is in reverse.

00:43:32.020 We'll be selling out to the woodside menu.

00:43:34.400 They'll be selling out to the woodside menu.

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00:44:03.220 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:09.500 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:12.000 It is Tuesday. We have a lot on our plate.

00:44:14.260 Get right to it here in a second.

00:44:15.560 First, let me tell you about Berna Launchers.

00:44:17.780 The start of a new year is a great time to think about

00:44:19.800 the types of emergency situations you could potentially face.

00:44:23.340 How about this one?

00:44:23.980 What do you do if you need to take somebody dangerous out of commission

00:44:26.980 but it doesn't actually require deadly force?

00:44:29.960 It happens more often than you think.

00:44:32.020 And when it does, what do you do?

00:44:33.760 Fortunately, a great tool for those situations.

00:44:35.800 It's called the Berna Launcher.

00:44:37.900 The Berna Launcher, a non-lethal alternative to safeguarding your home

00:44:41.380 that will teach a lesson to somebody.

00:44:43.160 A very painful lesson, but a non-lethal lesson.

00:44:47.540 It's legal in all 50 states with no permits or background checks required.

00:44:50.980 It can be used by all age groups over 18.

00:44:53.480 It has powerful deterrents like tear gas and kinetic rounds with a 60-foot range.

00:44:58.220 One shot can incapacitate an attacker for up to 40 minutes.

00:45:02.060 I have to tell you, I haven't talked to Berna maybe in six months about this.

00:45:06.620 I'm wondering if any schools are taking this up.

00:45:10.540 Every school in America, every teacher in America, I think should have a Berna Launcher or access to one.

00:45:16.440 It will not kill anybody, but it will disable any attacker.

00:45:20.240 And you could just put it around the corner of the doorframe and shoot it in the direction of the attacker

00:45:25.840 and could incapacitate them for 40 minutes.

00:45:29.400 Hello?

00:45:30.080 Why are we not solving our school shooting problems with Berna Launchers? 1.00

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00:45:45.840 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:45:50.260 Let me just touch on the fire situation and let you know that Mercury One is on the scene and helping as much as we can.

00:46:01.460 We're collaborating with our partners to provide food and supplies to those on the ground.

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00:46:55.600 Making a difference.

00:46:56.600 I have been kind of out of commission for a couple of days, and while that was happening on Saturday, Friday, I think, Friday night,

00:47:08.880 I get a call that we are having problems in North Carolina, that some of the people that FEMA put up in hotel rooms were being kicked out,

00:47:20.080 and it was right before the snowstorm.

00:47:21.880 It was as the snowstorm was hitting, and we get the call that night, and there were like 1,400 people that are just going to be kicked out of the hotels.

00:47:31.980 And so Mercury One responded quickly, and we just paid for everybody, I think, for an extra two weeks until this could be taken care of.

00:47:41.640 I think FEMA has finally stepped back in, but only after pressure.

00:47:46.420 And I got a call over the weekend, and I wasn't there to take it, but listen to this call.

00:47:54.340 Yes.

00:47:54.900 My name is Stanley Le Carpentier.

00:47:57.100 I live in western North Carolina, and I have been fighting with FEMA to get them to give extensions

00:48:04.880 instead of putting 1,200 people onto the streets in the middle of a snowstorm.

00:48:11.660 And at the hotel I was at tonight, somebody from your organization called up and paid for everybody's extension for three weeks

00:48:21.060 since FEMA dropped the ball.

00:48:24.140 I've been a fan of Glenn Bex and of Mercury One for a while.

00:48:28.580 I have not been able to watch the show since the hurricane.

00:48:31.760 And I just want to tell you people just how grateful I am that you guys showed up, and you saved the life.

00:48:44.280 Straight up, you saved the life of many people with what you did today at the Sunset Motel in Brevard, North Carolina.

00:48:54.060 One of them is an 81-year-old man.

00:48:58.420 The other is a family with three daughters.

00:49:02.860 I love you guys so much for doing this.

00:49:08.060 I'm also one of the people that you helped.

00:49:10.080 I want to thank you.

00:49:14.720 I wanted to play that because I want you to know the difference that you make.

00:49:18.560 We just make sure your money goes to the right places, but we couldn't do it without you.

00:49:25.320 And sincerely, you should know how many people we hear from all the time.

00:49:31.200 We're still in, you know, with the people who lost everything in Hawaii.

00:49:38.520 We're still in Appalachia and North Carolina from the hurricane.

00:49:45.320 We are still there, and we will be, even though the world moves on and FEMA apparently moves on.

00:49:51.700 I have to tell you, I just tweeted something out about FEMA.

00:49:55.060 I so want Corey Mills to be the nominee for FEMA because I think he would dismantle that thing and put it right where it belongs, in the trash can.

00:50:07.800 It is awful. 0.51

00:50:09.380 It is absolutely awful.

00:50:11.460 But Stu just told me, and I've been kind of disconnected for the last couple of days, that he is being bandied around as the possible senator to replace Marco Rubio.

00:50:21.260 Yeah, in Florida.

00:50:22.080 How real is that?

00:50:23.040 My understanding is they met.

00:50:26.560 DeSantis and Mills met, and Mills said it went well.

00:50:30.980 So I think it's at least a possibility.

00:50:34.200 I don't know that he's—

00:50:34.980 He hates Woodrow Wilson as much as I do.

00:50:37.380 Well, that's the most important qualification for any senator for me.

00:50:40.620 No, honestly, it is.

00:50:42.960 Because if you hate him as much as I do, all you're about is restoring the Constitution.

00:50:47.400 Right.

00:50:48.100 And, I mean, he would be great in that role.

00:50:50.760 Well, that's one I think would be really encouraging.

00:50:53.540 Yeah.

00:50:53.700 So the other thing I want to talk to you about is Elon Musk.

00:51:01.880 Elon Musk, I don't know if you've seen this, but he is putting Starlink back out, and he sent a whole bunch of cyber trucks out to California to be able to be used, you know, because it doesn't have to—you don't have to worry about the emissions.

00:51:13.960 Was that not crazy this last weekend?

00:51:16.660 Did you hear about this?

00:51:18.060 Did you?

00:51:19.040 About the emissions?

00:51:19.980 Yeah, about the fire trucks that were coming from all over the country, and they had to go get inspection first.

00:51:25.040 I didn't hear that they were complaining about the emissions, no.

00:51:27.420 Oh, no.

00:51:28.000 They had to get inspections just to make sure they were up to date on everything for California.

00:51:32.300 That is insanity.

00:51:34.240 That's absolutely insanity.

00:51:35.780 I saw pictures of long lines of fire trucks and rescue workers waiting.

00:51:41.600 Same thing was happening with Mercury One, by the way.

00:51:43.320 They were trying to get generators to California, and they were getting held up for days and days and days because only certain types of generators can go into California because of all the restrictions on them.

00:51:53.540 All that red tape nonsense should be—should go away immediately when they—I mean, what?

00:51:59.340 It's insane.

00:51:59.860 I mean, who in their right mind says that's reasonable?

00:52:05.560 Honestly, who in their right mind—people are dying and suffering, and you're worried about the emissions?

00:52:13.440 How does that make sense? 0.89

00:52:15.660 Do you know how much crap you're putting into the atmosphere from the fire? 0.98

00:52:20.780 I mean, good heavens. 0.76

00:52:22.360 If they don't have any water to put the fire out, that would probably help.

00:52:24.800 Yeah, it would help.

00:52:25.620 It would help.

00:52:26.080 I will say there's, you know, all negative when it comes to this terrible event, but if you want to find one sliver of, I don't know, lemonade out of the lemons, you can find it with—at least this highlights what these policies do.

00:52:42.800 I mean, again, it's not—you don't trade this as obviously a terrible tragedy, but if anything is going to teach the people of California that these policies are damaging to them, something like this might be able to push them over the line.

00:52:55.040 They already have 100,000 signatures to get the mayor out.

00:52:57.340 Yeah, I mean, and that one I just don't even understand how it's possible she could survive.

00:53:01.380 But, like, Gavin Newsom's another one, too.

00:53:03.380 I mean, he's walking around like he's, like, this big superhero and going on podcasts.

00:53:07.500 Like, he's done, right?

00:53:09.280 Right.

00:53:09.900 Like, 2020—I really do hesitate to be sure about it.

00:53:14.160 Yeah, I know. It's California, right?

00:53:14.520 I was talking to Megyn Kelly yesterday.

00:53:16.000 She was sure this is over.

00:53:17.380 Like, the Gavin Newsom thing is done.

00:53:19.480 Oh, no.

00:53:19.640 2028 is over.

00:53:20.800 Really?

00:53:21.140 And I want to be there with her.

00:53:23.360 I really do want to believe it.

00:53:25.200 Me, too.

00:53:25.600 But I'm so terrified of the way the country reacts to things sometimes.

00:53:30.200 I don't understand it.

00:53:31.280 Andrew Cuomo looks like—they just did a poll in New York.

00:53:33.840 It looks like he's going to be the next mayor if he runs.

00:53:35.920 I think it's real.

00:53:37.000 Oh, it is real.

00:53:37.760 I think it's real.

00:53:38.460 And believe me, he wants it more than anything in the world.

00:53:41.280 Oh, yeah.

00:53:41.640 So I will not be surprised at all if Andrew Cuomo gets that job.

00:53:45.360 And I will not be surprised at all if Gavin Newsom finds a way.

00:53:48.760 He certainly wants it and will do anything, anything to get it.

00:53:54.920 So I won't be surprised if he survives this somehow.

00:53:58.240 It just—and I will—I mean, like, are you at all confident that the voters of California

00:54:05.680 look at what has happened here and respond with punishing Democrats at the polls?

00:54:13.400 No.

00:54:15.140 No.

00:54:15.860 They might punish a couple. 1.00

00:54:17.560 They might go—they might go, the mayor.

00:54:19.240 Yeah.

00:54:19.420 That was really bad.

00:54:20.420 It's hard to believe she could—

00:54:21.540 They won't go any deeper than that.

00:54:23.760 I mean—

00:54:24.720 What could possibly—what more evidence would you need that this stuff doesn't work?

00:54:29.740 I don't know.

00:54:30.280 You know, it is truly remarkable to me how when you let these progressive things work,

00:54:36.300 it shows they don't work.

00:54:38.160 Right.

00:54:38.380 You know, every single time it shows that was a bad idea, but we have half the country

00:54:45.620 that won't learn that lesson.

00:54:47.600 You have California.

00:54:49.320 I'm not sure are going to learn that lesson.

00:54:50.900 They're peeling away some of them, but for what reason?

00:54:56.340 And do they examine everything?

00:54:58.900 I mean, this all should be examined.

00:55:01.300 This shows you all of your priorities were nonsense. 0.76

00:55:06.440 Nonsense.

00:55:08.780 Who are the people that are really helping out?

00:55:11.080 Have you noticed this?

00:55:12.040 Have you seen the people who are really pitching it?

00:55:14.140 It's not government organizations.

00:55:15.980 The people who are actually going into these areas and are helping seem to be all religious-focused.

00:55:22.700 Hmm.

00:55:23.700 Isn't that interesting?

00:55:25.520 I thought religion played no role in anything anymore.

00:55:28.440 Real, true religion, real faith leads you to want to help your neighbor. 0.99

00:55:37.820 You know how easy it would be, California, for us to say, screw you. 0.82

00:55:40.940 We're not going to go help them. 0.94

00:55:42.400 It would be very easy.

00:55:43.760 And if it wasn't for God, I think we might be there.

00:55:46.840 But we're not.

00:55:48.680 Americans are helping you.

00:55:50.000 But as I said last hour, it will come with a cost.

00:55:55.260 And that is, I'm sorry, but you have proven yourself to be so irresponsible with money.

00:56:03.300 You have proven yourself that you can truly continue to elect people who will destroy you, your children, and your state.

00:56:12.320 That if we're going to give money to you, I'm sorry, I will help the average person.

00:56:20.540 But the average person has got to elect a government that will represent the interests of the people.

00:56:28.660 And if those interests of the people are like, you know, we've got to save the salmon and the left-handed lesbians, that takes priority over fires. 1.00

00:56:40.280 Well, I'm not going to help you.

00:56:41.960 I don't want to help you because that's not helping you.

00:56:45.220 That'll just, that'll just, this will happen over and over again in greater and greater ways.

00:56:51.360 This was totally foreseen.

00:56:54.640 I'm sorry, but training wills should come with the dollars.

00:56:58.000 And I know that apparently is very controversial to say, but that's common sense.

00:57:03.480 And that's the way real charities work.

00:57:06.020 You just don't keep giving money to me.

00:57:08.000 Why does Mercury One exist?

00:57:09.940 We just had a board meeting last week.

00:57:12.200 And I said, let's remember what we do and what we don't do.

00:57:16.540 What we do is find the people locally that are making an impact and we empower them.

00:57:24.500 We give them money because they're the best way that we can find on the ground to help.

00:57:30.780 Here's what we don't do.

00:57:32.320 We don't reinvent the wheel and then come in beating our chest and saying, hey, look at us.

00:57:37.860 We go into communities and say, how can we help you?

00:57:40.720 And those people who are proven to be effective and spend the money the most effective ways, that's what we do.

00:57:49.700 That's what you want to do.

00:57:52.480 If we just gave your money that you would donate to a bunch of organizations that were going off the rails and they were spending 30% of their money on the things that you cared about, would that be responsible?

00:58:05.940 Would you give another dime to a charity that was doing that?

00:58:11.360 And they were like, yeah, well, but the spotted liver fish, we needed to save those guys before we put just a lick of water into a fire hydrant.

00:58:21.460 Would you give money to them?

00:58:23.820 Of course not.

00:58:25.240 No matter if they were helping 30% of the people and the spotted liver fish.

00:58:30.180 You wouldn't do it because it wouldn't be effective.

00:58:36.520 California, it is time to have a conversation with the rest of us because that's my taxpayer money too.

00:58:42.540 My money is now bailing out you for all of the failed things you continue to vote for.

00:58:51.200 And I'm sorry, I'm not going down with the ship.

00:58:54.880 If you want to change, if you can learn from this lesson, we're there for you and we'll be there to help you because you are literally my brother and sister.

00:59:05.520 We will be there to make sure you have food and shelter. 0.99

00:59:09.480 But we're not rebuilding your damn city. 0.99

00:59:12.140 No, we shouldn't. 0.99

00:59:15.060 Now, you want to rebuild with some serious restrictions and training wheels on that money?

00:59:20.560 Okay, maybe, maybe, because it would be good for us as well.

00:59:27.300 I want to tell you, I think Elon Musk is John Galt.

00:59:32.380 I want to make this point clearly.

00:59:34.120 I was just watching something from Ayn Rand and, oh, what was his name?

00:59:40.380 Mike Wallace from the 1950s.

00:59:42.980 And he's asking Ayn Rand,

00:59:44.360 Well, do you really think that you can depend on these corporations to help out?

00:59:50.600 And her answer is phenomenal.

00:59:52.620 And I think the closest we have to her answer is Elon Musk.

00:59:58.160 I'll give that to you here in just a second.

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01:01:00.700 Hey, can we play that Dan Rather clip?

01:01:15.440 This is Ayn Rand with Dan Rather back in the 50s or 60s.

01:01:19.040 Listen to this.

01:01:19.620 And you believe in the eventual goodwill of all human beings, or at least that top echelon of human beings, whom you believe will give willingly.

01:01:29.080 No goodwill is necessary, only self-interest.

01:01:32.560 Only self-interest.

01:01:32.940 I believe in private roads, private post offices, private schools.

01:01:37.200 When industry breaks down momentarily, and there is unemployment, mass unemployment, we should not be permitted to get unemployment insurance.

01:01:45.760 Social security we do not need.

01:01:47.800 Will depend upon the self-interest of these enlightened industrialists, whom you so admire, to take care of things when the economy needs a little lubrication and there are millions of people out of work.

01:02:00.200 Study economics.

01:02:01.960 A free economy will not break down.

01:02:04.580 All depressions are caused by government interference.

01:02:07.600 And the cure is always offered so far to take more of the poisons that cause the disaster.

01:02:16.140 Depressions are not a result of a free economy.

01:02:18.640 And that kind of was proven right.

01:02:22.000 You'd have quick depressions back in the 1800s.

01:02:25.660 They'd be really deep, but they would be 18 months maximum.

01:02:30.020 And it just comes from, you know, the bad stuff burning itself out.

01:02:33.940 It's kind of like a brush fire.

01:02:35.420 You let it burn itself out.

01:02:37.400 And if you don't, that brush fire becomes a massive forest fire, economically speaking.

01:02:43.280 That's exactly what she's talking about.

01:02:45.020 And I was watching that this weekend and I thought, I think the example there that Mike Wallace was mocking is Elon Musk.

01:02:57.860 I mean, I don't know if you've seen what Elon Musk is doing, but he was one of the first out there.

01:03:02.880 He was one of the first in North Carolina as well.

01:03:06.820 He was restoring communications.

01:03:09.140 You didn't need the government to come out and do all that.

01:03:11.180 He did.

01:03:12.620 And he's saying now, you know, sorry if you have if you're in line for a Cybertruck, but yours is going to be delayed a little bit because I needed to take the Cybertrucks offline and send them to California to help in the forest fires.

01:03:23.340 And I think all of his customers understand that.

01:03:25.680 And I don't know his motivation.

01:03:28.120 His motivation seems that he cares about people.

01:03:31.260 OK, but does that matter?

01:03:34.400 Because look at the benefit to him.

01:03:36.600 He is he is doing the greatest ad campaign just by actually solving problems instead of saying, you know what, just let's put let's let's do a spot.

01:03:50.080 Let's do a commercial where a black person, an Asian person and an American Indian are all having a picnic next to a Cybertruck.

01:03:58.820 Instead, he's just doing what is right.

01:04:02.860 And it's in the end, self-interest.

01:04:07.440 It actually is helping him.

01:04:10.780 That's the way we should be.

01:04:13.520 This is I mean, he is motivated to get people off of Earth because he believes in global warming.

01:04:18.840 Great.

01:04:19.580 Why have a government program do that? 0.84

01:04:21.640 He wants to do that.

01:04:22.960 I think the best example of John Galt may be Elon Musk.

01:04:29.700 Now he's got some things that are not John Galt ish.

01:04:32.820 But when it comes to serving, he's John Galt.

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01:06:07.000 As the gods of the copybook headings limp up to explain once more that fire will certainly burn us and water will wet us,

01:06:31.660 they could learn that in California.

01:06:33.320 California, we have Brian Fennessy.

01:06:35.500 He is the Orange County, California fire chief.

01:06:39.500 To tell us a little about what's going on and how is Orange County doing, Brian?

01:06:44.300 Welcome to the program.

01:06:46.060 Thank you very much.

01:06:47.860 A little bit about the fires just across a few miles from here in L.A.

01:06:52.700 They, you know, they're not spreading as they were.

01:06:56.740 I think both are kind of at a stable position, but there's certainly a lot of heat, you know, in those and on those fires.

01:07:03.760 And the new wind event, albeit not, you know, 80 miles an hour, 100 mile an hour gusts, are still very concerning.

01:07:11.760 So those fires are going to be wind tested.

01:07:14.240 Here in Orange County, it's just howling.

01:07:15.920 It's blowing hard.

01:07:16.740 It was last week, and I think we here dodged a bullet, but we're expecting that for another couple days.

01:07:25.920 And I'm told there might be another Santa Ana wind event forecasted for next week.

01:07:29.840 So we sure can't stand much more.

01:07:34.040 Brian, this is totally predictable.

01:07:37.160 Was it not?

01:07:37.900 Totally predictable.

01:07:38.680 Oh, yeah.

01:07:39.400 Absolutely.

01:07:40.300 You know, when I started back in 1978, we'd usually have a few days notice.

01:07:45.340 You know, meteorology is not what it is today.

01:07:48.180 We start to get notified about 10 days out, and then confidence builds at seven days.

01:07:55.840 And then when you're about four days out, we're pretty sure, you know, what's going to expect.

01:08:02.420 So, yes, forecasting and predicting is far better than it's ever been.

01:08:06.620 So what should have been done in those four days before the fire broke out?

01:08:12.460 Well, I'll tell you what was done.

01:08:14.160 And, you know, we have a program called pre-positioning that about six years ago, the fire chiefs in the state got the state of California to fund to put money behind this pre-positioning.

01:08:25.980 Meaning, if we go through a matrix, you know, county by county, and we meet certain criteria, I mean, there's a number of things.

01:08:33.080 We are approved for pre-position funding, which means I can bring on additional aircraft, additional bulldozers, engines, and the state will pay for them so that not only are all of my stations filled and ready to go, but I might have two or three more strike teams, strike teams, five engines.

01:08:52.700 I might have additional helicopters, dispatch staff.

01:08:55.580 So all of the Southern California counties were approved for pre-positioning.

01:09:00.420 And so we had, you know, definitely extra resources available should they be needed.

01:09:06.620 And certainly they were deployed very, very quickly.

01:09:09.720 So, but that's Orange County.

01:09:12.140 No, no, that's it.

01:09:12.940 That's every county.

01:09:14.080 It's every county.

01:09:15.000 Every county in the state is eligible for it, but each county has to go through this matrix to meet it.

01:09:21.840 And so I don't know for sure, but I would expect that Santa Barbara County South were all approved for pre-position funding.

01:09:29.360 And quite frankly, here in Orange County, and when I was the fire chief in San Diego City, we didn't wait for pre-positioning.

01:09:35.200 If this weather was going to surface, we're going to staff up.

01:09:38.440 And if we go over budget, we go over budget.

01:09:40.380 You know, our job is to protect our communities, and the mayor I worked for at the time understood that.

01:09:46.920 So it's nice to be reimbursed for it, but that's not a necessity.

01:09:50.940 We're going to staff up even beyond what the state approves if we believe we need to do that.

01:09:56.800 Yeah.

01:09:57.360 So as we're watching this from Texas and all around the country, it seems as though it was, A, known that it was going to happen.

01:10:07.980 This is routine.

01:10:08.820 You expect the Santa Ana winds every year.

01:10:11.740 You expect forest fires and brush fires in California every year.

01:10:16.540 So this was just one of the really bad ones.

01:10:19.840 Then it seems like incompetence of cutting the funding for the fire agencies, not really truly being prepared.

01:10:27.040 And then on top of it, it seems incompetence to a level that is almost criminal.

01:10:34.220 And then the third part of this, as we see it, as I see it, is there might be some actors after the main fire started that are also, you know, setting fires.

01:10:47.280 What their motives are are yet unknown, but there are also some arsonists involved in that.

01:10:54.540 Do I have that picture right?

01:10:55.740 You know, partially, well, and maybe totally, I don't know for sure, but I will tell you this, that, you know, I've lived in, I grew up in Altadena, and that's one of the towns that's pretty well wiped out.

01:11:08.640 And so, you know, when you live that close to the foothills, you're used to Santa Ana winds.

01:11:13.020 You know they're common, and they can be brutal right there in the foothills.

01:11:16.920 And it's not uncommon for a strong, we'd consider a strong Santa Ana, it'd be 40, 50 mile an hour winds steady with gusts maybe to 60, 70.

01:11:25.660 The event that was experienced last week, and you know this, was, you know, 60, 70, steady with gusts to 90, 100, something like that.

01:11:35.020 I mean, we have a hard time dealing with the former.

01:11:38.080 Something like that, you know, we're trying to manage expectations is we can't stop that fire.

01:11:45.580 And I think, you know, many times, you know, the public, well, let me put it this way.

01:11:50.160 If this were a hurricane or tornado, firefighters aren't stopping those either.

01:11:55.680 And so, why anybody would say.

01:11:57.140 But they do pre-position.

01:11:59.220 You look at Florida, they've got the trucks lined up before that thing even comes ashore. 0.68

01:12:05.140 Yep, they're the best.

01:12:06.280 And, you know, they get disaster declarations in advance, and they get things moving.

01:12:10.420 Right.

01:12:10.800 Florida is an amazing model, and Texas is a good model as well.

01:12:15.720 But in terms of, you know, I can't speak for L.A. City.

01:12:20.280 I don't know what they pre-positioned or upstaffed.

01:12:22.400 But I've said it to a number of people.

01:12:25.280 They could have had another, I don't know, 1,000 engines, and we weren't going to stop this fire.

01:12:30.880 Now, having said that, once the winds diminished and the fire, you know, this was no longer a wildland fire.

01:12:38.060 This became an urban conflagration, house-to-house spread.

01:12:42.240 The fuel was the structures.

01:12:44.580 And so, you know, once the wind diminished to a point where, you know, firefighters could get in there and start working on the structures, there were just so many.

01:12:54.400 I mean, I drove those fires, and it was, and I've been doing this since 1978.

01:12:59.040 I couldn't believe the structures, the businesses that were burning so far from the mountain that it came off of.

01:13:08.560 I mean, it was even incredible for me.

01:13:11.900 In terms of the water, you know, I think that's being sorted out.

01:13:15.120 I'm probably hearing the same things that you are, that reservoirs, you know, may not have been as filled as they needed to be.

01:13:21.960 Obviously, yes, a draw on the system can cause, you know, some decrease in pressure, but I've never heard of anything where there actually wasn't pressure.

01:13:31.900 I do know, and I've shared this with people, that in 2003 in San Diego, we had, at the time, the largest fire in California history.

01:13:40.300 We lost pressure, but that was because pump houses, pump stations had been burnt, and we didn't know they existed.

01:13:46.840 Had we known, we'd have protected those pump houses as much as we'd protect a house to, you know, to ensure that we had pressure.

01:13:55.700 So I'm confident the city of L.A., and I'm hearing that the governor has, you know, ordered an investigation.

01:14:02.060 That's going to get sorted out.

01:14:03.260 That's going to get public, and yes, it could be quite embarrassing and life-changing for a few people involved in whatever decision-making took place.

01:14:13.940 Good. We have to learn from our lessons.

01:14:16.240 You know, learn lessons from our mistakes.

01:14:19.500 Totally agree.

01:14:20.580 You are being talked about of going into the Department of Interior.

01:14:26.020 Oh.

01:14:27.060 You had not heard that?

01:14:29.120 Well, I'm hearing rumblings.

01:14:32.360 People have asked if I was interested in perhaps even, you know, becoming the new U.S. Forest Service chief,

01:14:39.180 and I've shared with others that, you know, should I be approached at some point, I would certainly consider it,

01:14:45.000 because, quite frankly, that agency is a mess when it comes to firefighting.

01:14:51.720 They, you know, they're paying benefits for their firefighters.

01:14:55.060 Their firefighters are leaving in droves.

01:14:57.040 They are so underpaid and under-benefited that they are leaving, you know,

01:15:02.260 to go to work for state and local government agencies like mine and like L.A. County's.

01:15:07.460 And this isn't anything new.

01:15:09.120 You know, I used to work for them for 13 years, both the USDA Forest Service and the Department of Interior, BLM.

01:15:16.300 And I left as a crew superintendent.

01:15:18.600 You know, I ran crews.

01:15:20.060 And back then, you know, we were significantly underpaid.

01:15:24.260 I left in a municipal department in 1990, went to San Diego because of it, and it's gotten worse.

01:15:31.900 And it's not managed or organized like a fire department.

01:15:36.440 And if they're going to be in the fire business, you know, they need to be organized and led like a fire department.

01:15:43.000 Yes, they're a resource agency.

01:15:44.980 And, yes, they have things beyond fire.

01:15:47.340 But if you look at the Forest Service budget, you know, primarily now, it's fire that's being funded.

01:15:53.960 And they definitely need some help in their firefighters.

01:15:57.880 Quite frankly, Glenn, they're going to be without a fire department very, very soon.

01:16:03.460 Jeez.

01:16:04.400 I have to tell you, it was the National Forest Service that helped save my neighbor's ranch and probably mine.

01:16:10.940 If we would have had high winds, it would have been over.

01:16:12.940 But the local fire came out, and immediately the Forest Service had already positioned.

01:16:20.880 They looked at my canyon and went, this is dry.

01:16:24.240 This is just a disaster waiting to happen.

01:16:26.440 And they were ready for it.

01:16:27.760 And they saved it.

01:16:29.080 I mean, they did a great job there.

01:16:31.500 They have amazing firefighters.

01:16:33.820 Yeah, they do.

01:16:34.900 I spent 13 years on a hot shot crew.

01:16:37.280 So I know the business, and, you know, I know the people that are out there now.

01:16:42.540 Their firefighters are amazing.

01:16:44.140 Their smoke jumpers, their hot shots, their engine crews, their helitack.

01:16:47.940 Unfortunately, you know, again, they're organized in such a way that national, they don't, it would take too long to speak to.

01:16:58.000 But it's just sad to see.

01:16:59.660 I mean, here in California, I'm told that they're, they're, we're only able to staff their stations at 60%.

01:17:06.020 In my own county, I have three Forest Service stations.

01:17:11.240 And they could only staff one of those stations, two on occasion, eight to ten hours a day all summer.

01:17:17.760 We had a fire.

01:17:18.940 We had a fire, the airport fire, that earlier this summer that burned over 100 homes.

01:17:23.080 And the station closest to that fire was not staffed.

01:17:27.700 And so, you know, I made Congress aware and others aware.

01:17:32.040 And right now, I don't think the Forest Service is happy with me because I'm being very public about things that they should be very public about.

01:17:39.800 So would it be the Forest Service or the Department of Interior that would be responsible for getting underbrush cleared?

01:17:50.440 Well, I think it's both.

01:17:52.100 You know, I've worked for both the USDA and the USDI.

01:17:55.440 And let's face it, or, you know, at least out here in the West, you know, firefighters for decades have done such a great job at suppressing fires quickly that it's caused this growth.

01:18:07.060 And we've got an unhealthy landscape out there.

01:18:09.640 And, you know, we need to start putting beneficial fire back on the landscape.

01:18:13.860 We need to clear the brush.

01:18:15.040 But here's another thing, Glenn.

01:18:16.780 Those same firefighters that we're losing, those are the people that are going to do the work.

01:18:21.520 And so if you don't have the workforce to do the work that needs to be done, how do you get it done?

01:18:28.680 It doesn't matter how many millions or billions of dollars you throw at the problem if you don't have the people there to do the work.

01:18:36.920 But, yes, I mean, we need to do something about this unhealthy forest.

01:18:42.500 And people are working hard at it.

01:18:44.140 Certainly, CAL FIRE is showing amazing, incredible success with it.

01:18:50.400 But we're years behind, man.

01:18:53.440 Oh, no.

01:18:54.220 This is decades of not treating, you know, the fuels and the landscape.

01:18:59.680 And it's going to be decades to fix it.

01:19:02.080 But we've got to do something.

01:19:03.960 And we've got to have a workforce to be able to do it.

01:19:07.580 And, like I say, if asked, and I haven't been asked by anybody officially, but just informal people have suggested and asked, is that something I would consider?

01:19:18.160 And absolutely.

01:19:19.720 And, you know, certainly pay is less of an issue.

01:19:24.080 It would be a pay cut for me.

01:19:26.380 But it's not about that.

01:19:27.420 But it's about, you know, what we as firefighters, you know, have sworn to do.

01:19:34.740 And we need to fix that organization.

01:19:38.460 Quickly, can I ask you?

01:19:40.420 I'm up against a network break.

01:19:41.600 Can I just ask you about the safety inspections of the Oregon fire trucks and everything?

01:19:45.320 That was not to make sure of emissions.

01:19:47.440 That was to make sure that they could function, correct?

01:19:50.800 Which seems insane, too.

01:19:52.580 But go ahead.

01:19:53.520 I'm unaware of that, of what you're talking about.

01:19:58.240 But I know that we do inspect, not we, but the state or the feds will inspect, you know, engines and whatnot when they arrive and then before they leave to make sure they're safe.

01:20:09.020 So I'm not familiar at all with the situation you're talking about.

01:20:13.520 All right.

01:20:14.140 Brian, thank you so much.

01:20:15.240 I hope you're I hope you're called up because we need to take all of our agencies and especially all of our services that are protecting us.

01:20:25.800 Seriously, again, we haven't for quite a long time.

01:20:28.360 Brian, thank you so much.

01:20:29.640 Yep.

01:20:30.100 We need change.

01:20:31.080 So thank you.

01:20:31.700 You bet.

01:20:32.180 Brian Fennessy, Orange County Fire Chief.

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01:26:01.160 Welcome.

01:26:02.540 I'm just watching some of this coverage of the Pete Hegseth hearings.

01:26:08.620 I saw Megyn Kelly.

01:26:09.860 She was right behind the second row of the hearing. 0.96

01:26:13.200 We saw that earlier.

01:26:14.720 We're watching this visually.

01:26:16.480 We're not hearing all of it.

01:26:17.860 Yeah.

01:26:18.540 And then I walked in during the commercial break.

01:26:21.480 Yeah.

01:26:22.040 And the audio was up, and I was like, that voice is familiar.

01:26:25.460 Who is that?

01:26:26.100 It was one of those irritating voices from the past.

01:26:28.620 Uh-huh.

01:26:28.760 And then I looked up, and I was like, oh, no, maybe not.

01:26:33.680 I'm not sure who that is.

01:26:34.900 And watched the commentary for a couple of minutes.

01:26:38.420 Uh-huh.

01:26:38.720 Uh-huh.

01:26:39.100 And then looked down at the nameplate.

01:26:40.960 Yeah.

01:26:41.760 And realized that was apparently Kirsten Gillibrand.

01:26:45.360 Which I think that is the nicest telling of that story, Sarah, wouldn't you say?

01:26:50.360 I think that was a-

01:26:51.220 That's exactly what happened.

01:26:52.560 Original, I mean, you know, an original tale there.

01:26:56.520 That is exactly precisely what happened.

01:26:58.220 In my mind.

01:26:59.280 I don't know what I said.

01:27:00.140 In your mind.

01:27:00.160 That is precisely- 0.99

01:27:01.120 You said, who the hell is that hag on TV? 1.00

01:27:03.140 I never said that. 0.99

01:27:04.300 You know I didn't say that.

01:27:04.900 Which is what I heard.

01:27:05.760 I mean, really, honestly, Sarah, he didn't say those words, but that's what he was saying.

01:27:11.260 Oh, definitely what he said.

01:27:12.080 Definitely what he was saying.

01:27:13.000 I don't-

01:27:14.100 He's like, witchy-poo, witchy-poo. 1.00

01:27:15.660 I didn't say those words, first of all.

01:27:17.980 I may have implied them.

01:27:21.300 Because I will say, I mean, Washington takes a toll on you, man.

01:27:24.620 Do you know, here's a fact of the day.

01:27:26.540 Yeah.

01:27:27.140 That person up there, Kirsten Gillibrand, younger than you.

01:27:31.680 Wow. 0.99

01:27:33.140 Ah, that was him saying she's a hag. 1.00

01:27:36.040 Did you hear that reaction, Sarah? 0.99

01:27:38.080 Yeah, we got you.

01:27:38.740 Wow, she is holding herself together very well.

01:27:42.840 No, that is not what you just said with that noise.

01:27:46.880 That noise expressed a lot of emotion and surprise.

01:27:50.840 Yeah, wow.

01:27:51.240 And not in a positive way for dear Kirsten.

01:27:53.820 Yeah.

01:27:54.040 Because she was running for president relatively recently. 0.99

01:27:56.720 She was always invited on, like, Stephen Colbert.

01:27:59.840 She was a New York senator. 0.50

01:28:01.820 She was kind of a mini celebrity for a while running for president. 1.00

01:28:05.260 Didn't make much of an impact in her race. 0.98

01:28:07.700 It was never really close.

01:28:08.660 But it feels like the pictures look like they were 25 years ago.

01:28:14.060 Yeah.

01:28:14.240 I don't know what's going on.

01:28:15.460 So she was questioning Hegseth, and it was...

01:28:18.640 Don't try to move to the actual content of her remarks.

01:28:23.040 That's not the important part?

01:28:24.000 No.

01:28:24.420 No, okay.

01:28:25.000 What happened?

01:28:26.200 We always say this about presidents, and it's okay to say it about guys.

01:28:30.520 Oh, look, he came into office and his hair was black, and now it's totally gray.

01:28:35.100 Oh, that's totally fine to say about guys.

01:28:38.540 The same things happen, apparently, to dear Kirsten here.

01:28:41.820 No, that's not true.

01:28:42.920 That's not true.

01:28:44.740 She just stopped dying her hair. 1.00

01:28:47.240 That's what happened.

01:28:48.560 She hasn't...

01:28:49.300 In four years, it hasn't been like, oh, my gosh, look at her.

01:28:52.880 Gray hair, all that stress.

01:28:54.680 She stopped putting a box of chemicals in her hair.

01:28:57.580 I will say that may very well have occurred.

01:28:59.160 Yeah.

01:28:59.460 She's only 58, but that may very well have occurred.

01:29:03.220 What I would add to that, though, is it looks like maybe she stopped doing other things.

01:29:10.800 Because ladies, and you back me up on this, Sarah, right? 0.99

01:29:14.520 Ladies tend to do things to improve their appearance, maybe wear makeup, maybe there's 1.00

01:29:21.440 some things that are injected into faces.

01:29:24.480 I am hearing, like, hag cackles from him right now, aren't you? 0.99

01:29:27.280 Maybe there's bathing.

01:29:29.080 There's all sorts of things that they do, and she seemed to have stopped all of them.

01:29:33.660 You think she stopped bathing?

01:29:35.200 I mean, I'm not there to smelt me.

01:29:36.760 We can ask Megan.

01:29:37.500 She's in the second row. 0.71

01:29:38.440 Maybe she would know.

01:29:39.280 I don't know.

01:29:40.060 Well, I think you should call Megan.

01:29:41.160 No, I definitely not.

01:29:42.240 I don't want to get her involved in this.

01:29:43.220 I think Megan would be happy to answer all of these questions for you.

01:29:47.020 I'll drag you into the depths of a conversation like this.

01:29:50.080 Why is that?

01:29:50.200 I don't want to do that to her.

01:29:51.320 Yeah.

01:29:51.720 Huh.

01:29:52.220 Yeah.

01:29:52.560 So you don't want to talk about the policies?

01:29:55.040 I think Hegseth is handling himself extraordinarily well so far.

01:29:59.140 From what I've seen, he's been pretty good.

01:30:01.100 Can we bring the audio up, Sarah, just a bit?

01:30:03.460 He's now...

01:30:03.960 I just have to make note, and I want to make it clear.

01:30:05.780 Senator, we have language in this year's fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act

01:30:11.080 calling for a review of the department's operational plans, and I just want to make sure that you're

01:30:17.080 aware of that and that we will have, if we have a fight with one, the chances are very

01:30:20.800 good that we're going to have two battles or two different battlegrounds at the same

01:30:25.860 time.

01:30:26.900 Senator, which is why I believe our country's incredibly fortunate to have a new commander

01:30:31.960 in chief in Donald Trump, who, through the strategic approach he has taken with allies

01:30:38.160 and against foes, has prevented wars and is determined to do the same.

01:30:42.320 That's our chief job, is deter and prevent wars.

01:30:45.580 My job, should I be confirmed at the Secretary of Defense, is to ensure we have the right

01:30:50.200 prioritization of assets and strategy, and then the tools in the toolbox necessary, the

01:30:57.180 pointiest possible spear for President Trump to wield, if necessary.

01:31:01.960 As the last resort.

01:31:03.980 So, President Trump at the helm, I think, will go a long way in making sure our enemies

01:31:07.800 know there's a new sheriff in town.

01:31:09.900 Thank you.

01:31:10.380 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

01:31:11.980 So, I think that was a good answer.

01:31:14.020 Thank you very much.

01:31:15.740 I mean, Pete is a very good communicator.

01:31:17.720 Yeah, obviously.

01:31:18.600 You know, by the way, a former Blaze alum from back in the day.

01:31:22.800 Oh my gosh, that's right.

01:31:24.280 Yeah, he was, he was, I'm very, I mean, it may have been GBTV back when he was on it.

01:31:27.940 Yeah, it was.

01:31:28.440 He was on a panel show.

01:31:29.540 I completely forgot that.

01:31:30.980 Yeah, yeah.

01:31:31.840 The number of people that have gone through the Blaze is remarkable.

01:31:35.700 Yeah.

01:31:36.120 Very smart.

01:31:36.640 He was very well liked, by the way, by people who were here at the time.

01:31:40.640 He is a very good communicator.

01:31:42.780 He's very smart.

01:31:43.580 Yeah.

01:31:44.080 So, yeah, you'd expect him to do pretty well in a situation like this.

01:31:47.000 Now, of course, these are farces.

01:31:49.100 This entire thing is a farce.

01:31:50.420 Oh, yeah.

01:31:50.640 He, they are coming in here.

01:31:52.640 They are making speeches.

01:31:54.360 Gillibrand, for what you could take out of it, if you weren't distracted by other things.

01:31:58.120 It's like, where's the question?

01:31:58.960 None of them were questions.

01:31:59.840 They were just like, you don't like women. 1.00

01:32:01.580 You don't like gay people. 1.00

01:32:02.940 It's like that type of nonsense. 1.00

01:32:04.780 Yeah.

01:32:04.800 I mean, none of it is.

01:32:05.580 And I think you need to answer it, but I've got other questions for you.

01:32:08.560 Yeah, she literally complained to him that he wouldn't meet with her so he could, she 0.99

01:32:13.880 could yell at him about not liking LGBTQ people because she wanted to do that before

01:32:18.980 the hearing so she could ask other questions during the hearing.

01:32:21.320 Right.

01:32:21.500 But now she has to use all of her time to yell at him about not liking LGBTQ people.

01:32:25.380 It's crazy.

01:32:26.040 It's so rude of Pete.

01:32:27.660 Blumenthal is speaking now.

01:32:29.020 You want to talk about a farce.

01:32:31.360 Oh, God. 0.61

01:32:32.220 Blumenthal's the worst.

01:32:32.960 Veterans for Freedom in 2007, in 2008, you raised $8.7 million, but spent more than

01:32:42.080 $9 million, creating a deficit.

01:32:44.700 God, what could happen with that in the government?

01:32:46.660 By January 2009, you told donors that the organization had less than $1,000 in the bank

01:32:55.140 and debts of $434,000.

01:32:57.720 Blumenthal is actually taking on debt?

01:33:01.740 Revenue at the Veterans for Freedom had dropped to about $265,000 in the next year.

01:33:10.900 It had dropped further to $22,000.

01:33:14.060 You don't dispute these numbers, do you?

01:33:17.220 Senator, I'm extremely proud of the work me and my fellow vets did at Vets for Freedom.

01:33:24.260 A bunch of young vets with no political experience, a small group, working hard every single day.

01:33:32.960 I apologize for interrupting.

01:33:33.420 Again, they don't want to hear any noises.

01:33:35.700 No, they don't want to hear any answers.

01:33:37.160 And we have letters submitted for the record from almost everyone that worked with me every

01:33:40.700 single day, including our chief operating officer, who will attest that every dollar

01:33:44.760 we raised was used intentionally toward the execution of our mission, which is supporting

01:33:51.160 the warfighters, exactly why we're here today, the warfighters in the Iraq surge.

01:33:55.920 There was a campaign in 2008, Senator.

01:33:58.240 If Barack Obama was right to John McCain, we believe John McCain would be the right person

01:34:02.520 to win.

01:34:03.020 And so we spent more...

01:34:03.760 Because I have the tax returns from that organization...

01:34:06.140 I'm glad they're in for the record.

01:34:07.540 ...which I am going to ask to be entered into the record, Mr. Chairman.

01:34:10.140 He just...

01:34:10.660 I see, again, I think he just blew bloom and fall out.

01:34:13.860 These tax returns are yours.

01:34:15.900 They have your signature.

01:34:17.520 Mm-hmm.

01:34:18.140 And I'm going to ask that members of the committee review them, because they're the only documents.

01:34:24.240 I've asked for others.

01:34:25.320 I've asked for the FBI report that would presumably document, it should have documented, this kind

01:34:33.180 of financial mismanagement, and...

01:34:35.980 Financial mismanagement?

01:34:37.060 These are the 990s.

01:34:38.200 I mean, how can you...

01:34:39.040 That is crazy. 1.00

01:34:39.580 As somebody who's in this stupid government that has put us tens of trillions of dollars 1.00

01:34:44.900 into debt, the guy spent a few hundred thousand dollars more in what he believed was a very 1.00

01:34:51.800 important election to try to get somebody elected.

01:34:55.840 And at the end of the day, their finances wound up working out.

01:34:59.820 You mean, so wait, he did what the Democratic Party strangely did with millions and millions

01:35:06.800 and millions more in debt with Kamala Harris?

01:35:10.180 Right.

01:35:10.480 It's absurd to complain about this to him.

01:35:13.520 Like, you can... 0.98

01:35:15.300 I mean, it is consistent with their nonsense that they would say, you don't like women! 0.99

01:35:19.620 Like, that's consistent with their nonsense. 0.97

01:35:21.360 It's not consistent with their nonsense to complain that he spent a couple hundred thousand

01:35:24.460 dollars more out of a multi-million dollar budget.

01:35:27.240 Notice he's making it seem like it was criminal, what he did.

01:35:31.300 It's all documented in the IRS, in his tax return.

01:35:36.200 So how can it be criminal if he's reporting it?

01:35:39.180 And don't you just hate this process, Glenn?

01:35:40.960 Yes.

01:35:41.180 They're all just sitting there.

01:35:41.880 He's interrupting him every time he's trying to answer the question.

01:35:44.320 Yes.

01:35:44.760 And they all have these...

01:35:46.020 They have meetings before these things, all the Democrats, and this is...

01:35:49.480 Republicans do very much the same thing.

01:35:51.220 But they have these meetings beforehand, and they all get assigned roles.

01:35:53.840 Yep.

01:35:54.080 You go after him on this.

01:35:55.120 You go after him on this.

01:35:56.020 Here's your points.

01:35:56.660 Here's your points. 1.00

01:35:57.140 It's just pathetic. 1.00

01:35:58.940 It's pathetic in every single way. 1.00

01:36:01.600 None of it's serious. 0.98

01:36:02.720 They don't care about any of the answers.

01:36:04.180 They're all just sitting there making speeches. 1.00

01:36:06.700 It's just pathetic. 1.00

01:36:07.620 Wait a minute. 1.00

01:36:07.800 Wait a minute.

01:36:08.740 Are you claiming that, in the end, all of the Democrats will vote against these people?

01:36:16.000 I do think that that's true, Glenn.

01:36:18.000 No way.

01:36:18.880 Yes.

01:36:19.060 It's almost like a charade.

01:36:20.320 I mean, not just with Pete, but I mean, all of them?

01:36:23.460 I think all of them.

01:36:24.560 I think all of them.

01:36:25.220 Oh, yeah.

01:36:25.860 I mean, no.

01:36:26.440 I think there'll be a few Democrats that cross.

01:36:29.120 There'll probably be five.

01:36:30.380 Yeah.

01:36:30.600 Like, hey, you'll get some five.

01:36:32.240 The Fetterman will vote for some of them.

01:36:33.620 Huh.

01:36:34.620 That's amazing.

01:36:35.820 You know?

01:36:36.500 You never know.

01:36:37.200 I'm on pins and needles.

01:36:38.600 I mean, I just don't know.

01:36:39.780 Anything could happen today.

01:36:42.060 Anything.

01:36:42.460 Oh, it's.

01:36:43.500 Yeah.

01:36:43.940 We're on the edge of our seats.

01:36:45.020 Anything could go wrong here.

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01:38:03.900 Oh, my gosh.

01:38:05.680 Oh, my gosh.

01:38:06.540 Well, I thought that would be typical of me.

01:38:08.560 You did just do that?

01:38:10.660 I did.

01:38:11.180 Well, I did just Google something that we don't necessarily have to talk about.

01:38:14.560 I think we need to.

01:38:16.220 I think we need to.

01:38:17.400 Stu just Googled.

01:38:18.420 I don't think we need to talk about that.

01:38:20.140 That was not.

01:38:20.600 It was an off the air conversation.

01:38:22.660 You didn't say that prior to.

01:38:24.260 I said it off the air.

01:38:25.360 I think America needs to know.

01:38:26.900 What's your Googling about Christian Gilderrand?

01:38:30.240 You don't even know her name.

01:38:31.240 I don't.

01:38:32.980 I don't care.

01:38:34.780 I really don't care.

01:38:35.980 Okay.

01:38:36.200 Well, then let's move on then.

01:38:37.400 But I care now because of what you, because.

01:38:41.360 I didn't.

01:38:41.920 It wasn't anything bad.

01:38:43.020 I was, I was concerned.

01:38:44.380 It wasn't anything bad.

01:38:45.540 It wasn't anything bad.

01:38:46.600 No, well, it was.

01:38:48.340 Poor Kirsten is crying her little eyeballs out right now. 1.00

01:38:51.240 No, that's not true.

01:38:52.360 First of all, I mean, obvious. 0.97

01:38:53.800 I mean, to state the very clear and obvious, both of us are hideous.

01:38:57.640 So this is not, I, that is, we're not judging.

01:39:00.900 I wasn't the one that said, what the hell happened to her?

01:39:04.500 Oh, the American people absolutely heard you say that with that noise you made when

01:39:09.400 I said she was 58 years old.

01:39:10.980 They heard it.

01:39:12.060 They heard every little bit of it.

01:39:13.620 But what I just, I Googled something because I became concerned.

01:39:18.180 About her health.

01:39:20.440 Well, I, yes.

01:39:21.780 I mean, that is one way of stating what happened.

01:39:24.020 How did you Google it?

01:39:25.100 How did you Google?

01:39:25.880 What did you Google?

01:39:27.980 I Googled if Kirsten Gillibrand had disclosed a disease or long-term illness.

01:39:33.700 Because I became concerned.

01:39:35.440 She gets gray hair and you think that she's, well, yeah, I will say the real thing that 0.99

01:39:42.440 happened there is after I made jokes about it, I figured, oh God, she probably has some

01:39:47.640 terrible disease and now everyone's going to yell at me because I made fun of her appearance. 1.00

01:39:52.080 You think she looks so bad with gray hair that you think she has some horrible disease. 1.00

01:39:56.240 You stop saying with gray hair.

01:39:57.340 That's not what it's about.

01:39:58.320 You have gray hair.

01:39:59.780 I don't have gray hair.

01:40:01.240 I have white hair.

01:40:02.960 Yes.

01:40:03.300 Well, yes.

01:40:04.700 Yes, that's true.

01:40:05.740 You have white hair. 0.66

01:40:06.400 Have you, did you Google, does Glenn Beck have some horrible disease? 0.97

01:40:09.100 You have every disease in the book.

01:40:10.160 There's nothing I can Google that you don't have.

01:40:15.720 Every two days you're like, hey, it's Glenn Beck live from the hospital.

01:40:21.120 They're going to build you a podcast studio inside of Baylor.

01:40:24.220 But I will say, I just, it really, like, it wasn't really concerned about her, if I'm

01:40:33.880 being honest, it was concerned about me because I didn't want to call her name if there was

01:40:39.260 something terrible that happened.

01:40:40.460 So first you made it about women getting older and then you thought, oh dear God, I could be

01:40:47.260 in trouble.

01:40:47.560 It's not women getting older. 1.00

01:40:48.360 She was like, she looked like a celebrity on Stephen Colbert like six months ago.

01:40:52.420 She's like having some reverse Benjamin Buttons thing going on. 1.00

01:40:55.920 There's something happening.

01:40:57.840 Reverse Benjamin Buttons, which would be normal aging.

01:41:06.840 He's got to go to reverse Benjamin Buttons.

01:41:09.960 Oh, in the movie it seemed like it went really fast at times.

01:41:12.680 Right.

01:41:13.320 Maybe you're right.

01:41:15.140 Maybe that's a long way to get to normal aging.

01:41:18.200 But I don't think, my point is, maybe she's spending a lot of time in the sun, right?

01:41:25.620 Like they say that that's something you shouldn't do.

01:41:28.040 Yeah.

01:41:28.480 You know?

01:41:29.120 Not recently because she looked very pale.

01:41:31.620 But at some point.

01:41:33.180 At some point.

01:41:33.700 Maybe there was all.

01:41:34.280 She was out in the sun.

01:41:35.100 Out in the sun too long.

01:41:36.200 I'm just, I'm trying to help.

01:41:37.940 Right.

01:41:38.560 What are you doing?

01:41:39.800 What are you judging is what he's doing?

01:41:41.380 No, I'm, you know what I'm doing?

01:41:42.500 I'm rubbernecking right now.

01:41:43.880 I'm just driving by a car accident, just slowing down to watch it.

01:41:50.380 That's all I'm doing.

01:41:51.540 Who is the one person here who cared enough about her health to make sure she's doing okay?

01:41:57.420 Me.

01:41:58.620 I'm the only one.

01:42:00.000 What did you do?

01:42:00.760 All right.

01:42:01.040 You sat here and did, you were just, you didn't care if she got it, had a long-term illness

01:42:04.720 or disease, she disclosed it off.

01:42:07.020 I didn't think she had one.

01:42:08.460 I just thought she was aging like people do. 0.98

01:42:11.720 No, you are so shameless. 0.99

01:42:16.280 Shameless. 1.00

01:42:16.560 You are shameless. 0.92

01:42:18.180 Everyone in this audience heard moments ago, can we pull the audio? 0.95

01:42:22.500 Hey, Glenn, she's younger than you. 0.98

01:42:24.100 Oh! 0.60

01:42:25.600 I didn't even want the noise.

01:42:27.120 There was like several different emotions in that noise.

01:42:29.380 That's not true.

01:42:30.480 That you expressed.

01:42:31.460 Not true.

01:42:31.860 I mean, it was disdain.

01:42:33.800 I'm looking out for her health.

01:42:35.700 What are you doing, sir?

01:42:37.500 I was just trying to talk, you know, about what's happening to poor Pete.

01:42:40.580 That's all I was doing.

01:42:42.220 Poor Pete.

01:42:42.960 That's all I was doing.

01:42:43.840 You know, and you're right, let's get back to Pete Hexeth.

01:42:47.160 Pete Hexeth is the nominee.

01:42:49.360 Now I don't really care to talk about him.

01:42:51.600 Nominee for dissents.

01:42:52.840 I don't, you know, look, I think we've covered everything we need to cover on Kirsten Gillibrand.

01:42:59.740 I just had a moment of legitimate shock.

01:43:02.100 And sometimes human beings are fallible.

01:43:07.060 I, you know, and I maybe misjudged what could happen in such a short time.

01:43:13.780 The aging process, we should do something.

01:43:15.820 Medicine should fight that.

01:43:17.180 We should go up.

01:43:18.880 Longevity science should be invested in heavily.

01:43:22.440 So you didn't have to look at aging women. 1.00

01:43:24.680 That's what you're saying?

01:43:25.560 That's not what I'm saying at all.

01:43:26.980 I'm just saying I was shocked.

01:43:29.040 It's a weird segue.

01:43:30.460 I was shocked.

01:43:31.320 And I think that, you know, can't science do something is what I'm saying.

01:43:36.660 So you don't have to look at aging women. 1.00

01:43:38.160 No, it has nothing.

01:43:39.240 Why do you keep saying that?

01:43:40.740 You keep saying it.

01:43:41.540 Is this not a logical place to go?

01:43:43.800 It is not a logical place to go.

01:43:45.320 Why would he?

01:43:46.220 Go ahead, sir.

01:43:46.880 I'm not getting involved.

01:43:48.480 Wow, you've even scared her away.

01:43:50.040 Wow.

01:43:51.080 Wow.

01:43:52.380 Well, she knows.

01:43:53.660 She knows what you would say.

01:43:54.820 So she can't take you on because she knows exactly what kind of horror.

01:43:58.440 Horrible, insensitive comments you would make about her.

01:44:01.640 And I have gray hair.

01:44:03.160 Do you want to make that comparison?

01:44:06.320 No, I didn't think so.

01:44:07.500 No, she doesn't.

01:44:08.600 Nobody does.

01:44:09.480 Okay.

01:44:09.940 Nobody does.

01:44:11.040 So I would like to talk about, you know, because this is a logical segue, Stu.

01:44:17.320 A logical segue is not, oh, wow, she looks horrible. 1.00

01:44:21.720 Science should do something about the standard aging process.

01:44:25.040 By the way, it has, and she was utilizing it, apparently, with hair dye. 0.99

01:44:29.760 Okay.

01:44:30.720 Here's a logical one.

01:44:32.420 Um, uh, Biden puts taxpayers on the hook for 15,000 debtor student loans.

01:44:39.760 Here's a guy who we've been talking about fires all day.

01:44:43.320 Here's a guy who is setting our government on fire just before he leaves.

01:44:49.840 In every way possible, they are sabotaging the presidency of Donald Trump.

01:44:57.040 And, uh, I really hope these are the things that come to an end beginning next week.

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01:45:18.280 All right.

01:45:18.640 So you get into New Year's Eve.

01:45:20.560 Have you made a New Year's resolution?

01:45:22.460 I have a few, yeah.

01:45:23.580 Really?

01:45:23.980 Yeah.

01:45:24.340 Not to look at Kirsten Gillibrand again?

01:45:26.780 No.

01:45:27.140 That was not one of them.

01:45:28.680 Huh.

01:45:28.900 That was not one of the poisoning you was.

01:45:30.880 How's that drink?

01:45:33.760 Wow, I thought you were just being nice.

01:45:34.840 I'll get up back in the hospital again tomorrow.

01:45:36.340 I just thought you were being nice.

01:45:37.600 Wow.

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01:46:28.720 Welcome to the Lennbeck program.

01:46:50.920 Senator Hirono is now questioning Pete Hegseth.

01:46:55.140 Anything to say about her looks? 0.99

01:46:59.000 Not much other than just that she's maybe, I always call her America's dumbest senator. 1.00

01:47:03.680 Really? 0.99

01:47:04.360 But she, Josh Hammer, our friend, pointed out that he thinks she might be the lowest IQ member of either house.

01:47:11.820 Really?

01:47:12.040 So, I think that's interesting.

01:47:13.860 I don't know where the line is there because there's some pretty good competition in this.

01:47:17.060 Yeah, there is.

01:47:17.760 There is.

01:47:18.520 Now, she just did ask Pete Hegseth that President Trump has been saying for the last few weeks that he would take Greenland by force if necessary.

01:47:32.240 I've missed that.

01:47:33.940 Have you ever heard that?

01:47:34.940 At any moment.

01:47:35.420 I mean, I think the troops are already heating up the engines.

01:47:37.980 Oh, my gosh.

01:47:38.440 We're on DEFCON 1 right now.

01:47:40.800 You know, as soon as he takes office, he's like, let the attack on Greenland begin.

01:47:45.600 I think that he's putting that in the speech at the inauguration.

01:47:48.100 Really?

01:47:48.420 Yeah.

01:47:48.940 Okay.

01:47:49.720 It's 12-01.

01:47:51.860 Let it begin.

01:47:53.040 So, she said he also said he warned of making Canada the 51st state.

01:48:00.340 I don't think that was a warning.

01:48:02.140 I think that was, what do you call them?

01:48:04.040 A joke.

01:48:05.340 Uh, and that he might use military to retake the Panama Canal.

01:48:10.980 Well, if it's in the hands of China, I hope not. 0.96

01:48:14.060 Uh, but, uh, you know, that might be worth considering at some point.

01:48:19.300 If it's in the hands of China, you know, take that one up with John F. Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Dems.

01:48:27.960 Um, but, uh, she asked it as if it was a serious question.

01:48:31.600 Like, Pete was gonna go, oh yeah, no, absolutely, I'm gonna let those bombers fly right to Denmark, right directly to Denmark.

01:48:38.540 We're taking that, we're taking that pretty little place.

01:48:41.420 I'll tell you that right now.

01:48:42.360 She will be ours.

01:48:43.300 What is wrong with these people?

01:48:47.980 By the way, I don't work directly for Media Matters, but I do help them from time to time.

01:48:54.020 If they're listening, I just want to help them out.

01:48:57.640 Story headline number one.

01:48:58.880 You can just choose Media Matters.

01:49:00.560 Conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck's co-host claims beloved senator has stopped bathing.

01:49:08.000 It's just, it's an option for what you just said.

01:49:11.380 I questioned.

01:49:12.540 I think the question would be fair.

01:49:14.160 Conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck's co-host claims beloved senator is deathly ill.

01:49:19.800 I worried about, I was concerned.

01:49:22.320 Conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck's co-host suggests female senator needs more Botox, makeup, and showers. 1.00

01:49:28.940 I mean, they're good, they're good, they're all good approaches.

01:49:33.780 I just wanted to help them out on that one because I support Media Matters on what you're about to do to him.

01:49:41.720 Billions of dollars are spent in all those industries, Glenn.

01:49:45.360 This is about the economy for you.

01:49:47.640 Creating jobs.

01:49:48.700 Right.

01:49:49.100 You know, new administration, new approach.

01:49:52.160 Okay.

01:49:52.600 Maybe, you know, up in the investments in certain areas could be helpful for some.

01:49:57.760 For who?

01:49:59.400 For some.

01:50:00.220 Okay.

01:50:01.080 I mean, look, you could benefit from a lot of different treatments.

01:50:04.260 Oh, they, oh, they, they, oh, they recommend it.

01:50:08.040 Yeah.

01:50:08.420 Yeah.

01:50:08.760 Yeah.

01:50:09.120 The executives here recommended like, can we do anything?

01:50:12.660 And I'm like, yeah, you could put Vaseline on the lens.

01:50:15.560 Right.

01:50:15.720 Make it very, very blurry.

01:50:16.920 Very blurry.

01:50:17.380 Yeah.

01:50:17.560 Because there's a whole thing where you're on camera.

01:50:19.660 Yeah.

01:50:19.840 And they have to deal with that on a daily basis.

01:50:21.760 Yeah, they do.

01:50:21.900 Not, not, not the best part of their day.

01:50:23.880 I suggested AI.

01:50:26.240 Just put an AI figure of me.

01:50:30.260 Yeah.

01:50:30.720 Just put an AI guy on.

01:50:32.460 I'll stay at home.

01:50:33.280 I don't care.

01:50:34.200 It'll be smarter.

01:50:35.260 It'll be probably more entertaining.

01:50:37.100 It wouldn't get things wrong.

01:50:38.060 It could pronounce words.

01:50:40.120 I mean, if it was truly an AI for you, it wouldn't be able to pronounce words.

01:50:44.540 No, it would be superior.

01:50:46.160 Oh, okay.

01:50:46.780 So like an AGI.

01:50:47.660 You wouldn't want to put, yeah, you wouldn't, no, I just think artificial intelligence.

01:50:51.680 I don't think you need to go to general intelligence.

01:50:54.020 Just that bottom of the line Siri intelligence would be doing better show.

01:50:59.580 Alexa.

01:50:59.900 Yeah.

01:51:00.180 I think so.

01:51:00.940 Just that would be fine.

01:51:01.700 Just that would be fine.

01:51:02.920 Here's what I found on the internet.

01:51:05.600 And it could say that.

01:51:08.720 And it would be just fine.

01:51:11.220 It would be just fine.

01:51:11.900 It probably would.

01:51:12.760 I don't understand.

01:51:13.280 You know, I feel like the majority of my career has been trying to bail you out of situations

01:51:19.060 where you might have problems.

01:51:20.080 And it seems like the second I say anything controversial, you try to make everything worse

01:51:24.840 for me.

01:51:25.480 That's interesting.

01:51:26.220 I think I might remember that next time you're on the air and you just blurt something out

01:51:30.580 that you shouldn't have said.

01:51:31.360 I'm going to remember this moment.

01:51:33.160 Sarah, will you remind me of this moment, please?

01:51:35.340 Thank you.

01:51:35.640 Sarah, if you take this moment and use it as a clip.

01:51:39.480 Just to let me.

01:51:40.300 Who do you work for?

01:51:40.940 Just to let me know.

01:51:42.440 I just so I'm reminded.

01:51:43.600 I think this weekend you had enough of a scare.

01:51:45.400 You know who you're working for.

01:51:46.860 Yeah.

01:51:47.600 You know.

01:51:48.980 Satan.

01:51:49.700 That's who you're working for.

01:51:51.300 Satan.

01:51:55.220 So, you know, it was weird is.

01:51:59.400 And I want to talk about this in depth a little bit, not about me, but what what is

01:52:03.620 going through my mind.

01:52:04.600 Uh, you know, last week, uh, I thought I had a blood clot in my leg and, um, and then

01:52:12.440 it got worse.

01:52:13.440 And so I went to the hospital Sunday night and I was in the hospital yesterday and they

01:52:18.680 said, we're probably going to keep you for a couple more days.

01:52:21.000 Uh, and it turns out it wasn't a blood clot in the vein.

01:52:24.040 It wasn't a, it was a blood clot someplace else in my body, um, but it wasn't in the

01:52:30.340 system.

01:52:30.660 And so it was fine.

01:52:31.580 It was giving weird results.

01:52:32.940 And because of, it was just very complex.

01:52:36.040 I'm fine.

01:52:37.380 Uh, I will tell you that that plays a real game with you that I didn't expect per se.

01:52:49.140 You know, when, when you say a blood clot, what do you think when somebody has a blood

01:52:52.640 clot, you're like, Oh, uh, are they making it to tomorrow?

01:52:56.460 Yeah.

01:52:56.760 That's your question.

01:52:57.520 Right.

01:52:57.680 I mean, that can get out of control pretty easily.

01:52:59.300 Right. 1.00

01:52:59.880 And I mean, I know that's a really dumb, it's probably a very stupid understanding of it, 0.99

01:53:04.080 but it sounds, it's one of those things that sounds really serious. 0.99

01:53:06.260 Yeah.

01:53:06.560 You can stroke out.

01:53:07.640 I mean, you know, the widow maker is a, is a blood clot, uh, you know, and not something

01:53:12.880 I found, uh, you know, just, just for bedside manner, not something you should

01:53:17.800 say when the wife is in the room, doctors, I'm just saying, you know what I mean? 0.94

01:53:23.360 Well, you know, there are things like the widow maker.

01:53:25.560 Yeah.

01:53:26.000 Yeah.

01:53:26.500 We're aware of that one.

01:53:27.740 We're aware of that one.

01:53:28.580 And it didn't really take any describing of it.

01:53:30.840 You know, just the name pretty much says it all, you know?

01:53:33.440 Uh, so, uh, but I, you know, I did a lot of thinking and I realized I got to get you

01:53:41.800 out of here.

01:53:42.240 Cause if I, if I die, I mean, you'll destroy the legacy. 0.96

01:53:47.200 You'll be on calling people old and, and ugly.

01:53:51.500 And I didn't say anything about either one of the, I didn't even say old.

01:53:56.320 You're the one that said that.

01:53:57.420 I just said, wow.

01:53:59.140 Yeah.

01:54:00.380 Yeah.

01:54:00.640 Wow.

01:54:01.020 Wow.

01:54:01.400 What happened there?

01:54:02.460 Now look, the natural aging process too.

01:54:04.620 That's what it was.

01:54:05.680 It's that is.

01:54:06.880 Stop it.

01:54:08.220 Stop it.

01:54:08.820 That is not true.

01:54:09.480 In fact, we know it's not true because if what your claim is, but by the way, this is

01:54:14.580 your claim that she was dying her hair.

01:54:16.560 I don't know that you've made that you're saying that.

01:54:18.500 I don't know that.

01:54:18.980 Well, either that, or she married Frankenstein. 0.99

01:54:20.940 Oh, thank you.

01:54:22.360 That's my point.

01:54:23.380 Right.

01:54:23.720 I mean, this is my point.

01:54:24.960 That's natural.

01:54:25.800 I mean, is it natural to go from dye hair to really?

01:54:29.400 Is that how, that's how the aging process occurs?

01:54:32.140 One day you have dyed hair.

01:54:33.620 The next day you don't have dyed hair.

01:54:35.240 What a magical, natural aging process you've described.

01:54:39.820 What a, wow.

01:54:41.300 He is sensitive on this.

01:54:42.620 You see that that's what happened to the show.

01:54:44.540 I die.

01:54:45.580 And all of a sudden his real hatred wouldn't sound like that at all.

01:54:49.360 It would, there's not enough noisemakers from New Year's Eve.

01:54:53.120 Those aren't mixed in yet.

01:54:54.440 You don't have the fireworks going off in the background.

01:54:58.420 The show would sound totally different when the entire band was in here playing.

01:55:03.520 Yeah.

01:55:03.860 Those uplifting celebrations.

01:55:06.360 When we hire Kool and the gang to come in, the show will sound a lot different.

01:55:11.660 You know, when Pat called me in the hospital to find out how I was doing, and I'm sure you were trying to find the number.

01:55:20.600 You don't even have a number.

01:55:22.200 When Pat called to see how I was doing, I said, by the way, remember our pact.

01:55:28.500 If I die, you milk it.

01:55:30.140 And he said, oh, Stu's already on that.

01:55:32.680 You don't have to remind me.

01:55:33.420 Oh, 100%.

01:55:34.760 And I was like, but that's not milking it.

01:55:36.900 I mean, that's.

01:55:37.880 Yeah, that's more celebrating.

01:55:38.940 Yeah.

01:55:39.180 And he said, no, that was, no, he's dead serious.

01:55:41.540 He's going to be so happy if you pass.

01:55:43.180 And I said, was that, no. 0.93

01:55:45.720 And he's like, no, ding dong, the witch is dead.

01:55:47.600 That was his quote.

01:55:49.340 Yeah.

01:55:49.520 I had talked to him right before he talked to you.

01:55:51.760 That's why.

01:55:52.280 That's how he knew that.

01:55:53.160 Why are you calling him?

01:55:54.500 Why are you calling him?

01:55:55.200 Let's go and scare him.

01:55:56.420 Yeah.

01:55:56.600 Let's do that.

01:55:58.200 Boom.

01:55:58.900 Let's, you know, let's do things like that.

01:56:00.900 Anyway.

01:56:01.340 And I know you're trying to, you're trying to make this out to me that I'm having some observation

01:56:05.620 on Kirsten Gillibrand.

01:56:07.580 Yeah.

01:56:07.780 But like, I'm just looking on, on, on Twitter, on X, I'm just looking at some of the, what

01:56:13.540 people are tweeting right now about Kirsten Gillibrand.

01:56:15.740 I just Googled Gillibrand and whoa, she has some problem and she now looks like an 80 year 1.00

01:56:22.940 old woman, but she's only 58.

01:56:24.940 No, I don't think she looks like an 80 year old woman. 1.00

01:56:25.920 Again, that's a, you haven't seen an 80 year old woman in a while. 1.00

01:56:30.680 For those wondering, Gillibrand is 58 years old, not 88.

01:56:34.920 These are all, this isn't me.

01:56:36.480 This is, this is what America is seeing.

01:56:38.260 That's what America, that's what your followers are seeing.

01:56:40.880 No, no.

01:56:41.140 These aren't my followers.

01:56:42.220 No.

01:56:42.840 These are not my followers.

01:56:44.020 I've just, just, I just searched for Gillibrand old.

01:56:46.800 You know what I mean?

01:56:47.920 That's all you did was search for Gillibrand old.

01:56:50.960 I wanted to see if people were saying that.

01:56:53.020 Right.

01:56:53.460 And they are.

01:56:54.400 And they are.

01:56:55.520 Over and over again.

01:56:56.520 Why does Kirsten Gillibrand look like she's 79 years old?

01:57:00.240 Gillibrand got old.

01:57:01.200 Holy.

01:57:01.940 I haven't seen her in years.

01:57:04.000 Gillibrand is only two years older than me.

01:57:06.040 OMG.

01:57:06.720 Does she look old?

01:57:08.520 This is what the people are saying.

01:57:09.920 I don't, I didn't know what the answer was.

01:57:12.840 That's why I Googled if she just closed the disease. 0.98

01:57:16.300 Horrible, hideous disease.

01:57:18.600 That's what, yeah.

01:57:19.500 It's funny.

01:57:20.020 Behind the scenes, this is a funny show, behind the scenes show thing.

01:57:24.960 I often do that when you insult people.

01:57:28.560 I know.

01:57:29.160 Because when you say something about someone, and then I, like, if you say something about 0.96

01:57:33.320 their appearance, I'm like, oh crap, what if they have cancer?

01:57:35.800 Like, that's my first thought, is something terrible has happened to them. 0.59

01:57:38.940 And then the headlines will be, Glenn Beck, mox cancer survivor.

01:57:45.340 You know what's been, you know how lucky we've been?

01:57:47.160 This never happened.

01:57:48.440 I was praying it was happening today to Stu.

01:57:50.800 I was praying.

01:57:51.840 I was like, oh, please let her have cancer. 1.00

01:57:54.780 Oh, there's a Media Matters headline for you.

01:57:57.480 No, no, no.

01:57:58.700 Thoughts and prayers.

01:57:59.600 That's what you get.

01:58:00.620 Those are the thoughts and prayers from Glenn Beck that you get.

01:58:03.080 That's right.

01:58:03.380 That's right.

01:58:03.540 Not against her.

01:58:04.480 Just against Stu.

01:58:05.380 Just if she could just do me a favor.

01:58:07.120 Don't even try it.

01:58:07.260 Could you get cancer?

01:58:08.820 Just, Mel Gibson has the cure.

01:58:10.880 Just get it for today.

01:58:19.220 All right.

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01:59:37.000 Have you ever seen a liberal's hands smoother than a snake on oil?

01:59:42.880 I guess they're more worried about the meaning of the word female than the word work.

01:59:48.680 Glenn Beck will be right back.

01:59:51.040 Milton Stumpus, who has worked with this show for, gosh, I don't know, 25, 30 years, and just a great partner with us, is House Burned Down in the California Fires.

02:00:18.040 And let's play video number one.

02:00:20.640 If you happen to be watching the blaze, I'll describe it.

02:00:22.620 It is, I think that's number two.

02:00:27.240 The fire is coming.

02:00:28.480 This is from his back door, his porch, and you see the fire.

02:00:33.400 Play the first one, if you will.

02:00:34.800 I think the first one shows it.

02:00:36.460 Yeah, there.

02:00:36.940 That's the beginning.

02:00:38.600 He believes that's the first smoke from the fire as it started.

02:00:43.740 And you can see how small that is, relatively speaking.

02:00:46.300 The winds were so high, by a couple hours later, it was that close to his house, and then his house burned down.

02:00:52.860 And there's nothing left.

02:00:54.220 Terrible.

02:00:54.740 Yeah, it's awful.

02:00:57.700 Can we play Cut 11?

02:00:59.420 This is the guy who stayed in the fire and saved his house with a garden hose.

02:01:03.440 Watch this.

02:01:03.900 The house was built by my mother and father in 1960.

02:01:07.320 And I lived here my whole life.

02:01:10.140 So there's a lot of memories here.

02:01:11.440 And I think I owed it to them as well to try my best to save it.

02:01:15.900 That's right.

02:01:16.420 Some things in life are worth fighting for.

02:01:18.680 I mean, if I were to lose this house, it would be very difficult to afford to be able to build a new house, to pay the enormous property taxes they have here.

02:01:29.500 What would I do?

02:01:33.320 When I was out here hosing the house down and getting ready, and when the houses started to burn, I didn't see one single fire truck out here at all.

02:01:44.720 Zero.

02:01:45.320 If they had some fire trucks, just put a squirt here, a squirt there, and kept an eye on things, all these houses would be here now.

02:01:52.100 So would you have stayed?

02:01:55.680 It's weird because it's kind of like evacuating an area, understandable when a fire is coming.

02:02:00.800 But if that type of situation is playing out where you could have easily put out small fires, they could have protected a lot of these communities if they didn't leave.

02:02:08.660 Leaving them makes that little fire turn into an entire house burned down.

02:02:11.840 He says his neighbors thank him because I guess he saved another neighbor's house as well.

02:02:17.780 I would have stayed as long as I could have.

02:02:19.700 I did hear another person going through this, and they were trying to put out the fires, and the winds were so fast, they couldn't get the water up to the roof.

02:02:28.340 Because as soon as they would start shooting up there, it would just blow it way into a mist.

02:02:31.300 So Mel Gibson, he's quite amazing on his view on this.

02:02:35.780 He's like, it's just stuff.

02:02:36.640 It just burned down my stuff.

02:02:38.800 But think about this.

02:02:40.120 All of those celebrities, all those famous people, how many treasures from film and everything else?

02:02:47.820 Just Mel Gibson's house that's gone now.

02:02:51.280 And I think it's a good reason to have everything digitized, quite honestly.

02:02:55.580 You lose all those pictures.

02:02:56.740 You lose everything that you've had in your house. 0.61

02:02:59.820 And they're giving crap to the people who hired the guy Caruso that was running for mayor of Los Angeles. 0.61

02:03:07.180 Almost won. 0.98

02:03:08.560 He stayed because he built a big mall.

02:03:11.500 He stayed and just hosed that thing down, saved the mall.

02:03:14.460 You know, I'm wondering if anybody is thinking, gee, maybe I shouldn't have voted for Carabas.

02:03:21.240 I think maybe I should have voted for the guy who came from the water department and was warning about these things.

02:03:28.340 What do you think?

02:03:30.600 Los Angeles.

02:03:31.940 You still have Gavin Newsom, I suppose.

02:03:34.140 Can you imagine if Schellenberger and Caruso would have won?

02:03:38.940 Totally different world today.

02:03:40.440 Totally different world.

02:03:41.480 California, you need to wake up.

02:03:45.100 It is time to wake up and find somebody like a DeSantis that is going to stop this nonsense.

02:03:52.240 Look at the way he has been dealing with hurricanes.

02:03:55.360 Your hurricanes are fires every year.

02:03:57.980 It doesn't have to be this way, California.

02:04:00.440 Wake up.

02:04:02.260 This is Glenn Beck.

02:04:04.460 We'll be right back.

02:04:15.620 We'll be right back.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 14, 2025

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