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00:04:21.900 Okay, so there was this debate that was going on last week about burritos, the price of burritos.

00:04:29.960 And, I mean, I was checking in occasionally and just finding out what was going on.

00:04:36.060 And I heard about the burrito thing, and I think, I can't believe we're arguing about burritos.

00:04:39.440 And we are actually choosing.

00:04:41.220 We're in this position to where last week everybody was like, oh, that's why I'm for Marco Rubio.

00:04:47.580 Oh, that's why I'm for J.D. Vance.

00:04:50.740 Can you please, can we get a handle on our emotions?

00:04:56.340 Please.

00:04:57.980 This is the conversation that I think people should have had last week about the price of burritos in America.

00:05:05.000 And it's this, every time I go through a drive-thru window, I have the same two thoughts in the same order every time.

00:05:15.820 First one, when did McDonald's for two people become 20 bucks?

00:05:20.000 When did that happen?

00:05:20.960 $25 for, wait, what?

00:05:23.840 The second one is harder.

00:05:26.240 How does the average person do this?

00:05:28.440 This is McDonald's for the love of meat.

00:05:30.500 It's practically, I don't even know if there's any meat in their burgers anymore.

00:05:35.000 that costs you 20, 25 bucks for two people.

00:05:38.480 If you have kids, you're already working two jobs.

00:05:41.820 How do you afford it?

00:05:43.300 You're paying for gas and an electric bill that keeps going up.

00:05:46.320 God help you if you had to move into a new apartment

00:05:48.420 or buy a house after 2021.

00:05:50.500 How do you do it?

00:05:54.280 Now, I want you to hold on to both of those

00:05:56.400 because the country just spent a week

00:05:58.860 fighting over the first one

00:06:00.400 and refusing to answer the second one.

00:06:05.000 College student at Turning Point told a staffer that a burrito shouldn't cost $20.

00:06:10.220 And that was the spark of this whole thing last week.

00:06:12.940 And the right set itself on fire.

00:06:15.960 One side said, learn to cook, get some roommates, eat ramen.

00:06:20.600 The market doesn't care what you think things should cost.

00:06:23.840 And then the other side said, you haven't talked to people under 25 in a decade.

00:06:30.380 Okay, all right.

00:06:33.300 Here are the facts.

00:06:35.000 And I'm going to give you the facts, even though they cut against some of the things that I agree with, or, you know, people I agree with, okay?

00:06:41.580 The people saying a burrito doesn't cost $20 are right about the burrito.

00:06:48.160 A loaded steak burrito, I can't believe I'm coming back from a vacation and I'm doing this month, runs $9 to $12 in most of the country.

00:06:56.740 $17 in Manhattan, one of the most expensive places to live or eat in the world, okay?

00:07:01.740 And that's if you put guacamole on it.

00:07:05.000 $20 is what it costs after DoorDash with the service fee and the delivery fee and the tip.

00:07:12.800 Now, are you getting your burritos at DoorDash?

00:07:14.680 Because that might be a problem.

00:07:18.420 Okay.

00:07:24.020 McDonald's has published its own numbers.

00:07:26.800 Not a critic's numbers, the company's numbers.

00:07:30.280 The president of McDonald's USA put out an open letter with a fact sheet attached.

00:07:35.000 The average Big Mac meal, $9.29 up from 27, or I'm sorry, $7.29 in 2019, okay?

00:07:45.180 For $7 to $9.

00:07:48.900 But in that sheet was a sentence that mattered.

00:07:53.000 And here's what that sentence was.

00:07:55.520 The average price across the whole menu is up about 40% since 2019.

00:08:02.960 Over that same stretch, prices across the entire American economy rose 21%.

00:08:10.000 So, drive-thru went up roughly twice as fast as everything else.

00:08:15.820 So, two Big Mac meals is $18.58.

00:08:19.540 You weren't confused.

00:08:20.720 You're doing arithmetic that you have to do because you have to keep a budget.

00:08:26.200 Okay, so that's truth number one.

00:08:28.620 Now, here's truth number two, and it's mine.

00:08:32.000 and it costs something to admit this, but it is true.

00:08:37.520 I have spent this summer in a small farming town

00:08:40.840 and I keep walking past houses

00:08:43.740 that are the exact house that I grew up in.

00:08:46.420 I was just in a house a couple of weeks ago

00:08:48.000 and I left and I said to my wife,

00:08:50.720 that's the house.

00:08:51.600 I mean, the floor plan, everything.

00:08:53.220 That's the house I grew up in.

00:08:56.420 And all of these places in these small little towns,

00:08:59.460 they are the houses that my friends grew up in.

00:09:01.600 Same footprint, same little porch, same three little bedrooms, everything.

00:09:06.760 When somebody says my parents could afford a house and I can't, here's the part nobody says out loud.

00:09:13.860 The house your parents bought is not the house you're looking at by any stretch of the imagination.

00:09:19.000 In 1973, the median new home in America was 1,525 square feet.

00:09:25.340 Fewer than half had air conditioning.

00:09:27.520 Four in 10 went up with one bathroom or a bath and a half, and that was for the full family.

00:09:35.180 More people also lived in it back in 1973 than they do now.

00:09:40.400 Three per household against about two and a half today.

00:09:44.680 Today's median new home is around 2100 square feet.

00:09:49.760 That's after builders shrank them.

00:09:52.960 It's the smallest new home since 2009, and it's still 40% bigger than it was in 1973.

00:10:02.400 And nearly every one of them has central air.

00:10:04.400 So the houses that you're looking at are 40% bigger than the ones that your parents moved into,

00:10:10.600 and they didn't have central air, and yours does.

00:10:13.920 Four in 10 have four bedrooms or more.

00:10:17.420 Three in 10 have three bathrooms or more.

00:10:21.020 Remember, bath or bath and a half.

00:10:24.800 Square footage per person in American homes roughly doubled in the last 50 years.

00:10:31.180 And that's before we count the things your parents never dreamt of.

00:10:34.500 The internet, the phone in your pocket that costs more per month than their first car payment, the streaming.

00:10:41.680 The surveys on subscriptions keep finding the same thing.

00:10:45.920 The average American household is spending north of $200 a month on your subscriptions.

00:10:51.920 You ask people to guess their own number, and they say 86.

00:10:55.880 So two and a half times off of their own money on their own bank statement,

00:11:01.720 they have no idea what they're paying just for subscriptions.

00:11:04.800 Now, that's not a scold.

00:11:06.020 Honestly, it's a mirror.

00:11:07.140 I look at this mirror myself, and I'm like, what are we?

00:11:09.740 What?

00:11:11.180 So here's what I want you to know.

00:11:13.060 Both things are true.

00:11:15.180 okay? And here's where I lose the people who only wanted the first half.

00:11:21.020 Your pain is not imaginary, and it's not a spending problem that you can budget your way

00:11:26.220 out of. The median existing home in this country now sells for five times the median household

00:11:32.540 income. Three times was the old rule for affordable means. Through the entire 1990s,

00:11:40.060 that number ran about 3.2. The typical first-time buyer in America is now 40 years old. First-time

00:11:46.860 buyers are 21% of all purchases. That is the lowest on record. Home ownership for households

00:11:53.500 under 35 has fallen 37%. Half of all renters in America, that's 22.6 million households,

00:12:02.000 spend more than 30% of their income just on housing. That is also at a record, and it has

00:12:09.100 broken that record three years running residential electricity up roughly a third since 2020 and it's

00:12:16.960 going higher because we're building data centers faster than we are building the grid to feed them

00:12:21.820 and the transmission bill gets spread across everybody's meter including yours unless you put

00:12:27.080 a stop to it in your own town and negotiate so first part of this the young guy is right

00:12:35.020 but also the old man is right too but neither one of them will say the other's truth out loud

00:12:43.580 your house is bigger and better than your father's and it costs you twice as many years of your life

00:12:49.560 to get it got it in 1963 there was a woman at the social security administration named

00:12:57.260 molly or kanski she spent years at the agri at the agricultural department she was a food 0.78

00:13:04.100 economist and she was pricing out what it cost to feed a family, blah, blah, blah. Washington asked

00:13:09.420 her, figure out who in America was poor. Nobody had a number. There wasn't a number for poor in

00:13:15.580 America. So she had one solid thing. She had the government's cheapest food plan, the emergency

00:13:22.460 diet priced out by family size, the emergency diet. She had one survey from 1955 that said

00:13:31.860 American families spent about a third of their income on food. So she took the cheapest grocery

00:13:37.600 bill and multiplied it by three. For a family of four in 1963, that came out to $3,100 a year.

00:13:45.740 Six years later, the federal government made that number official, based on 1955.

00:13:51.800 We still use it today. Every year since, we adjust it for nothing but inflation.

00:13:58.180 So today, we spend 9.7% of income on food.

00:14:02.980 Remember, that was 31% earlier.

00:14:05.560 9% now.

00:14:07.420 The yardstick we use to measure of who's making it in this country is a 1955 grocery receipt times three.

00:14:17.380 But everything that actually breaks a family now, the rent, the insurance, the childcare, the car payment, the deductible, that was never in the number.

00:14:26.060 That was a placeholder.

00:14:27.340 She said so herself.

00:14:30.220 It was the best anyone could do with what they had,

00:14:33.720 and nobody went back and fixed it and said,

00:14:36.180 wait a minute, we don't count it this way anymore.

00:14:38.580 So when the charts say Americans have never had it better,

00:14:42.520 and you're standing in the grocery store doing your math in your head,

00:14:45.540 some of that gap is not your imagination.

00:14:48.180 It's the ruler that is wrong.

00:14:52.080 However, some of it is your imagination,

00:14:54.920 and we can't dodge that if we want to fix our country.

00:15:00.000 Here's the part that we don't understand.

00:15:02.180 We are now a nation of wants and not a nation of needs.

00:15:07.620 That's not an insult.

00:15:09.140 That's just a description.

00:15:10.880 And it is the natural end of the most abundant 75 years

00:15:15.640 any person ever to live in the history of the world has ever had.

00:15:21.220 The trouble isn't wanting things.

00:15:23.740 the trouble is when you can no longer tell the difference between want and need.

00:15:31.160 I need a cell phone.

00:15:34.000 I need an Apple cell phone.

00:15:38.300 I need this subscription.

00:15:42.260 No. 1.00

00:15:43.660 A man who can't tell a want from a need can be sold anything,

00:15:47.480 including his own freedom by anyone promising him

00:15:52.180 that want, I'll give it to you for free.

00:15:57.540 And here's the whole thing that I thought of

00:15:59.320 while I was on vacation.

00:16:00.300 I'll just end this burrito thing

00:16:01.620 because this was a nightmare.

00:16:02.700 I'm like, what are we arguing over?

00:16:04.940 Both sides are right on this.

00:16:07.760 Can we not see that two truths can be held?

00:16:13.720 If we don't learn the difference soon,

00:16:16.220 on purpose, while it's still voluntary.

00:16:21.580 We will become a nation of genuine needs,

00:16:25.580 and nobody likes that.

00:16:26.980 I mean, that's how it ends.

00:16:28.740 Not with a burrito.

00:16:32.020 So what do we actually do?

00:16:34.800 One, Republican Party, stop arguing with the arithmetic

00:16:38.400 and start changing the arithmetic.

00:16:40.420 Build. Build houses. Build power plants.

00:16:42.680 Transmission lines.

00:16:43.640 Go after the regulatory freight that adds tens of thousands of dollars to a house before a single nail goes in.

00:16:54.040 Then, what do you say? I just saw the data yesterday.

00:16:56.900 $40 trillion in debt. Get your own financial house in order.

00:17:01.360 Because the deficit is a tax that shows up in my grocery bill and everybody else without ever getting a vote.

00:17:08.940 Now, let me poke a hole in my own argument here.

00:17:11.260 you can build every house in america and that young family still doesn't feel it for 10 or 15

00:17:16.660 years construction takes time the relief is slow and it arrives you know after the next three

00:17:24.280 elections that's the trap it is exactly why politicians are reaching for huey long and price

00:17:31.380 controls and rebate checks because you'll feel that one by christmas but they don't work long

00:17:38.620 run they don't work they feel like something and right now that feeling is is is beating the right

00:17:47.060 right now which is why the perception has to be answered alongside with the reality not spun

00:17:53.060 but actually answered somebody has to be able to stand in front of the kid who can't buy a house

00:17:58.240 and the father who paid off a 1500 square foot one and tell each of them the truth without either of

00:18:05.120 them flinching hey the kid is right and so are you dad and anyone who wants to actually be elected

00:18:12.800 has to understand both truths you have to be able to talk to both of these men and you have to have

00:18:18.020 a plan that changes the number and the feeling that's the job and here's the one thing that I

00:18:24.460 will not do and I wouldn't I'd ask you not to do it either I'm not getting into the Rubio camp and

00:18:29.180 I'm not getting into the Vance camp not now not over this some of them are paid and they're just

00:18:34.740 enjoying themselves, losing sleep on how to split us up. Stop. Stop.

00:18:42.380 I'm not voting for faces. I'm voting for plans, and I haven't heard any plan yet.

00:18:48.800 The moment we become a people of personalities instead of actual plans and ideas, we've already

00:18:54.460 surrendered. Personalities don't lower your electric bill. Ideas and principles and solutions

00:19:00.080 do or nothing does hold the line on ideas hold the base together hold your family together the

00:19:07.340 the individual the free market the country hold those things together because if we split into

00:19:12.360 two camps over faces while the arithmetic stays broken who wins the socialist and if you think

00:19:20.120 a burrito is expensive now wait until you see what a socialist sandwich costs it's not going

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00:20:38.080 oh man i have so much to talk to you about i really want to get into i was i went to france

00:20:58.440 oh i went to france we went to normandy we saw normandy and i really wanted to give my kids and

00:21:07.420 and education and to see parts of the world I think are going to be lost soon.

00:21:12.440 And we're in France, and I've never been there before.

00:21:17.660 I've never had a desire to go.

00:21:20.260 But it is a beautiful city.

00:21:22.620 And I saw the way it was made and the way it was built.

00:21:27.120 And the boulevards are so enormous, every main street.

00:21:32.680 And then I started noticing all the buildings on the side.

00:21:35.480 I'm really into, I'm into architecture.

00:21:38.100 And so I noticed that all the buildings look like they were built around the same time

00:21:42.060 and they're all exactly the same.

00:21:44.020 And I'm like, wow, how did this happen?

00:21:45.840 How did this happen?

00:21:46.780 So I started doing some research.

00:21:48.460 Oh my gosh, there is a lesson for Donald Trump in, in the, from the 1860s to 1890s in France.

00:21:58.320 That is like so spot on.

00:22:00.660 I can't wait to share that with you.

00:22:02.000 If I have time, I'm going to get to that today.

00:22:03.380 we have so much on our plate today

00:22:06.000 I also want to get into

00:22:08.020 Huey Long and J.D. Vance

00:22:10.300 and what he

00:22:12.020 said about Huey Long

00:22:13.060 most people don't know who Huey Long is

00:22:15.560 I'm going to be

00:22:16.740 give the vice president the benefit of the doubt

00:22:19.680 this is not what he was saying

00:22:21.140 he wasn't holding Huey Long up

00:22:22.640 he's got the answers

00:22:24.160 but he is playing an interesting game

00:22:26.160 trying to reach the 25 year olds

00:22:28.980 but it's important that you

00:22:31.180 understand what's going on

00:22:32.780 We'll do that next.

00:22:34.640 First, international fellowship.

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00:22:53.360 Anti-Semitism continues to rise.

00:22:55.600 There are threats and harassments and intimidation and acts of violence.

00:22:58.720 and synagogues and schools and community centers

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00:23:48.020 Coming up later this week,

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00:23:55.920 of the Glenn Beck program.

00:23:57.340 In my travels, this year, I've been to, I don't know how many different

00:24:27.200 countries. And I have met with leadership in most of these countries. And I have now had three,

00:24:37.000 count them, three prime ministers of countries tell me that Europe is done. You go to Europe

00:24:46.700 and you won't feel that. You won't feel it. If you're in England, maybe. If you're in Paris,

00:24:53.500 I don't think you're going to feel it. If you're in Germany, you feel it. If you're in Venice,

00:24:58.440 no problem. No problem. But there is an underlying problem in all of it.

00:25:02.960 Three prime ministers have now told me Europe is done. There's no recovery. And that should

00:25:10.020 terrify you, especially if you know what's going to replace it. The third thing, or another prime

00:25:16.980 minister, has told me he's not optimistic about America. And I said, wait, what? What do you mean?

00:25:28.580 He's like, you're not determined. That was his words. You're not determined to survive.

00:25:38.760 That brought me back to something I have in my collection. Ricky, write this down. Talk to me

00:25:43.140 after the show i want to do a monologue on this tomorrow there i have a letter from uh george

00:25:50.240 washington uh sorry to george washington from oh what was his name crazy general i can't remember

00:25:59.900 anyway he wins a big battle he writes to washington and the line is we've won your men

00:26:08.060 behaved like men determined to be free. And I want to talk to you about that because that was

00:26:14.500 the warning I received from one of the prime ministers. You're not yet determined to survive.

00:26:21.560 I don't know what it's going to take, but that's the way we have to live our life.

00:26:25.880 And right now we are focusing, and this is normal. This is human nature. It's the hierarchy of needs.

00:26:32.060 People are struggling right now and they're struggling to put food on the table and they're

00:26:36.500 struggling to live a life that they think is normal. And I want to get into that here this

00:26:43.180 week because I don't know if we know what normal is anymore. And that doesn't make our situation

00:26:51.840 less real. It just means we really need to understand where we are in the cycle of a

00:27:04.080 republic okay now jd vance came out yesterday and i am not going to get into the jd vance marco

00:27:11.400 rubio thing i like both of them i like both of them you decide i'm going to ask them both tough

00:27:16.920 questions when we get and if we get a chance to interview them um but i like both of them

00:27:23.160 first time we've had really good uh candidates and beyond those two we have really good candidates

00:27:30.160 The Democrats don't.

00:27:31.800 They've gone to the socialist.

00:27:33.320 Why?

00:27:34.640 Well, let me take you to Friday, Middletown, Ohio.

00:27:37.780 The vice president standing in a steel mill where his grandfather welded for 40 years.

00:27:42.980 And he reached back into the past, back in the 1930s, for a line. 0.88

00:27:48.000 And he said, and I'm quoting him, the great southern populist, probably most of you in the room don't know who I'm talking about, but he's an interesting guy, kind of a crazy guy. 0.59

00:27:57.500 Yeah.

00:27:58.520 His name is Huey Long, and he once said, every man a king.

00:28:02.120 That was the goal of his political program.

00:28:04.320 But no man is a king in their castle if it's under siege by criminals.

00:28:08.880 Okay, he's right most people didn't know the name. 0.99

00:28:11.620 And he's right that the man was crazy. 0.71

00:28:13.300 In fact, he was dangerous. 0.91

00:28:14.960 And he skipped what, he put Huey Long in to talk about the castle,

00:28:21.140 but he skipped that Huey Long is the closest thing this country has ever produced to an American dictator.

00:28:26.380 And you don't have to take that from me or a Republican or a historian.

00:28:30.880 Take it from the Democrats who lived with him.

00:28:34.340 There weren't any Republicans in Louisiana to complain.

00:28:37.940 There was one party in that state, and Huey Long owned it.

00:28:42.000 And the men who tried to stop him were all Democrats because there was nobody else left to try.

00:28:47.860 So let's start with what he wanted because it's going to sound familiar.

00:28:51.780 This is a letter from the museum that I purchased years and years ago.

00:28:57.140 I think this is the first time I've ever shown the letter because Huey Long doesn't come up very often.

00:29:01.220 But this is from 1933, June 22nd, 1933.

00:29:07.580 And he said, I entered the work of the United States Senator in January 1932, thus giving me to this date one year and four months into the position.

00:29:15.860 I announced when I came here that I had taken a place in the Senate for one main purpose.

00:29:23.260 He said, which was, and I'm quoting, to break up the swollen fortunes of America, to spread the wealth among our people.

00:29:33.240 I expect to keep my word, blah, blah, blah.

00:29:36.580 It's the only fight that is worth it in the land of too much to eat and where everyone should be happy.

00:29:43.480 so he is all about deciding who has too much and taking it from him so he launches this campaign

00:29:51.540 on the radio in february 1934 the government caps on what any man is allowed to own and then takes

00:29:59.960 everything else every family gets a guaranteed homestead of five thousand dollars a house a car

00:30:05.720 and a radio every family gets a guaranteed annual income free college for anyone who can pass the

00:30:11.720 test. Old age pension, 30 hour work week, a month of paid vacation by law. The federal government

00:30:19.360 is going to buy up the farm surplus and warehouses. And he says this on national radio to cure what

00:30:25.540 ails us. It is necessary to scale down the big fortune so the wealth can be scattered among

00:30:32.520 all of the people. Okay. Tell me what part of the democratic socialists of America

00:30:38.740 would they strike? Tell me what plank in that platform would they strike? He'd be the star of

00:30:44.900 the convention. He'd have the best merch. Now, his math never worked, and everybody knew it.

00:30:52.160 There wasn't enough money at the top to pay for everything that he was promised. And so when the

00:30:56.200 economists started running the numbers, Long just did what progressives always do. He moved the

00:31:01.480 goalposts. He just moves the cap. 50 million, then 5 million, then under 2 million, because the

00:31:08.160 Promise was never an accounting document.

00:31:10.900 It was a permission slip.

00:31:13.580 Okay?

00:31:14.000 Now, here's the part nobody ever tells you, if they are even telling you about Huey Long.

00:31:19.600 Louisiana's legislator passed all of his bill in bundles, unread, in minutes.

00:31:25.200 Not figuratively, in minutes unread.

00:31:28.560 Men who were there described bills moving through both chambers faster than a clerk could read the titles.

00:31:34.780 He created state boards that stripped New Orleans of control of its own police, its own fire department, of its own voter rolls.

00:31:42.200 The city could no longer run the machinery of its own elections.

00:31:46.080 He put the National Guard in the streets of that city and had guardsmen occupy the register's office.

00:31:52.720 And he kept a locked box, the deduct box.

00:31:57.360 What the hell is that?

00:31:58.580 It was funded by a slice taken off the top of all the state employees' paychecks.

00:32:03.180 after he died they opened up the box empty nobody ever found what was in it

00:32:10.300 okay he owned louisiana state university the way a man owns a hunting dog he hired and fired the

00:32:17.680 faculty killed stories in the student newspaper he picked the fight songs and led the band onto

00:32:23.520 the field himself in 1929 the louisiana house impeached him democrats each one of them huey

00:32:32.380 long beat it by inventing something that ought to be taught in every civics class in America called

00:32:36.860 the round robin. He got 15 state senators to sign a single piece of paper declaring that they would

00:32:43.240 vote to acquit no matter what evidence was presented. Wow. 15 was enough to block the

00:32:50.460 conviction. Trial was over before it ever started. Any of this sound familiar? By the way, the

00:32:56.940 signatures were public. Now, that's not a cover-up. That's a man announcing that the verdict

00:33:02.100 has been purchased and daring you to do something about it.

00:33:05.460 And then there's one thing that should be taught

00:33:06.920 in every journalism school about Huey Long.

00:33:09.760 Huey Long got tired of the New Orleans papers.

00:33:12.340 So Louisiana passed a 2% tax on newspaper advertising revenue,

00:33:17.680 but only for papers with a circulation over 20,000 a week.

00:33:22.400 13 papers in that whole state cleared that bar.

00:33:26.320 12 of the 13 were against him.

00:33:29.340 He didn't ban the word.

00:33:31.140 He didn't arrest an editor.

00:33:32.520 He just wrote a text with a threshold shaped exactly like his enemies.

00:33:37.980 Supreme struck it down in 36.

00:33:41.100 This is one of the foundation stones now from our Supreme Court justice on American freedom of press.

00:33:50.740 Anyway, I could go more into that, but I'm not going to.

00:33:53.480 Here's the problem.

00:33:55.120 the great populist of the working man handed us the first landmark first amendment case by trying

00:34:05.300 to tax the newspapers that criticized him that's the receipt he silenced his critics

00:34:10.560 he's he got and bought the juries openly bought the juries so he couldn't be a peach

00:34:18.000 now what else did he do because you'll have people defend him and this is the part that

00:34:23.660 J.D. Vance was talking about. He did build roads where there were mule paths. He built bridges,

00:34:29.580 charity hospitals, night schools for grown men who couldn't read. He gave every school child

00:34:34.320 in Louisiana a free textbook. He killed the poll tax in a state that had close to nothing.

00:34:40.060 That was real. And the poor people loved him. And they weren't fools. They had just been ignored

00:34:46.220 for 60 years and finally somebody paved their road. That's how it always goes. The pavement is

00:34:54.260 real. The price is written somewhere where you're not looking. Franklin Roosevelt's own men wrote

00:35:02.180 down that FDR considered Huey Long one of the two most dangerous men in America. He was building

00:35:10.040 towards an independent run in 36 with acclaimed membership in the millions. He had already written

00:35:15.300 a book about his first days in the White House, and then on September 8th, 1935, he was shot

00:35:19.500 in the marble hallway of the Capitol building that he built. He dies two days later at 42.

00:35:26.240 Within a month, Sinclair Lewis published It Can't Happen Here about American demagogues who win

00:35:32.080 on a wealth-sharing promise and end with a secret police. Robert Penn, Robert Penn Warren,

00:35:39.980 who was teaching at LSU while all of this was going on

00:35:43.260 would win a Pulitzer for all the king's men.

00:35:46.960 That was two of the greatest warnings in American literature

00:35:49.580 written by guys who were watching Huey Long.

00:35:54.180 So why in the world would Vice President Vance reach for this guy?

00:36:01.820 Two possibilities I'll give them to you.

00:36:04.220 First one, it's the fashion of the new wing of the new right,

00:36:08.140 where the idea that the Republican Party has to stop sounding like quarterly earnings call

00:36:14.480 and start sounding like somebody who notices you can't buy a house.

00:36:17.720 Huey Long is the patron saint of that instinct,

00:36:20.540 the man who delivered something material to poor people who had been told to wait.

00:36:25.420 But you can't forget all the rest of it.

00:36:28.000 The second possibility is that it's a raid.

00:36:31.420 You take the other side's best slogan and you keep the four words and throw away the program.

00:36:36.620 And that's actually what he did in The Next Breath.

00:36:40.020 He was talking about, you know, a castle, a man's castle.

00:36:44.940 But that's not what Huey Long was talking about.

00:36:49.340 The third is, it was a good line.

00:36:52.020 It was a good line.

00:36:52.920 And he wanted it.

00:36:54.400 Whatever it was, here's what makes it strange.

00:36:57.400 And I think this is where Vance actually told the truth accidentally, maybe.

00:37:01.120 The word castle doesn't come from Huey Long.

00:37:05.080 It comes from an English courtroom in 1604, and it was Sir Edward Coke that wrote it down, that the house of every man is his fortress and his castle, and it's a rule about what the government may not do at your door.

00:37:24.020 160 years later, William Pitts stands up in Parliament against attacks that would let them excise men walking into private homes.

00:37:35.500 And it comes to us, the poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown.

00:37:41.560 It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the king of England cannot enter.

00:37:50.860 That's castle doctrine.

00:37:53.160 Frail little house that a king can't walk into.

00:37:56.980 Now, here's Huey Long's castle.

00:38:00.400 And this is in his campaign song that he wrote himself.

00:38:03.600 Every man a king with castles and clothing and food for all, all belongs to you.

00:38:10.180 Okay, same word, castle.

00:38:13.260 Opposite doctrine.

00:38:14.940 JD, which were you doing?

00:38:17.440 Pitt's castle is one the king cannot enter.

00:38:19.800 Long's castle is the one the king hands out.

00:38:23.560 One is a wall against government.

00:38:25.540 The other is a gift from the government.

00:38:27.660 And anything the government gives you, the government sets terms on and eventually walks into because it never really left.

00:38:35.680 Which one was it?

00:38:37.080 That's the question that J.D. Vance needs to answer.

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00:39:52.820 so there's some great comments from insiders glenn part of the problem is that people are tired

00:40:20.200 100% right.

00:40:21.140 Not saying it's right or wrong.

00:40:22.840 I'm just saying people I talk to say they voted for Trump because they wanted things to get better.

00:40:28.500 And they didn't mean long-term better.

00:40:30.500 They meant immediately better.

00:40:33.060 Okay, that's, yes, I agree with you.

00:40:36.940 But that's where we all have to come in and talk to our friends and saying short-term better is not better.

00:40:43.200 Jolson says, we're so swamped in luxury and money and entertainment, nobody is noticing that capitalism has been killed off.

00:40:49.860 it has not been killed off but it is very close and let me give you this one more paragraph from

00:40:54.840 this letter from Huey Long 1933 uh he says you know my purpose is to break up the swollen

00:41:00.500 fortunes of America to spread the wealth among all people last year I first offered my resolution to

00:41:05.800 limit fortunes it was looked upon as alarming very few senators declared in favor of it this

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00:41:23.040 What he's saying is the trouble is getting worse and worse. People will flock to this because

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00:44:29.720 Hello, America.

00:44:31.040 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:32.600 I've been gone for two weeks.

00:44:34.900 My family, I took my kids.

00:44:36.740 um to see some things in the world that i fear might be you know gone uh someday may not be able

00:44:44.180 to travel and see them uh and i really went on a a history tour trying to learn as much history as i

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00:45:34.280 happening now today is economic d-day for iran and if the president actually can pull this off

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00:47:55.040 Okay, so I want to be very, very careful here because it is economic D-Day,

00:48:00.100 and this is a very, very good thing.

00:48:02.560 um we are looking at a situation with the iranian uh economy it is on the very edge

00:48:14.020 the very edge but our enemies um know some things let me start here first first thing has to be said

00:48:26.360 We won the war, okay?

00:48:28.360 By every standard, air defenses are completely shredded.

00:48:32.960 The supreme leader was killed in the opening hours, 0.77

00:48:36.000 and Hezbollah is a shadow of what it was two years ago.

00:48:39.460 The proxy network has been thinned.

00:48:42.220 By every single measure a general would put on a chart,

00:48:45.500 Operation Epic Fury did what it was sent to do.

00:48:49.540 The economic damage is beyond understanding, 0.92

00:48:52.720 and this is Iran's economic D-Day. 0.99

00:48:55.060 the president is doing the right thing however for all of the things that are true

00:49:01.520 there is one thing that may or may not be true that is putting us in a position where we may

00:49:09.100 lose everything the win has just purchased and it's not on a battlefield it's on an inventory

00:49:16.120 sheet i want you to listen to this before february we had 2330 patriot interceptors

00:49:25.120 the best public estimate now puts us somewhere between 759 and 827 missile interceptors okay

00:49:34.000 that's a drop of at least 65 percent fad that long-range missile went from 452 to fewer than

00:49:43.820 278. Reuters is reporting now the long-range missiles are nearly spent, and about half of

00:49:52.460 our tomahawks are gone. Last week, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell below 300 million barrels

00:50:00.620 for the first time since January of 1983. The president's answer on these things has been

00:50:08.160 that we have massive amounts of munitions, and the leakers are going to go to prison for a very,

00:50:13.380 very long time. Okay. That's an, it's an, that's a flawed answer. Okay. Um, because if it's a leak,

00:50:22.480 then is it true? You're going to put somebody in prison. Um, if it's, if it's propaganda,

00:50:27.340 that's a different story. And I don't know what is true. Okay. Um, but Turan didn't need the link,

00:50:36.500 the leak. Turan has counted. Every interceptor we fire, they watch go up. And they have a better

00:50:47.220 estimate of our magazine than most members of Congress do at this point. So the denial doesn't

00:50:51.660 fool the man across the table. It only fools the people who write the checks. And that is if it is

00:50:56.740 true. We don't know if it's true. But our enemies think it is. Which brings us to a scenario.

00:51:04.660 And I think it's likely, it's not a dramatic one, but how this could end.

00:51:12.400 Iran, if the economic sanctions don't work, Iran doesn't counterattack.

00:51:18.560 Iran doesn't surrender. 0.62

00:51:20.120 Iran just waits.

00:51:21.800 It slow walks the talks. 0.87

00:51:23.300 It keeps the strait half strangled, lets our gas prices do the work,

00:51:27.460 watches the American public where the support for this war sits at 33%

00:51:31.860 and is falling among the president's own supporters, okay?

00:51:36.740 I talked to some political officials

00:51:40.660 over the last couple of weeks,

00:51:42.500 and no matter where they were in the world,

00:51:45.240 they all said the same thing.

00:51:46.760 You're sending exactly the wrong messages, people.

00:51:49.580 Because I would ask people,

00:51:50.960 what do the American people need to hear, okay?

00:51:54.180 If you had access to the American people,

00:51:56.600 what would you think they need to hear?

00:52:00.140 And the answer was universal.

00:52:01.860 in all cases. You're sending the wrong message. You're sending the message to the world that you

00:52:08.840 just aren't going to fight. You're just not going to fight. You won't do it. And while that's true

00:52:14.380 and understand the reasons for it, et cetera, et cetera, that can't be the message you send.

00:52:20.380 Iran doesn't have to win. It only has to be still and be standing when either our magazines or our

00:52:29.100 patience or our pump prices run out okay that's all we have to do that's all they have to do

00:52:38.640 that's their strategy and so far it is working now these economic sanctions if somebody can

00:52:46.020 supply guns to the people 80 of the people in iran hate this regime but they don't have guns

00:52:54.020 So people are not going to stand without guns.

00:52:56.600 They have to have munitions.

00:52:58.360 So is somebody getting them munitions?

00:53:01.000 I hope somebody is.

00:53:02.760 Somebody training them how to use them?

00:53:04.400 I hope somebody is.

00:53:07.060 But the things we're actually running out of are not missiles.

00:53:12.260 Now, this is the important part.

00:53:13.940 This is why I said, I don't know if any of this is true.

00:53:17.280 What's running out on us is the ability to be believed. 1.00

00:53:21.920 let me explain because the world's been here before the year is 168 bc and there was a syrian

00:53:33.860 king i want to get i want to get this right here there was a syrian king named uh antiochus

00:53:40.540 and he marched the army into egypt and took it not threatened it took it he's camped out in the

00:53:49.260 suburbs of Alexandria, there is no force in that part of the world that can move him.

00:53:55.200 And down the road comes one old Roman, no army, no fleet behind him, nobody in the harbor,

00:54:03.040 just one man named Popelius, I think his name was, Popelius. And he's carrying a wooden tablet.

00:54:13.200 And Eocchus knows him. They know each other. They've been acquaintances for a long time.

00:54:17.220 and the king puts his hand out to greet his friend Popelius

00:54:21.340 and Popelius doesn't take his hand.

00:54:24.120 Instead, he hands him a tablet

00:54:25.960 and he says, read this first.

00:54:29.080 It's a letter from the Roman Senate.

00:54:31.720 Get out of Egypt. 0.82

00:54:35.060 Now, Eniochus does what any king does. 1.00

00:54:37.840 Well, I'll consult my advisors.

00:54:39.620 I'll give you an answer.

00:54:41.100 But the old man takes a walking stick that he's carrying

00:54:44.160 and he draws a circle in the dirt around the king of Syria.

00:54:47.800 Now remember, he's in Syria.

00:54:50.800 He's got the army.

00:54:52.120 The other guy has nothing but a tablet and a stick

00:54:55.240 and he draws this stick,

00:54:57.380 draws a circle around the king

00:54:59.080 and he says, give me your answer

00:55:00.880 before you step out of the circle.

00:55:03.960 Well, there's a pause and the king of Syria

00:55:06.440 with his army, the king of Syria

00:55:09.440 is now standing in a circle

00:55:10.920 drawn by a guy who's unarmed

00:55:13.440 says, you have to do what I'm telling you to do

00:55:17.000 because Rome is coming for you.

00:55:20.560 Only then does Papelius shake his hand, okay?

00:55:23.860 Now, the king decides, okay, we're out.

00:55:29.720 Why?

00:55:30.340 Why did that work?

00:55:32.680 This is what we have to remember.

00:55:34.980 It worked because three weeks earlier,

00:55:38.040 Rome had annihilated the army of Macedon.

00:55:42.780 okay everyone in the mediterranean had just heard about this that stick had no power the circle had

00:55:51.540 no power the power was in the belief it was a fresh belief it was expensive and it was

00:56:04.580 purchased at a very high cost, that whatever Rome said it would do, Rome would and could do.

00:56:13.820 That's deterrence. That's where we were a year ago. That's where United States has always been.

00:56:20.420 We've always been in this place, draw a circle around a person and say, yeah,

00:56:23.740 we're going to annihilate you unless you agree right now. Well, I'm going to go consult. Don't

00:56:28.200 consult. I'm telling you, we're going to annihilate you. This is the way it is. 1.00

00:56:33.120 That's the term.

00:56:34.020 It's not a warehouse of arms.

00:56:36.660 It's a belief.

00:56:39.420 And the entire reason it's cheap is that if they believe you, you never have to spend a thing.

00:56:46.740 Now, our stick has worked and is still working.

00:56:51.160 Our circle still holds.

00:56:53.560 But that warehouse and our own actions that we're saying, look, you don't have to be for a war.

00:56:59.820 You don't have to be for a war.

00:57:00.840 but you don't say it.

00:57:03.400 The world is listening to our social media.

00:57:07.400 And that belief is aging fast.

00:57:11.880 Everyone now has seen the ledger behind our missiles.

00:57:15.800 Everyone has seen our social media.

00:57:18.940 We are the old man in the sand,

00:57:22.060 hoping nobody asks a second question.

00:57:26.500 So the president has to tell the truth about the magazine.

00:57:30.400 Not to the press.

00:57:32.560 To Congress, on the record, with the numbers.

00:57:36.660 And he asked for multi-year appropriations.

00:57:40.400 But industry's not going to build a plant in a one-year order, okay?

00:57:45.060 Nobody breaks ground on a rocket motor line for a customer who might change his mind in November.

00:57:53.860 Two weeks ago, the United States Treasury.

00:57:57.860 Two weeks ago.

00:57:59.980 bought yen. The first coordinated intervention with Tokyo since 2011, and everybody made it

00:58:07.380 about the economy. The president even said, we did it as a gesture of support for Japan in the

00:58:13.420 interest of global economic stability. And all of that is true. Okay. Global economic stability.

00:58:20.020 That's what we got. A concept, an abstraction. But let me tell you the thing that almost no one

00:58:28.960 knows. What was that really about? Because now I know. It involves the circle in the sand,

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00:59:54.420 Glenn Beck is on.

01:00:07.060 Okay.

01:00:08.020 So remember when we bailed out Tokyo? 0.97

01:00:11.660 We bailed out Japan. 0.99

01:00:14.120 Okay. 0.97

01:00:15.840 There is a company in Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy.

01:00:20.160 Okay.

01:00:20.580 It has been building Patriot PAC-3 interceptors for America under a license of America for years now, about 30 a year.

01:00:30.040 Tokyo and Washington both believe that that could double to 60 if just one bottleneck was cleared in the seeker heads.

01:00:38.680 Last November, Japan pulled finished PAC-3 missiles out of its own air self-defense force stockpile and shipped them to us.

01:00:48.180 So Japan pulled them out of their stockpile and gave them to us because we needed them.

01:00:54.360 Now, let me go back further.

01:00:56.440 2014, the United States wanted to restart production of an older Patriot missile.

01:01:01.440 Well, we discovered we can't do it.

01:01:04.600 What do you mean we can't do it?

01:01:05.480 We invented them.

01:01:06.300 We built them here for a year.

01:01:07.320 You can't do it.

01:01:08.040 Why?

01:01:08.900 Because we no longer make the gyroscopes.

01:01:12.000 And beyond that, we had lost the ability to make the gyroscopes.

01:01:16.660 so we asked tokyo and tokyo approved the export and japan gyroscopes went into now our american

01:01:24.400 missiles those are japanese gyroscope because we can't make them this is where we are we just spent

01:01:31.540 american money defending their currency and asked for stability in return we yes we got global

01:01:38.500 stability. But we also got missiles. Not a favor, a contract. Buy the second shift. Fund the seeker

01:01:47.020 line ourselves. Pay for the tooling, the plant, the workers. Multi-year signed with delivery 0.98

01:01:52.320 schedules, okay? Notice the arithmetic here. The weak yen, we just spent money propping that up

01:01:59.420 to make Japanese-built interceptors cheaper for us than they've been in 40 years. So we're

01:02:06.040 subsidizing their currency, but we're actually subsidizing the production line and we're getting

01:02:11.500 something back that you can put in a launcher because we can't do it. Now, there are three

01:02:19.660 objections. One, every missile built in Japan is a missile not built in Alabama. That's jobs and 0.73

01:02:28.260 more than jobs. It's an industrial base that you can't rent. Two, dependence on anybody cuts both

01:02:34.880 ways. A supplier can say no. If anybody who controls the shipment controls you on the day

01:02:41.300 you need it most, three, license terms and technology transfers. What you share, you

01:02:49.120 eventually lose control of. All three of these are fair and all three of these lose to the calendar

01:02:56.340 because if we want to make them here, you have to think long-term. Remember, everybody's thinking

01:03:03.240 short-term, short-term. I voted for him because I want my life to get better today. But you can't

01:03:08.180 do that. A plant you break ground on today delivers in 2030 if we're lucky. The Patriot

01:03:14.640 line goes from 600 a year to 2,000 a year by 2030. But 2030, we tried going from 170,000

01:03:24.180 artillery shells a year to 100,000 a month. After four years of maximum effort, we're at 36,000.

01:03:33.240 Okay, that's the simplest thing we build.

01:03:36.920 We don't have until 2030.

01:03:39.040 We need magazines in 2027.

01:03:41.980 You build the American plants and you buy allied capacity while they rise.

01:03:47.700 It's not either or.

01:03:49.480 It's a bridge.

01:03:50.360 That's what's happening.

01:03:51.920 Okay, and our allies know it and our enemies know it.

01:03:55.300 We just built a bridge.

01:03:57.620 And then the last piece, and this one can't be announced.

01:04:00.320 This is something he has to do.

01:04:01.680 We should agree that America, in some ways, at least for a period of time, is the policeman.

01:04:12.820 But the world has to pay accordingly.

01:04:16.860 If America falls, everything, Europe is not going to be able to protect itself.

01:04:21.060 And you may say, oh, well, it doesn't matter.

01:04:22.740 That's Europe.

01:04:23.340 Believe me, that will matter.

01:04:26.720 Okay?

01:04:28.520 We don't need a press conference with this.

01:04:31.140 this all has to be done behind the scenes. The president needs to go to these countries and in

01:04:36.840 no uncertain terms, tell them with the doors closed and no press in there, look, you're in

01:04:41.880 trouble. We go down. You won't let us use your airspace. You want that? Fine. But we're done

01:04:50.620 with you. Which brings me to Canada and the trade agreement with Canada. I don't think I'm going to

01:04:56.340 get to it today. I don't think I'm going to have time, but I have to tell you, Canada,

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01:06:49.380 so let me give you some uh some reaction that we're just getting in uh from uh torch insiders

01:07:03.980 uh glenn how is america sending the message that we don't want to fight did i miss something

01:07:10.580 yeah social media um democrats um congress um everybody you know us you know the the popularity

01:07:19.480 for this war um is speaking volumes to our enemies now i personally think i don't want to fight i

01:07:26.100 don't want to go in for ground forces i don't want to do any of that stuff um i you know i like the

01:07:31.180 idea that we went in and we could solve this militarily in a few weeks and that's not what

01:07:36.660 it's turned into and as as you see as this is dragging on um the the popularity for this is

01:07:44.560 going down the president's popularity is going down and they're thinking well there's an election

01:07:48.180 this is really bad for him for the election we're gonna skate on this one they are just playing a

01:07:53.460 waiting game because you have to understand that they think differently um baritone bro said uh

01:08:02.100 I don't think, Glenn, you can say we won the war without having the enemy surrender unconditionally.

01:08:07.380 I agree with you.

01:08:08.860 I started this conversation with you 30 minutes ago where I said we have, by all war standards, we have won.

01:08:20.060 We have annihilated their military.

01:08:23.040 There is no reason they're standing.

01:08:24.600 We have won by, if I gave the military a list of things to do, you've got to annihilate all of these things.

01:08:33.580 They've done all of that.

01:08:34.800 We don't have an unconditional surrender.

01:08:37.660 Why?

01:08:38.880 Because they're playing a different game.

01:08:41.480 And here's something that you have to understand that we think differently.

01:08:49.240 We think differently.

01:08:50.740 The West and the East.

01:08:51.940 the western thinking is we don't want to continue war you don't want to continue war 0.97

01:08:59.200 nobody wants your whole population to die etc etc etc um well they do the 12ers don't care 0.99

01:09:08.440 they don't care and so when you start saying negotiation remember when you look at the heroes 1.00

01:09:16.160 of Islam, 0.98

01:09:18.580 you look at Muhammad. 0.93

01:09:19.600 Muhammad was not Jesus. 0.62

01:09:21.380 He wasn't a peacemaker.

01:09:23.720 He was a warrior.

01:09:26.200 So their heroes

01:09:27.700 are all warriors.

01:09:29.800 Wipe them out. 1.00

01:09:31.000 Chop their heads off. 1.00

01:09:32.180 Kill them. 1.00

01:09:33.560 We don't look at that 1.00

01:09:34.860 as a hero.

01:09:35.980 We look at that

01:09:36.680 as a war hero,

01:09:37.740 but we don't necessarily

01:09:39.340 look at that as somebody.

01:09:40.500 We have higher standards

01:09:42.600 because we believe in life

01:09:44.660 that we look to people like Jesus.

01:09:47.700 Well, that is weakness to them, okay?

01:09:50.340 So when you say,

01:09:52.220 we're gonna sit down at the negotiating table

01:09:53.940 to make this stop, 0.99

01:09:55.940 they use this because of their twisted thinking

01:09:59.500 and the way they think over in the Middle East, 0.98

01:10:02.560 especially the Muslim extremists.

01:10:04.520 They can use President Trump saying, 0.76

01:10:07.540 we're gonna sit down at the negotiating table

01:10:09.120 as see, we got them on the ropes.

01:10:10.980 They wanna negotiate.

01:10:12.880 You add to that what we're saying in social media.

01:10:16.000 And let me just give you, let me take, let me give the American people the benefit of the doubt.

01:10:22.280 Let's say 50% of what you see on social media is coming from China and Russia and Iran.

01:10:30.320 They might take pieces of what we see, but they're accelerating it. 0.56

01:10:34.960 And they're making it so viral, it looks like that is the main thing the American people are saying.

01:10:40.600 Okay. So remember, there is a difference between reality and perception. Perception is reality. You might say, no, we're not against that. Perception is reality, especially when you're dealing in the Middle East.

01:10:58.840 so they are creating the perception america's done i don't know about the missiles are we

01:11:05.400 running short i don't know i honestly don't know but they can count our numbers have been published

01:11:14.440 in the past they can count china can count and they're counting and saying they're running low

01:11:19.340 and then our own people somebody inside is leaking information whether it's true or not again i don't

01:11:26.540 know. But it's becoming credible overseas that America is running out of ammunition.

01:11:35.180 That just tells somebody, I'm not negotiating with these people.

01:11:40.060 So yes, in our view, negotiation is what comes next. You have nothing left. We don't want to

01:11:46.300 kill everybody. We don't want to starve your people. We don't want to destroy your country.

01:11:51.540 We don't want to do any of that.

01:11:52.920 Let's stop this madness.

01:11:54.560 Western thinking stops this madness. 0.95

01:11:57.400 Hitler thinking does not. 0.78

01:11:59.680 Hitler was ready to destroy all of it. 0.83

01:12:02.400 Okay? 0.93

01:12:03.460 So when I say we've won the war,

01:12:06.480 but we're about to lose it,

01:12:08.640 we've already done what our military was supposed to do.

01:12:12.580 Now, what else do we have to do 0.71

01:12:15.720 to get these people who think like Hitler,

01:12:18.880 destroy it all,

01:12:20.260 How do we get them to surrender?

01:12:23.260 A couple of ways.

01:12:24.520 Just keep firing missiles.

01:12:26.280 Just keep doing that.

01:12:27.360 Well, okay.

01:12:29.620 Is there another way?

01:12:30.640 Yes. 0.98

01:12:31.120 The new way is let's collapse them economically. 1.00

01:12:34.620 But remember, we have Qatar. 0.94

01:12:37.100 No matter what any podcaster might tell you, Qatar is a massive enemy of the United States.

01:12:44.660 Massive. 0.98

01:12:45.960 They are not free and they do not like America.

01:12:48.720 They might pretend they like America, but they are funding really bad stuff here in America. 0.79

01:12:55.600 You also have China.

01:12:57.160 You have Russia.

01:12:58.860 They're also doing backroom deals with Iran.

01:13:02.660 For this economic thing to work, we have to find a way to stop all funding, including the UAE, which is doing some backroom banking things, shadow banking with Iran.

01:13:15.120 That all has to stop.

01:13:17.120 If Besant and Trump can stop all that, we will bring them to their knees. 0.98

01:13:21.920 We will starve them out. 0.97

01:13:23.300 That's not a good solution, but it is better than continuing to bomb them. 0.97

01:13:29.200 But the people are going to starve first.

01:13:31.840 The people should rise up, but the people can't because they're not armed.

01:13:36.220 Which leads me to this.

01:13:40.820 Marty in Arizona wrote,

01:13:43.060 Glenn, remember we armed and helped the Afghans

01:13:45.320 and we got the Taliban as a result, 1.00

01:13:47.080 just saying, I'm with you. 1.00

01:13:49.180 I'm with you.

01:13:50.580 I don't think the Persians are the Taliban.

01:13:54.520 However, you can't ever,

01:13:56.060 when there's a revolution,

01:13:57.000 you can't ever guarantee

01:13:57.940 who's going to be left standing

01:13:59.680 and who's going to have the power.

01:14:00.940 So I agree.

01:14:02.900 I'm just telling you

01:14:04.040 what the perception is over there.

01:14:06.640 Their perception is they're winning.

01:14:09.560 Our perception is,

01:14:11.240 and the truth is,

01:14:12.120 we've won but we're sending them the wrong signals i don't know how to do this i'm not

01:14:18.020 suggesting i know how to do this i'm just telling you that by us saying we're negotiating we're

01:14:23.800 negotiating it's sending them the signal that they use whether it's true or not that they use

01:14:30.640 in their own region to say see we got america on the ropes and there's some things that we

01:14:37.220 absolutely have to do. I mean, I'm so pissed. The more I travel around Europe, the more pissed I am

01:14:46.480 because they are just going about their day like everything is fine. Have you seen the invasion of

01:14:52.800 Spain? Do you know what that means for Europe? But they're just going along like absolutely

01:14:59.300 everything is fine. I'm telling you, if America goes down, the entire West goes down. If Europe

01:15:06.500 goes down we we can't support it we can't what are we gonna do we're gonna go and support we're 1.00

01:15:11.980 gonna go and fight the muslim hordes that are there that that the german people the french 1.00

01:15:18.320 people it's their country to defend i gotta tell you if they go down my my only thought is 1.00

01:15:26.020 i told you so that'll be the worst thought i have that'll be the first one told you told you 0.68

01:15:31.340 who didn't see this one coming my second thought is wow this is really going to suck for all of

01:15:37.720 those people who just had their head in the sand and the third thought is have we gotten the 0.99

01:15:43.900 nuclear missiles out of europe because those will be muslim countries with nuclear missiles 0.99

01:15:50.380 and you know they won't even help us on any of this stuff they should be helping us with iran 0.99

01:15:59.680 but they're not they're not but this is not a metaphor if we go down the entire west goes down

01:16:06.440 the sea lanes the currency the settlement system the security guarantee that lets a dutch pension

01:16:13.080 fund exist and a german factory ship a container it all rests on one navy and on one balance sheet

01:16:22.480 ours there is no second policeman for the world there's no there's no bench beijing knows that

01:16:28.860 map moscow knows that there's no bench which is why one of them sells iran anti-ship missiles

01:16:36.020 and the other one feeds it targeting data on our own warships while both of them are saying we're

01:16:41.080 not involved in this at all they're not they are not trying to beat us they're running an experiment

01:16:48.240 to see how long we can last how loudly we complain about the cost the only people in the world who

01:16:55.320 seem unsure about america going down and whether it would take the west with it is us is us

01:17:04.160 are you determined to remain free are you determined that america will hold the place

01:17:16.120 in the world that will be strong enough to at least guarantee freedom in our own borders

01:17:22.600 no we haven't settled that ourselves we are still arguing about the fundamental principles that made

01:17:30.600 america america remember i told you a circle drawing the you know king the circle around

01:17:37.640 the king of babylon you can't draw a circle if you don't have a stick and if you have a stick

01:17:42.420 but you have nothing to back it up with that circle means nothing it only works when when

01:17:48.840 people have done the unglamorous, expensive, unpopular, unphotogenic job of making the

01:17:58.080 promise that we mean what we say and we say what we mean true.

01:18:04.120 We have to build the magazines.

01:18:06.900 We have to buy the line.

01:18:10.280 We have to ask our friends for steel or we lose stability.

01:18:16.800 and our friends have to start acting like friends otherwise nobody's going to stand in front of the

01:18:24.120 king with a stick nobody but if our friends start acting like our friends if our friends

01:18:30.160 stop doing business with iran and stop trying just to enrich themselves if they actually take a stand

01:18:37.340 and all of us take a stand and we're determined that this evil will not spread i have to tell you

01:18:44.020 I think on Thursday, I'm going to do a show on some of the things I saw in the Middle East. 0.76

01:18:48.360 And I got to tell you, I have never felt evil like I felt it this last week.

01:18:54.160 I was on vacation, my wife and I, well, I'll tell you about it.

01:18:57.880 But I have to tell you, cold sweat, cold sweat, so evil, cold sweat, and it's coming.

01:19:09.860 And most people are just turning a blind eye to it.

01:19:12.200 It is coming.

01:19:13.400 It is here.

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01:22:30.640 So, Jason, give me some of the stats because there's been a lot of really good news coming

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01:26:19.900 hello america glad you're here i've oh it's been uh it's been a race today trying to fit in all of

01:26:29.680 the things that we have missed in the last two weeks uh there's been a lot um and we're gonna

01:26:35.720 get into the canada the the the trade agreement that we are now going after i mean let me tell

01:26:42.940 Prime Minister Carney is truly anti-America, and he is treating China as a better friend than America,

01:26:52.360 and he is doing it intentionally.

01:26:54.300 I'll explain probably on tomorrow's show exactly what he's trying to do

01:26:58.440 and why we're in the situation we're in with Canada.

01:27:02.460 Also, I want to give you a couple of stories that I learned from learning some history

01:27:08.480 while I was over in France about Napoleon and Versailles and also Napoleon's son.

01:27:16.560 Some really good things that the GOP and the president need to hear.

01:27:21.380 And speaking of the president, the president is going to be joining me on Wednesday.

01:27:24.820 We'll take your questions, just tweet them to us, send them to us.

01:27:28.000 If you're an insider, just send them in so we have them.

01:27:32.160 I want to ask the questions you want the president to answer,

01:27:35.760 and that'll be later on in this week.

01:27:37.880 And I also want to talk to you a little bit about, you know, the phrase ignorance is bliss.

01:27:43.860 You know where that phrase came from?

01:27:46.200 It's a fascinating story.

01:27:47.720 Ignorance is bliss.

01:27:49.440 It's not bliss.

01:27:50.920 But medicine is very blissful right now because they are not looking at the other side,

01:27:58.580 especially when it comes to things like transgenderism, men and women's sports, etc., etc.

01:28:05.540 And ignorance is not bliss.

01:28:07.280 It is the exact opposite of that.

01:28:10.280 I'm going to get into this a little bit today with a guy who was working and writing for, let me see if I have this right, Seattle Times.

01:28:19.180 He was writing for the Seattle Times.

01:28:20.780 He was a sports columnist.

01:28:21.920 His name is Matt Calkins.

01:28:24.240 Been there for a long time, 11 years, and he couldn't take it anymore because his stories kept getting spiked.

01:28:32.120 And it kept going and going and going.

01:28:34.580 And what a surprise, his stories were being spiked, at least in this category, for one category, and that is speaking out in defense of women in women's sports.

01:28:47.760 He just resigned last week. It's a fantastic story. A guy with a lot of courage.

01:28:52.960 And he's joining me here in 60 seconds. Also, coming up in about half an hour, Patrick Bett David is joining us.

01:29:00.400 So, a lot of things going on this hour.

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01:30:28.080 Seattle Times has blocked a piece protecting women's sports.

01:30:32.540 He was at the Seattle Times for 11 years, and I want him to tell the story on why he resigned.

01:30:38.540 Matt, welcome to the program. How are you?

01:30:41.120 I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Glenn.

01:30:43.340 You bet. I was overseas when I read this story, and I immediately reached out and said,

01:30:48.760 I really want to have Matt on when we first get back, because I think your story is truly

01:30:53.760 fascinating. Tell me what was happening there and why you resigned. Sure. Well, I was at a rally

01:31:01.240 outside of Climate Pleasure Arena, where the Seattle Storm, the WNBA team plays.

01:31:06.740 And they were playing the Fever, and they were having a rally in support of Sophie Cunningham,

01:31:11.340 who has come out against biological males in women's sports. And I interviewed a couple of

01:31:17.900 girls um who were just like hey we're not anti-trans um but we think that we should have

01:31:23.460 our own spaces in sports and that was kind of the premise of my column and i submitted that to the

01:31:28.020 editors and there's like a six-day process where they looked at it and ultimately decided they

01:31:32.260 didn't want to print it there's a fourth time something like that's happened to me and i just

01:31:36.560 said um i don't really think i can do my job here anymore i don't feel like i have a freedom of

01:31:41.980 speech when it comes to hot button issues and i just decided uh it wasn't the place for me anymore

01:31:45.940 So are they true believers or are they – I mean I don't want to put words in your mouth. I was going to use the word cowards. 0.77

01:31:54.360 Are they afraid of the pushback of their readership, the extremists out in Seattle? Why did they say no to this story?

01:32:02.760 Yeah, I learned the same thing. Is this cowardice or is this ideology? I'm not exactly sure. I think it's a combination of both.

01:32:09.440 I think there are a lot of people in the newsroom who are true believers, who really don't think any of this stuff should be out there, who really think there's only one side to the story.

01:32:18.280 I have a suspicion based on kind of other things I've seen at the top that they really just don't want to upset the activists, if you will, the loudest voices in the newsroom.

01:32:27.600 And I've seen this, you know, editors at the top kind of recoil at some other things and kind of, you know, get skittish when it comes to other stories.

01:32:36.900 It might not even just be mine, but you can really tell like if you kind of go against, you know, I don't want to get too political here, but like the left wing grain at the Seattle Times, they just buck.

01:32:46.860 They don't want it in there.

01:32:47.800 So I think it's a combination of both.

01:32:49.280 But I think at the top, it's probably a little more cowardice than it is ideology.

01:32:55.240 So is this happening to it's not just just you or you have you heard from anybody without naming names or anything?

01:33:01.920 Are there others that are like, dude, I don't have the courage to do what you did, but congratulations, I've been struggling with this.

01:33:08.760 Is this happening throughout the paper or is it just you in sports?

01:33:13.240 You know what?

01:33:13.600 I think it was mainly me.

01:33:16.320 And I think because the Seattle Times, I think this is happening at a lot of newsrooms throughout the country.

01:33:21.460 I mean, I'm not in those newsrooms, but I think they kind of curate a certain type of environment there where they kind of weed out people who might go against the grain.

01:33:32.100 I remember once there was an application or there were some questions for an assistant sports editor.

01:33:38.880 And, you know, one of the questions was just like, hey, you know, what do you know about the Seattle Mariners, the Seahawks and all that stuff?

01:33:44.460 And I was told like one of the editors took those list of questions and changed the top question to how do you feel about social justice, right?

01:33:55.820 Which is basically asking, are you one of us or are you one of them?

01:34:00.880 So you're not going to get a lot of people who are centrists or, you know, center right people when you ask those kind of questions in that newsroom.

01:34:08.720 So as far as I know, I was really the only one kind of asking certain questions and writing stories that might appeal to more of a centrist or center-right audience.

01:34:19.860 And it just didn't fly there.

01:34:22.200 You know, early when I first got there in 2015, some of those columns, you know, would have been okay.

01:34:27.280 But you kind of saw everything that happened from 2019, 2020, where really, we'll just call it the wokeism kind of took over.

01:34:36.240 And I think that just kind of made a lot of people in the newsroom rethink what their priorities were and rethink what kind of stories they wanted to have in the paper.

01:34:43.740 So you said, you know, when I first saw that you resigned, you know, you were, I think, panic and euphoria about unemployment was kind of the message that you were, you know, what you were going through at the time.

01:34:58.600 And then Clay Travis called you.

01:35:01.180 Can you talk about that?

01:35:02.120 i don't really want to get into uh you know my conversations i'm having with with people in

01:35:08.180 terms of uh you know employment and whatnot just because i'm still kind of looking into it but

01:35:11.980 i will say that clay um has been very supportive and uh he was one of the first person that you

01:35:17.400 know tweeted his support out there but it's really been overwhelming from everywhere um jk rowling

01:35:22.540 got in there martina navratilova as well um you know i it was pure panic as you mentioned it was

01:35:28.880 It was kind of euphoria for about 20 minutes once I had this weight taken off my shoulders

01:35:33.560 because I feel like I've been muzzled up to Seattle Times for a long time.

01:35:36.600 But then the stark reality of being unemployed set in until Thursday morning

01:35:41.580 when I sent out that tweet announcing my resignation and why.

01:35:45.400 And the support has been just completely overwhelming, completely unexpected.

01:35:50.000 I went from 5,000 Twitter followers to 78,000 in just three days.

01:35:54.820 And I'm not saying that as a brag.

01:35:56.820 Like, it's just kind of a reflection of the craziness that's been going on.

01:36:01.900 And, of course, there are going to be some trolls who are like, oh, you're just trying to get into a right-wing grip and all that stuff.

01:36:07.320 But, you know, the real takeaway that I have in all this is people truly want diversity of thought.

01:36:12.220 Even people who disagree with me want that diversity of thought.

01:36:15.580 And so that's been very comforting.

01:36:17.860 I have to tell you, the right-wing grip just kills me.

01:36:21.840 Yeah.

01:36:22.040 Really?

01:36:22.560 There are so many easier and ways that you can be not hunted like a dog.

01:36:29.020 If you want to get into a grift, this is the worst one to get into.

01:36:34.040 So let me take you to Enos Kenner Freedom.

01:36:40.620 Showing up at courtside WNBA game, wearing a T-shirt, says woman, noun, adult, human, female.

01:36:47.720 uh and then getting into like a verbal exchange if you will uh with Natasha Cloud

01:36:56.720 right um walking over to him take us through that story and I'd love to hear your opinion on it

01:37:01.880 yeah well I mean he was wearing that shirt obviously Enos Cantor Freedom has made a lot

01:37:07.340 of headlines by saying that he's going to declare for the WNBA draft just because they have not

01:37:11.940 defined what a woman is and if you say you're a woman at this point you're eligible I think it's

01:37:16.840 hilarious that the wmba actually had like called a meeting to decide what a woman is that was

01:37:22.940 actually a meeting they had and they came out of that meeting still not knowing what it was

01:37:26.860 they still haven't defined it um he is cancer i think um you know a lot of people are calling him

01:37:32.460 not a grifter but just you know just kind of a circus act i guess just you know trying someone

01:37:37.920 who's just you know a provocateur if you will but he's right at the heart of it um the wmba can't 0.75

01:37:44.500 define what he's calling them out and I think that players are seeing this realize how ridiculous it

01:37:50.880 is and when you don't have an argument what do you do usually make noise usually yell and I think

01:37:56.320 that's what Natasha Cloud was doing right there we can't really back up what we're saying so we're

01:38:00.140 going to yell and we're going to call you the bad guy and you know I a lot of people say that the

01:38:05.220 WNBA keeps falling on its face by doing this but part of me thinks they are in the news every day

01:38:10.880 because of this people are talking about the wnba in a way that you know we we never did before part

01:38:16.740 of that's because of caitlin clark but a lot of this is what i call uh the real housewives of hoop

01:38:21.680 um it's been just kind of a reality show and so uh you know that what brings people into sports

01:38:29.060 events two things athletic excellence and drama and the wnba whether they're doing it on purpose

01:38:34.380 or not are nailing the drama part i gotta tell you i think i think i think he's absolutely a

01:38:41.060 genius on it whether he's doing it just for a troll or whatever he's right if you can't i mean

01:38:47.620 why not i was talking to clay uh i don't know a couple weeks ago and we were talking about this

01:38:52.560 and i said they would never ever lose a game why if you wanted to make money if you cared about

01:38:59.900 business and winning why wouldn't you just take a bunch of guys who are like yep i'm a woman and

01:39:06.700 put them in the nba w nba they'll never lose a game and that's why they can't have this happen

01:39:13.260 that's why they can't have it happen you've seen clay travis's um contest proposal where

01:39:18.740 he's offering 10 million dollars to a w nba team who can take on a group of his a group of eighth

01:39:24.640 graders of his choice and he's going to give 10 million dollars to the winner and it seems like

01:39:28.760 a stunt but i think it's kind of genius because the wmb i think all he's saying is you have to

01:39:34.400 define what a woman is and you have to recognize why we separate men and women in the first place

01:39:39.020 and the vast majority of women especially you know girls in the high school level i think

01:39:44.260 agree with this we want separation the separation is strictly to protect girls and women um but you

01:39:50.680 kind of have this thing where yeah i think girls and women want to be protected but i think you

01:39:55.080 You know, a league like the WNBA is just, you know, so aligned with the left and all their views.

01:40:00.720 And that's a huge, you know, chunk of their fan base that they want to appease them.

01:40:05.880 And they're just kind of caught between a rock and a hard place where they can either accept reality that we have differences between men and women. 0.65

01:40:12.320 And there's a reason we separate them.

01:40:13.620 Or we can just cater to some of these, you know, hardcore left wing fans who just don't want to hear any of it.

01:40:19.780 And I think right now they're choosing those fans.

01:40:21.600 so let me bring you back to leaving now you've you've this has only happened what a week ago

01:40:28.420 two weeks ago i've kind of lost track of time yeah i mean i gave my two weeks notice on august

01:40:32.320 6th i believe but i made my resignation right i you know i announced my resignation on thursday

01:40:37.860 so you said you're done holding back free speech tops the list life's best things

01:40:42.980 you might end up as a dental assistant in two years um what have you learned in these uh two

01:40:50.580 weeks how has this changed your viewpoint or your understanding of where we are as human beings at

01:40:58.460 this time um i've actually been very encouraged um by you know what the public wants and just the

01:41:05.860 public outpouring of support has told me that people want diversity of thought people want

01:41:11.480 common sense arguments um you know i i tweeted a follow or i put out a follow-up on my sub stack

01:41:18.320 um you know where i talked about you know a lot of the reactions you know jk rowling and martina

01:41:23.600 navratilova were really flattering but jameel hill um who's you know pretty much you know

01:41:28.780 seems like very hardcore leftists um also put out a tweet saying you know i don't agree with any of

01:41:34.560 these columns and she used we'll say she called my opinions crappy it wasn't the word that she used

01:41:39.540 but um you know even though he has these opinions they should have published these columns and you

01:41:45.260 know let the hate come in and if his readers hate them and they'll just deal with the fallout so

01:41:49.120 even people like her it's been pretty much bipartisan support maybe not so much of what

01:41:54.660 my stance on the trans issue was but in terms of this guy should have had his columns published

01:41:59.420 and people want that and to me that's been the most encouraging thing it's great to hear matt

01:42:05.080 congratulations freedom i know it uh came at a high cost but it'll work out uh well for you in

01:42:11.500 the end. I'm convinced of it. Thank you, Matt. God bless you. I'm confident. Thank you, Glenn.

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01:48:23.680 There are very few business people

01:48:51.140 that truly get it, in my opinion.

01:48:56.540 No people are beyond their own little circle

01:49:02.880 and even fewer of them are entertaining

01:49:05.820 and know how to hold an audience.

01:49:09.360 Patrick Bet-David is the founder of Valuetainment,

01:49:13.480 host of the PBD podcast.

01:49:16.400 He is doing a weekend called The Vault

01:49:20.680 um and when does that happen i think that happens in a couple of weeks from now or if it's not

01:49:28.100 maybe it's this well i'll get it all from him um but i'm i met patrick probably in the early 2000s

01:49:36.600 um and he said look i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna start this company a lot of people come up to me and

01:49:41.840 say i'm gonna start this company and i'm gonna do this and that and that and he struck he's he's a

01:49:46.580 guy i remembered who came up to me in a crowd um and because he was different he was super sharp

01:49:54.780 already wildly successful and i believed him and when he did it i couldn't be more thrilled for

01:50:02.860 his success um his show runs at the same time my show does he ended it earlier so he could be on

01:50:08.220 the program uh welcome patrick bett david how are you it's great to be on with you glenn i tell

01:50:14.160 everybody i say you're the greatest teacher of all the people in the conservative space when you

01:50:18.820 speak i can be glued listening to you for hours anytime you speak you're wonderful thank you

01:50:24.660 so you have let me let me just get this out because i'm a big supporter of this uh and full

01:50:31.120 disclosure he's an advertiser on the program but that's not why he's on there's a lot of

01:50:34.960 advertisers of the program that i don't have on um but he is doing something uh august 31st

01:50:41.060 through september 3rd mgm grand in las vegas that's next week so i have that tell me about

01:50:46.500 it what is the vault so the vault conference started seven years ago the first year we had

01:50:51.800 400 people and then we went to 800 then 1200 and 2400 and then 40 something hundred and then this

01:50:57.780 year we're expecting shy of 10 000 people at mgm grand arena we've had tom brady at the event

01:51:02.620 before we've had mike tyson we've had the rock a couple years ago martha stewart tony robbins this

01:51:07.460 we have logan paul we have stephen bartlett from diaryva ceo we have joe montana and jerry rice dan

01:51:13.300 martell and stephen a smith and what we do here which i think is very very important glenn is

01:51:19.140 i loved what charlie was doing with tp usa the great charlie kirk with tp usa the emphasis event

01:51:24.020 raising up young men coming up that want to become husbands fathers business owners

01:51:29.460 but to us with the vault it is the only conference you attend where we talk about finance raising

01:51:35.460 money expanding your business marketing creating a media platform social media but we talk about

01:51:41.540 raising kids and family we talk about politics we talk about faith and no one's walking on eggshells

01:51:46.980 so people who show up there's going to be probably 3 000 husband and wives that show up they'll bring

01:51:51.780 their kids you'll see a lot of people that are sitting in the audience with husband and wife and

01:51:55.860 a 16 year old 18 year old then their 20 year old son and watching this collectively together and

01:52:00.900 we're talking about scaling growing your business at a time like this i think this is probably the

01:52:05.380 best time to be able to increase your market value because there's so many strategies out there and

01:52:10.020 unfortunately a lot of times we'll say things like well i'm too busy i don't have time i got things

01:52:14.340 going on i don't know if i can take time away to go to an event like this you're one relationship

01:52:19.060 away one strategy away from changing your life and every time we do these conferences devolve

01:52:24.180 people keep coming back because they're getting those experiences you know um you know people are

01:52:30.660 pitting capitalism um and and saying that capitalism you know is is heartless it's uh

01:52:39.460 it doesn't care about people it's cold it only benefits the wealthy etc i look at and i know

01:52:44.920 you do too patrick i look at capitalism in a completely different way success does not come

01:52:50.900 from people who say i want to be rich success comes to people who say i think i have an idea

01:52:56.640 or I'm looking for an idea that will make people's lives easier, better.

01:53:02.800 My success comes from this weird ability of making sense of history

01:53:08.740 or the news of the day in a way that nobody else does

01:53:12.940 because people are struggling.

01:53:14.020 I don't understand that.

01:53:15.780 So I can boil it down with a chalkboard and make it understandable.

01:53:19.400 That's where my success comes from,

01:53:21.260 is finding a way to help people understand something.

01:53:25.580 That's capitalism.

01:53:26.640 when you are benefiting others, and becoming a millionaire is coming up with something that

01:53:33.580 people want or need once in their life. Becoming a billionaire is coming up with something that

01:53:38.720 people want or need every day of their life. And how is it that capitalism gets such a bad rap?

01:53:49.160 Well, it's always easy to blame. It's always easy to say, it's not my fault. It's always easy. I

01:53:56.000 I remember when I was on Jubilee, and one of the fellows there told me he had applied for 477 jobs, and nobody got back to him.

01:54:03.420 And I said, okay, perfect.

01:54:04.240 Why don't we do this?

01:54:05.120 I'm offering you a job.

01:54:06.500 I want you to come work for me in Florida.

01:54:08.540 And 90 days later, let's see how good of a worker you are.

01:54:11.180 And he was like, well, what are the benefits?

01:54:12.580 Well, what's this?

01:54:13.180 What's that?

01:54:13.520 I said, you see, you just became selective.

01:54:15.380 You said you haven't had a job for months because no one's willing to give you a job.

01:54:18.440 I'll give you a job.

01:54:19.400 I'll give you a good salary.

01:54:21.000 Come and test it out.

01:54:21.800 So to me, the concept of capitalism is a beautiful thing because you get to pick and choose how big you want your life to be.

01:54:28.760 But the reality of it today, when we see this messaging with socialism and how they're selling it to our youth, because the simple way of describing this, either you can solve your problems with people or the government can solve your problems.

01:54:43.840 If you think the government can solve your problems, give us money and we'll give you better service.

01:54:49.520 i've never in my life seen a government office offer better customer service than a private

01:54:57.080 enterprise if you work at the dmv nobody cares about the yelp reviews of dmv if you work out

01:55:03.620 outback or you know cheesecake factory or flemings or any institution one negative review they're

01:55:09.860 like oh my god let's get a hold of let's see what we can do make it better there is no accountability

01:55:13.780 of treating people any better here so this concept of who can solve the issues like when you think

01:55:18.660 about what happened when SpaceX went public and they said oh my god Elon Musk is officially a

01:55:24.280 trillionaire but then the story nobody was talking about is the fact that he had 330 employees that

01:55:31.320 each made two to three hundred million dollars and hundreds of employees that made tens and a bunch

01:55:36.860 that became millionaires overnight he can't build a company by itself there's two positions you're

01:55:41.540 either the entrepreneur or you're the intrapreneur the entrepreneur risks the money starts the

01:55:47.080 business the entrepreneur works like an entrepreneur within a company eventually gets equity and if the

01:55:53.020 company does well you participate in it because the entrepreneur needs you it's a beautiful system

01:55:58.100 if done right it changes millions of people's lives but the other thing people weren't talking

01:56:03.020 about when he became you know a trillionaire or whatever um was how our individual lives have

01:56:09.120 changed because of him how life literally has changed because of his ideas and the things that

01:56:17.500 he only he could have pushed forward let me uh switch topics here um tell me about the the um

01:56:24.780 it's economic d-day for iran and uh is this the way to solve this patrick are we at the end of

01:56:32.600 this do you think oh i think there they have one intention in place glenn and that is extending

01:56:38.920 it as much as they can they want to extend it until trump is no longer in there that is their

01:56:44.620 number one goal and they're going to say things like well the gulf states are turning against u.s

01:56:49.220 and they're wanting to defend us now and the u.s is realizing the last thing they got is the economy

01:56:55.420 in iran is in shambles i think the only two years where the economy in iran had single digit inflation

01:57:02.140 was 2016 2017 and that was with obama's deal that he was doing where they hit single digits where

01:57:08.100 the 400 million dollars of the pallet of money you know which one i'm talking you know this

01:57:10.880 better than i do yes yes yeah yeah they've been in double digits for a long time and iran's not

01:57:14.920 been a good place so we will see what this next strategy is to take place to see if they'll break

01:57:20.660 or not but they keep going out there and saying look while we're ahead i think this is a good

01:57:25.260 time for america to come in and you know possession said this everybody in the world knows iran won

01:57:30.140 this war everybody knows in the world so i don't i don't know if that's gonna and then and then the

01:57:35.920 other side you got to think about as republicans right now i think one of the main topics they're

01:57:38.700 going to talk about in 2028 is this whole israel iran u.s i think that'll be a topic the non

01:57:43.700 interventionist versus the interventionist which should be the case i think the moment

01:57:48.680 and glenn this was my biggest question i asked uh um uh is it victor davis hansen that i had

01:57:55.500 just caught on i asked him i said who do you think is the one that decided to take out the

01:58:00.800 supreme leader you think that was masad and israel you think that was the president in the u.s

01:58:04.940 and he was going back and forth.

01:58:06.760 Why is that so important, in my opinion?

01:58:10.120 I think you take out the Supreme Leader

01:58:12.320 and Mochitaba Khamenei, who is the son,

01:58:15.880 who is mother, father, wife,

01:58:17.340 I think all of them are killed.

01:58:19.280 If you're making a decision like that,

01:58:21.440 that is only a decision to make for regime change.

01:58:24.120 You're not doing it because you want to negotiate.

01:58:25.840 What memorandum of understanding?

01:58:27.960 You just killed our Supreme Leader,

01:58:29.180 who was 86 years old.

01:58:30.720 So if you're doing something like that,

01:58:32.780 I wonder if behind closed doors,

01:58:34.500 they were expecting the negotiation to be easier like venezuela and now they're starting to realize

01:58:39.060 this is a little bit more complicated but we'll see what's going to happen i trust they're going

01:58:43.040 to make the right decision so we'll see what happened next um you know i watched the debate

01:58:48.280 you did with candace owens and andrew wilson um and you're just i mean there's no speed goes

01:58:54.820 unpunished everybody was asking for a debate um and uh you know everybody walks away i think

01:59:01.480 And I saw some things that I didn't know, but I got frustrated with it.

01:59:07.340 What were your thoughts on that debate?

01:59:09.160 What did you come away with thinking?

01:59:11.920 Here's what I got away thinking.

01:59:13.420 So let's set the business aside on how they both benefited financially.

01:59:17.520 Let's set that aside because it's really about Charlie.

01:59:19.940 I think somebody else needed to be in that seat than Andrew Wilson to have the debate.

01:59:26.960 I think Andrew Wilson made the offer and they accepted it.

01:59:30.500 candace did and she said yes it came in and believe it or not candace is like let's go through

01:59:36.000 it and both of them were open to the ideas the negotiation was tough going into it but i i think

01:59:41.640 there needed to be somebody else on that seat having that conversation either do it the right

01:59:45.580 way or don't um what did we learn you know we learned you know candace conceded on a couple

01:59:51.920 things i think andrew you know seemed uh candace was very poised andrew was trying to get his

01:59:59.000 messaging across on the logic side i think logically some could say andrew won 60 70 percent

02:00:04.240 i think poised some would say candace won 60 70 percent but at the end of the day you know once

02:00:10.280 the verdict comes out and what's being said we will learn what happened there there's when the

02:00:14.980 home when their own family of you know tyler robinson's family is coming out and saying that

02:00:19.220 was the argument where you know andrew kept saying how often do you see mother and father not pleading

02:00:23.760 they're not pleading because they're saying their son did it so why do you think parents are not

02:00:26.800 coming out. That was a good moment for Andrew

02:00:28.840 Wilson, but I would have liked to have

02:00:30.840 seen somebody else sit across from Candice 0.93

02:00:32.720 and say

02:00:33.040 both of them for doing it. Look, you're either

02:00:36.560 an Andrew fan or you're a Candice fan

02:00:38.600 or you're not. So it's not like

02:00:40.940 you know, if you're not a fan

02:00:42.860 of Candice, I don't think a lot changed. If you're not a

02:00:44.820 fan of Andrew or even knew who he was, the most important

02:00:46.980 poll we ran was the following.

02:00:49.560 Team Candice, Andrew

02:00:50.880 changed my mind. Team

02:00:52.740 Andrew, Candice changed my mind.

02:00:55.020 And the numbers were the same.

02:00:56.120 I think it was 7% for Andrew changed my mind,

02:00:59.980 and I think Candace was 6%.

02:01:01.200 So how much change happened there, we don't know.

02:01:04.480 Did it benefit Charlie Kirk in any possible way?

02:01:07.620 Some would say no.

02:01:08.620 Some would say yes.

02:01:09.980 But we'll see.

02:01:10.960 We'll see what I have.

02:01:11.600 I just want this thing to be done with so everybody knows

02:01:13.560 and we can move on and celebrate what an amazing patriot Charlie Kirk was

02:01:17.080 and how many young boys' lives he changed.

02:01:19.780 And I want to see that organization, that institution,

02:01:22.120 being able to continue doing that

02:01:23.500 because that's what matters the most we're right now in a very interesting place in america and

02:01:27.660 young boys are confused they don't know who to look up to you know we forget how powerful charlie

02:01:33.080 was until he was he's no longer there who's replaced that's not an easy job to replace so

02:01:37.520 that's my bigger concern to make sure that's there might as well uh and that's why i'm glad

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02:02:10.380 slash glenn um patrick you know i i don't know if you know this we're neighbors uh my house in

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02:02:22.140 come we're right down the street love to have you come down be in the studios and and sit down for

02:02:26.560 an hour or so and and just chat i would have you on on every single one of my podcasts if we

02:02:31.920 do a lot so anytime i look forward to it and uh we'll have a good conversation together here soon

02:02:39.140 thanks say hi to the gang you guys you are you have great people around you great people thank

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02:04:44.360 okay good first day back i feel like i accomplished about 20 of what i wanted to

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02:05:13.880 there's a lot that i learned that uh i think you should know but you know it'd be hard to do on

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Economic D-Day for Iran Is Here ... but Did We Already Win the War？｜ Guests： Patrick Bet-David & Matt Calkins ｜ 8⧸24⧸26

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 24, 2026

Economic D-Day for Iran Is Here ... but Did We Already Win the War？ ｜ Guests： Patrick Bet-David & Matt Calkins ｜ 8⧸24⧸26

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Economic D-Day for Iran Is Here ... but Did We Already Win the War？｜ Guests： Patrick Bet-David & Matt Calkins ｜ 8⧸24⧸26