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00:03:10.860 Hello, America.

00:03:13.100 People, people, people.

00:03:14.500 We have the wienerization of America to talk about. 0.85

00:03:17.640 Quickly, run. 0.77

00:03:19.540 Oh, my gosh.

00:03:20.620 What is happening in Boston?

00:03:22.960 What is happening, America?

00:03:24.940 Stop being such wieners.

00:03:27.280 Wusses.

00:03:28.240 Man up.

00:03:28.960 Did he just say man up?

00:03:30.260 I said it.

00:03:31.180 Man up.

00:03:31.900 For the love of Pete.

00:03:33.760 We'll get to that here in just a second.

00:03:35.200 Also, the State of the Union is happening.

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00:03:44.820 Also, the Virginia Democrats, the affordability agenda.

00:03:48.660 What they're going to do is unionize everybody.

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00:05:28.160 Okay, so the Boston Globe, I'm sorry, I have to get this off my chest.

00:05:33.940 I have to rant, and then we'll be okay.

00:05:36.360 I've got to get this out of my system.

00:05:39.040 The snowstorm is happening.

00:05:40.640 It's a bad snowstorm, really bad snowstorm.

00:05:42.720 But it's not the worst snowstorm in history, for the love of Pete.

00:05:46.360 I can't take it.

00:05:48.180 Stop being such wieners, America.

00:05:51.860 It's not the worst snowstorm.

00:05:53.220 The Boston Globe, 153 years old, they've decided to close.

00:05:58.880 Well, is it the worst?

00:06:00.100 No, not even close.

00:06:01.640 Well, it's the winds, please.

00:06:03.300 No, it's not.

00:06:04.400 In the 1970s, they clocked 70-mile-an-hour gusts and still had kids walking uphill both ways in snowdrifts that required a Sherpa.

00:06:14.560 They still went to school.

00:06:16.180 They still did things.

00:06:17.900 Today, a forecast.

00:06:20.680 A forecast.

00:06:21.660 Well, there's going to be 40-mile-an-hour winds.

00:06:23.280 We better stay home.

00:06:24.780 Suddenly, in a newsroom at the Boston Globe needs a weighted blanket and an emotional support cocoa everywhere.

00:06:31.300 This is the wiener.

00:06:34.220 People, people, people, let's all be wieners. 0.62

00:06:37.500 No, let's not.

00:06:38.260 This is the wienerization of America, and we have convinced ourselves that inconvenience is danger, that discomfort is oppression, that if the plows aren't pre-salted and the Starbucks line is too long, civilization has got to pause for me.

00:06:57.760 My gosh.

00:06:58.940 There was a time when if the presses needed to run, you got your butt out of bed and you went in.

00:07:06.020 I mean, think of this.

00:07:08.460 The great snowstorm of Boston of 1888.

00:07:11.800 You think that was worse than it is now, Boston?

00:07:16.180 Really, do you think?

00:07:18.400 You fed the horse.

00:07:20.960 You went pee and poop outside.

00:07:24.240 You got up.

00:07:24.960 You chopped the wood.

00:07:25.860 You had to build a fire.

00:07:26.960 You made sure your family didn't freeze to death.

00:07:29.400 Then you got the horse after feeding him.

00:07:32.600 Put all that crap on the horse.

00:07:34.400 Then you went in, and then you set the type by hand with ink on your fingers.

00:07:40.040 Oh, my gosh.

00:07:41.120 Lead in your lungs.

00:07:42.620 And if the snow was 10 inches deeper than the forecast, you didn't tweet about it.

00:07:47.500 You leaned into it because the paper had to be printed.

00:07:52.720 That's the thing.

00:07:54.460 Okay?

00:07:55.140 Some things have to be done.

00:07:56.580 It wasn't about toughness.

00:07:58.180 It was performance.

00:08:00.020 It was about responsibility.

00:08:02.560 The paper was the lifeline.

00:08:05.340 Markets.

00:08:06.140 War reports.

00:08:07.040 Births.

00:08:07.480 Deaths.

00:08:08.280 The morning voice of Boston.

00:08:10.880 Now?

00:08:11.980 Well, due to weather, we're going to all stay home, and we'll just get everything done digitally.

00:08:17.560 Digitally.

00:08:18.540 Oh, okay.

00:08:20.280 So, here's what they're really saying.

00:08:22.820 You're good.

00:08:23.780 You're on your own.

00:08:25.420 We just think that we have wieners working for the Boston Globe, and they're all going to complain if they come in. 0.99

00:08:31.640 And if they do come in and somebody, God forbid, is hurt, they're going to sue us.

00:08:34.900 I mean, you know, I'm not arguing for frostbite as a virtue.

00:08:41.900 I'm just arguing for a little perspective here.

00:08:44.820 Boston is not Palm Beach.

00:08:47.180 Snow's not actually a surprise in February.

00:08:51.420 This isn't Miami going, what is that?

00:08:54.380 What do they call that?

00:08:55.460 Ice?

00:08:56.420 With lizards falling out of the trees.

00:08:58.520 For the love of Pete, this is a city that once measured winter in feet, not inches.

00:09:05.100 In 1970, I looked this up because I couldn't take the wienerization.

00:09:08.860 1978, when the blizzard dumped nearly 30 inches in parts of Massachusetts, and the winds were running like a freight train at 70 miles an hour, people still dug out.

00:09:21.060 They didn't ask, is this emotionally sustainable to me?

00:09:24.920 I'm not sure.

00:09:26.980 They asked, where's the shovel?

00:09:28.420 Today, we have built a culture that is everywhere, that treats minor adversary like a Category 5 existential crisis.

00:09:38.800 I need a safe room.

00:09:40.920 He's saying these things to me on the radio.

00:09:43.160 I feel under attack.

00:09:46.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:09:47.220 Man up.

00:09:48.800 You're not that fragile, okay?

00:09:52.380 Yeah, everybody's vulnerable a little bit, okay?

00:09:56.800 Man up.

00:09:58.300 Nothing is expected today.

00:10:00.300 And when you remove expectation, you remove all chance of pride, okay?

00:10:05.660 When you remove pride, you remove grit.

00:10:08.820 When you remove grit, they shut the paper down.

00:10:16.180 This is not about snow.

00:10:18.740 This is not about wind.

00:10:19.780 This is not about safety memos.

00:10:21.720 This is about a nation that has convinced itself that hard is unfair.

00:10:26.800 Wait, I've got to go to work every day for eight hours, but I did it for eight hours yesterday, and I didn't like it.

00:10:35.960 I don't have my corner office.

00:10:38.100 There's no place for me just to go and rock back and forth and cry about all the injustices that the world has faced.

00:10:45.800 Hard is what built this country.

00:10:48.560 You know why you have it so easy?

00:10:50.300 Because a lot of people did hard things, so you didn't have to.

00:10:55.280 But you know what?

00:10:56.000 We're going to lose all those great things if you don't harden up just a tick, sweetheart.

00:11:01.840 Hard crossed the Atlantic.

00:11:04.860 I know, but now, I mean, the planes, it'll take six hours to get to England.

00:11:09.660 Oh, yeah.

00:11:10.860 Oh.

00:11:13.040 Hard laid track through mountains.

00:11:15.720 Hard printed newspapers by gaslight when the snow hit sideways.

00:11:22.200 If a 173-year institution pauses for a routine New York or New England snowstorm, it's not because the weather changed.

00:11:33.360 It's because the American people have changed.

00:11:37.260 And maybe, maybe, maybe we should just think for a second.

00:11:41.140 Maybe the storm that we should worry about is not outside.

00:11:44.520 Maybe it's the one that made us think we, we can't handle it.

00:11:49.080 We can't handle it.

00:11:49.800 17 inches of snow.

00:11:52.000 Ah!

00:11:54.840 Oh.

00:11:57.240 You know, I, I just, I look at us and I think, we're never going to make it.

00:12:01.520 And that's not, that's not a good thing.

00:12:03.220 That's not, that's not a good thing.

00:12:05.060 I'll explain next hour why that's not a good thing.

00:12:07.360 But there are times when I think there's no way.

00:12:10.160 Because nobody's willing to do anything that's tough anymore.

00:12:16.740 You're just not willing to do it.

00:12:18.580 I have so much, I have so much respect for people who work at McDonald's now.

00:12:23.180 I have so much respect for them because they're actually working.

00:12:29.100 They're going in while the rest of humanity's like, I don't, I just get it for free.

00:12:34.020 I can't do that.

00:12:35.700 And McDonald's is beneath me.

00:12:37.900 There are people that are actually doing it.

00:12:40.820 I just have so much respect.

00:12:42.860 Thank you.

00:12:43.740 Thank you for going in and doing a job that everybody else says, oh, is beneath them.

00:12:49.200 Thank you for doing that.

00:12:50.600 I appreciate it.

00:12:51.620 I really do.

00:12:54.360 Oh, gosh.

00:12:55.800 Oh, and by the way, for those in Boston, it could be worse.

00:13:03.560 You could be living in New York.

00:13:06.360 The latest from Mom Donnie, he's got to get people out with snow shovels. 1.00

00:13:14.340 And he needs you, the average New Yorker, to apply for a job.

00:13:18.740 Now, minimum wage in New York City is $17.

00:13:21.620 Um, but he's, he's offering $19 an hour.

00:13:26.740 Okay.

00:13:27.300 He promised $30 an hour, but he's, he's offering $19 an hour.

00:13:31.080 But then the snow got really heavy.

00:13:33.820 The snow got really, really heavy.

00:13:35.960 And so now, because this emergency snow is so much heavier, we're going to pay you $28 and 71 cents an hour.

00:13:45.860 Okay.

00:13:46.340 Not the 19 that even the city of New York can afford 19.

00:13:50.340 We're going to pay you 28 because it's really tough.

00:13:54.360 Really tough.

00:13:55.480 I mean, there's blizzard conditions.

00:13:58.560 Okay.

00:13:59.320 All right.

00:13:59.800 Now here's the best part to be eligible.

00:14:05.460 I went to the website.

00:14:06.860 Of course I did.

00:14:07.600 I went to the website and I checked out what does it take to apply for a job?

00:14:11.940 Got to be 18 years old.

00:14:13.600 Oh my gosh.

00:14:14.320 What an ageist eligible to work in the United States. 0.99

00:14:17.860 Now, wait a minute.

00:14:19.040 Let me just go back to the 18 years old.

00:14:20.820 Why do you have to be 18 years old?

00:14:23.680 I mean, you're not, you're old enough to have somebody say you're old enough to walk in and say, I want my body parts cut off.

00:14:31.400 I want to transition to a male or a female.

00:14:36.400 I am old enough to attend a strip show, you know, in kindergarten.

00:14:41.980 What is it that an 18 year old doesn't have? 0.65

00:14:45.300 Why do you have to be 18 years old?

00:14:48.280 Safety.

00:14:50.000 Okay.

00:14:51.200 All right, boo boo. 0.99

00:14:53.100 You have to be eligible to work in the United States.

00:14:55.620 So what does that mean exactly?

00:14:57.000 Are you saying you can't be illegal?

00:14:58.600 You have to be eligible to work in the United States.

00:15:00.860 What?

00:15:01.420 There's nobody that's illegal.

00:15:03.600 You have to be able to perform heavy physical labor.

00:15:07.060 Why?

00:15:07.920 Why?

00:15:09.260 Do you like, you don't like differently abled people.

00:15:12.180 You have to register.

00:15:14.320 Your appointments are available from 9 a.m.

00:15:17.120 to 8 p.m.

00:15:17.820 Walk-ins are accepted.

00:15:20.200 And when you come for your appointment, you have to have two original forms of ID plus copies, if possible, and a social security card.

00:15:33.100 Now, remember, he's talking about applying for a job in a blizzard.

00:15:37.940 But you've got to get your two original forms of ID plus stop at a Kinko's on the way.

00:15:44.820 They're closed.

00:15:45.740 Stop at a Kinko's on the way.

00:15:47.320 Get a couple of copies of it.

00:15:49.100 Don't forget your social security card.

00:15:50.840 Don't forget your social security card.

00:15:53.180 But if you want to vote, you're in.

00:15:54.960 In fact, you can vote.

00:15:55.840 Just leave.

00:15:56.980 We'll write a note on who you want to vote for.

00:15:58.820 We'll just put it in our pocket.

00:16:00.080 You just leave it at the front desk of City Hall.

00:16:02.380 What the hell?

00:16:03.940 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:04.560 I can't take it.

00:16:05.460 I can't.

00:16:06.640 Nobody is willing to do anything.

00:16:09.740 And nobody.

00:16:10.520 Do I sound?

00:16:11.280 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:11.740 I'm sounding like my grandfather.

00:16:14.320 I'm turning into my grandfather.

00:16:16.020 Actually, you know what?

00:16:21.840 My grandfather was right.

00:16:24.660 So I'm glad I'm turning into my grandfather.

00:16:27.340 Because what I used to think was like an old man ranting.

00:16:29.940 I realized, no.

00:16:31.400 He had wisdom.

00:16:32.680 He was right.

00:16:33.760 He saw that my generation were becoming giant wieners.

00:16:38.040 And what did we do?

00:16:39.360 We bred wieners.

00:16:41.240 We made them bigger.

00:16:43.000 GMO wieners.

00:16:44.620 That's what our kids are.

00:16:46.380 Congratulations, America.

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00:18:50.960 It's misogynistic.

00:18:52.640 What?

00:18:52.860 This is, this is, do we have the audio?

00:18:57.460 Try to find the misogynistic place in Donald Trump's calling of the, uh, of the men's hockey

00:19:05.140 team after the win.

00:19:07.020 He's on, it's a locker room.

00:19:09.240 Adrenaline is running really super high.

00:19:12.000 Uh, and he's talking to him about bringing him to the white house.

00:19:15.320 Now listen to this.

00:19:16.120 Here it is.

00:19:16.440 I'll tell you what, I just told my people two minutes ago, I didn't know they'd be calling.

00:19:20.780 I said, we're giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.

00:19:25.240 I could send a military plan or something, but if you would like to, it's the most, it's

00:19:30.820 the coolest night, it's the biggest.

00:19:32.720 We're in.

00:19:33.220 Yes.

00:19:33.540 We're in.

00:19:34.040 I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the woman's team. 1.00

00:19:38.060 You do know that.

00:19:38.660 I do believe I probably would be impeached.

00:19:45.960 Okay.

00:19:49.320 Oh my gosh.

00:19:50.800 And so I need a safe space.

00:19:56.720 What is, how is that misogynistic?

00:20:00.140 How is that misogynistic?

00:20:01.480 By the way, when he said that, what did the men, what did the men say?

00:20:05.560 Two for two.

00:20:07.200 Yes.

00:20:07.980 Yes.

00:20:08.580 Good.

00:20:10.100 Oh my gosh.

00:20:11.360 That's so terrible.

00:20:12.580 It's, I mean, it's horrifying.

00:20:14.140 He's a Nazi. 0.78

00:20:15.180 See, I told you he was a Nazi. 0.84

00:20:17.900 Oh my gosh.

00:20:19.720 Now the women's hockey team, they're not going, uh, quote, we are sincerely grateful for the

00:20:25.500 invitation extended to our gold medal winning us hockey team.

00:20:28.480 Women's we deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement due to timing

00:20:33.440 and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the games.

00:20:37.100 The athletes are unable to participate.

00:20:39.080 Ah, no, no, don't buy it.

00:20:42.820 They don't buy it.

00:20:43.980 They don't buy it.

00:20:45.320 Uh, I think, I mean, women are different. 1.00

00:20:48.680 Women are different. 1.00

00:20:49.540 And, uh, did you hear what he just said?

00:20:53.460 Women are different. 1.00

00:20:54.620 How does he even know?

00:20:56.660 Believe me, I know.

00:20:57.880 Uh, women are different. 1.00

00:20:59.920 Uh, and I, I, I'll bet you this was more of a political.

00:21:04.380 I could be wrong.

00:21:05.180 I could be, I hope I'm wrong, but I think this was much more of a political, uh, question.

00:21:12.220 I mean, if you had another event, I, I have to be back at school.

00:21:16.520 I think we could probably give you the day off.

00:21:18.580 You're going to see the president.

00:21:21.060 No, here's what it is.

00:21:22.400 I got to go back to school.

00:21:23.780 And I don't want to say I was just at the white house with Donald Trump.

00:21:26.880 That's what that is.

00:21:28.000 That's what that is.

00:21:29.000 I mean, you just don't turn down a president.

00:21:31.040 You don't turn down the president.

00:21:32.140 I said this with Barack Obama.

00:21:34.040 If Barack Obama invited me to the white house, I would have gone to the white house.

00:21:38.140 I would have, I would have shook his hand and say, Mr. President, thank you for the invite.

00:21:42.680 If it was appropriate, I would say, I stand against everything you say.

00:21:47.020 I, I strongly disagree with all of that at an appropriate time, but he's the president

00:21:51.580 of the United States.

00:21:53.080 You know, here's the, here's the girls hockey team. 0.99

00:21:57.060 There's this great scene in a book called freedom's forge.

00:22:01.960 Uh, and it's by Arthur Herman.

00:22:03.900 He's one of my favorite historians.

00:22:05.460 If you've not read freedom forge, you need to read it.

00:22:07.860 Um, so William Knutson, he's the guy who actually, uh, perfected the, um, what do you call it?

00:22:16.380 The assembly line.

00:22:17.600 Henry Ford didn't do that.

00:22:18.760 Henry Ford couldn't, he didn't know his ass from his elbow.

00:22:20.880 And he, he got Knutson to come in and actually figure it out after Ford had failed a couple

00:22:27.640 of times.

00:22:28.100 Knutson came in and put it all down on the ground and said, no, you're doing it wrong.

00:22:30.660 It's gotta be this way.

00:22:31.700 So he's the guy who did it.

00:22:33.360 He goes to work eventually for GM.

00:22:35.660 It's in the 1930s.

00:22:37.220 And FDR is absolutely, he's calling everybody, you know, all these giant companies, GM had

00:22:43.180 a problem, you know, with, uh, the policies of the president, um, you know, all of his

00:22:48.520 progressive policies and the president was not necessarily calling out anybody by name.

00:22:54.400 Sometimes he did, but it was known Knutson and, uh, and general motors were not friendly

00:23:01.600 or the president wasn't friendly to them.

00:23:03.600 Um, he needed big business, but they, they didn't like his policies.

00:23:07.720 Okay.

00:23:08.980 1939 comes, you start to see Germany invade the buildup of the war.

00:23:14.900 England is freaking out.

00:23:16.440 They realized we don't have enough ships.

00:23:18.380 We don't have anything.

00:23:18.940 And so he calls on this guy who he's really pretty much targeted his whole life, William

00:23:23.720 Knutson and FDR says, come to the white house.

00:23:26.260 I need your help.

00:23:27.660 His family is sitting around Sunday night dinner and they're like, dad, you can't go.

00:23:31.640 This guy's, this guy's been calling you a monster forever.

00:23:34.400 You can't go.

00:23:34.940 And he said, he is the president.

00:23:37.500 He's my president.

00:23:39.060 And if he asked me to serve, I will go and listen out of respect for my president.

00:23:46.480 That's the way we should all feel about every president.

00:23:50.620 And if you don't feel that way, it's because the power is out of balance.

00:23:54.620 Let's go back to the constitution.

00:23:56.520 Shall we?

00:23:57.680 Um, all right.

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00:25:14.340 Ah, tonight, uh, at six o'clock, Dennis Prager and I talk about his new book, uh, if there

00:25:35.820 is no God, the battle between who defines good and evil.

00:25:40.440 Um, it's an amazing conversation.

00:25:43.140 He is, uh, paralyzed from the neck down.

00:25:46.240 This is one of the first, uh, public appearances.

00:25:48.800 I think this is the first, I know it's the, the first national radio appearance that he

00:25:53.740 has, uh, done since he left his own show.

00:25:57.960 Uh, and he is, um, it's amazing to watch this guy.

00:26:03.480 Wait until you hear how positive he is.

00:26:05.540 So, I mean, he has no reason to be positive.

00:26:08.160 I would not, I would be a little cantankerous, uh, just a little bit.

00:26:11.720 Um, he is not, he is, he's a, just a remarkable man really.

00:26:17.100 Um, but we talk about, you know, how, if we dismiss God, then everything falls apart.

00:26:25.340 Absolutely.

00:26:25.980 Everything falls apart, uh, including our happiness.

00:26:28.940 And, uh, he talks about that.

00:26:31.280 You don't want to miss that.

00:26:32.320 It's episode two 80 of the podcast.

00:26:34.540 It's a torch exclusive conversation.

00:26:36.420 Uh, it comes out tonight at six o'clock for torch subscribers.

00:26:41.020 It'll be out everywhere on Saturday, but you really don't want to miss this.

00:26:44.420 Here is a clip of the, uh, interview.

00:26:49.440 I, uh, I spoke to him.

00:26:52.020 Uh, I think I started the conversation.

00:26:56.680 Well, no, let me, let me go here.

00:26:58.100 Uh, people are starting to refer to America as a Christian nation.

00:27:03.860 And I said, is it important to have, to, to emphasize this is a Judeo Christian nation and why listen to his response?

00:27:14.960 Glenn, God, God bless you for asking that question.

00:27:21.120 Uh, I intend to write, uh, a major piece on that issue.

00:27:27.260 So good.

00:27:29.340 The, uh, there is no Christianity. 0.98

00:27:34.940 There is no Christ without the, uh, the Judeo. 0.77

00:27:42.480 Jesus was a Jew. 0.99

00:27:44.020 And as I tell my Christian friends, uh, Jesus never read the new Testament. 0.54

00:27:52.520 Uh, uh, Jesus was a Jew. 0.80

00:28:02.340 Uh, the, uh, the gospel writers were Jews.

00:28:08.160 The apostles were Jews.

00:28:12.040 Paul was a Jew. 0.92

00:28:13.520 I mean, the, all the ideas that Christians, all the ideas that Christians use to, uh, validate their faith are, are based on the, on the Jewish Bible.

00:28:34.820 Uh, there is no, so there's no Christian without Judeo and the Judeo would not be known in the world without the Christian. 0.93

00:28:47.100 Uh, the reason people know about the 10 commandments all over the world is because Christians publicized it. 0.95

00:28:58.280 Uh, we need each other tremendously.

00:29:01.780 And I believe there's a divine role for both.

00:29:05.920 I'm going to get into a lot with Dennis Prager.

00:29:08.760 You don't want to miss this exclusive, uh, interview with him.

00:29:12.120 His book comes out, by the way, if there is no God, um, please, he can't do a book tour himself.

00:29:19.220 He's doing very limited number of these interviews.

00:29:21.720 It took a lot for him to do this interview.

00:29:24.060 We had to stop several times because he had to catch his breath.

00:29:28.040 Um, but, uh, he, he so believes in the message of this book.

00:29:32.840 And so do I, I wrote the afterward for it.

00:29:34.600 I read it was shortly after Charlie's death.

00:29:38.440 Uh, he sent it to me, uh, and I wrote the afterward for it.

00:29:41.880 It is really good by it.

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00:29:49.800 Uh, if there is no God available now.

00:29:52.540 All right.

00:29:53.140 So tonight and Jason and Sarah and Ricky, I'd like to bring you in on this tonight is the

00:29:58.060 state of the union.

00:29:59.060 And I have a list of things that I think he has to talk about, uh, today, but I'd like

00:30:04.860 to start, you know, Sarah, I'd like to actually start with you on because you're more of the

00:30:10.400 average person, you know, you, you got into this cause this was like, it's a job.

00:30:14.940 I push buttons.

00:30:15.960 It's a job.

00:30:17.220 Um, and you're a raging alcoholic.

00:30:19.780 Yes.

00:30:20.020 Right.

00:30:20.880 Raging alcoholic.

00:30:22.080 So, you know, you're like the average American.

00:30:24.820 Uh, are you gonna, are you gonna watch this tonight?

00:30:27.720 I'm definitely going to try.

00:30:28.900 Um, I'm excited for the pomp and circumstance as usual.

00:30:32.680 Um, but.

00:30:33.960 Really?

00:30:34.240 You like that part?

00:30:35.140 I do.

00:30:35.700 I do.

00:30:35.980 Cause it pisses everybody off.

00:30:37.180 I hate that part.

00:30:38.160 Okay.

00:30:39.660 Okay.

00:30:40.440 All right.

00:30:41.220 It's typically you.

00:30:42.280 Okay.

00:30:42.520 Now I understand it.

00:30:43.400 Yeah.

00:30:43.580 I understand.

00:30:43.880 Cause it does.

00:30:44.500 It pisses me off.

00:30:45.200 I'm like, shut up.

00:30:46.760 They just introduced him five seconds ago and you gave him a standing ovation.

00:30:51.080 And now you reintroduce him and you're going to give him another two minute standing ovation.

00:30:54.420 We could all go home.

00:30:55.480 We could be in bed in 15 minutes.

00:30:56.960 If you guys would just sit on your hands for a while, but that's just me.

00:31:00.720 No, that's very true.

00:31:01.460 Is there anything?

00:31:01.980 Is there anything that he has to say to you that you want to hear?

00:31:08.400 I want stats.

00:31:09.240 I want numbers.

00:31:10.040 I want him to come with facts.

00:31:12.380 I think a lot of times he's just, I'm the greatest and this is going to be the best economy

00:31:16.540 ever.

00:31:16.960 I want number.

00:31:17.780 I want comparisons.

00:31:19.380 He's going to give that tonight.

00:31:20.540 I hope so.

00:31:20.860 He's going to give that.

00:31:21.940 Jason, what does the president have to do?

00:31:25.500 Well, per the insiders, the president has to address the SAVE Act and election integrity.

00:31:29.920 They are leading in the poll right now.

00:31:32.340 So that's what they really want.

00:31:33.420 And it's hard to kind of argue with that.

00:31:35.300 I'm really curious about because the president has made a big focus on outward facing threats.

00:31:41.600 South America, he's talking about Greenland.

00:31:45.280 He's tried to bring peace to Ukraine.

00:31:48.200 He's been in the middle, all over the Middle East. 0.91

00:31:50.720 The point is he's very outward focused when a lot of people were saying make America great

00:31:55.360 again is all about being inward focused economy, all those things.

00:31:59.080 I want to know how this, and it kind of goes towards your question of him during his first

00:32:04.220 hundred days on whether he was trying to fix a system that was built post-World War II.

00:32:11.660 Talk about that and tell us how all these things you're focused on outwardly is really about

00:32:16.380 focused on inside the United States.

00:32:18.960 Make that clear to the American people.

00:32:20.900 That's paramount.

00:32:21.920 Excellent.

00:32:22.540 Excellent.

00:32:23.240 Ricky?

00:32:23.480 He's got to convince both sides of the aisle that when he does the targeted strike on Iran.

00:32:31.800 It's not if, when he does it.

00:32:33.720 It's in our interest.

00:32:35.580 Speaking to what Jason was talking about, he's also got to convince both sides of the aisle

00:32:40.640 and all of America that his policies with ICE, even though there may have been some distractions,

00:32:47.580 we'll call it that, in Minnesota, his policies for ICE are for all Americans, to keep all 0.82

00:32:52.680 Americans safe, not just Republicans.

00:32:54.420 I agree.

00:32:55.280 I agree.

00:32:55.960 Okay, before I get to my list of things, because I wrote down about eight things that I think

00:32:59.580 he has to do tonight.

00:33:03.180 But give me a list of who's coming.

00:33:04.720 The hockey team is coming.

00:33:05.720 And the male hockey team is coming.

00:33:06.760 So Sarah wants the pomp and circumstance.

00:33:10.040 I want to see Quinn and Jack Hughes, Jack still missing his tooth, grinning ear to ear.

00:33:15.920 It's going to happen.

00:33:16.480 Yeah, he's going to be there.

00:33:18.460 There's going to be some Epstein victims there that are brought in as props by the Democrats.

00:33:23.440 Right.

00:33:24.020 I'm not sure that works to their advantage, does it?

00:33:28.060 I mean, really?

00:33:29.340 Bill and Hillary Clinton, you're going to, that party is going to bring in Epstein victims?

00:33:35.220 Yeah.

00:33:36.160 Okay.

00:33:36.460 It's awkward.

00:33:37.080 All right, whatever.

00:33:37.840 I think, what was the stat, Jason, about the percentage of people who had, that Epstein

00:33:42.800 had donated to?

00:33:44.360 89% of Epstein's political contributions went to the left and Democrats.

00:33:49.440 89%.

00:33:50.040 89.

00:33:51.160 89.

00:33:51.920 89.

00:33:53.040 So, yeah.

00:33:53.880 By the way, I think Bill Gates is starting to really feel the heat.

00:33:56.960 Did you see that he left that global conference?

00:33:59.060 He didn't go to that big global conference, what was it, last weekend, because of this?

00:34:03.300 They were like, ah, I don't think, we're going to lose speakers if you show up.

00:34:06.980 I think he's finally starting to get some heat from it, which is good.

00:34:10.320 You'd think the divorce with his wife would have been.

00:34:12.320 Yeah, it would have been enough.

00:34:13.120 No, apparently not.

00:34:14.000 But this is the guest that I'm most excited about.

00:34:15.820 Well, she was invited by Speaker Johnson.

00:34:17.900 There's a lot of Americans who may not know the story of Jimmy Lai.

00:34:21.700 He is currently in a Chinese prison.

00:34:24.960 He's a pro-democracy activist.

00:34:26.960 He's facing 20 years, or he's supposed to be in there for 20 years, and Speaker Johnson

00:34:31.180 and the Trump administration are working to get him free.

00:34:33.700 His daughter, Claire, was invited, and she's recently just started speaking out, and she

00:34:38.240 has said that it's his Christian faith that has sustained him.

00:34:41.840 And as you know, being a Christian in China is probably not the most possible position.

00:34:47.620 No, no, not at all.

00:34:48.940 Not at all.

00:34:49.600 Let's get her on. 1.00

00:34:50.560 I'd really like to talk to her.

00:34:52.360 All right.

00:34:52.900 So here are the things that I think the president has to do tonight.

00:34:56.840 He's got to lead with affordability.

00:34:59.120 He's got to lead with, here's what I've done to make the economy for you better.

00:35:05.520 And he's going to have to, you know, he has to express that it is in your best interest.

00:35:15.540 These tariffs are in your best interest, that Iran is in your best interest. 1.00

00:35:20.760 All of these peace deals are in your best interest, and why they're in your best interest.

00:35:26.180 But more importantly, why have I done, like Jason just said, why have I done all these things

00:35:31.240 overseas, how do they affect your wallet?

00:35:35.540 How are they going to affect your children's future?

00:35:39.260 He really needs to distill this and show everything I've done overseas will affect you and your wallet.

00:35:47.500 I had to take care of that first.

00:35:49.540 So the explaining of the outward focus and the explanation of Iran is going to be really, really important.

00:36:00.340 He then also has to talk about the criminal illegals.

00:36:05.360 He needs to make it really clear.

00:36:07.880 We're not against, we're a nation built on immigration.

00:36:12.180 Should we pause on immigration?

00:36:14.240 Yeah, perhaps so, because we don't have any idea who's coming in.

00:36:18.340 But are we against immigration?

00:36:20.960 No.

00:36:21.700 As long as they're the kind of people that come in and want to renew the promise of America,

00:36:27.060 we can use those kinds of people to help build a more perfect nation.

00:36:32.700 That is good.

00:36:33.880 But what I'm trying to get off the streets are the criminals, which goes to your point, Ricky.

00:36:39.040 I think it was your point.

00:36:40.020 This affects everybody.

00:36:42.180 And in fact, disproportionately affects people in liberal cities and low-income people.

00:36:48.740 By taking these rapists, these killers, these thugs, drug dealers, by taking them off the streets,

00:36:58.640 it's actually affecting low-income and liberal cities more than it is the red cities.

00:37:07.280 So I'm actually trying to be a president for all of the people here.

00:37:14.020 He also has to address the DHS funding.

00:37:17.100 We are, with what's happening in Mexico, you look across that border, man, this whole world is a powder keg.

00:37:24.240 You're going to defund the DHS?

00:37:27.020 ICE has their funding.

00:37:28.320 What are you doing?

00:37:29.680 What are you doing?

00:37:30.200 Why are you taking our Department of Homeland Security at a time when we may need it most?

00:37:35.580 You've got to restore the funding.

00:37:37.500 He's got to hammer that.

00:37:39.120 He also has to hammer the SAVE Act.

00:37:42.180 And why?

00:37:43.160 That's not Jim Crow.

00:37:44.660 What they're doing is Jim Crow. 0.72

00:37:47.900 And I think the most important thing he can do is define who we are.

00:37:55.140 What is it we're really fighting for?

00:37:57.840 Why is America an important place?

00:38:03.880 Why are our values important?

00:38:07.080 What's important fighting for?

00:38:09.100 What's not important?

00:38:12.080 What happens to the world if we just disappear?

00:38:15.240 What happens to your children?

00:38:17.660 I would love for the president to say, you know, everybody's fighting all the time.

00:38:21.860 And we've got to stop this fighting.

00:38:23.860 We have to start saying, if we're going to fight, let's fight together for this vision of America.

00:38:32.780 What would be interesting is if he ever did that, how the left would be forced to be against that vision of America.

00:38:40.200 And it would be so telling because they would.

00:38:42.460 If he was clearly articulating a vision of America that everyone could look at and go, I want to be like that.

00:38:52.440 I don't care who I voted for.

00:38:54.420 That's the America I want.

00:38:57.080 It would put people in a very awkward position because they would have to come out against that.

00:39:02.120 Which they would, which they would, those are the things he needs to do.

00:39:07.600 I, I think he will be in danger if, if he takes a victory lap.

00:39:15.360 Now, let me explain that.

00:39:16.720 He's got to take a victory lap.

00:39:18.640 He's got to say what he has accomplished in the last year.

00:39:21.480 But if that victory lap doesn't include, I heard you, I heard you, everything that we have done is to get your cost of living down.

00:39:33.920 And you may not feel it yet, but it's happening.

00:39:36.820 And here's the proof.

00:39:38.200 And we're not done yet.

00:39:40.300 I heard you then.

00:39:41.900 I hear you now.

00:39:43.120 If he does what the Democrats did last time where you just don't get it, you just, what, you can't read Wall Street reports, he'll lose people.

00:39:54.020 He has got to say, look, I understand that you don't feel it yet, but I heard you then, I hear you now, and we're not done.

00:40:02.840 I had to take care of these big things to be able to get to the things that will actually now affect your table.

00:40:10.860 I had to do it in this order.

00:40:12.200 And the other thing I think he loses on is if he spends any real time bashing the Supreme Court.

00:40:19.720 I don't think people want to hear the bashing of our institutions.

00:40:24.560 He can say they came up with a really bad thing, and I disagree with it, but that's their job.

00:40:30.180 I disagreed with what they came up with.

00:40:32.440 That's my job.

00:40:33.580 And so I thank the Supreme Court because you've just made my tariffs stronger.

00:40:38.960 That's the way you should handle it.

00:40:40.280 If he gets waylaid into, and I'm ashamed of you, then he's going to sound like the Democrats, and we don't like that when the Democrats do it.

00:40:48.060 I wonder if the Democrats like it when they even do it as well.

00:40:51.780 Probably they do.

00:40:53.140 But I don't.

00:40:54.840 That's what the president needs to do.

00:40:56.480 Tonight at State of the Union, we'll be watching.

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00:46:09.820 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:46:12.560 Well, the State of the Union is tonight, and I think before we get there,

00:46:18.300 we should talk about what happened at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

00:46:21.460 The media has completely buried the attempt to send a message, I guess, to the president,

00:46:29.400 and this poor kid was killed.

00:46:32.720 And why?

00:46:33.460 Why did he go to Mar-a-Lago?

00:46:35.500 I'm not going to get into his message, but I think it's important that we talk about what is happening,

00:46:40.860 especially when the Atlantic has just come out with the GOP's Nazi problem.

00:46:46.540 How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas right straight out of the Third Reich? 0.90

00:46:52.740 Oh, my gosh.

00:46:55.440 Wow. Okay.

00:46:56.700 All right.

00:46:57.600 All right.

00:46:58.100 Let's just not even pause to reflect on what happened on Sunday.

00:47:02.080 Let's just go right back into it immediately with the Atlantic.

00:47:06.560 I want to talk to you about what this really means and how we can reverse it

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00:47:16.560 It doesn't ever seem to work, right?

00:47:18.800 I can explain that, and I will this hour.

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00:48:47.680 So let me just give you a couple of things.

00:48:54.860 First of all, the president was kind of joking yesterday.

00:48:59.060 He finally talked about the shooting at Mar-a-Lago.

00:49:02.340 And he said, I don't know how long I'm going to be around.

00:49:05.380 I got a lot of people gunning for me.

00:49:07.260 You know, if you read about all these crazy shooters, they don't go after non-consequential presidents.

00:49:12.160 So maybe I should just be a little less consequential.

00:49:15.660 Then he said this, can we hold it back a little bit, please?

00:49:20.600 Can this be a normal presidency just for a little while?

00:49:25.900 Okay.

00:49:26.560 He was joking about what he said at first, and then he's asking nicely, can we, can we hold it back just a little bit?

00:49:34.660 No, the answer is absolutely not.

00:49:38.280 The GOP's Nazi problem. 0.66

00:49:41.300 Okay.

00:49:41.900 The Republicans are deploying Nazi imagery and rhetoric, espousing ideas associated with the Nazi party.

00:49:48.780 Well, you know what was really the Nazi party?

00:49:52.020 Eugenics. 0.69

00:49:53.740 Eugenics. 0.69

00:49:55.060 Planned Parenthood.

00:49:56.560 Margaret Sanger.

00:49:57.960 Joseph Mengele.

00:49:59.160 All of that stuff.

00:50:00.800 And that's what you're all about.

00:50:03.040 The complete live system.

00:50:05.460 We could go down that road if you want to go down that road, but it's not helpful.

00:50:09.840 It's not helpful.

00:50:10.600 So what are they doing tonight at the State of the Union?

00:50:21.340 First, they come out with the Nazification of the GOP. 0.90

00:50:26.340 The president asked nicely, can we just tone it down just a little bit, please?

00:50:30.600 If you read, and I'm not going to get into all of it.

00:50:33.980 If you read what this kid was trying to do, and he broke through the gates at Mar-a-Lago with a gas can and a shotgun, he's told to put them down.

00:50:45.340 He puts the gas can down, and then he takes and puts the shotgun into the rifle position, and they shoot him dead.

00:50:53.660 And they were right to do it.

00:50:56.300 Now, what was this kid doing?

00:50:58.380 This kid was committing suicide because he wanted his message to get out.

00:51:01.700 And I'm not going to help him get his message out.

00:51:04.060 I will just say this.

00:51:05.800 It revolved around Jeffrey Epstein.

00:51:09.420 So now, what are the Democrats doing at the State of the Union tonight?

00:51:13.640 They are bringing people who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein, and they're going to make it into Donald Trump is a pedophile, and he's protecting pedophiles.

00:51:31.720 So what does that do to us?

00:51:35.020 Honestly, what does that do to us?

00:51:37.120 They have just downplayed the attempt.

00:51:41.420 I mean, I just love this.

00:51:45.340 Well, let me give you the New York Times.

00:51:47.520 Instead of saying all of them, let me give you a couple.

00:51:49.000 Here's the New York Times in a post.

00:51:50.980 Breaking news.

00:51:52.100 A man was fatally shot by law enforcement after he entered the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's resort in Florida, the Secret Service said.

00:52:01.860 Okay, we're missing something in that.

00:52:04.220 Reuters, U.S. Secret Service agents, killed a man trying to unlawfully enter Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

00:52:11.480 Again, we're missing something in that.

00:52:15.620 MSNBC, MSNOW, wrote hours after the incident, Secret Service says law enforcement fatally shot and killed a man at Mar-a-Lago overnight.

00:52:28.380 Are any of them going to say that he was an armed man?

00:52:35.880 Are any of them going to say that he was told to put down the gun, refused, got into the shooting position, and that's when they?

00:52:44.560 No.

00:52:45.680 No.

00:52:46.260 Secret Service just shot a man coming into Mar-a-Lago.

00:52:50.240 That's what they want you to believe.

00:52:51.720 So, help me out.

00:52:56.580 Where does this go from here?

00:53:00.720 How do we, how many assassination attempts are we going to tolerate before we admit something is really, really wrong?

00:53:09.420 And here's what it is.

00:53:12.420 Violence does not begin with a trigger.

00:53:14.840 Violence begins with a sentence.

00:53:19.120 The president is a Nazi. 0.76

00:53:24.180 The president wants to kill you.

00:53:27.960 The president is fill-in-the-blank.

00:53:30.380 A guy with a gun and gas can comes into the president's home, refuses to drop the shotgun.

00:53:39.180 Law enforcement shoots him.

00:53:41.400 That should shock the nation.

00:53:42.860 But should you notice we were talking about hockey by that afternoon?

00:53:48.900 Loud noises.

00:53:51.120 Loud noises.

00:53:51.820 That's what they said last time, that the president was rushed off stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, after loud noises were heard.

00:54:01.780 Those were shots.

00:54:03.660 And if you were watching it, you saw the people go down in the stands.

00:54:08.020 You saw the blood on him.

00:54:09.560 How could you possibly report that as after loud noises?

00:54:15.180 Because you have no intention of telling the truth because you have another agenda.

00:54:20.100 A man shot after trespassing.

00:54:23.960 It's another scroll pass moment.

00:54:26.940 When violence stops shocking us, it's because language has prepared us for it.

00:54:33.660 And language is not neutral.

00:54:36.480 I'm going to tell you a personal story that I learned firsthand on all of this.

00:54:42.800 And it is so important.

00:54:44.500 And you will understand why your friends are not responding to you.

00:54:48.600 There is a whole body of psychological evidence and research about this called moral disengagement.

00:54:57.320 A guy named Albert Bandura.

00:55:00.260 He showed that when people label others as evil, subhuman, fascist, Nazi, what happens to the people hearing that?

00:55:09.220 They psychologically loosen the restraints that would normally prevent harm.

00:55:14.140 Dehumanization, calling people a Nazi, a fascist, it changes the brain's moral calculus.

00:55:22.960 They did another study using fMRI scans.

00:55:26.380 Using fMRI scans, it showed that empathy reduced when somebody showed a picture of somebody they perceived as their ideological enemy.

00:55:42.580 You hate Donald Trump, you think he's a Nazi, the fMRI scan will show your sympathetic tendencies and all the levels of sympathy are almost all gone.

00:55:54.360 Once somebody is categorized as a monster, hurting them feels less wrong.

00:56:01.880 We know this.

00:56:02.940 We know this because whenever we go to war, we have to make people into monsters.

00:56:08.440 We have to make the enemy into a monster or we won't shoot them.

00:56:13.200 This is not a political theory.

00:56:15.360 This is neuroscience.

00:56:16.400 And I want to ask you something.

00:56:18.380 I remember in the early 2000s, 2007, 8, 9, I remember all of the best neuroscientists, behavioral scientists went to work for the left.

00:56:32.280 These are people that study this kind of stuff.

00:56:37.180 They all went to work for the left.

00:56:40.640 You think it's a coincidence that they're doing these things?

00:56:43.860 You think it's an oversight?

00:56:45.080 It can't be.

00:56:47.260 Or all of those neuroscientists, all those behavioral scientists would be standing up and saying, I helped these guys.

00:56:54.220 I warned them not to go down this road and look at what they're doing.

00:57:00.620 There's something called the availability heuristic.

00:57:04.520 When the media and leaders repeat certain words, fascist, Hitler, existential threat, those images become cognitively available.

00:57:16.480 They become the lens in which everybody is interpreting everything.

00:57:21.420 So if your opponent is literally Hitler, then history has already written the script for you. 0.86

00:57:29.440 What was the moral lesson of the 20th century?

00:57:32.900 The moral lesson was not negotiate.

00:57:35.060 The moral lesson, and we learned this as kids, stop him at all costs.

00:57:41.800 So you can't saturate a culture with that framing and then act surprised when somebody decides to be the hero in their own mind.

00:57:51.240 If everyone is a pedophile, if everyone is a Nazi, of course people are going to try to shoot them.

00:57:59.120 My father taught me all language is creative.

00:58:04.500 Every word is creative.

00:58:06.840 It's not mystical, psychological.

00:58:11.260 It's creative.

00:58:14.000 There's another theory.

00:58:15.940 It's the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

00:58:19.360 I don't know.

00:58:20.500 It suggests that language shapes perception.

00:58:24.840 That's obvious, right?

00:58:26.460 Cognitive behavioral therapy rests on the same foundation.

00:58:32.600 You change the internal narrative.

00:58:35.140 You change the emotional outcomes.

00:58:37.400 You think you're a worthless human being.

00:58:41.320 Emotionally, you will become a worthless human being.

00:58:46.040 Studies in positive psychology show that habitual catastrophic framing increases anxiety, depression, and hostility.

00:58:55.280 Conversely, research consistently finds that people with a strong sense of agency, gratitude, belief in God, or institutional legitimacy, they're happier in life.

00:59:08.560 They have lower aggression.

00:59:10.400 This is all science.

00:59:12.000 And remember, who has surrounded themselves with the behavioral scientists for the last 20 years?

00:59:19.420 It is the left.

00:59:20.880 They know exactly what they're doing, okay?

00:59:25.780 What's happening to everybody's brain is not about left versus right.

00:59:30.100 It's a worldview.

00:59:31.200 If you're taught that everything is corrupt, that the system is illegitimate, that the planet is going to die tomorrow unless you act right now, that democracy is already lost, that everyone is a pedophile, that every one of your opponents are Nazis,

00:59:47.980 what happens to your worldview, what happens to your options, they narrow, because we're at the end and they're Nazis. 0.68

01:00:00.780 That creates hopelessness if you don't act.

01:00:06.440 And hopelessness correlates strongly with support for political violence, because if you're hopeless, you have no other thing to do other than kill them.

01:00:16.100 Multiple surveys over the last five or six years have shown Americans who believe the country is on the brink of collapse are significantly more likely to justify force.

01:00:30.680 Why is that?

01:00:32.180 They have nothing to lose.

01:00:34.560 When people believe that normal politics can't solve problems, they begin rationalizing abnormal solutions.

01:00:42.100 Now, contrast that with optimism.

01:00:43.920 Conservatives, on average, consistently report higher self-reported happiness in all kinds of happiness studies.

01:00:53.480 Why?

01:00:54.860 Researchers can debate social networks, religiosity, perceived agency.

01:01:00.940 I'm responsible for myself.

01:01:02.600 But one thing is super, super clear.

01:01:04.820 If you believe the world is redeemable and ordered, your choices remain constructive.

01:01:12.240 But if the world is nothing but chaos and irredeemable, what choice are you left with?

01:01:21.200 That's the biggest difference.

01:01:24.060 You can fight climate change and still believe human ingenuity will adapt.

01:01:30.120 You can oppose policy and still believe your neighbor is not a Nazi. 0.55

01:01:34.540 The difference is the existential framing.

01:01:40.220 When you convince yourself that civilization ends in 12 years, unless you fill in the blank.

01:01:46.760 When you believe your opponent is Hitler reborn and you must stop him, fill in the blank. 0.91

01:01:55.060 What are you filling those blanks in with?

01:01:59.120 I remember as a kid, this is what we learned in the 20th century.

01:02:01.820 We all grew up.

01:02:02.640 At my age, we grew up.

01:02:04.160 If you could go back and kill baby Hitler, would you? 0.83

01:02:07.260 What was the point of that question?

01:02:12.600 Okay, what was the point of that question?

01:02:15.220 The point of that question was the moral tension of, do I kill a baby before he's done anything to prevent what he might do or did do?

01:02:26.760 Do I have a right to do?

01:02:27.740 That was the tension.

01:02:29.080 Now it's just reflex.

01:02:30.700 Yes, you kill baby Hitler. 0.89

01:02:33.320 No questions asked.

01:02:34.540 Yes.

01:02:34.880 Here's the dangerous shift.

01:02:38.600 When you begin to believe that you are living in 1938 again, the only solution is a 1939 solution.

01:02:48.320 This is how civilizations collapse, how they become uncivilized, not in a single leap.

01:02:53.620 The Germans didn't just suddenly go wrong.

01:02:55.960 It took them years and it happened through linguistic erosion, black and white thinking.

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01:04:49.140 We have entered a place where psychologists describe it as splitting.

01:04:55.040 It's a cognitive distortion where people are either wholly good or wholly evil.

01:05:00.760 Have you noticed that?

01:05:02.180 If you're not agreeing with me or our fearless leader, whoever side you're on, 100%, you are now evil.

01:05:11.520 And that's what happens in very unstable environments.

01:05:14.940 It simplifies chaos, but it also justifies cruelty.

01:05:20.380 And media amplification accelerates that.

01:05:23.820 And if you're repeatedly exposed to that, to the threat-based messaging, it increases cortisol.

01:05:31.880 Chronic threat perception reduces tolerance for ambiguity.

01:05:37.380 And it is science.

01:05:39.160 It's not a conspiracy.

01:05:40.780 It's science.

01:05:42.360 If you tell a nation day after day that democracy is over, that fascism has arrived, that the president is a Nazi,

01:05:49.180 that nothing will work outside because of pure evil.

01:05:55.220 You're not reporting events.

01:05:57.140 You are shaping the emotional climate in which all of the events of the future unfold.

01:06:02.320 My father used to quote Jesus all the time.

01:06:06.120 As you believe, so shall it be.

01:06:07.800 It's not theology.

01:06:09.020 That's behavioral science.

01:06:11.440 Before they called it that.

01:06:14.060 You expect violence and you normalize it.

01:06:17.040 You normalize it, you reduce the shock.

01:06:19.080 You reduce the shock, you lower the barrier.

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01:08:12.940 So, I want to talk to you about what's happening with the State of the Union tonight.

01:08:35.280 Tonight, you're going to see somebody who is laying out his vision of what needs to happen,

01:08:39.940 and it's Donald Trump, and Donald Trump will be Donald Trump.

01:08:43.480 But in the audience, you will see what the Democrats are doing.

01:08:46.420 And today, or yesterday, a story came out in the Atlantic about how the GOP has become,

01:08:54.060 it's called the Nazification of the GOP.

01:08:57.660 Okay?

01:08:58.180 So, you hear more Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.

01:09:00.320 Also, the week that somebody tried to go in and at least cause harm at Mar-a-Lago,

01:09:06.820 if not kill the president, he was motivated because he felt that,

01:09:12.940 Donald Trump was in with the pedophile, Epstein.

01:09:17.240 So, what do the Democrats do?

01:09:19.060 They invite all of the Epstein victims to be sitting with them during the State of the Union.

01:09:25.540 Okay?

01:09:26.260 So, reinforcing Nazi and pedophile.

01:09:30.600 I want you to know this is why you can't talk to your friends, and this may happen to you as well.

01:09:37.880 But let me explain something, how I know this to be true.

01:09:41.560 What I just said a half hour ago, you know, in the last half hour.

01:09:45.060 That's science.

01:09:45.980 Now, let me show you how I know this to be true.

01:09:48.960 I've talked about this in bits and pieces, and I'll talk about it in a little maybe bigger chunk here.

01:09:54.120 But years ago, about 2011, I started getting very, very sick.

01:10:00.320 And I'll share this.

01:10:01.640 If you see my hand, if you're watching, you can see my hand shake.

01:10:06.040 That's from the permanent damage that I did when I was in the early 2000s.

01:10:13.240 And I lost feeling in my fingers.

01:10:17.580 I started to shake.

01:10:19.060 I started to have bad pain.

01:10:20.620 I had macular degeneration in one eye, macular dystrophy in the other eye.

01:10:25.400 All these things started happening, and I could barely think straight.

01:10:30.140 And then I had something that researchers called time collapse, where I couldn't time mark anything.

01:10:39.540 I could talk to you one day and have a meeting with you,

01:10:42.080 and I could remember everything about the meeting.

01:10:43.780 But I couldn't tell you if that meeting happened yesterday or last year.

01:10:47.420 And it was freaking me out, okay?

01:10:51.080 So I started going to doctors.

01:10:53.800 And every specialist I went to, I went for two years to doctors.

01:10:59.140 Everywhere I went, I went to the best hospitals and clinics in the nation, best doctors.

01:11:03.200 They all said the same thing when they first saw me.

01:11:07.620 I'd describe the symptoms.

01:11:09.860 They'd say, you're being poisoned.

01:11:12.080 And the first time I went, well, maybe.

01:11:14.480 I mean, George Soros doesn't like me very much.

01:11:16.640 Maybe.

01:11:17.040 We tested.

01:11:17.780 I wasn't being poisoned.

01:11:20.100 And I go to another doctor.

01:11:21.420 They couldn't figure it out.

01:11:22.340 You're being poisoned.

01:11:23.100 No, I'm not.

01:11:23.460 We've already tested.

01:11:24.000 I want to test you again.

01:11:24.800 You're being poisoned.

01:11:25.440 I'm telling you you're being poisoned.

01:11:27.540 Well, I wasn't being poisoned, okay?

01:11:30.280 Even though that's what they said, I wasn't ingesting chemicals.

01:11:33.760 I wasn't eating paint chips or anything like that.

01:11:36.320 There's no foreign agents.

01:11:39.700 After a couple of years, as I got sicker and sicker and sicker, I realized I was being poisoned.

01:11:46.520 But I was poisoning myself in a way that the doctors hadn't talked to me.

01:11:50.740 I wasn't by what I was eating, but I was consuming poison.

01:11:55.360 With the relentless diet of the republic is dying, the news, the history, the media, everything that was going on.

01:12:07.700 For nearly a decade, from 2001 to 2010, I barely slept, okay?

01:12:13.580 Three hours a night, if I was lucky.

01:12:15.440 I had no dreams for almost 10 years.

01:12:18.600 I worked from 5 a.m. till well past midnight every day.

01:12:22.600 Each day, I was on stage, off stage, back on stage, multiple times.

01:12:28.220 By 2009, I wasn't just battling what I believe were forces trying to reverse American freedom and evil.

01:12:35.940 I was fighting for my life in business, in media, in smears, physically.

01:12:43.620 I was under threat all the time, and my body was responding to it.

01:12:47.940 By 2015, finally, a set of doctors said, you know, some people don't even believe in this, but it's adrenal fatigue.

01:12:57.800 I had been in fight-or-flight mode for over a decade, all day, every day.

01:13:04.380 And your body is not built to live under constant siege like that.

01:13:11.680 Mine broke, and I still pay the price for it.

01:13:16.640 Why am I telling you this story?

01:13:18.680 Because we are poisoning ourselves.

01:13:22.240 And I'm not speaking theoretically.

01:13:24.720 I'm speaking from experience.

01:13:27.260 When you constantly call on your body to produce more cortisol, you're not just stressed.

01:13:33.220 You're rewiring the brain.

01:13:35.600 You're reshaping your body.

01:13:37.180 You're altering the outlook on life.

01:13:41.100 Cortisol is your body's built-in alarm system, okay?

01:13:45.220 It's released when the brain perceives a threat.

01:13:48.660 And in short bursts, cortisol is brilliant.

01:13:51.520 It's great.

01:13:52.220 It mobilizes everything that you need to help you survive, okay?

01:13:57.200 But it was designed for dinosaurs and lions, not headlines and social media.

01:14:04.200 And when your nervous system is constantly activated by outrage, catastrophe framing, existential politics, doom-scrolling, Nazis, pedophiles,

01:14:17.260 cortisol stops being a tool and starts to become a poison, corrosive.

01:14:22.220 Your nervous system shifts into chronic fight-or-flight mode.

01:14:28.200 Your sympathetic nervous system dominates heart rate, blood pressure, stay elevated all the time.

01:14:33.900 Blood sugar stays higher.

01:14:35.240 Over time, hypertension, insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, and those are the easy ones.

01:14:41.380 The second thing that happens is your brain begins to change.

01:14:45.860 Chronic cortisol, if it's exposed into your brain, the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory and emotional regulation,

01:14:56.120 that reduces the volume of that part of that part of your brain.

01:15:02.500 At the same time, your fear center becomes much more reactive.

01:15:06.860 So you're processing less, and yet your fear is going up.

01:15:12.580 You literally become more threat-sensitive, more reactive, less reflective, okay?

01:15:18.380 And then the prefrontal cortex that's responsible for all the executive function, the impulse control, the nuanced thinking,

01:15:25.560 that's less effective because it's also under chronic stress.

01:15:29.500 That means more black-and-white thinking.

01:15:31.500 That's why your friends cannot hold two thoughts.

01:15:34.840 They can't say, yes, these protesters were protesting and they were out of line,

01:15:41.720 but they shouldn't have been killed.

01:15:45.320 Or they, you know, they were killed by this ICE agent, but that doesn't make all ICE agents bad.

01:15:52.780 Got it?

01:15:53.480 You can't do that because you no longer physically can do it.

01:15:58.000 The last thing that happens is your mood shifts.

01:16:00.560 High chronic cortisol linked to anxiety, irritability, sleep disruption, depression.

01:16:06.060 Sleep suffers because cortisol interferes with melatonin.

01:16:09.900 Then poor sleep increases cortisol.

01:16:12.400 It's just this endless loop, okay?

01:16:14.680 You wake up tense, you scroll, you confirm your fears, your body prepares for battle, you repeat.

01:16:22.620 When that happens, your worldview narrows.

01:16:27.600 Research now in stress psychology shows that chronic threat perception reduces openness and increases rigidity.

01:16:36.400 When people feel under siege, they seek certainty.

01:16:40.440 That's why everybody says you're either with us or you're against us.

01:16:43.740 And they become more prone to catastrophic thinking.

01:16:47.500 Nuance is dangerous because that's what your body is made to do when a dinosaur is chasing you, okay?

01:16:55.080 And opponents, any opponent is more hostile.

01:16:59.660 So constant cortisol doesn't just affect your body.

01:17:03.500 It changes the way it changes the way you interpret reality.

01:17:05.720 It makes the world look darker than it may actually be.

01:17:10.300 There's something called threat bias.

01:17:12.100 Under stress, the brain notices negative information more than positive.

01:17:20.400 Headlines, you know, that are catastrophic stick more than stories of progress.

01:17:26.900 You start scanning for danger and that scanning becomes your baseline and your body cannot change.

01:17:34.040 My father used to say this.

01:17:35.140 There is no bad thought.

01:17:36.680 Your mind will process all thoughts.

01:17:40.740 I'm a bad person.

01:17:42.060 I'm a good person.

01:17:43.060 It will react the same way.

01:17:45.020 It doesn't differentiate between positive and negative.

01:17:48.880 It just creates.

01:17:51.220 Your body, your mind does not distinguish between a charging animal and a cable news chyron that says, threat, they're coming to kill you.

01:18:00.580 Nazis are here.

01:18:01.620 It reacts the same way.

01:18:04.640 And it calls your nervous system into battle every single day.

01:18:09.420 And you're conditioned to expect war.

01:18:15.820 Over time, this does really bad things.

01:18:19.000 It reduces hope because hope requires the belief that tomorrow can improve.

01:18:23.000 How many people do you know believe that tomorrow is not going to be better?

01:18:26.180 That their life is not going to be better or their kids' lives are not going to be better than theirs?

01:18:30.560 That is, for the first time in American history, that's happening.

01:18:34.500 It increases aggression because your system is primed to defend.

01:18:41.060 Have you noticed people are much more aggressive than they have ever been?

01:18:44.000 They don't listen to each other.

01:18:47.540 This is why chronic outrage cultures feel the way you feel most likely right now.

01:18:55.840 You're just exhausted.

01:18:57.340 You're just exhausted.

01:18:58.860 Your body's designed for bursts of crisis followed by recovery.

01:19:06.200 But if we've engineered, think of this with social media.

01:19:09.760 We've engineered an environment where existential crisis is permanent.

01:19:15.360 There is no recovery.

01:19:16.640 When you live in that state long enough, you begin to believe the world is permanently on fire.

01:19:22.280 When I say we're poisoning ourselves, I speak from experience.

01:19:31.400 Think about the media.

01:19:33.320 Think about politics.

01:19:34.960 Think about social media.

01:19:36.740 Think about social media with our kids.

01:19:39.160 I saw firsthand what this did to my body.

01:19:42.420 Think about what our kids are going through just on social media.

01:19:45.940 Then put them into a classroom where everything is upside down.

01:19:49.800 They're questioning absolutely everything.

01:19:51.600 There is no stability.

01:19:53.020 Everything is under attack.

01:19:54.280 And then you have the teachers teaching them they've got to go out and protest because the Nazis are in the streets.

01:20:00.820 What do you think our kids are going through?

01:20:07.060 There are things that you can do.

01:20:09.440 And I wrote this in an article, and we're going to post this today at glennbeck.com, because it's why we can't talk to each other.

01:20:21.960 Because there are well-known, researched, proven scientific facts about our body and our brain that everyone knows.

01:20:36.700 I mean, they are consulting with the best behavioral researchers in the world.

01:20:43.860 They know exactly what is happening.

01:20:46.660 It's the same thing.

01:20:47.620 Do you believe Facebook doesn't know what that little bing does every time it goes off?

01:20:51.700 That bell, of course, they do.

01:20:53.900 They also went to behavioral scientists.

01:20:57.740 They are trying to get you to do something.

01:21:00.680 What is it our politicians and our media are trying to get you to do?

01:21:04.920 They've trained you to do it.

01:21:07.160 And here's what they've trained us to do.

01:21:08.640 Not talk to each other.

01:21:10.960 Not trust each other.

01:21:12.200 Just scream Nazi at each other.

01:21:14.940 Pedophile.

01:21:15.380 That only leads one place.

01:21:21.700 When you see, when you see on either side tonight, somebody shouting pedophile, Nazi, in their actions or their words, sending that signal, know exactly what they're doing to your brain.

01:21:37.500 Know exactly what they're doing to your body.

01:21:41.240 You don't want to pay that price.

01:21:43.460 You don't want to pay that price.

01:21:45.620 You certainly don't want your children to pay that price.

01:21:51.240 This article goes into some things that work to rewire.

01:22:00.840 It takes a lot of work, but to rewire your body.

01:22:04.080 I'm still rewiring it today.

01:22:06.460 I'm still paying the price of all of those years.

01:22:10.020 You don't want to pay that price.

01:22:12.360 Please.

01:22:13.160 Go to glenbeck.com.

01:22:14.380 We'll post that after the show is up today.

01:22:17.500 Read the article.

01:22:18.360 All right.

01:22:18.900 Back in just a minute.

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01:29:08.240 You know, I said earlier, I laid out some things I think the president needs to say in his State of the Union tonight.

01:29:14.580 He has to address affordability.

01:29:16.840 He has to tell why, you know, a war in Iran or these tariffs or all of the overseas activities are in our national interest.

01:29:26.900 And explain why his outward focus in the first year really was aimed at your wallet and why that was so important and what's coming this year.

01:29:37.380 He, of course, needs to talk about the illegals and ICE and the DHS funding.

01:29:43.140 He's got to get Congress to act on that and the Save America Act.

01:29:48.460 But most importantly, I think he needs to talk about why we fight.

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01:29:57.800 Why that makes a difference.

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01:31:44.240 All right.

01:31:44.940 So, I know what we're going to talk about here is not Normandy.

01:31:48.380 It's not Valley Forge.

01:31:49.340 It's not the Federalist Papers.

01:31:50.620 It's none of that.

01:31:51.700 I want to talk to you about candy.

01:31:55.700 Hear me out.

01:31:57.060 What's happening with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups actually means something.

01:32:01.460 This is the way I view this.

01:32:03.140 Okay?

01:32:04.360 The Hershey Company and Reese's, they were not built on substitutions.

01:32:09.460 They were built on trust.

01:32:12.060 When Milton Hershey, I love Milton Hershey's story.

01:32:15.400 He failed and failed and failed and then finally went out to Amish country and started using milk.

01:32:20.240 And when he wrapped that first milk chocolate bar, you knew exactly what it was and why it tasted so good.

01:32:26.960 Milk, cocoa, sugar, peanuts.

01:32:30.320 Simple, honest, very American.

01:32:32.660 Nobody else was making it like that.

01:32:35.420 But today, here's what America is becoming.

01:32:40.800 Let me show you America through the Hershey Chocolate Company.

01:32:44.760 We're keeping the shape.

01:32:46.820 We're keeping the color.

01:32:48.500 We're keeping the logo.

01:32:50.300 But we change everything that has substance.

01:32:54.360 Okay?

01:32:54.800 I had a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup for Valentine's Day and it was absolutely inedible.

01:33:03.180 Inedible.

01:33:05.620 And I just thought, wow, this must have been sitting on the shelf for a long time.

01:33:09.280 And then I read Mr. Reese's.

01:33:11.620 He came out and he said he had the same experience.

01:33:15.440 And the words that we expect don't mean anything anymore.

01:33:20.640 The word doesn't mean what it used to.

01:33:22.620 Chocolate has become chocolate-ly, chocolate-ly, chocolate-ly, chocolate-ly.

01:33:27.460 I can't even say it.

01:33:29.080 It's become chocolate candy, not chocolate.

01:33:32.420 Okay?

01:33:32.640 That doesn't mean it's chocolate.

01:33:33.980 It's chocolate candy.

01:33:35.580 Peanut butter is peanut spread.

01:33:38.120 Quality is the margin.

01:33:41.140 And I sat there and I thought, man, if you can redefine chocolate, is this not how you would describe all of society?

01:33:51.320 We're redefining everything.

01:33:52.800 And it's not about sugar.

01:33:54.140 It's about standards.

01:33:56.020 You know, a country that is accepting imitation chocolate from the chocolatier of America eventually starts accepting imitation history and imitation money and imitation principles.

01:34:11.520 And then nothing is real.

01:34:12.540 You know, when the real thing is optional, everything else is negotiable.

01:34:17.380 And somewhere inside of me, holding that orange wrapper and looking at that, I wasn't mourning candy.

01:34:25.860 I was mourning the quiet trade of authenticity for efficiency.

01:34:32.680 The slow replacement of what was with something cheaper that just looks the same but isn't.

01:34:41.220 It felt like a loss to me.

01:34:42.960 It really did.

01:34:44.200 I grew up with this candy.

01:34:45.300 When chocolate isn't real anymore, you start wondering, what the hell is real?

01:34:51.560 Brad Reese, grandson of the inventor of Reese's, HB Reese.

01:34:56.580 Welcome to the program.

01:34:58.320 Brad, how are you, sir?

01:35:02.800 We can't hear him.

01:35:04.420 Brad, are you there?

01:35:08.780 Brad, we don't have him.

01:35:10.200 We have to check him.

01:35:10.980 Ah, so I am so glad to hear that that's what it was.

01:35:17.920 I mean, in some ways, because I was like, what is happening?

01:35:23.780 What is it?

01:35:24.320 It didn't even, I don't remember what shape it was in.

01:35:26.440 And Hersey said, well, we've changed it so we can make it into different shapes.

01:35:29.840 I don't need it in different shapes.

01:35:31.200 I just need it to be good.

01:35:32.660 It needs to taste good.

01:35:35.060 Is Brad there?

01:35:36.220 Are we calling him back, Sarah?

01:35:38.680 All right, call him back.

01:35:40.980 I honestly felt like I was losing a little bit of my childhood.

01:35:56.640 And when I heard that, when did this come out?

01:35:59.060 Monday?

01:36:00.940 February 14th is when I think he penned the letter, but it didn't start to become national

01:36:05.060 news until a few days later.

01:36:06.360 But yeah, we felt validated.

01:36:08.140 Yeah, I know.

01:36:08.600 I felt totally validated and I honestly felt like there is nothing real anymore.

01:36:15.720 There is nothing real anymore.

01:36:18.400 Sarah, let me take a break here.

01:36:20.120 So when he comes back, I don't have to break in the middle of our conversation stations.

01:36:23.400 I'm going to take a break early.

01:36:24.600 Sorry for this.

01:36:25.940 Let me tell you about rough greens.

01:36:28.580 Dogs in the wild.

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01:36:30.420 I don't know if you know that.

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01:36:36.280 of nutrients that come from fresh, natural sources.

01:36:39.320 Like if I had Uno, I would have released him on the raccoons in my yard a lot.

01:36:44.540 He'd be fat and sassy.

01:36:47.420 Anyway, most dog owners pour out the same dry kibble for our dogs twice a day.

01:36:53.500 I did it my whole life.

01:36:55.200 The truth is the processing strips away a lot of the natural benefits dogs were designed

01:36:59.940 to run on.

01:37:00.720 And when their bodies aren't getting what they need, I mean, it's the same thing with

01:37:03.520 the candy company and Hershey's.

01:37:05.420 Well, I mean, it's not even real and they've made it so it can have its shape and flavor,

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01:37:48.720 Mr. Reese is going to join us in 10 seconds after station ID.

01:38:02.740 The grandson of the inventor of Reese's peanut butter cup, Brad Reese.

01:38:09.080 Hello, Brad.

01:38:10.380 Hi.

01:38:10.900 Ah, it's good to talk to you.

01:38:14.060 Uh, you know, I have to, I have to tell you, I grew up in a bakery and, uh, I, I, I struggle

01:38:21.580 with my weight.

01:38:22.240 I look at you.

01:38:22.840 You don't look like you struggled with your weight and you grew up as a Reese.

01:38:27.180 How is that possible?

01:38:29.280 How is that possible?

01:38:30.280 No, I, no, I, I've got the dad bod.

01:38:33.380 No, no doubt about it.

01:38:34.380 I'm 70.

01:38:35.640 Oh yeah.

01:38:36.160 I've got the, I got the tummy.

01:38:38.020 Yeah.

01:38:38.720 Okay.

01:38:39.900 So, um, you know, I was so glad to see your, uh, your letter to Reese's.

01:38:46.240 I mean, to a Hershey because I didn't know, I didn't know what was wrong with it.

01:38:51.700 I just have never had a, anything Reese's ever that I, I actually spat it out.

01:38:58.840 I was like, Oh my gosh, what is that?

01:39:01.200 It's nothing real.

01:39:03.040 What product was that?

01:39:04.200 What exactly?

01:39:05.080 What, which, uh, I don't remember.

01:39:07.200 It might've been, I don't know, a heart or something.

01:39:09.440 It was a little, little, it was Valentine's candy.

01:39:12.360 So whatever it was, it was in a Valentine's package.

01:39:14.500 That's what I had.

01:39:15.460 Yeah.

01:39:15.860 I, you probably had the same thing I did.

01:39:18.160 Yeah.

01:39:18.640 The Reese's peanut butter, many hearts unwrapped.

01:39:23.060 Yep.

01:39:23.960 And it was awful.

01:39:25.880 Yeah.

01:39:26.880 Awful.

01:39:27.480 Awful.

01:39:27.720 So do you own part of this at all?

01:39:31.220 Or is this, I mean, how are you going to get Hershey's to stop this?

01:39:36.420 Well, as far as the ownership, you have to understand 1963, we were celebrating our 40th

01:39:40.800 anniversary and my, my grandfather died seven years earlier here in West Palm beach, Florida

01:39:47.100 in 1956.

01:39:48.400 So in 1963, it was seven years after his death.

01:39:51.140 My father and his five brothers merged the HB Reese candy company with Hershey chocolate

01:39:56.540 and a tax-free stock for stock merger.

01:39:59.280 And we received 616,316 shares, which after two for one, three for one, two for one, and

01:40:05.680 two for one stock splits are now 16 million shares.

01:40:08.860 And they're paying, they're paying an annual cash dividend with $5.48 per share dividend.

01:40:18.320 And I did help stop the sale of Hershey in 2002.

01:40:22.200 William Wrigley made a $12.5 billion offer.

01:40:26.500 That was a done deal.

01:40:27.360 I fought tooth and nail, uh, because I was only seven years old when Reese merged with

01:40:32.600 Hershey and as an adult, I wasn't going to allow the HB Reese candy company, which does

01:40:36.760 business as a Hershey company being sold.

01:40:39.440 And like I said, it was a done deal, but I helped stop that sale.

01:40:42.760 And, and, and since stopping that, uh, the cash dividend has gone up 800%.

01:40:49.240 You have these companies that are no longer actually, there's no craftsman there.

01:40:59.420 There's no chocolatier there.

01:41:01.400 That's it's, it's stocks.

01:41:03.020 It's, it's money.

01:41:04.400 Doesn't that make a difference?

01:41:05.720 Well, yeah.

01:41:07.800 So, so there is my understanding chaos at the Reese plant.

01:41:12.980 Um, it's interesting.

01:41:15.180 So the cheap ingredients that they're using compound coatings are not working well with

01:41:20.720 the chocolate machinery.

01:41:22.580 Hello.

01:41:24.060 So apparently it's breaking down the production line.

01:41:30.140 And I mean, there's a revolving door, I guess, in personnel.

01:41:34.120 And again, this is scuttlebutt.

01:41:36.220 Okay.

01:41:36.920 Uh, I haven't been able, you know, how am I going to confirm that?

01:41:39.920 Um, but that the, uh, so cheapening the products, they basically, uh, the machinery there is for

01:41:48.080 milk chocolate.

01:41:49.020 So they're having problems.

01:41:51.200 And so I guess they're, uh, stooping for pennies and passing up the dollars because what they're

01:41:57.100 saving in cheap compounds, uh, there's spiraling costs and the production problem.

01:42:04.120 When a line closes down, that's catastrophic revenue wise.

01:42:10.500 I mean, it's, you can't have your production lines, you know, not working just, you know,

01:42:15.480 a hundred percent.

01:42:18.580 Besides the stocks, what does, what does this candy represent to you?

01:42:26.460 Everything.

01:42:30.500 Everything.

01:42:31.040 It's my whole, I mean, I, I'm 70 years old.

01:42:34.640 I've grown up with it.

01:42:36.120 Uh, I've been, uh, uh, an admirer of it my whole life.

01:42:40.820 My worship, my grandfather.

01:42:42.140 That's why I'm here on West Palm beach.

01:42:43.480 He died here.

01:42:44.320 I've got cancer and I'm dying.

01:42:46.060 So I figure I'm going to die where my grandpa died.

01:42:48.700 Yeah.

01:42:49.060 So, I mean, I'm just falling in his footsteps.

01:42:51.760 I mean, I'm going to die where he died.

01:42:53.400 Uh, he's probably dying different hospitals.

01:42:55.440 He died at St. Mary's.

01:42:56.320 I'll probably die at the VA medical center.

01:42:58.340 But anyway, uh, it's, it's everything.

01:43:02.000 And I love wearing Reese's swag.

01:43:05.220 And it's so much fun because Reese's is lightning in a bottle.

01:43:10.520 It is so beloved that if I wear a hat or a t-shirt, people are going to mob me.

01:43:17.700 Oh, that's my favorite bubble.

01:43:19.380 If I wear a Hershey's logo, I'm invisible.

01:43:21.940 No one says anything to me.

01:43:24.020 And, but Reese's is so well loved.

01:43:26.580 And it really is so much fun to interact with Reese's fans because they are just fanatical.

01:43:34.380 Anywhere from the four-year-old all the way up to the 104-year-old.

01:43:37.700 That's how, if I'm walking in Manhattan, the sidewalks will virtually, will, they'll part.

01:43:45.060 And, and everybody will be smiling and nodding their head because they don't know anything about me.

01:43:51.220 They just, oh, there's a Reese's guy or he must love Reese's.

01:43:54.180 But anyway, you're walking by and they just recognize the brand because you don't see the kind of swag that I wear in like a race car, NASCAR jacket.

01:44:03.820 You don't see that.

01:44:04.560 Uh, you know, that's not a common sight.

01:44:07.700 So it really is so much fun.

01:44:10.240 I mean, I can't, I can't stress that.

01:44:12.520 It's, it's fun, fun, fun.

01:44:15.300 How did your, how'd your grandfather come up with this?

01:44:19.340 Uh, well, uh, a lot of things happen.

01:44:23.940 Uh, and he, uh, had a customer in Harrisburg and they were getting peanut butter balls, chocolate, peanut butter balls.

01:44:33.200 Uh, and there were chocolate, uh, they were round and they couldn't keep them in supply.

01:44:39.480 Uh, and my grandfather agreed to take on the job of doing that.

01:44:43.580 And what he found is that if you put it in a cup, uh, you can, it speeds up the production.

01:44:49.940 You have to understand in his day, there was no air conditioning.

01:44:53.920 So he couldn't do production.

01:44:55.900 He had to can, he had to can vegetables.

01:44:58.260 So there was no air conditioning and there was no automation.

01:45:01.320 So everything was done by hand.

01:45:02.740 So the peanut butter cup, just, just, uh, the cup shape was a production, uh, uh, decision.

01:45:11.720 And as Eric, when the air conditioning came in and when automation, when things started becoming automated, it just took off.

01:45:18.820 But what really happened was his candies were sold in department stores in, in one, one pound or five pound assortments.

01:45:26.320 So it was almost like a Whitman sampler or Russell Stover.

01:45:29.160 So that, and the peanut butter cups were just one of the many.

01:45:34.200 Okay.

01:45:34.600 You had, you know, peanuts clusters and coconut, but the peanut butter cups were just one of many.

01:45:40.580 And customers would say, I just want the peanut butter cups.

01:45:43.220 So the salespeople would have to take the peanut butter cups out of the box and, you know, put them on the way and, and they'd sell them.

01:45:51.520 But then they had to replace the peanut butter cups.

01:45:54.400 And that was a, you know, that made extra work.

01:45:56.380 So the salesperson said, what's HB?

01:45:59.180 They called him HB.

01:46:00.200 They said, look, if we could make this, the peanut butter cup and, uh, individually wrap it and sell it for a penny, let's try that.

01:46:08.860 And he did that.

01:46:09.480 He burned a mortgage.

01:46:10.580 Never looked back.

01:46:12.420 Wow.

01:46:13.840 So when you wrote this letter, what was the response from Hershey?

01:46:17.880 Nothing.

01:46:19.000 Zero.

01:46:20.240 Nothing.

01:46:20.720 You haven't even heard from them?

01:46:22.520 No, of course not.

01:46:23.580 They, they, they are so arrogant, condescending to anybody, uh, especially in the Reese family.

01:46:30.020 I find unless you're, unless, you know, they want something from you.

01:46:34.720 Uh, but, uh, no, they, uh, see, I kind of like burned my bridges with them when I helped stop the sale in 2002.

01:46:42.000 Yeah.

01:46:42.480 And then you also have to understand that, uh, my cousin, Robert Reese was the general counsel of Hershey, but he left before that was in sales announced.

01:46:51.020 He went to Coors.

01:46:52.180 And anyway, uh, he then, then came back after we stopped the sale.

01:46:57.340 He then came back as the president of the Hershey trust company, which is a controlling shareholder.

01:47:02.280 And he cleaned up Hershey.

01:47:03.740 He cleaned it up, cleaned up their act as president of Hershey trust.

01:47:08.420 And he also joined the board of managers and built the Hershey school.

01:47:11.260 And he corrected so many things that were wrong with the trust and, and the school and, and the company, especially.

01:47:19.080 And then he pursued the $19 billion takeover of Cadbury Schweppes in England.

01:47:25.700 Now you have to understand, Hershey already owns the rights to manufacture and sell Cadbury in the United States.

01:47:31.940 So we were going to buy Cadbury around the rest of the world, which was huge.

01:47:36.920 And that was a $19 billion deal.

01:47:39.580 We had it locked up.

01:47:40.540 Hershey was going to buy it.

01:47:42.400 And Richard Lenny, the former chairman and CEO of the Hershey company was a financial advisor to Centerview Partners, which was advising Kraft on a competing bid against Hershey.

01:47:54.880 And not only that, Richard Lenny and the former chairman and CEO of Hershey was also the mentor of his protege, Dave West, who was then the CEO of Hershey.

01:48:03.400 And Dave West killed the deal, uh, and never went through, uh, Kraft bought it, which then Kraft then split into two called Mandela's.

01:48:13.180 That sect Mandela's ended up with, uh, the Cadbury line, but then Dave West, who killed the deal for Hershey and wants a lifetime opportunity, became a general partner at Centerview Partners.

01:48:24.440 I mean, talk about a conflict of interest.

01:48:26.820 So anyway, so there's a lot of bad blood.

01:48:29.240 You have to understand.

01:48:30.340 Chocolate wars.

01:48:31.540 Chocolate wars.

01:48:32.120 Yeah, the Reese, the Reese family has been, been creating the wealth there.

01:48:36.360 And, and, and so the stock is doing very well.

01:48:39.740 The stock at Hershey now is doing very well.

01:48:42.440 Uh, Wall Street loves it.

01:48:44.400 When, when you increase your margins at whatever cost to the public, it's long-term is what I'm getting at.

01:48:51.660 It's going to not work out long-term.

01:48:54.100 No, it won't.

01:48:55.160 Brad, um, thank you for writing the letter.

01:48:57.300 Thank you for making me feel sane, uh, cause I thought, what the heck, maybe it's my taste have changed, uh, you know, as I get older.

01:49:04.080 Um, but thank you.

01:49:05.080 And thanks for keeping your, your grandfather's, you know, vision alive.

01:49:08.540 I just, I love, uh, peanut butter cups and I don't trust people who don't, quite honestly.

01:49:14.660 Um, but, uh, thank you for everything.

01:49:16.240 I'm doing what I, I'm doing what I can.

01:49:18.500 All I can do is just do the best I can.

01:49:20.980 Thank you so much for your encouragement.

01:49:22.700 Thank you.

01:49:23.800 You bet.

01:49:24.600 And God bless you on your health.

01:49:25.720 Thank you so much, Brad.

01:49:27.200 Uh, it's really sad because Mr. Hershey was an amazing man.

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01:49:41.860 Um, it's sad that they've fallen so far.

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01:51:03.020 What do you hope President Trump says during tonight's State of the Union?

01:51:06.660 Well, we have a live poll available now for Torch insiders.

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01:51:23.980 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:51:28.740 Tonight, uh, the president is going to speak, uh, for the state of the union and he has got

01:51:33.280 to make his case on affordability.

01:51:36.140 That's probably the most important thing he can do.

01:51:38.240 People feel like there is no, uh, change in their life financially and there is, it just

01:51:45.100 hasn't hit the average person, uh, you know, in the same way that it is hit, uh, I think

01:51:51.760 a global scale, he has been changing things, uh, globally to get the people out of the

01:51:58.280 way that are standing in the way of real businesses in small businesses, making a difference.

01:52:03.220 And that's where America usually feels things.

01:52:06.120 Um, so he's got to make this case tonight.

01:52:08.840 Um, and it's hard because affordability generally goes down to food.

01:52:14.860 And I wanted to have a guy on who I saw this video a couple of weeks ago and I just fell

01:52:19.180 in love with it.

01:52:19.600 This guy, he likes to explain things exactly the way I like to explain things.

01:52:24.900 Uh, his name is Boyan Troyer.

01:52:26.760 He's a rancher and his, his video that I saw is what is the silver to cattle ratio telling

01:52:35.180 us about the value of silver?

01:52:38.780 Welcome Bowen.

01:52:39.800 How are you doing?

01:52:41.540 Well, sir.

01:52:42.500 Uh, thank you so much for having me on.

01:52:44.620 Um, this is like a dream come true to be on the Glenn Beck program.

01:52:49.760 It's so funny.

01:52:51.720 Thank you for that.

01:52:52.800 Thank you.

01:52:54.160 Um, well, you, you, you know how to tell a story and explain things.

01:52:58.780 Um, and I want to get into, you know, because you, you did a video comparing how many ounces

01:53:03.620 of silver it takes to buy a cow now versus history.

01:53:07.000 I just did a segment on, you know, a $20 gold piece back in the 1800s.

01:53:12.880 Could you walk in and buy the world's best suit with a $20 gold piece?

01:53:17.500 And maybe it may be a little, you know, leftover today.

01:53:20.300 You could go in with a $20 gold piece and you could say, sir, give me your best suit.

01:53:24.680 And it would buy the best suit and maybe a little leftover.

01:53:27.600 Um, so gold has not changed, but silver, what is happening with silver Bowen?

01:53:33.660 Yes, that's, it's exciting to think about and look at the different ratios with cattle

01:53:40.260 specifically throughout all of history.

01:53:43.980 Um, you can tell that cows were worth around seven to 10 ounces of silver.

01:53:49.460 Whereas today it costs well over 44 ounces to buy a butcher ready sear.

01:53:56.060 And so from my perspective, you know, just like the suit throughout history, one ounce

01:54:01.500 of gold also bought one cow and the ratio is off.

01:54:07.140 So I think it's just another example.

01:54:09.600 A lot of people talk that silver markets manipulated.

01:54:12.900 It's not fair value.

01:54:14.920 And I think I like looking at real things like sheep.

01:54:17.960 I did a ratio with sheep and cows and even our daily wage.

01:54:22.060 And it just, all those numbers keep coming back that silver really should be valued around

01:54:26.940 500 to $600 an ounce.

01:54:30.840 So what does this, what does this mean for the price of beef?

01:54:37.000 I mean, I know you were explaining the, the silver and you did really good job on this,

01:54:41.740 but what does this mean back to affordability?

01:54:46.400 What is happening?

01:54:47.500 Why is beef so expensive?

01:54:49.300 And why, why do we have right now?

01:54:51.680 Let me see if I can find this fact.

01:54:53.220 Cause it's an, it's a staggering fact.

01:54:55.860 Um, our herd has shrunk by, uh, 45 million from the 1975 peak, uh, and another 10 million

01:55:06.140 since 2020 beef prices are going up 15% year after year.

01:55:11.640 We have the lowest, uh, lowest number of cattle are calf inventory is the lowest since 1951.

01:55:22.440 Wouldn't that make the price of cattle more expensive and the price of beef much more expensive?

01:55:28.560 Yes, it is.

01:55:31.160 And to go along with those numbers, um, in the 1940s and fifties, there was over 6 million family ranches.

01:55:39.360 And according to the census last year, that number is down below 2 million.

01:55:44.360 And so I think from boots on the ground, the issue for us ranchers is land prices and a lot of government red tape.

01:55:56.080 Um, personally, I think we could lower beef prices in the U S if we would just allow the ranchers or the farmers to sell the beef right off the farm.

01:56:06.020 Um, um, not to brag, like we, I processed meat for my family and it's the best tasting beef.

01:56:13.100 But if I went and tried to sell that to my neighbor, I'd be arrested and sent to jail.

01:56:18.960 So I think as far as beef, everything's going up with the money printing.

01:56:25.500 And I think that's really what the gold to silver and the silver to beef ratio is telling us is that real hard things, things we need every day.

01:56:35.440 Meat is just going to keep inflating away as we print more and more dollars.

01:56:39.560 What is the solution to that Bowen?

01:56:46.580 If I do that, I, I don't know.

01:56:49.060 I, from a hands-on approach, I think it's just going back to real assets, um, getting out of debt, um, using what you can.

01:56:59.500 I don't, I don't have a good answer for you on how to do it on a global basis, but I think stop printing federal reserve, stop printing money would be a good start.

01:57:10.280 Sure would.

01:57:11.360 Um, you know, the, the, the thing is beef and people don't think of it this way.

01:57:16.760 I've said for a long time, you need to get into hard assets, something that is real and that's land.

01:57:23.420 That's, uh, water, that's gold.

01:57:24.980 That's, that's silver.

01:57:26.400 That's beef.

01:57:27.420 And a lot of people don't think of that.

01:57:29.200 It's beef.

01:57:29.760 It's sheep.

01:57:30.180 It's anything that, you know, uh, is not going to go to zero because anything paper is, could go to zero at some point, but beef or sheep or whatever, it's not going to go to zero.

01:57:43.620 Cause there's always going to be a need for that.

01:57:46.740 Yeah.

01:57:48.060 Yeah.

01:57:48.460 I couldn't agree with that more.

01:57:50.640 And I think there is a movement.

01:57:52.260 And we just started our YouTube channel about four months ago and the overwhelming outflow of people wanting to get back to the land, wanting to grow their own food.

01:58:04.100 I think the society today, I just listened to your, uh, talking to the Reese's cup guy and going back to real food.

01:58:12.680 I think that's a huge push.

01:58:15.620 And the more we can get back to growing our own food, I think we'll be much better off.

01:58:20.900 But we can't do that if we keep losing farmers and ranchers.

01:58:24.460 I mean, I've, you know, there's a reason nobody wants to be a farmer or rancher.

01:58:28.440 It's really, really hard.

01:58:31.300 And the, I mean, you want to become a millionaire as a rancher good start with $2 million and you will soon find yourself with only a million dollars left.

01:58:41.780 I mean, it is really tough work.

01:58:44.360 And, and I feel like nobody pays attention, especially to anybody who is, uh, anybody who is, who likes meat should all pay attention.

01:58:53.800 There are, are four processing companies for in the United States.

01:58:58.720 And it's like the mob until you start processing meat all over the country and diversify and let it happen in States and, and local areas.

01:59:10.400 You're never going to solve this meat thing.

01:59:12.660 You're just never going to.

01:59:13.840 And I, I think that's intentional either for money, greed, or just because the planet has to be taken care of and no cows can live because their farts are stinky.

01:59:22.400 Uh, yeah, I could not agree more with you.

01:59:26.080 I think, oh, go ahead.

01:59:28.220 No, go ahead.

01:59:29.800 No, I just, I think that getting back to buying your produce at a farmer's market and being able to legally sell meat that you raise on your farm at a farmer's market.

01:59:41.420 I think if we could change that legislation, that, uh, prices of all protein, meat and chickens go down.

01:59:50.540 Huge, huge.

01:59:52.100 Um, tell me the, tell me the part or tell the audience a part of the silver, silver to daily wage, gold to land, gold to cattle.

02:00:00.060 Explain that.

02:00:01.020 Um, yeah, what, all I did was spend some time researching, um, things of real value and like for the daily wage, it's common knowledge that a Roman soldier made about one 10th of an ounce of silver a day.

02:00:17.600 And surprisingly all the way up until the industrial revolution in the U S that was a common wage, basically a dime for your daily wage.

02:00:27.440 But with that, they were able to support a family.

02:00:31.140 They were able to have one income households and just proving that, um, silver is valuable and that we printed so much money that today, I don't know about everybody, but even a six low six figure income is hard to raise a family.

02:00:48.940 Oh yeah.

02:00:49.480 Oh yeah.

02:00:50.900 Yeah.

02:00:51.680 That's not a dime.

02:00:53.340 That's not a dime.

02:00:54.340 That's definitely not a dime.

02:00:55.860 Yeah.

02:00:56.000 Yeah.

02:00:56.320 It's not even a box of silver.

02:00:58.300 Um, thank you so much.

02:00:59.920 I, uh, I appreciate you talking to us and, and keep up the good work.

02:01:03.180 I saw your video and I just thought, uh, here's a good, here's a guy who knows how to think and to tell a story.

02:01:08.720 And, uh, I appreciate it.

02:01:10.580 If you want to follow him, you can follow him, uh, youtube.com slash at rational ranchers, rational ranchers, youtube.com.

02:01:19.520 Thank you, Bowen.

02:01:20.240 I appreciate it, man.

02:01:21.740 Thank you very much.

02:01:22.580 Thank you.

02:01:23.460 You bet.

02:01:24.200 Bye-bye.

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02:08:10.540 So that's what set me off in this direction.

02:08:14.900 It is.

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02:08:17.640 Well, amazingly well thought out.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 24, 2026

Glenn’s Biggest Predictions for Trump’s 2026 State of the Union ｜ Guests： Brad Reese & Bowen Troyer ｜ 2⧸24⧸26

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