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00:05:19.180 All right, it is Friday.

00:05:20.900 I've got a lot going on.

00:05:22.060 I have to stop with this, because this drives me out of my mind.

00:05:25.380 Democrats, if you feel like you're a normal Democrat and you're not, you know, for Mao and Marxism and, you know, loads and loads of bodies of death because of communists,

00:05:37.720 you better wake up.

00:05:39.180 You better wake up.

00:05:40.880 Because you have, in your own party, you have Maoist communists.

00:05:46.480 And the Democratic Socialists of America, remember, it was Socialists of America, because nobody wanted to say they were communists.

00:05:53.800 And even with a socialist, they were like, well, no, not really.

00:05:56.320 This is 20 years ago.

00:05:57.380 Now they are all in.

00:05:59.400 They are now doing a campaign, Free Elias Rodriguez and All Political Prisoners.

00:06:04.480 So the guy that, what was it, last week, went and shot two Jews on the street who were just leaving a symposium on how they could help the people of Gaza.

00:06:19.260 They come out, and this guy shoots what is going to be a husband and a wife a week later, shoots this couple, cold blood in the street, and then says, Free Palestine.

00:06:32.480 Okay?

00:06:32.760 And he's fine with it.

00:06:34.020 He has no problem.

00:06:34.980 Yeah, I did.

00:06:35.660 And, in fact, as she was crawling away, trying to get away, he takes the time because he's out of bullets.

00:06:40.280 He reloads his gun so he can finish the job.

00:06:45.220 Okay?

00:06:45.700 This guy's a monster.

00:06:47.500 Just a monster.

00:06:49.800 So what is happening now?

00:06:53.600 Well, the Democratic Socialists of America, you know, think he's pretty neat.

00:07:00.160 So in addition to his activism on Israel, he is also in favor of, and I'm quoting, the genocide of white people. 0.66

00:07:10.040 Let me quote him here.

00:07:11.440 The liberation caucus wrote excellent statement, and we are proud to add our name to the Free Elias Rodriguez and All Political Prisoners campaign.

00:07:38.960 The Democratic Socialists, this holds especially true for those of us struggling behind enemy lines inside the U.S.

00:07:48.880 An entity that is equal party in all crimes committed by the Zionists. 0.99

00:07:53.780 There must be consequences for genocidal Zionist imperialism, and those consequences are righteous. 1.00

00:08:01.860 Do you see what's happening, Democrats?

00:08:04.480 Now, you can say all you want, well, I'm not a Democratic Socialist.

00:08:08.020 I'm not a Maoist.

00:08:09.400 You have Maoists in your ranks. 0.87

00:08:12.320 And I don't know if you know this, but they don't always play by their rules.

00:08:15.200 In fact, what they do is they gain control.

00:08:19.300 And if, well, let me ask you, how many people have a differing opinion on anything now in the Democratic Party?

00:08:30.160 What happened to those people?

00:08:32.200 They were run out of the party.

00:08:34.020 Okay, and that's when you were still denying that they were Democratic Socialists in your party that, you know, and radical revolutionaries that were running the party.

00:08:44.060 You were still in denial of that.

00:08:45.920 Now they were chased out.

00:08:47.980 Now you have people coming right out and saying, yeah, you'd probably have to round up, you know, tens of millions of white people and rehabilitate or just genocide them to make this a decent country. 0.79

00:08:59.400 And that guy has a Democratic Socialist standing with him and saying he's a political prisoner for shooting two people in the streets.

00:09:08.260 And these are the same people in your own party that are now fine with a shooting of a CEO in the streets.

00:09:17.220 Do you see what's happening?

00:09:20.420 Do you see how you're going to lose control of this?

00:09:25.600 I think you already have.

00:09:29.400 But for anybody who thinks, you know, Mao is neat, you might want to crack a book.

00:09:35.840 To his followers, this guy is a revolutionary god, a beacon of hope for a classless utopia.

00:09:43.500 Yeah, really?

00:09:44.700 Really?

00:09:45.180 How about that river of blood that he set loose in China?

00:09:49.100 The millions of lives drown in that blood in the name of his ideology.

00:09:54.200 This is not just history.

00:09:57.260 The Mao history, the communist history.

00:10:00.120 This isn't just history that you look at and you watch it as a documentary.

00:10:05.020 Although, strangely, nobody seems to have a problem with the communists.

00:10:08.200 It's all about the Nazis. 0.91

00:10:09.640 The Nazis were bad. 0.89

00:10:11.120 And why do we watch those things?

00:10:13.580 Because they were so evil.

00:10:15.200 But Mao made Hitler look like a rookie.

00:10:18.700 Quite frankly, so did Stalin. 0.84

00:10:20.420 We watch those documentaries because we're fascinated, strangely, I think, by evil and how they did all of the things.

00:10:30.300 But we also watch them so we can see and go, oh, I see what that is.

00:10:36.220 Hey, wait a minute.

00:10:36.980 Isn't that, aren't those seeds being planted again?

00:10:39.700 Yes, they are.

00:10:40.500 And if you care to learn history, you will see that they are being planted again.

00:10:45.180 It's an alarm bell.

00:10:48.100 You know, when you have a single man's dream that the followers are just diehard believers and say the ends justify the means.

00:10:59.500 See, this is a difference between Donald Trump.

00:11:03.860 He's got a very bold vision, but the ends don't justify the means.

00:11:09.820 I'm sorry.

00:11:10.340 You can't just round people up.

00:11:12.920 You can't just silence them.

00:11:15.400 Because that's what Mao did.

00:11:18.420 That's what Mao did.

00:11:19.980 You don't silence people.

00:11:21.340 You don't round them up.

00:11:22.880 This is what the democratic socialists and the people of their ilk are all saying now.

00:11:28.460 And this is what, this is what happens, this is what leads to the butchering of millions.

00:11:36.980 In 1958, Mao had his great leap forward.

00:11:41.180 A plan, he said, was going to rocket us to modernity.

00:11:44.840 We're going to outshine the West.

00:11:46.660 We're going to have prosperity.

00:11:47.780 And I care about the little people.

00:11:50.360 I care about the peasants.

00:11:51.840 And we're going to make steel flow like rivers and grain pile high as mountains.

00:11:56.060 And it's going to be neat.

00:11:58.460 It's inspiring, except Mao didn't know how to make steel.

00:12:02.000 And Mao didn't know how to grow any rice.

00:12:04.580 He wasn't a farmer either.

00:12:05.740 He wasn't an engineer.

00:12:07.180 He was a madman.

00:12:10.320 And so what he did is he took the communist ideals and he put people into communes.

00:12:19.000 And private land was seized.

00:12:21.140 And every peasant was turned into a cog in his grand machine.

00:12:24.940 But he did it in the name of the peasants.

00:12:27.800 Backyard furnaces sprouted like weeds, churning out useless, brittle iron.

00:12:35.900 And people starved because all the fields laid fallow.

00:12:40.940 Grain, oh, it was harvested.

00:12:43.160 But not for the people.

00:12:44.220 Any grain that they did do, remember, he was for the little people. 0.81

00:12:48.440 What he did is he exported all of the grain and the rice and everything else elsewhere so he could look like a global titan.

00:12:56.400 So he could improve his image.

00:12:58.260 Meanwhile, because he was so terrifying, the local officials started saying, oh, no, we've grown all kinds of – they were faking all of the crop numbers because they didn't want to get held responsible for anything and end up in a camp or death.

00:13:19.540 So what happens?

00:13:21.020 Starvation.

00:13:24.860 Parents were boiling grass to feed their children.

00:13:29.640 This is 15 to 45 million people.

00:13:36.400 That's not a statistic.

00:13:37.680 That is a mountain of corpses, a river of blood.

00:13:41.040 And it all came from Mao.

00:13:43.060 1966, he does now the Cultural Revolution.

00:13:47.020 That one didn't work.

00:13:48.040 But don't worry.

00:13:48.540 This one will.

00:13:50.020 Now he's older.

00:13:51.340 He's paranoid.

00:13:52.280 He's drunk on power.

00:13:53.480 Or he decides China's not pure enough.

00:13:56.520 Oh, wait a minute.

00:13:57.260 Hang on just a second.

00:13:58.440 Like, maybe America's not pure enough?

00:14:01.160 Maybe we have to round up and re-educate people?

00:14:05.020 I'm sorry.

00:14:06.500 What did Rodriguez say?

00:14:07.520 Oh, yeah, it was.

00:14:08.540 Round up people and re-educate them or do a genocide on them.

00:14:13.220 He wanted to get rid of capitalists because they were the ones that were holding China back, not him.

00:14:18.140 So he unleashes the Red Guards.

00:14:20.700 This is not a military.

00:14:22.000 This is just fanatics.

00:14:23.820 They're kids, barely out of school, who have read his little red book like it was the Bible.

00:14:31.440 They were just believers.

00:14:32.600 They're not soldiers.

00:14:33.560 But they were all ready to die for him.

00:14:36.260 And he uses them and he points them like a dagger into the hearts of teachers and artists and party officials.

00:14:43.200 Nobody is safe.

00:14:44.540 Nobody is safe.

00:14:46.660 It's a way to get revenge on anybody.

00:14:49.900 So they're beaten in the streets.

00:14:51.600 They're paraded in dunce caps.

00:14:54.160 They're sent to labor camps.

00:14:56.580 People are allowed to stone them in the streets.

00:14:59.620 And children have to deny their own parents or they face the same.

00:15:03.080 They burn books.

00:15:06.520 Nobody talks about the book burning of Mao.

00:15:10.460 No, no, no.

00:15:11.360 We just really like Mao.

00:15:14.340 We just really think he's good.

00:15:17.260 How?

00:15:17.760 How?

00:15:18.240 In what way?

00:15:19.560 How?

00:15:21.440 Well, at revolutionary spirit, you know, he had a dream of a utopia and it didn't work out that time.

00:15:28.160 It never works out.

00:15:30.000 Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever works out.

00:15:35.300 Never works out.

00:15:38.260 I mean, he's inspired how many revolutions?

00:15:41.660 China, Cambodia, there are the killing fields. 0.86

00:15:44.860 That one was really good.

00:15:46.220 Nepal, Peru, brutal death, 70,000 dead.

00:15:50.700 India, brutal death. 1.00

00:15:53.740 Philippines, brutal death, 40,000 deaths there.

00:15:57.060 Vietnam, well, that was a mixed one. 1.00

00:15:59.840 It wasn't fully Maoist.

00:16:01.320 And Ho Chi Minh, you know, he drew on Mao's tactics, but it wasn't.

00:16:06.980 I mean, victory brought unification.

00:16:09.660 Yeah, of course, there was that famine and the repression that killed thousands of people.

00:16:16.220 But that one was kind of mixed.

00:16:18.340 Zimbabwe, that was mixed.

00:16:19.760 I mean, you know, it ended white rule. 0.89

00:16:21.680 But then Mugabe, you know, he starved his people, killed his people, stole from his people, economic collapse.

00:16:29.700 But that one's kind of mixed.

00:16:32.760 Laos, brutal death.

00:16:35.860 Bhutan, brutal death. 0.57

00:16:37.480 So, out of all the Maoist revolutions, let's say 10, how many of them led to utopia?

00:16:48.260 Zero.

00:16:49.440 How many led to brutal death and starvation?

00:16:52.580 If I'm being really generous, 7 out of 10.

00:16:57.340 Because I have to count Zimbabwe, Vietnam, and Nepal as a mixed result.

00:17:09.040 7 out of 10 times, rivers of blood, starvation, purges, endless conflict.

00:17:15.980 Okay.

00:17:19.320 Why?

00:17:20.340 Why does it always end that way?

00:17:22.020 Because somebody says the ends justify the means.

00:17:26.180 Somebody says, well, these people are not as important as the other.

00:17:30.660 These people are the ones standing in the way and the ends justify the means.

00:17:36.100 It's just collateral damage.

00:17:37.980 So, my question is, for Democrats, when are you going to learn from history?

00:17:46.800 When will you learn from history?

00:17:49.280 When will you start saying, you know what?

00:17:51.520 If you believe in Mao, I can't stand with you.

00:17:55.300 What was it the Beatles say?

00:17:59.380 What is it?

00:18:01.380 Walking around with signs of Chairman Mao, well, no one will listen to you anyhow?

00:18:07.320 I mean, this is the same story over and over and over again.

00:18:12.120 What's the end game?

00:18:13.480 Where's the proof that any of that works?

00:18:15.520 Because I can show you it doesn't work.

00:18:17.580 Where's your proof that it does work?

00:18:19.420 What's the difference this time?

00:18:20.940 It just wasn't done fast enough.

00:18:22.400 You didn't kill enough people.

00:18:24.780 You know, you didn't starve enough people.

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00:20:09.420 You know, let me show you a couple of things.

00:20:24.560 First of all, let's go with the Nashville Democratic,

00:20:29.380 the Democrat mayor.

00:20:31.240 He's now doxing ICE agents.

00:20:34.800 Okay?

00:20:35.320 Why?

00:20:37.180 Why?

00:20:37.520 He says the release of the names of ICE agents was just a mistake.

00:20:43.280 DHS says there's zero chance it was a mistake.

00:20:46.540 Okay?

00:20:47.520 This is Freddie O'Connell.

00:20:50.280 And he's now doxed ICE.

00:20:54.260 And he is in trouble because he's also, they claim,

00:20:57.640 using funds to help the illegals avoid ICE.

00:21:04.060 All right?

00:21:04.500 Well, that's breaking the law, isn't it?

00:21:08.060 Yes, but the ends justify the means.

00:21:10.880 See, it starts in little ways.

00:21:14.760 How about this guy?

00:21:15.860 Did you hear the story about, what's his name?

00:21:19.220 Calvin Polachek, I think.

00:21:22.000 He has, he's a huge anti-gun activist.

00:21:27.700 And he has talked about how he survived a 2017 active shooter situation at Dallas High School.

00:21:35.660 Killed his brother, best friend, nine others.

00:21:39.180 The only problem is, didn't happen.

00:21:42.460 Excuse me?

00:21:43.620 Did you see this story, Stu?

00:21:45.080 Yeah.

00:21:45.460 Yeah, I was fascinated to see, because I saw the headline.

00:21:47.940 Is it one of those things where there was a shooting scare, and luckily, maybe people survived.

00:21:56.380 Or his brother was shot in a different shooting, and he exaggerated it.

00:22:01.060 I mean, I can't, it seems to be, and this is a Dallas township in Pennsylvania.

00:22:07.240 Not Dallas, the city in Texas, but Dallas township released a statement.

00:22:11.140 They're like, not only was, did this not happen, there wasn't any shooting at all.

00:22:16.880 And there has never been a shooting in this school district at any point, ever.

00:22:21.260 It wasn't like it was another year.

00:22:22.860 He was referring to something else.

00:22:24.340 It's gotten, no mass shootings have occurred that look anything like this in the township.

00:22:29.100 So what would possess somebody to do this?

00:22:32.440 Either insanity, stupidity, or just the ends justify the means.

00:22:35.880 I can lie, I can do whatever I want, because the ends justify the means.

00:22:40.160 We now have 200 Democrats, 200 Democrats that now say, yeah, I knew that Joe Biden was incompetent.

00:22:51.180 And I, you know, I didn't say anything.

00:22:53.880 We have 200 Democrats that now claim, while people were being called all kinds of names,

00:23:00.900 while people's lives were being destroyed, while the guy with the nuclear football was eating pudding and drooling on himself.

00:23:08.500 You have 200 Democrats now openly admitting, yeah, I knew that.

00:23:14.400 I just didn't say anything.

00:23:16.020 Why?

00:23:16.760 Because the ends justify the means.

00:23:19.780 We'll put this guy in.

00:23:21.600 Don't worry.

00:23:22.520 We'll figure out.

00:23:23.240 Doesn't matter what the law is.

00:23:24.980 Doesn't matter what the Constitution says.

00:23:26.860 Doesn't matter that this is actually a violation of democracy.

00:23:33.120 It doesn't matter.

00:23:34.560 The ends justify the means.

00:23:36.660 You cannot go down that road.

00:23:39.720 You cannot go down that road.

00:23:42.160 And Democrats, you are about to be eaten by radical revolutionaries.

00:23:48.500 Look out.

00:23:49.440 This is Glenn Beck.

00:23:57.600 All right.

00:23:58.260 Right now, we basically have one chance to right the economic ship.

00:24:02.260 And if we're being honest, the odds are, you know, nobody's done this before.

00:24:06.920 We've printed trillions of dollars.

00:24:08.880 We piled up debt that no one, no one left, right, or center seemed to be willing to touch at all.

00:24:13.940 And if you think interest rates are high now, just wait until the next crisis hits.

00:24:17.940 The dollar is being devalued.

00:24:21.040 The world is unstable, quietly moving away from the U.S., you know, as the global standard.

00:24:27.040 So, you know, what's going to happen?

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00:25:19.440 You know, for Democrats, if you don't think you're playing with communism or socialism, talk to the people in Washington State.

00:25:43.720 Talk to anyone who is sane in Washington State.

00:25:47.020 I'll give you his number.

00:25:48.720 But they are going to full-fledged communism, Marxism.

00:25:54.500 You have every giant corporation now moving out of the Seattle area in Washington State because they're going to – I'm telling you, they're going to go to wealth confiscation.

00:26:05.860 They're going to do it.

00:26:06.620 But there is a place – Lake Washington is, you know, by Bellevue, in between Bellevue and Seattle.

00:26:14.840 And it is beautiful.

00:26:16.740 It is just the most beautiful place you've ever seen.

00:26:20.480 And this is where Bill Gates and everybody else – and when I was a kid, it was not like that.

00:26:25.220 It was, you know, there were still normal people that lived there.

00:26:27.780 And now you can't even get close to it.

00:26:32.360 And there's this place in the middle of the lake, and it's called Hunt's Point.

00:26:36.820 And it is where, you know, these are $60 million to $100 million houses.

00:26:43.100 And they're not necessarily fancy.

00:26:45.300 They just happen to be in an area where there's not very much land, and it is the place to live if you like water.

00:26:53.820 And you're living right on the water, and it's just spectacular.

00:26:58.100 It used to be that when a place would go up for sale, even when I was a kid, on Hunt's Point, it would never last.

00:27:06.480 You'd never – they'd never come up for sale.

00:27:08.600 People, they wouldn't want to sell it because you couldn't replace it.

00:27:12.000 You couldn't get anything like it.

00:27:13.400 And so they would come up for sale, and they'd be gone before anybody would even know.

00:27:19.980 I am told by a friend who knows that area quite well that – I think he said 17 homes in Hunt's Point are up for sale.

00:27:32.120 17.

00:27:33.700 And some of them have been up for sale now for over a year, and there are no buyers.

00:27:39.220 All of these people are trying to get out of Washington State, and nobody's buying their home because nobody – you're going to – are you going to buy that?

00:27:49.380 Hey, rich person, where are you going to move from?

00:27:51.860 You're going to move to Washington?

00:27:53.900 No.

00:27:55.620 Washington, the property values are going to start plummeting.

00:27:59.380 And you've got crazy people, not only crazy people all around you.

00:28:04.220 I'm telling you, I grew up in Washington State.

00:28:06.420 I grew up listening to hippies and everything else.

00:28:12.140 My friends and I, I remember going to a friend's house, and we were standing on our front porch.

00:28:16.940 And, you know, we were – this is the Alex P. Keaton days, and not politically, but just – I mean, I guess a little politically.

00:28:27.200 But my friends, not all my friends, you know, agreed with Reagan.

00:28:30.020 But we didn't talk politics.

00:28:31.440 It was just, you know, we weren't hippies.

00:28:33.320 And I remember standing on our front porch, and my friend was going to open up her front door.

00:28:37.740 She had her hand on the doorknob, and she – before she opened it, she turned to me and she said,

00:28:42.820 I really apologize, my folks are probably in the living room getting stoned, just never mind.

00:28:48.220 We were the adults.

00:28:50.240 And we opened up the door, and I'm like, I get it.

00:28:52.800 And so open up the door, and there they are getting stoned, and they're like, hey, kids, what's going on?

00:28:57.840 I mean, that's where I grew up, okay?

00:29:01.400 And it was crazy back then.

00:29:03.260 And there's these people that believe in this thing called Cascadia, which is a communist state.

00:29:09.740 Just get out of America, start a new communist country called Cascadia, and it is Washington, Oregon, and I think they want parts of Idaho. 0.92

00:29:21.240 Thank God Idaho hasn't gone nuts yet.

00:29:24.200 But that's what's coming.

00:29:27.340 That's what they want.

00:29:29.500 And you see people like – you know the mayor of Seattle?

00:29:32.180 Do you see what happened in Seattle over the weekend, Stu?

00:29:35.520 Where there was this – yeah.

00:29:37.040 Yeah, go ahead.

00:29:37.520 A little bit.

00:29:38.380 You're talking about the mayor and this accusation going back?

00:29:42.420 No, no, no.

00:29:43.200 No, no, no.

00:29:43.980 The Christians had had a revival out in a park, and all of these revolutionaries came.

00:29:52.640 They were threatening them.

00:29:53.860 The police came and shut down the Christians, and they deemed the Christians, the police, against their will, I think, but under the direction of the mayor.

00:30:02.340 Shut down the Christians, excused all the radical revolutionaries, and said, you know, it's the Christians here that are causing all the ruckus. 1.00

00:30:10.200 I mean, it's crazy what's going on.

00:30:12.340 Well, now what you were talking about is the scandal that's going on with Bruce Harrell.

00:30:16.600 He's the mayor of Seattle.

00:30:18.140 Who is the mayor of Seattle?

00:30:21.320 Who is this guy?

00:30:22.880 Okay.

00:30:23.280 Well, he's just like you.

00:30:25.240 Well, I mean, just like you, if you had been arrested in 96 for brandishing a firearm over a parking space.

00:30:33.420 In 1996, this has been out for a while, he was a young attorney, and he had just been appointed to the housing authority board in, I think, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

00:30:49.740 And he was at a casino, and he was pulling up to a parking space, and this other couple in their family, it's a husband, wife, a mom, and somebody else.

00:30:57.560 They pull up, and they pull into the parking space, and he gets pissed off, and they say he pointed a gun at them, and they were afraid for their lives.

00:31:08.980 He admitted at the time to say, yeah, I had my gun, but I wasn't pointing it at him.

00:31:15.320 What are you doing?

00:31:15.960 Just showing it to them?

00:31:17.180 Hey, I'm so proud of my gun.

00:31:19.180 I just want you to see.

00:31:19.960 That's called brandishing a firearm.

00:31:21.760 You can't do that.

00:31:22.520 It's against the law.

00:31:23.580 Well, the charges fall apart or whatever.

00:31:26.100 And so he's charged with it, but he's not convicted of it.

00:31:29.980 Nobody says anything.

00:31:31.360 Well, it comes up again recently, and now he's saying, no, I didn't have a gun.

00:31:36.100 They mistook my watch for a gun.

00:31:42.120 Now, I'm a watch guy.

00:31:47.640 I'm a watch collector.

00:31:48.620 I like watches, and I have some big watches, but I've never had anyone at any airport or on the street go, oh, my gosh, you've got a gun strapped to your wrist.

00:32:03.560 No, it's never happened.

00:32:05.540 Has that ever happened to you, Stu, where you're like, that guy's got a gun on his wrist, and you realize, no, it's just actually a watch?

00:32:13.800 Well, you're talking about the watch gun.

00:32:15.400 Yeah.

00:32:15.700 I mean, I try not to wear that at night because people do make that mistake.

00:32:20.280 Yeah.

00:32:20.680 I mean, besides the watch gun.

00:32:22.280 Right.

00:32:22.640 You know what I mean?

00:32:23.380 No.

00:32:23.760 Besides that watch.

00:32:25.080 Okay.

00:32:25.420 So that's his excuse.

00:32:26.980 Now, when it's brought up, he's like, no, I didn't have one.

00:32:29.120 He said at the time he did, but he wasn't pointing it at him.

00:32:32.540 Now, he says, no, they mistook that for a watch.

00:32:38.140 And it's justified the means.

00:32:39.840 I mean, if you're going to elect radicals, if you're going to elect people that don't, you know, they just don't care about the law, the Constitution, you know, they don't care.

00:32:50.160 But, well, you know.

00:32:52.540 Oh, well.

00:32:53.320 People just say anything now.

00:32:55.200 They don't.

00:32:55.960 There's no even attempt to come up with stories that even sound real.

00:33:02.420 No.

00:33:02.960 Because basically, like, and if you think about it, there's some pragmatic sense to it in our current day, which is like, in reality, like, what's going to happen is the people who already liked you are going to support you no matter what you say.

00:33:19.000 And I just, they just, you might as well just say something.

00:33:23.500 And everyone's going to, like, nod along and say, well, yes, I like his other policies or I want him to succeed.

00:33:30.000 So, therefore, I believe his gun watch story.

00:33:32.980 Right.

00:33:33.500 Who is the guy?

00:33:34.540 Oh, is it Jesse Smollett?

00:33:36.620 Yeah.

00:33:37.020 Jesse Smollett.

00:33:37.520 Is that his name?

00:33:38.100 Yeah.

00:33:38.560 He's still saying that it was, you know, he was targeted.

00:33:41.860 Still saying it.

00:33:42.520 Yeah.

00:33:43.240 Yeah.

00:33:43.600 There's no consequence for any of this.

00:33:45.440 No.

00:33:45.880 It's true.

00:33:46.240 I mean, we talked a little bit off the air a few minutes ago about this is the sort of conversation we have, which is the WNBA and the situation with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, where, you know, again, these are two basketball players, one white, one black.

00:33:58.820 The white player fouled the black player.

00:34:00.840 There's some sort of rivalry that seems to be basically one way from Angel Reese toward Caitlin Clark. 0.73

00:34:06.840 Caitlin Clark walks away.

00:34:08.720 Angel Reese freaks out. 0.93

00:34:09.980 You know, the team, you know, Angel Reese's team lost by like 30 points in the game.

00:34:15.620 Afterwards, she's doing her press conferences.

00:34:17.480 And, of course, as you 100 percent can just fill in the blank, if you know nothing about the story, claim that there is racism.

00:34:24.980 That was the reason why all of this happened.

00:34:26.880 And there's people in the stands yelling racial slurs at her.

00:34:30.720 She says this to a press conference.

00:34:32.020 It's a major controversy.

00:34:33.800 Everybody's talking about it.

00:34:35.020 They're batting it back and forth.

00:34:36.740 What does this mean?

00:34:37.660 Can you believe this?

00:34:38.400 Full investigation launched, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:34:41.140 Now, remember, this is not this doesn't happen in the woods.

00:34:44.300 This doesn't happen like under a bridge, you know, you know, in Madagascar somewhere.

00:34:50.520 This happens on an arena where that's being televised.

00:34:56.260 So, of course, there are hundreds of fans around the area where this was supposedly going to happen.

00:35:01.500 There were dozens of employees around this area.

00:35:04.260 There were cameras and microphones everywhere.

00:35:06.840 Of course, they do the investigation.

00:35:09.200 Of course, no one can find any evidence that this happened at all.

00:35:14.060 No one can find one example of this occurring.

00:35:17.540 And then the end of the story is not a massive controversy about how this player could be falsely accusing all of these people that are fans of the other team of being racist and manufacturing claims of racial slurs.

00:35:33.460 No, no.

00:35:34.100 The story is a two paragraph statement from the WNBA.

00:35:38.180 Hey, we looked into it.

00:35:39.040 Couldn't find anything.

00:35:40.640 No follow ups from no follow ups from any of the journalists who were concerned about it at the time.

00:35:45.180 They just just we just all move on.

00:35:46.940 And and why no follow up on the investigation of how that began?

00:35:52.240 Who started those charges?

00:35:53.980 What are they going to do?

00:35:55.260 Are they going to pay a price for starting those charges?

00:35:57.780 Shouldn't they?

00:35:58.220 And didn't I see that that very player sitting on the bench talking about white girls?

00:36:03.260 Oh, yeah.

00:36:04.000 Well, that's in a derogatory way.

00:36:05.380 Yeah, it's hard to see many conversations without that phrase used from that particular player.

00:36:12.860 I mean, well, what about the racism there?

00:36:15.160 I mean, it's just it it doesn't it doesn't seem to matter anymore.

00:36:19.140 The truth doesn't matter anymore.

00:36:21.620 You know, I somebody said to me that if you've seen that Donald Trump is now saying that if you're working for the government, you have to go through.

00:36:29.180 I think it's 100 hour class on the Constitution and somebody said, well, wait a minute.

00:36:34.460 I don't want that.

00:36:35.580 I don't want that because I don't want them doing that with DEI.

00:36:37.960 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:36:41.920 The Constitution is the owner's manual.

00:36:46.620 And right now we have a bunch of people that are trying to put our country together and they've never read the instructions.

00:36:54.620 And, you know, it's like it's it's like our country came from Ikea.

00:36:59.760 And, you know, I can build this.

00:37:01.360 I'll just put it together.

00:37:02.180 And it's being built upside down.

00:37:04.580 The legs are in the wrong place.

00:37:06.180 It's never and you've got like 47 screws left over at the end.

00:37:10.680 OK, read the instructions.

00:37:14.500 OK, they're not in Swedish.

00:37:16.880 They're in English.

00:37:18.320 Read the instructions.

00:37:20.140 This this I think is one of the best things that the president has done so far.

00:37:24.940 You want to work in the you want to work in the administration?

00:37:27.500 You want to work for the government?

00:37:28.360 Good.

00:37:28.780 You've got to go take a course on the Constitution of the United States because that's the owner's manual.

00:37:35.140 And there's no excuse.

00:37:36.560 Oh, I didn't know that that was in the Constitution.

00:37:38.120 I didn't know we couldn't do that, even though they're not even saying that.

00:37:41.320 They're now saying 200 people, Democrats, are now saying, yeah, I knew that he was I knew that he was gone.

00:37:48.420 But, you know, we we couldn't lose the election.

00:37:52.040 Well, I think you need a refresher on the Constitution because none of that is part of our country.

00:38:01.260 None of none of that.

00:38:02.260 There's no place in the Constitution that allows that.

00:38:04.520 Yeah.

00:38:05.200 One of the ways it's interesting, they talk about that in the book of those decisions being made.

00:38:09.880 Right.

00:38:10.080 Why would you hide this from the American people?

00:38:14.560 Like, how could you justify that?

00:38:16.500 And, you know, it is exactly what you're saying and justify the means.

00:38:21.280 Right.

00:38:21.520 And they said that one of the reasons why, especially the really close group around the Bidens, including the family and some of these advisers, basically said, number one, Donald Trump is, you know, basically Hitler.

00:38:34.520 Right. Like he's an existential threat and he's the worst thing that could ever happen to us.

00:38:38.540 So we have to do anything to beat him.

00:38:40.180 And the people really close to Biden believed the only person who could beat him was Joe Biden.

00:38:44.520 Now, that part's another part.

00:38:46.140 That's another level of delusion, I suppose, to think that Joe Biden was uniquely qualified for this victory.

00:38:53.260 But he was the only person who who did win in an election against him.

00:38:57.620 Right.

00:38:57.820 So there's some maybe some sense to that.

00:39:00.500 But as I think it was Alex Thompson, one of the authors pointed out, it's like when you when you exist, when those two things are true, you can justify anything.

00:39:10.360 Yes.

00:39:10.940 Right. Like if you believe Hitler's about to come into power and the only person who could beat him is this old doddering fool you work with.

00:39:18.000 Well, of course, you're going to justify all of this.

00:39:20.040 If you believe that Elon Musk is evil, I can I can firebomb and terrorize anybody with a Tesla.

00:39:28.080 Yeah.

00:39:28.200 If you believe that global warming is going to wipe the entire Earth out, I can kill anyone with an SUV.

00:39:35.060 This is why you can never adopt the ends justify the means, which is Saul Alinsky.

00:39:42.080 That is the motto now of the Democratic Party.

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00:43:12.700 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:43:16.460 Elon Musk is leaving service of Washington today.

00:43:21.660 I've got quite a bit to say about that.

00:43:23.840 We'll probably hit that maybe next hour.

00:43:25.820 Uh, also, uh, Mike Lee may be joining us, uh, later on the program.

00:43:31.200 We also have, uh, Zachary Levi, uh, the Wildwood studios owner, uh, the actor, uh, that is just, he's fantastic.

00:43:39.420 I love him.

00:43:40.160 Uh, is he coming in?

00:43:41.800 I think it's, he's on phone or is he in studio?

00:43:44.080 I can't remember, but he's on the phone.

00:43:46.480 Uh, he'll be joining us because, uh, you know, Google's VO3.

00:43:51.700 Uh, I don't know if you've been paying attention to what this is doing this week, but is that the end of filmmaking as we know it?

00:43:58.780 I mean, you could type something in and, uh, it looks like movie studio quality.

00:44:03.980 If I'm an actor or I'm a filmmaker and I, I, I mean, I, I do produce an awful lot of television.

00:44:11.700 Uh, it's a little concerning.

00:44:13.780 We'll talk to him about that next.

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00:46:38.060 we have had incredible crazy crazy leaps uh in ai this just this week and if i were an actor if

00:46:51.880 i were a director you know i made film uh i would be refreshing my uh my skills and also maybe my

00:47:01.120 resume uh what google released this week uh is it going to put the industry out of business

00:47:08.800 i don't know as i'm not in that business but it doesn't look good zachary levi he is the uh studio

00:47:17.400 owner of wildwood studios uh and he's with us he's an actor you've seen a lot of his movies and love

00:47:24.640 him um he's been worried about this for a long time now google vo3 is here what does it mean we're

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00:49:07.560 zachary levi is with us hi zach how are you hey good morning glenn i'm doing all right man how you doing

00:49:13.460 um i'm i'm i'm really good uh i but i'm not in your business how how concerned are you by what google

00:49:21.980 released this week i mean i'm i'm very concerned i mean you know when i i you and i talked about this

00:49:29.500 when i came on your show last um and i hate to sound like you know a doomer and gloomer um but i

00:49:40.160 this is something i've been foreseeing for a really long time i've been banging this drum for

00:49:45.020 a really long time and trying to wake people up and say hey listen technology it moves exponentially

00:49:52.600 this is one of the things that i i think most people just don't understand whether it's people

00:49:56.820 in my industry or other industries and and might i say yes this is knocking on the doorstep of

00:50:02.940 entertainment right now but understand that ai is knocking on the doorstep of all of our industries

00:50:09.280 your your industry radio you know everything in entertainment all of it anything that can be

00:50:14.240 recorded and and and broadcast but every industry that we are i mean there are um huge you know

00:50:22.560 experts in in many fields that say within a year two years you certainly within five years every

00:50:28.800 white collar job will be gone and a lot of blue collar jobs are going to be right behind that because

00:50:33.920 you have to recognize that ai is not just moving exponentially but also humanoid robots and the

00:50:40.100 development of humanoid robots is developing exponentially and exponential growth is something

00:50:45.260 that people just don't understand most people see growth as you know kind of just you know

00:50:50.900 multiplicative meaning like okay every year it gets twice as good no no no it doesn't get twice as

00:50:56.780 good every year it gets 10 times as good and then it gets a hundred times as good and then a thousand

00:51:00.420 times as good and so on and so forth and so years ago i was telling people guys if what we have right

00:51:07.300 now you know like for example two years ago uh ai was generating images and um you know but but you

00:51:15.180 know humans had six fingers and so people said ah this is schlock look at this you know this is never

00:51:20.060 going to get good they can't even get the amount of fingers right on people's hands i said yeah yeah right

00:51:24.680 now it can't right now it cannot do that but six months later it did six months after that you had

00:51:31.800 video and now you've got video with audio that is almost indiscernible as you've been seeing with

00:51:39.060 these new examples it's almost indiscernible now people say yeah but i can still tell i go yeah right

00:51:44.580 now you can but six months from now a year from now two years from now we're gonna even think that

00:51:51.160 world and no probably not even that long no and and and so people have got to wake up and so for

00:51:58.340 people in my industry i think that yes we should all be very very concerned but everyone should be

00:52:04.480 very concerned and it's not even just you know like for example yes this could very much replace my

00:52:10.220 job this is partly why i've i am building wildwood studios in in austin texas it you know has always

00:52:16.620 been this is a 25 year plus you know calling that god has put on my life to to create a better

00:52:21.860 hollywood to give artists a better life a better work life balance to give audiences better content

00:52:28.180 these are all things that we've deserved for a really long time but ai is really the kind of i think

00:52:34.260 most galvanizing galvanizing um force in all of this because if we don't do something about it if we

00:52:41.100 don't hold the line if we don't build the ark which is really kind of what i've always felt on

00:52:46.760 my life i felt this kind of noah calling on my life that god's like hey listen a flood is coming

00:52:51.980 it's not going to be water it's going to be something entirely different and that is this ai and

00:52:56.620 if and if you can build the ark then you can at least save as many of those jobs two by two as you

00:53:01.380 can but if you don't build the ark then the flood just wipes everything out and so yeah go ahead let me

00:53:08.140 let me interrupt you on that because um i believe i mean i'm developing some things with ai and i've

00:53:15.040 been on this for a very long time as well um and uh i believe you're absolutely right that you have to

00:53:22.740 get you know you have to get into a boat because floods are coming um yeah however you you have to

00:53:30.540 you can't dismiss it you have to i think use some of the skills that it has in a positive way because

00:53:40.180 i think it could it will enhance as long as you don't surrender to it it will enhance what you can

00:53:47.440 do so are you talking about you know building something that it has no use for ai and it's just

00:53:54.260 this island or are you saying that we'll use it but we'll use it in ethical ways and we'll never

00:54:00.280 allow it uh to become the master we will always use it as a tool yes that that's exactly right so

00:54:08.960 i'm a firm believer and have been for many years that you know philosophically you cannot stop

00:54:15.000 progress you can only hope to guide it that that is right the bottom line right right so it would be

00:54:20.500 folly to look at new technology that by the way is going to do some really cool things in this world

00:54:26.060 example being we're at the brink of nearly having our ear pods you know apple i think will start but

00:54:32.980 other companies will be right behind it it's not simultaneously you will have real real time

00:54:38.740 language translation it's going to happen it's happening very very soon now that's incredible that's

00:54:44.880 something that as a human race we've all been wanting really since i mean since i guess the tower of

00:54:49.060 babel right the ability for all of us to be able to communicate across the world no language barriers

00:54:54.480 whatsoever that is huge that's a huge leap forward for mankind now that's going to absolutely displace

00:55:00.620 what is a smaller let's say industry of translators right it's not there are many translators in the

00:55:07.820 world but it's not the biggest industry let's say and i feel for those people and i think we have to

00:55:12.060 be very conscious about trying to rehome them in other jobs but that's it that's an you always have to

00:55:18.360 ask yourself is the juice worth the squeeze is it ultimately worth it for for the betterment of of

00:55:23.880 all of us right so i don't think that we can't embrace ai we must embrace ai but we must do it in

00:55:30.600 as ethical a way as possible and be mindful of what is it doing how is it disrupting and how is it

00:55:36.560 displacing jobs because that's the only thing that we can do now when it comes to entertainment there's

00:55:42.960 going to be all kinds of ways that we can implement ai to make the process more efficient more enjoyable

00:55:48.360 and i have every intention of utilizing ai like that i don't i don't i don't vilify it you know

00:55:54.400 writ large but i think that we must be very mindful about how we implement it in still holding on to

00:56:01.000 human creativity human human um art and entertainment is is at the brink but i also believe you know with

00:56:09.760 with wildwood example being like i think that not only is it necessary you know to prevent let's say

00:56:17.840 the extinction of human art and entertainment but there's also a market opportunity in this because

00:56:22.800 similar to vinyl for example you know once upon a time all music we all listen to vinyl records that's

00:56:29.920 what it was and then the cassette tape came out and everyone said oh well i don't need vinyl anymore

00:56:34.240 i'm going to go with these little you know rectangular plastic you know uh cassette tapes

00:56:39.120 and i'm going to do that great and then the cd came out even more people left vinyl and then streaming

00:56:43.200 and now even more people have left vinyl but the people that held on the people that said you know

00:56:48.080 what yes everyone is going to zig but i'm going to zag i'm going to i'm going to hold on to this i'm

00:56:53.520 going to keep printing vinyl because i believe that there's something special about it unique about it

00:56:57.520 and sure enough vinyl sales have gone up because people are looking for something that's more human

00:57:02.320 more tangible more slightly imperfect with a little crackle a little you know whatever so what why would

00:57:10.080 that's what we intend to do we intend to hold on to we're not i'm not trying i can't save the entire

00:57:15.280 industry that's impossible but i'm going to try and save as many jobs as i can and in doing so provide

00:57:20.800 audiences the alternative and i think a lot of people are going to be looking for that alternative

00:57:25.040 so zach i because i i like you i've been on this for a long time and i have put a lot of thought

00:57:31.120 into because my job is uh you know at stake everybody's job is up oh yeah um and i've always

00:57:38.480 felt well there's something special about humans that we have a different sense to us but i don't know

00:57:45.280 if you heard there was a study done of i think a hundred thousand songs and uh and they did you know

00:57:53.760 what's called hook testing to see which tested the best the i think it was seven out of the top 10

00:58:01.600 were ai and people didn't know it was ai seven out of the top 10 we used to say ai couldn't you know

00:58:10.160 art can never be done so what is it that that you think is going to be unique quickly i mean i believe

00:58:20.320 that there is going to be a huge draw back to handmade individual you know when uh when

00:58:28.720 machines came out and you had factories and they started producing shirts nobody wanted a homemade

00:58:33.840 shirt nobody wanted a handmade shirt they wanted one that was from the factory but now handmade is the

00:58:40.800 best of the best so there's going to be a renaissance if you will of handmade and human made stuff but what is

00:58:49.760 it right now that will bridge this gap that humans can do that you don't think ai can do

00:58:58.480 well i think that you know obviously live performance that's going to be huge right so

00:59:04.320 people in in this in this rebound effect of people saying ah you know it just flooded with ubiquitous ai

00:59:11.760 content a lot of people are going to say oh i want something authentic right and and authenticity

00:59:15.920 is the most important in fact there's been studies done where um you know just from an energy level

00:59:24.800 like you know as humans we we have uh we produce an energy when we have various emotions right and

00:59:31.920 there's lower energy if you're sad depressed angry and there's higher um energies when you're joyful and

00:59:38.400 happy and you feel love but there's an energy even higher than love as they've tested and it's

00:59:43.520 authenticity that is the highest energetic level that we can all reach and so people yearn for that

00:59:49.280 they really do yes live performance obviously is going to be that uh sports is going to have a big a

00:59:56.480 lot of people are you know uh investing in and in sports and live performance because that is going to

01:00:03.040 hold on the longest at least as you know long as long as let's say you know um robots and holograms

01:00:10.480 that's going to start to kind of eat into that market a little bit we'll see how long that goes

01:00:15.040 but but ultimately i have to tell you may i say may may i say something on that have you been to

01:00:19.920 london and seen the abba experience i i haven't but i've i'm very well aware of it and i've heard it's

01:00:26.960 incredible and that's just the tip of the iceberg yeah no it's it's it's beyond incredible it is

01:00:32.720 my son and i said i didn't tell my daughter who was a teenager at the time you know 17 years old

01:00:38.080 that abba wasn't really performing we just didn't tell her and two songs into it i said do you think

01:00:43.440 they're real does it look like they're real and she's like what are you talking about and i'm like

01:00:47.120 that's not real those aren't people and she's like what are you talking about and she couldn't believe

01:00:52.880 it and the first couple of songs my son who was probably 18 17 at the time kept looking at me

01:00:58.880 going dad this changes everything this is not good this changes everything and i mean everything

01:01:06.320 is about to just turn upside down yeah yeah well it's yeah it's already it's like in front of our

01:01:13.440 eyes it's happening already yeah and and and i am not one of those people many people that i talk to

01:01:20.240 a you know a a common pushback that i get is people saying well it will never be able to fully

01:01:29.600 replicate let's say you know human emotion or you know we'll always be able to tell and i just don't

01:01:35.280 believe that i mean i don't believe ourselves no we are um amalgamations of everything that we've

01:01:42.640 taken in right so we're we are we ourselves are kind of llms we we scrape our entire lives we scrape

01:01:49.600 information from our parents our community people around us the you know the internet whatever we're

01:01:54.560 learning all the time and then we are replicating from the things that we learn ai is doing that

01:02:00.240 and it's doing it at scale and it's happening exponentially and we're very very close to it

01:02:05.040 becoming a gi general intelligence which is then just a few steps away from super intelligence and it

01:02:11.440 will be then at that point it will be more intelligent and more capable than not just any individual

01:02:17.280 human it will be more capable and more intelligent than the sum of all humanity so we're stepping into

01:02:23.600 some insane insane territory and when you start you know powering um video agents like google and others

01:02:33.200 that will that will keep popping up um it it's terrifying to to acknowledge that a lot of people just

01:02:40.240 don't they were trying they're kind of burying their head in the sand and saying no no no it won't happen

01:02:44.160 it won't happen it's going to happen at that point i think that what we have to and what i'm hoping

01:02:50.560 that trump and the administration uh are going to be working on in earnest is legislation that at the

01:02:56.560 very least requires all content that is ai generated to be watermarked right so that therefore we know

01:03:04.960 we can say okay i can't tell the difference i don't know the difference but just by looking and

01:03:10.800 listening to it i can't tell if it's real humans doing this or not the difference will be that

01:03:16.000 there will be some kind of watermarking that indicates that and therefore that is what people

01:03:20.720 are going to be looking for in the same way if you go to the supermarket and you're looking at

01:03:24.880 blueberries and that these ones on the left look the same as the ones on the right but there's

01:03:29.200 packaging that says these ones on the right or organic oh those are the ones i'm looking for i want

01:03:33.600 the organic ones that aren't sprayed with glyphosate i'm trying to make certified organic human-made

01:03:39.760 content for free-range artists that that is what wildwood studios is going to be about and also

01:03:45.440 at wildwood studios we're not just going to be making in and and really you know focusing and

01:03:50.160 dedicated to making human uh film television music and video games but also providing amphitheaters and

01:03:57.280 live performance venues so that it's a one-stop shop so people can really know when they go there

01:04:02.160 they support us they're supporting humans in that process zachary uh i appreciate it uh thank you so

01:04:08.160 much and uh anything we can do to help you at wildwood let me know please zachary levi wildwood

01:04:13.120 studios owner uh actor he was you know chuck he was shazam i mean he's a ton of great movies and

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01:05:49.200 in case you happen to be uh watching uh now on blaze tv let me just play this is something that um

01:06:05.680 dave clark just tweeted out he said created this with google flow visual sound design and voice all

01:06:10.880 prompted by using a vo3 text to video watch this

01:06:18.000 when we get in there suv i want no bull you stay on my six at all times

01:06:24.480 suv in the dust uh looks like war zone absolutely 100 believable 0.58

01:06:33.360 stay sharp these are nasty and dangerous stay alert that looks like a little like a game

01:06:38.880 what the hell happened here where are the bodies okay so this is if you look at this

01:06:48.320 it absolutely looks like a film um it absolutely looks real and it's just somebody typing in

01:06:55.360 some prompts uh suv black suv driving in the dust um uh middle eastern village nobody's around guys 0.92

01:07:05.360 interior of the i mean that's all you do and it turns into that but i'm not a filmmaker today

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01:08:34.960 welcome to the glennbeck program i'm thinking about what zachary levi was talking about and we

01:08:57.360 watched that video which is just a few sentences turned into what this i don't know 90 of the way

01:09:04.640 to a future film right like quality wise there's still a a little bit of that uncanny valley gap

01:09:10.960 there that you can kind of see it's a little bit a little bit but it's you know a year ago we had a

01:09:15.840 conversation probably on the air where we're saying gosh look at this video uh that was just shown on

01:09:20.800 the internet that's ai it's incredible imagine what this is going to be like in a year i would say this

01:09:25.520 is better than the expectations for most people of what that's all going to be yeah it's all going to

01:09:31.840 be that way that next what it will do next year no one can imagine at this point i don't i just don't

01:09:39.280 think we have an understanding of the the true power of the exponential growth that we're getting

01:09:45.680 now we have no idea so but i think it's fair to assume from just that projection of what the last year

01:09:51.920 was that we're going to get there right it's going to be as good or better than what most human

01:09:59.760 beings can actually produce yeah wait hang on just a sec with an exception of you know who's a great

01:10:05.840 answer to this is tom cruise tom cruise does all of his own stunts so when you see a tom cruise mission

01:10:13.680 impossible and he is he's actually in the water in the submarine rolling down he's actually in the plane

01:10:20.320 hanging from the edge of it that's actually him and there is something to say for that you know you

01:10:28.880 can go see all kinds of you know uh all kinds of cgi stuff and and it's great and everything else but

01:10:36.560 eventually it just becomes okay i've seen it i've seen it i've seen it every time tom cruise is doing

01:10:42.000 something even though i've seen people hang from airplanes etc etc you know it's really him actually

01:10:48.720 doing it it makes it even bigger and better yeah i think there there is that authenticity that people

01:10:54.240 want right yeah um you know like for example there is uh there's a few horror movie nerds that work

01:11:01.680 here and uh every time one of these movies comes out they're like yeah this is there was that a good

01:11:08.560 movie well yeah the practical effects were blah blah blah blah and like i as a person who doesn't care

01:11:15.200 about the production of horror movies i want to know is it a good movie is it a good story was it scary

01:11:20.320 whatever you wanted a horror movie what they want are the fact that they made all these deaths with

01:11:25.600 practical effects instead of cgi right like because they're horror movie nerds they're always will there

01:11:32.080 always be that audience like will there always be that desire there's the organic thing he was just

01:11:39.760 talking about vinyl records yes there will always but that'll be niche yeah here's here's what i think

01:11:45.760 you know this is not going to affect people like tom cruise joe joe rogan anybody who is at the top

01:11:51.920 of their craft you know i i i witnessed this in the 1990s uh i got into radio in the 70s and so by the

01:12:01.840 1990s i had established a name for myself even though it was a bad name at the time i had established a

01:12:08.000 name for myself and i was good enough to be able to survive the bloodbath that radio became and i said at the

01:12:14.560 time i remember i was i was running several stations uh for iheart and i said at the time where are you

01:12:21.040 going to get your farm team uh how is that gonna you know how are you going to replace the people

01:12:26.320 like me because there's nobody up and coming and everybody was saying it's the death of radio well

01:12:31.360 they've been saying it's the death of radio since you know in the 70s um but uh we didn't know and all

01:12:39.200 of a sudden while they paired all of those people off what remained unfortunately were just the top of

01:12:47.520 the radio people okay those guys who did very well and continued on um but they cut everything else out

01:12:57.760 because there was no farm club now we never saw podcasting coming podcasting is the farm team but now that

01:13:06.720 you are getting uh ai and asi and agi when this really hits and it's going to hit soon 90 of your

01:13:15.360 podcasts are going to be done by ai and you won't know the difference really um you will i mean if people

01:13:26.000 are unscrupulous you should always know what the difference is um but uh you look at people like joe rogan

01:13:33.360 um people you know hopefully like me that have established themselves as real human beings and

01:13:41.120 are at the top of their game and have something real to offer those people will remain i don't

01:13:47.680 know what happens to the farm club you know what i mean yeah i think that's a real problem and it's

01:13:54.080 not just in broadcasting by the way if you want if you want to see uh glenn at the top of his game i

01:13:59.760 encourage you to go to uh x.com studios america and look at the latest baby video um that no that's

01:14:06.720 not necessary uh he really is at the top of his game i think that's all ai it's all ai

01:14:13.520 but like i think you know this is every industry right now like i was listening right to uh somebody

01:14:18.960 describe the legal field right now and you will know i am not a lawyer by the way i described this but

01:14:25.040 like what what do you do how do you develop the next the next crop of great lawyers well

01:14:31.280 people come out of college they go to you know law school they come into a legal firm they're at the

01:14:36.400 bottom doing basic tasks they're looking things up they're producing basic documents all that stuff

01:14:43.440 is already being done by ai in a lot of places so now that experience of development is is really

01:14:50.720 hollowed out so how does how do industries go on when that process is so easily done by ai this is

01:15:00.160 something that really concerns me because we already have a class system in the world that is getting

01:15:07.360 worse and worse okay you know you look at um you look at companies uh the top of their game uh let's

01:15:18.880 ferrari rolls royce whatever you know it used to be that they were making a 200 000 car you know and

01:15:26.080 it was like everybody's like wow it's a 200 000 car you know rolls royce if you go into a rolls royce

01:15:32.320 showroom their cars you know anywhere from 400 to 900 000 okay rolls royce doesn't look at that as a

01:15:41.520 great car that's their entry model they kind of look down their nose at those cars because what

01:15:48.560 they really build are 20 million dollar cars they may build a buy they only build them for like 10

01:15:55.520 people around the world or 50 people around the world but that's what they're doing i think it was

01:16:00.320 ferrari that i just read uh is doing uh they're doing these one-offs and they're all in the millions

01:16:07.680 of dollars okay well what you look at what's happening we are we are getting a class of upper

01:16:16.880 upper upper class and so many companies are now looking at well i'm going to serve that instead of

01:16:23.280 serving you know that and people you know that that are normal human beings everybody's pushing up

01:16:32.560 because the money is is so big up at the top you're you now will also have these this class of people

01:16:41.760 that are accomplished and good and rock solid when this changes those some of those people will shake

01:16:48.880 out and they'll be destroyed others will survive this but they'll be then again in another class of

01:16:56.080 people we're just losing connection to reality to what's what is real life you know what was that

01:17:04.240 what was that movie uh where they were living up in the clouds the rich people were living in the

01:17:10.000 clouds and the average person were living on earth and it was really horrible you remember yeah i didn't

01:17:15.920 see it but i remember the commercial for it okay um it's almost like that i feel like if we're not careful

01:17:23.360 here we're going to leave everybody in poverty the majority and then there's going to be this

01:17:29.600 upper class and they won't be able to even relate to each other because they're so far

01:17:37.840 separated by wealth power um access to technology scary how does that analysis differ from the typical

01:17:47.600 liberal critique of income inequality or does it or it's a crossover say that we have to they

01:17:54.160 say they would say we have to regulate our way out of it i would say that you know the average car now

01:17:58.880 is fifty three thousand dollars that's the price of the average car fifty three thousand dollars

01:18:07.120 that's a year's income for a lot of people um i'm not sure that cars were a year's worth of income

01:18:15.040 uh maybe they were um but i don't remember it that way um and you know can we make cars that are good

01:18:26.240 quality um is there anybody that could make that less than that so the average person could get into it

01:18:36.880 i mean i i don't know i just feel like everybody's pushing towards the top instead of and and and

01:18:44.000 forgetting about the bottom uh and and i i just i would hope that companies don't just focus on the

01:18:51.920 top you know when when if i if i if i were to design something and i would say you know uh you know i'm

01:18:59.520 just gonna i'm gonna present this to you know people that are going to spend a hundred thousand dollars on

01:19:05.600 this um but i'm using that to be able to bring another version of that down to a lower let let

01:19:14.880 them be elon musk that's exactly what tesla tried to do yes and has succeeded in they they their first

01:19:22.800 car we profiled it back in the mid 2000s was uh the tesla roadster which was well over a hundred

01:19:28.720 thousand dollars and was really only made for rich people um and as elon musk took it over that became

01:19:34.880 his focus almost entirely was was yes he was making cars for for you know that go really fast for rich

01:19:40.640 people but it was all in the goal to make low priced cars for everybody when it comes to electric

01:19:46.960 cars yes and quality he makes a quality car now they're still expensive but he's making a quality

01:19:54.720 car i mean if that's the kind of car you want it's not actually a car it's just a it's a battery with

01:20:00.080 wheels but anyway um if you know it's not like you're you're getting a crap box you're not getting

01:20:07.520 the yugo you're still getting a tesla but he's used the upper end that's what happened with flat screen

01:20:14.000 tvs that's the way the market works you when you come up with something and it's going to cost a lot

01:20:19.600 of money to make but you get the rich people to adopt it first and then that brings that price

01:20:24.560 down that is not through regulation that's just good business sense and it's also i don't know

01:20:32.720 carrying a little about uh humanity you know just not being just some rich you know greedy bastard

01:20:39.600 that's like i'm gonna milk these people because i want to live like those people and i could screw 0.74

01:20:44.400 everybody else that's that just comes from just being a decent human being not regulation and i think

01:20:52.720 that is the story of capitalism really right it really has even though not everybody with moral

01:20:58.960 sentiment with moral sentiments moral sentiments even though i i do think overall generally speaking

01:21:05.200 people are you know generally good they want to help uh the the community they want to help their

01:21:11.440 country they want to help their fellow man might not be their main goal all the time and usually mixed

01:21:16.400 into markets there are bad actors people who only care about profits and everything else but the

01:21:22.000 overall current of the of you know the river of capitalism if you will it it brings people toward

01:21:32.080 that end it doesn't always do it in a linear line but it does bring them to that location where

01:21:38.560 yeah you know maybe the rich do get richer and that's true and i don't think that's bad by the way

01:21:43.760 i don't think elon musk being rich is bad it's uh but but it does raise the boat so those people who

01:21:49.440 used to be in the middle class often do leave it but leave it for the upper middle class and people

01:21:53.840 who are in the lower class have a better life in the lower class even though they might not uh

01:22:00.080 raise up in the percentage measure does that make sense well yeah and let me let me i can break this

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01:23:26.720 the financial industry treats investing like it happens kind of in a bubble you know it's you

01:23:41.040 know you get your 401k accounts you get your retirement accounts and they don't just kind of

01:23:45.120 sit there quietly in this magical bubble they actively participate in all sorts of things uh they're

01:23:51.840 they're kind of like votes toward what the company is doing and of course they are literal votes as

01:23:56.560 well when you come to the the proxy voting um many of these companies that you're investing in probably

01:24:01.680 use their resources to support political causes that directly go against what you believe um that's a

01:24:09.520 huge problem for a lot of people um when you talk about investing a lot of people separate that from

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01:25:03.120 so you know stew said you know capitalism works and and uh and you know we've we've always gotten past

01:25:26.400 these things and in in and we'll solve these through capitalism in some ways you're right but we have

01:25:31.840 something now that we didn't have back then and that is uh wedge politics uh cries of of racism sexism

01:25:41.920 whatever it is uh to divide people and then when you divide them you put them in a camp i mean not

01:25:48.960 literally yet but you put them in a camp and then you can do whatever you want because the they're not

01:25:52.960 even real people on the same at the same time you have social media showing you um unrealistic expectations

01:26:01.360 of how to look how to live what wealth is etc etc and so everybody has this unreal unrealistic view of

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01:26:19.600 that's the real problem with uh all of this you know if if you lose the connection to

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01:26:43.600 cars and i have some nice cars and i i pulled into this uh restaurant and i get out of the car and um

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01:29:29.760 The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment.

01:29:43.860 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:29:50.800 Today, maybe half the country is celebrating today because Elon Musk is leaving Washington, D.C.

01:29:58.180 I'm not one of them.

01:29:59.940 And I have a message for Elon and for America about Elon in 60 seconds.

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01:31:27.700 So Elon Factor, Elon Factor, Elon Musk is leaving Washington, D.C. today.

01:31:33.900 He is not in defeat.

01:31:38.460 I don't think he's in retreat.

01:31:40.600 We all expected this.

01:31:42.180 In fact, many of us believed that there was no way this was going to end well with him

01:31:49.240 because he was a strong individual.

01:31:52.700 Trump is a strong individual.

01:31:54.460 How are these two strong individuals going to get along?

01:31:57.260 They got along famously, and we're losing today one of the few individuals in our time

01:32:06.460 that is willing and has been willing to challenge the most sacred assumptions.

01:32:12.000 Here's a guy that when he, you know, when they were talking about, I think it was the X Prize,

01:32:20.520 about, you know, making rockets for NASA.

01:32:23.820 He went to NASA.

01:32:24.860 This is early on.

01:32:26.020 And they said, okay, so here's what we want.

01:32:28.740 And he said, great.

01:32:29.380 And what kind of money do you want this to come into?

01:32:31.720 I mean, what's your goal that I could hit that would make it affordable for you?

01:32:38.680 And they said, what are you talking about?

01:32:39.820 He said, what do you want to spend on this?

01:32:41.840 And they said, don't worry about that.

01:32:43.760 Just make it fly.

01:32:44.880 And he's like, well, there's got to be a budget.

01:32:46.420 No, don't worry about it.

01:32:47.260 It's not about budget.

01:32:48.560 You know, it is about budget.

01:32:50.120 And he knew that that was wrong.

01:32:53.240 And he really, really, it bothered him a great deal.

01:32:56.820 And so here's a guy who comes in, reinvents absolutely everything,

01:33:03.220 and then goes to Washington because he actually believes in something.

01:33:09.300 And he's vilified for it.

01:33:11.720 I mean, I don't know of anybody that has been this vilified, you know,

01:33:18.320 so vital to progress and what humans are experiencing and going through

01:33:25.380 and solving huge problems.

01:33:28.820 I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that and been this vilified.

01:33:34.320 Here's a guy who didn't ask for the power.

01:33:36.780 He didn't seek the favor.

01:33:38.360 In fact, when he said, because he believes something,

01:33:41.740 yeah, I think I'm on the other side,

01:33:44.960 they tried to literally kill him for it.

01:33:48.860 And all he was fighting for was the freedom to invent,

01:33:53.380 the freedom to think differently, the freedom to speak your mind,

01:33:56.840 and also the freedom to remain free by not becoming a slave

01:34:03.080 to an out-of-control government and out-of-control waste

01:34:07.040 and out-of-control spending.

01:34:09.220 He wanted just the chance to build something,

01:34:12.320 and he knew America was the place to do it.

01:34:15.360 And built he did.

01:34:16.340 He gave us the first reusable rockets.

01:34:20.640 I mean, think if I would have said to you six years ago,

01:34:23.860 yeah, we're going to send up some rockets,

01:34:25.980 and you're going to see it instead of just casting into the ocean.

01:34:28.520 It's going to reignite, and it's going to come down in control,

01:34:32.100 and we're going to just grab it out of the sky.

01:34:33.780 No.

01:34:34.260 No.

01:34:36.180 Not only did he do that, he thought that crap up.

01:34:42.340 Here's a guy who completely thinks out of the box.

01:34:45.540 American-made, American-launched,

01:34:48.020 restoring capability that we had already given away.

01:34:51.140 He forced the auto industry to evolve,

01:34:55.120 dragging it unwillingly into the 21st century with electric vehicles

01:34:59.540 that shattered the idea that sustainability has to come

01:35:02.880 at the cost of performance or ambition.

01:35:05.520 Here's a guy who, remember, the big three didn't want him around.

01:35:09.740 He had to break that entire system, and look what happened.

01:35:13.540 Then he took a brand-new platform, a speech that was supposed to free us up,

01:35:21.700 and it had become oppressive, ossified, monopolized.

01:35:26.080 It became the public square, and what did he do?

01:35:30.760 He went in, bought it with his own money, and was like,

01:35:33.360 this can't stand.

01:35:34.280 We have to have free speech.

01:35:35.760 Cracked it open and gave us, again, raw, uncomfortable at times,

01:35:41.000 but vital free speech.

01:35:43.900 It was all back into your hands now.

01:35:46.200 And now with Grok and AI, he's fighting to ensure that the machines of tomorrow

01:35:50.300 are actually aligned with not centralized power, but with human liberty.

01:35:57.660 But for all of this, all of this that would earn anyone

01:36:03.880 a chapter in the history books of the history of man,

01:36:09.360 how is he leaving Washington?

01:36:15.260 I mean, think of that.

01:36:16.820 He has endured the public efforts all around the world to ruin him,

01:36:22.780 coordinated efforts to deplatform, demonetize, to destroy.

01:36:27.580 He's received death threats.

01:36:29.200 His companies have been targeted.

01:36:30.620 His cars are burned.

01:36:32.020 His employees are harassed.

01:36:33.480 His customers are harassed.

01:36:34.940 All the while, he just keeps on doing what he does.

01:36:40.040 And that is, boys and girls, courage.

01:36:44.600 You don't see it very often.

01:36:47.300 That is what real courage looks like.

01:36:50.360 Without getting angry, without being vengeful, spiteful, any of it,

01:36:55.900 he just keeps going.

01:36:58.200 This is real courage.

01:37:01.640 This is the real thing.

01:37:03.340 Real high personal risk, high stakes, sleepless nights, relentless attacks,

01:37:09.200 and the refusal to sit down or break.

01:37:11.600 He's like, no, I believe this is right.

01:37:13.680 That's America.

01:37:15.380 He is really.

01:37:16.860 We have a few great symbols that we didn't have 20 years ago.

01:37:20.740 We have some great symbols of real leaders, real examples of courage and innovation that we didn't have.

01:37:32.700 And he's right up at the top.

01:37:37.020 I mean, history is riddled with people like this.

01:37:41.040 Nikola Tesla.

01:37:42.040 Nikola Tesla is probably one of them.

01:37:44.860 Penniless, mocked in at least his later years.

01:37:48.400 Galileo was, you know, imprisoned because he was telling the truth too early.

01:37:54.240 Winston Churchill, because he was telling the truth too early.

01:37:57.460 Nobody, I mean, he was cast aside until people realized, oh, the barbarians are at the gates. 0.76

01:38:04.420 These are people that saw over the horizon, saw the storms of life, or saw what was capable of being.

01:38:13.040 They came, they spoke up, and they paid dearly for it.

01:38:18.400 Churchill said once, you have enemies?

01:38:25.620 Oh, good.

01:38:27.360 That means you stood for something in your life.

01:38:30.000 Elon Musk, as he stood up again and again, technological sovereignty, speech, enterprise, for the radical, dangerous idea that the individual, not the institution, should shape the future.

01:38:48.440 I think there's going to be a time, and hopefully it's not too far in the future, when the heat has cooled and politics have moved on, that society will acknowledge not only what he's done, what he's given, but the sacrifice that he just went through.

01:39:07.900 But that'll happen, you know, at a time when the real effects of everything.

01:39:17.220 I mean, when the future that he is helping shape right now, better or worse, is really taking root, that's when he'll be recognized, once this nonsense is over.

01:39:32.040 The thing I like about him, he never asked us to trust him, he never asked for our loyalty.

01:39:39.420 But I think he does deserve our respect, you know?

01:39:43.900 I don't care what side of that, I don't care who you voted for.

01:39:46.520 How do you not recognize what this man has done for humanity, especially if you're somebody who believes in global warming, what he's done for humanity, what he is still trying to do, the incredible strides that he has made, and the bravery that it has taken for him just to stand up.

01:40:08.000 I remember, he walked away from his side, didn't expect his side to leave him, but once he had a different opinion of theirs, they just abandoned him.

01:40:17.720 He lost all of his friends, he lost everything.

01:40:24.040 So today, as he is leaving, I would like to say, Elon Musk, thank you.

01:40:30.260 Thank you.

01:40:31.080 You didn't play the game, you changed the game.

01:40:35.020 Thank you.

01:40:35.660 Thank you for reminding me and so many other Americans that progress has never come in polite little packages.

01:40:51.540 It's never been polite.

01:40:53.120 The truth rarely comes dressed in approval.

01:40:56.280 But I think you did some things that are absolutely remarkable, and you're going to continue to do things that are remarkable.

01:41:07.180 Go in strength.

01:41:08.540 Know that history will catch up to you.

01:41:11.220 You're way ahead of the game.

01:41:13.360 Thank you, Elon Musk.

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01:42:48.820 All right.

01:42:50.820 Welcome to the program.

01:42:53.260 How do you think Elon Musk is going to be remembered his time in Washington, D.C.?

01:42:59.460 I mean, I think at some level he's viewing it as a disappointment, right?

01:43:04.620 Like he's talked about this a little bit.

01:43:06.780 You know, he wanted to get more done, right?

01:43:08.280 And I think he ran into the problem that a lot of well-meaning reformers run into when they get to that freaking, you know, rat's nest.

01:43:17.880 It's just very difficult to do, and you have to depend on a lot of people who don't have the same interests as you.

01:43:24.640 I think he should be remembered positively.

01:43:27.120 I think I'll remember it positively.

01:43:28.880 At least he tried to do something, and I think he did identify a lot of actual places we can improve.

01:43:34.360 You know, I don't think it's going to be – honestly, when I think of the Elon Musk final story, like when we watch the CGI AI movie that's made about his life with no actual real people in it later on.

01:43:47.200 This will be a small footnote.

01:43:48.320 This is a small footnote, I think, in it.

01:43:49.800 I mean, you know, think about like the brain implants and SpaceX and all these other things.

01:43:56.800 We were talking about cars last hour, and the cheapest – you said, what was it, $53,000 is the average price now?

01:44:04.760 Is the average price of a car now.

01:44:06.160 Yeah.

01:44:06.420 And how does that compare, Stu, you know, throughout history, inflation adjusted?

01:44:11.140 So it is – part of the increase is people trading into larger vehicles, SUVs and everything else.

01:44:19.500 So that's kind of why that price is so high.

01:44:21.920 Really, as far as inflation goes, the only time you really see inflation any time recently as opposed to, you know, the same car, trying to buy the same car over and over again, an equivalent vehicle, is the Biden inflation era.

01:44:36.380 Like that post-COVID era, but into the Biden inflation era, there is a real rise there.

01:44:43.140 But so it hasn't increased all that much, but still is, you know, has gone up as far as the average price goes.

01:44:50.860 What's interesting about Tesla – like right now, I can go on Tesla.

01:44:55.640 I'm looking at their inventory right now available in my area.

01:44:58.680 I can buy a brand-new Model 3, brand-new, for $34,990.

01:45:04.200 That car has a 363-mile range, at least, you know, that's the advertised amount.

01:45:11.160 It's, you know, again, a decent-looking car.

01:45:13.180 It's the new model, like they had a new redesign, which is –

01:45:15.460 Model 3, that's their smallest model, right?

01:45:17.920 Yeah.

01:45:18.060 That's their entry model.

01:45:18.860 Still some decent space, you know, like again –

01:45:21.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:45:21.500 They're great.

01:45:22.420 Yeah.

01:45:22.720 All the technology, everything is the same.

01:45:24.720 And what I think is undersold here is the fact that that car is now available to way under the average purchase price.

01:45:31.760 There's things to like about electric cars, things I don't like about them.

01:45:35.560 But, for example, and we lose sight of this over long periods of time of how this stuff improves,

01:45:40.920 the Model 3, $34,990, is faster 0-60 than the Ferrari Testarossa was.

01:45:48.680 What?

01:45:49.640 Wait, what?

01:45:50.240 That was a car that everyone in the world wanted.

01:45:52.080 You mean in the 80s, the Ferrari?

01:45:53.540 Ferrari Testarossa, yeah, from the 80s.

01:45:54.760 Testarossa, the world's first real supercar.

01:45:57.920 Yeah, like the car.

01:46:00.400 The car.

01:46:01.060 And, I mean, obviously –

01:46:02.460 It's faster?

01:46:03.560 Faster, yeah.

01:46:04.920 Faster than any car produced in the 80s.

01:46:07.780 The entry model.

01:46:08.280 This is the entry model of Tesla.

01:46:12.120 Now, of course, you'd also have to acknowledge all the safety features are way better.

01:46:16.480 All the technology in the car is way better than anything that Ferrari could even theoretically produce in the 1980s.

01:46:22.160 And that improvement gets lost in what is the average car price, right?

01:46:27.380 These cars are improving all the time.

01:46:29.360 Cars that are way below the average purchase price are much, much better than they were 5, 10, certainly 40 years ago.

01:46:37.100 But do you have to pull the engine out every 25,000 miles?

01:46:40.780 No, no, unfortunately.

01:46:42.060 Of a Tesla.

01:46:42.700 No, it's very low maintenance, actually.

01:46:44.160 If there's a problem with the transmission, does it cost you $75,000?

01:46:49.960 Because that, I mean –

01:46:51.080 Unfortunately, no.

01:46:52.120 That's a – no?

01:46:53.760 No.

01:46:54.000 Wow.

01:46:54.820 Why would you want a Tesla then?

01:46:56.460 They can't replicate that at all, it seems.

01:46:59.240 Wow.

01:46:59.940 But, I mean, that's incredible.

01:47:01.480 That's amazing.

01:47:02.580 And, by the way, we should also note the car drives itself.

01:47:06.760 That's another advantage.

01:47:08.640 I mean, you know, if I'm looking at a $53,000 car, I don't know why I wouldn't buy the Tesla – if you could handle electric.

01:47:16.100 You know what I mean?

01:47:16.600 Yeah.

01:47:17.040 I don't like electric cars and – anyway, but if you could handle electric, why wouldn't you?

01:47:24.240 I know.

01:47:24.740 $35,000 versus $53,000?

01:47:29.480 Yeah.

01:47:29.800 I mean, if you wanted just – if you wanted, you know, like a four-door – that's a four-door, isn't it?

01:47:33.840 It is, yeah.

01:47:34.940 Yeah.

01:47:35.300 So, you just wanted a four-door car, you know, something you're just going to use to get stuff done around, you know, town and et cetera, et cetera.

01:47:43.440 If you don't need an SUV, why wouldn't you do that?

01:47:46.260 Yeah.

01:47:46.460 Like, I think about the way this is all changing.

01:47:48.680 Like, I have, you know, relatives who can't drive anymore, you know, older people who have, you know, eyesight issues and things like that.

01:47:56.760 How close are we, though, to being able to, like, hey, just get the Tesla and it'll just drive you everywhere?

01:48:05.400 I mean, it's not quite there.

01:48:07.100 They're not quite legally approved for you to basically just not do anything.

01:48:10.880 You're still supposed to be able to be there to react.

01:48:12.780 Right.

01:48:12.880 But, like, I think a lot of people as they age are in that position where they don't necessarily want to be in control of the car all the time, but probably could hit that standard.

01:48:23.480 And that standard is going to go away as well where you're not even going to need to put your hands on the wheel.

01:48:28.720 And think about how that could improve the lives of someone who, you know, maybe doesn't have relatives around, you know.

01:48:34.540 My daughter Mary, she's never had her license because she has seizures.

01:48:40.680 Yeah.

01:48:40.940 So she can't have her license, so she has to Uber everywhere. 1.00

01:48:44.380 I mean, that would be great when she doesn't have to have a license, she doesn't have to have Uber. 1.00

01:48:51.180 That's a perfect car for her.

01:48:52.680 And how many Americans are there that are either old or just have a reason they just can't drive?

01:48:58.560 I mean, that's fabulous.

01:48:59.700 And $20,000 less than the average car.

01:49:04.980 Yeah.

01:49:05.140 That's fantastic.

01:49:06.060 That's incredible.

01:49:07.180 And I think that is going to be...

01:49:08.900 Go ahead.

01:49:09.300 If you're ever, you know, got a warrant against you, you know, it'll take your right to jail.

01:49:13.260 Right.

01:49:13.760 So it'll be...

01:49:14.800 There's some negatives.

01:49:15.220 I will say, we all love Elon, but, man, I remember, Glenn, taking calls from people who were like,

01:49:22.660 I'm not going to put that easy pass in my car.

01:49:25.820 They'll know when I go through toll booths.

01:49:28.000 Now, like, every single thing about your life is monitored.

01:49:32.560 Do you know that some cars, I don't know about Tesla, but some cars will send a message in the middle of the night back to the factory

01:49:43.120 so the algorithm on the car's engine can be adapted.

01:49:48.740 It'll say, this is how the car was used today, and it'll make different changes in the algorithm for the engine

01:49:55.160 to make it a better performing car for you.

01:49:57.040 And it's calling, and it's giving what you did, where you drove, everything, every night.

01:50:01.100 Every night.

01:50:01.880 You don't even know it.

01:50:02.740 You're asleep every night.

01:50:03.660 Tesla's deep into that world, I think, yeah.

01:50:04.740 I know.

01:50:05.320 It's pretty incredible.

01:50:06.760 Pretty incredible.

01:50:08.280 But, yeah, don't get that easy pass, because they'll be able to track you wherever you are.

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01:51:48.000 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:52:05.160 So Glenn, do you think, um, when you're looking at the Doge legacy,

01:52:13.260 and you look at Elon's legacy, and when I, you know, legacy,

01:52:16.400 I don't mean the actual legacy of what seems like about 40 children at this point,

01:52:20.020 but I'm talking about his, I'm talking about his, uh, his, yeah,

01:52:23.740 how he will be remembered by the public.

01:52:25.380 The Doge cuts are, they're going to send some little sliver of them in a separate bill now to Congress.

01:52:35.640 Yeah, this pisses me off.

01:52:37.100 $8.5 billion.

01:52:38.560 Now, of course, it's much harder to pass a separate bill, um, and it's only $8 billion.

01:52:45.360 Who do you, who do you blame for this?

01:52:49.080 The GOP.

01:52:52.260 The GOP.

01:52:53.280 What does that mean?

01:52:53.780 Um, I think that, uh, very few of them are serious about it.

01:53:02.520 Um, some of them are, you know, Mike Lee is very serious about it.

01:53:07.020 Uh, Rand Paul is very serious about it.

01:53:10.040 Um, Chip Roy, Thomas Massey.

01:53:12.780 Chip Roy, Massey, they're, they're all serious about it, but that's, you know, there, there's a handful of them.

01:53:17.980 Um, and the rest of them, you know, are either too stupid to get it.

01:53:22.840 I mean, we've spent a lot of time on our debt this week and what it means and what's coming if we don't get serious about it.

01:53:30.160 And, you know, there's $190 billion, uh, that, that Musk, you know, said we can cut all this stuff.

01:53:37.260 Um, and nobody wants to do it.

01:53:40.500 I mean, if you can't, if, if the Republicans can't cut the easy stuff, what good are you?

01:53:47.720 Really, honestly, what good are you?

01:53:50.780 I mean, there should have been, you know, it would have been nice to get up to 900 or 900 million or, I mean, billion or a trillion dollars in cuts.

01:54:00.520 That, that would have said to the world, we're serious.

01:54:03.140 And it would have put us on a completely different course than the one we're on right now.

01:54:08.320 And, you know, Donald Trump is going to do his best to grow us out of this, to set up the conditions for AI and everything else and bring manufacturing back here to America, yada, yada, yada.

01:54:18.080 To try to grow our way out of, of this, uh, debt, but it, it, you have to cut and, uh, you know, I'm, I'm just sick of the Republicans, just sick of them, sick of them.

01:54:31.060 They don't wait.

01:54:32.120 You, okay.

01:54:32.540 So wait a minute.

01:54:32.960 You needed to have the house and the Senate and the white house. 0.92

01:54:35.460 Well, you got all three.

01:54:37.320 Now what's your problem?

01:54:38.400 You don't have big enough spread.

01:54:39.840 You're not doing anything.

01:54:41.180 You're not doing anything.

01:54:43.520 Well, there's, they're continuing much of the spending from the inflation reduction act.

01:54:49.820 That's something that's, uh, yeah.

01:54:51.620 I mean, you can't cut that out.

01:54:53.320 You can't cut that out.

01:54:54.820 You can't say we're going to go back to the spending that we had in 2019.

01:55:00.120 Can't do that.

01:55:01.040 Yeah.

01:55:01.360 Or at least, yeah, just we'll even increase the spending for all the programs that existed when Joe Biden took over.

01:55:08.040 But the stuff that he passed, that is brand new, that people aren't used to and depending on for years and years and years and years, we're going to get rid of the rest of the spending from those programs.

01:55:17.660 You can't even do that?

01:55:19.120 I mean, I.

01:55:19.620 No.

01:55:20.260 You can't, you can't.

01:55:21.940 The money that hasn't even gone out, you can't say we're not going to send that out.

01:55:28.200 You can't even say that.

01:55:29.320 They don't, I can't say that.

01:55:30.540 But some of it.

01:55:31.460 What good are you?

01:55:31.880 Some of that they've, they've pulled back on.

01:55:34.320 That's true.

01:55:35.020 And, and of course there are a lot of good things in this bill.

01:55:37.740 I mean, I think you'd agree with, you know, at least continuing the tax cuts.

01:55:42.860 I know we'd both like more.

01:55:44.540 Yes.

01:55:44.680 But like, if you let those expire, that would be devastating to the economy.

01:55:48.280 Devastating.

01:55:49.240 What do you make of the criticism from some, and this goes mostly towards the right, who are more hawkish on the budget and such, that, look, it's true.

01:56:03.340 The Republicans did not put this in this bill.

01:56:05.660 But Donald Trump could demand this is in this bill.

01:56:08.220 And there's no sign that the Republicans would not take him up on what his demand was.

01:56:13.600 There's no reason to believe they would say no to him if he demanded it.

01:56:17.320 He has not made a big deal publicly pressuring lawmakers to include the doge cuts.

01:56:22.600 So I do have, I do have concerns about that, that, I mean, you know, he should have pushed harder for that.

01:56:35.180 I agree with that.

01:56:36.340 I'm not sure that the Republicans would have gone along with it.

01:56:39.980 Because, you know, if you do have an argument, first of all, you cut, you have all of those Republicans that are part of the game there and have their favorites, and they don't want anything cut.

01:56:58.300 Sorry, gang, everybody's going to have to lose something.

01:57:00.380 I think if he would have made this his priority, priority, it would have happened.

01:57:07.720 But I don't think that is his priority.

01:57:12.480 His priority is elsewhere.

01:57:14.480 And there's some things in this bill that are going to strengthen his priorities.

01:57:18.500 For instance, tariffs.

01:57:20.180 And that was, you know, he was more focused on that and I think more hopeful that maybe the Congress would do their job and they'd care about the spending.

01:57:34.100 But he's not a guy ever that has ever talked about debt or deficit.

01:57:39.000 He does not believe there's a debt or deficit that is too big.

01:57:42.520 He believes the problem is that the economy is not roaring.

01:57:47.120 So let's open the economy and we'll make that money in tax revenue and we'll be able to afford these things.

01:57:54.560 I don't happen to believe that.

01:57:56.600 I believe it to some degree.

01:57:58.420 I think we have to, we must make cuts.

01:58:01.280 But that's never been his thing.

01:58:03.500 Tariffs always have been. 0.78

01:58:04.960 He's never talked out about the debt and deficit to any real degree.

01:58:10.500 It's not his thing.

01:58:11.360 Yeah, that's not, he didn't run on that initially.

01:58:14.000 I mean, you know, he cares about it at some level.

01:58:16.180 Republicans have over and over again.

01:58:18.100 The Republicans have.

01:58:18.820 Yes.

01:58:19.460 Let me ask you about the Musk relationship there.

01:58:24.000 Elon, there's definitely, I think, a clear effort by the media to portray this departure by Musk as this adversarial sort of situation.

01:58:38.780 That they are, they've grown apart.

01:58:40.360 They don't like each other anymore.

01:58:41.540 Or there's been leaks about Trump saying that he was angry at Musk for trying to get some briefing on some China issue.

01:58:49.500 You know, that, you know, a lot of the people inside the White House didn't like Musk.

01:58:56.960 And some of that.

01:58:57.420 That's possible.

01:58:58.160 Yeah, that certainly is true at some level.

01:59:00.880 Do you think that they still get along?

01:59:03.660 Is there this separation point?

01:59:05.220 I think Donald Trump and, yeah, no, I think those two get along, they're thick as thieves.

01:59:09.580 I mean, I think they are, in many ways, two peas in a pod.

01:59:14.240 They understand each other, unlike I think a lot of people could understand either one of them.

01:59:19.220 And I think they are friends.

01:59:20.600 What's interesting is he's, what, a month away from his July 4th goal?

01:59:27.580 He said he was leaving in July.

01:59:29.640 He said, I hope to have this done by July.

01:59:33.300 And, you know, I'm not going to be staying for very long.

01:59:37.500 And then on the anniversary next year, July, we'll have cut X number amount.

01:59:43.600 Now, he's a month away from this July, and I think he just got frustrated.

01:59:51.440 And I don't necessarily think necessarily with the president, maybe, but I don't think so.

01:59:55.780 He just got very frustrated.

01:59:57.160 Like, you know, nobody's serious.

01:59:58.720 Why would I take all of the hits that I'm taking right now?

02:00:02.300 Why would I put my car company in danger, SpaceX in danger, you know, risk the reputation

02:00:09.160 to everything that is, I hold sacred and dear, to do all of this hard work and sleep on the

02:00:16.700 floor?

02:00:17.380 I mean, he was sleeping on the floor, to sleep on the floor, to right the ship on this,

02:00:21.980 and nobody's serious.

02:00:23.760 Screw you.

02:00:24.680 I think that's where he is.

02:00:25.860 That's where I would be.

02:00:26.980 Screw you.

02:00:27.900 Yeah.

02:00:28.120 I'm not doing it anymore.

02:00:29.000 It seems like that's part of it.

02:00:30.060 But I also think that there's a, you know, we were talking about some of the people in

02:00:33.500 the White House and in the surrounding apparatus that don't appreciate Elon Musk.

02:00:38.800 Some of that's been public.

02:00:40.340 A lot of it, I think, is behind the scenes.

02:00:42.300 You're now getting that his departing, the hit pieces, things being leaked about Musk.

02:00:48.400 The recent one today, this is in the New York Times, that Musk was using drugs at high levels.

02:00:55.660 Listen to this.

02:00:57.200 Listen to this paragraph.

02:00:58.580 Mr. Musk's drug consumption went well beyond occasional use.

02:01:01.980 He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that he was affecting

02:01:07.860 his bladder, a known effect of chronic use.

02:01:11.440 He took ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and he traveled with a daily medication box

02:01:16.940 that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall,

02:01:21.840 according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

02:01:26.560 Now, how many people have taken photos, Glenn, of your medication box?

02:01:32.140 I would say that's not common unless someone's trying to destroy you in the media.

02:01:39.520 Right.

02:01:40.100 Right.

02:01:40.660 So is that what this is?

02:01:42.260 Basically, they're just now, everybody who had a problem with Musk while he was there,

02:01:46.080 now that he's out, they all think they can leak stuff negatively to the media to destroy him.

02:01:49.880 Let me give you another perspective on why they are trying to destroy him, the people 0.97

02:01:56.140 in the White House.

02:02:00.220 In a situation like this, and really any real powerful situation, everybody jockeys for a

02:02:07.140 position.

02:02:08.360 I want to be next to the boss.

02:02:09.840 I want to be next to the boss.

02:02:11.640 A new guy comes in, has not played the game.

02:02:14.880 Nobody really knows who he is.

02:02:16.660 He doesn't play by the rules and he'll just go right into the White House and he'll just

02:02:21.480 walk right into the Oval and go, yeah, I didn't talk to any of those guys.

02:02:24.680 Listen, I want to talk to you about this.

02:02:26.840 That must drive the career people out of their ever loving mind. 0.93

02:02:33.700 It's got to drive them crazy.

02:02:36.840 What is he, what is he saying to the president?

02:02:38.640 We've been working, all of us have been working so hard to get the president to go this,

02:02:42.200 this, this.

02:02:42.700 And what did he just say?

02:02:44.500 What did he say?

02:02:45.240 Hey, that's, that's the real problem.

02:02:47.580 I think that the people in the White House have with Donald Trump is his access and his

02:02:52.460 ability to connect with Donald Trump one-on-one without any filter in between.

02:02:58.340 They like filters. 0.90

02:03:00.360 People like filters between the top and access to the top.

02:03:06.140 Well, we learned about this with Joe Biden when he was president.

02:03:10.660 Even his own cabinet secretaries couldn't come see him.

02:03:13.940 Yeah, they love that filter.

02:03:15.240 Yeah, a different kind of way of doing it.

02:03:17.100 Is there a part of this too that's just, you know, germane to the way Trump has kind of

02:03:22.600 constructed his White House, which is like, you know, I think a lot of good things come

02:03:26.360 out of it where he has a bunch of different sort of factions, right?

02:03:29.460 And he has a bunch of people around him who really are-

02:03:32.040 You mean like a team of rivals?

02:03:33.220 Like a team of rivals, right?

02:03:34.320 He has that.

02:03:35.240 And I think there's, at its best, there's really good things that come out of that, right?

02:03:40.880 When people who really care about the country are arguing the best things that, the best

02:03:45.560 policies to go forward and the best approaches.

02:03:47.500 And on the downside of that is there's always people who are just out there to cut everybody

02:03:53.080 else's throat so that they can get closer to Donald Trump so that they can have that

02:03:57.300 access.

02:03:58.120 Is that what's going on here partially?

02:04:00.700 Yeah, I think so.

02:04:02.060 I really, I think Elon Musk is probably pretty pissed because he realized a lot of people

02:04:10.000 aren't serious.

02:04:11.240 And I've just risked a lot.

02:04:12.760 You know, if Donald Trump got in and all the people that he had trusted that he put

02:04:18.780 around him and they were all like, no, we're with you 100% and it was the same kind of situation

02:04:23.600 it was last time, I think he'd be pissed.

02:04:26.180 I think he'd be really pissed.

02:04:27.740 You know, who the hell can I even trust?

02:04:29.980 Now, he risked his life.

02:04:32.180 I think Elon Musk is risking his life to stay, but he's certainly risking his career and his

02:04:39.160 companies and everything all around the world.

02:04:42.220 He's got a bad name now.

02:04:44.900 And I just think, you know, if I'm risking my life, my fortune and my sacred honor and

02:04:53.240 none of you are serious, I'd say screw you in a heartbeat.

02:04:58.560 And I think that's really what it comes down to myself.

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02:07:17.300 isolated stories at all.

02:07:18.800 This is a pattern of religious suppression that is growing more and more aggressive by the day.

02:07:22.700 And while the media attention begins to fade, the suffering continues in silence.

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02:07:40.660 eyes to a crisis that should not be ignored.

02:07:43.760 It's at faithundersiege.com.

02:07:45.480 I mean, how many times have we talked about these situations that have developed around the

02:07:48.780 country?

02:07:49.040 It's a terrible thing, where Christians are just being persecuted for what they believe,

02:07:53.380 nothing more.

02:07:54.600 And that is happening now, not only in areas that have been talked about for decades, but

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02:08:27.460 I've been texting back and forth with Palmer Luckey lately.

02:08:44.160 Hopefully, he'll be on the show here in short order, but we've got to schedule, you know,

02:08:49.340 get our schedules aligned.

02:08:50.380 But there's a story about him going back to work with Zuckerberg at Meta, and oof.

02:08:59.980 Are you bothered at all by some of the defense tech that they're working on now?

02:09:06.360 Because that's what Palmer Luckey has gone into now, is defense.

02:09:09.660 I mean, look, you have to be.

02:09:12.920 It's just like we were just talking about with Teslas.

02:09:15.520 Like, a lot of that technology is amazing.

02:09:17.800 One of the great reasons why Teslas are good is because of how connected they are.

02:09:21.940 However, you know, and I think the same thing here with defense.

02:09:25.540 I want the best defense technology.

02:09:27.220 I want the ability to be able to do all these things to our enemies.

02:09:30.600 But we've seen so many times how it winds up being used by the government.

02:09:34.820 And that is really concerning.

02:09:36.460 So, Luckey revealed the first product will be a military helmet called Eagle Eye.

02:09:42.620 Its equipment will give Army soldiers access to advanced augmented reality systems that make them, quote, superhuman.

02:09:53.460 I don't know how I feel about that one.

02:09:57.340 I mean, I want to give him every bit of technology, but I know that China is working on stuff, too.

02:10:02.420 And, boy, I think we're going to be close to drone wars or droid wars.

02:10:07.540 Clone wars.

02:10:08.120 You know?

02:10:08.480 Yeah.

02:10:08.920 Yeah.

02:10:09.840 Where, right?

02:10:12.560 Yeah.

02:10:13.140 I do think that.

02:10:14.340 I mean, and, you know, I think that is coming.

02:10:17.520 It's just, it's similar to AI in the way that you have to win that battle.

02:10:22.960 You can't not fight it.

02:10:25.160 No, I know.

02:10:25.780 If they don't go down this road and have the best technology, particularly with the military, we're screwed.

02:10:29.720 But you better have bright lines.

02:10:32.160 I know.

02:10:32.420 I just hope that we don't have another big global war because I'd like to see, I'd like to, I'd like to live in a world where none of this technology has to be unleashed.

02:10:41.180 You know?

02:10:41.840 Mm-hmm.

02:10:42.460 Because I think we are in for a huge shock on the next big war that we would fight on, on just how different, everything that we've always thought about war, how different it's going to be.

02:10:56.400 This is Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - May 30, 2025

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