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00:01:22.460 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:25.920 Oh, my gosh.

00:01:29.600 I don't know about you, but my life is out of control since Donald Trump got in.

00:01:35.080 Have you noticed?

00:01:35.960 I mean, we're seeing it in the media.

00:01:37.800 Everything is falling apart.

00:01:39.880 It's going crazy.

00:01:41.200 Everybody is discombobulated.

00:01:43.420 I don't even know what that felt like until doge.

00:01:46.900 Now I know what discombobulated actually means.

00:01:50.280 Oh, my gosh.

00:01:51.100 America is falling apart because they're making cuts too fast.

00:01:56.060 Really?

00:01:58.020 Because I really, I haven't noticed that.

00:02:01.280 We begin there in 60 seconds.

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00:03:00.980 My gosh, everything is in chaos.

00:03:03.500 Nobody's getting food.

00:03:05.740 The price of bacon.

00:03:08.160 Have you noticed?

00:03:09.360 Can you even afford gas now?

00:03:14.260 My gosh.

00:03:15.920 The schools are in disarray.

00:03:17.780 Our children aren't being educated.

00:03:20.600 What do we do with the homeless population that's about to be beaten to death?

00:03:25.940 Because people in America are so transphobic, but there's no classes to learn.

00:03:32.780 Don't hate trans people.

00:03:35.200 What are we going to do?

00:03:36.920 And what is Elon Musk doing?

00:03:42.100 Oh, man.

00:03:42.580 He went into the Treasury, and he started having his people work with the Treasury people.

00:03:50.640 And it was actually the Treasury people that found, well, $4.7 trillion in payments that don't have any, you know, don't have any code or anything.

00:04:03.000 So it's almost untraceable to see where that $4.7 trillion went.

00:04:07.940 But don't worry about it.

00:04:11.200 What?

00:04:12.200 What?

00:04:13.400 It's these doge people that just keep hyping everything and saying that there's problems.

00:04:17.680 There's no problem there.

00:04:18.640 $4.7 trillion that we just can't identify where it went.

00:04:23.260 What do you want a record now?

00:04:25.380 My gosh.

00:04:26.560 Keep calm and carry on.

00:04:28.220 Yeah.

00:04:28.440 You ever hear that?

00:04:29.560 Just so what?

00:04:30.340 There's $4.7 trillion.

00:04:32.600 Just keep calm.

00:04:34.700 Keep going.

00:04:36.080 Everything's going to be fine.

00:04:38.440 So now people are paranoid in Washington.

00:04:42.100 Listen to this story, Stu.

00:04:44.400 This is sad.

00:04:46.380 This is very sad.

00:04:48.380 Government employees are reporting.

00:04:49.780 Could we have any sad music, Sarah?

00:04:51.580 Government employees are reportedly plagued with anxiety over the Department of Government Efficiencies, DOGE, the access to various computer systems, fearing surveillance of their communications.

00:05:04.800 Some employees are paranoid that their conversations, their emails, their texts could be surveilled with some purchasing Faraday bags to block electromagnetic signals or to inhibit potential surveillance.

00:05:18.540 One employee at the General Services Administration, responsible for government procurement, say they no longer carry a phone outside of the office.

00:05:29.760 I used to carry my work phone around with me everywhere after hours on the weekend in case anything was needed.

00:05:35.700 But now I won't take it out of my office.

00:05:38.440 Now, the GSA says it doesn't have a plan to surveil its employees, but people are worried that they're being surveilled now.

00:05:49.220 Now, I don't, I mean, I, I mean, I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but the government's been listening to you and everybody else for a very long time.

00:06:02.400 What, you're just coming around to this?

00:06:05.380 I think the government might be listening.

00:06:07.380 No, no way.

00:06:09.560 Now, add to that anything in your emails or whatever could just be taken without a search warrant.

00:06:18.940 Your GPS location could just be given.

00:06:22.420 Your banking records could be given to the FBI.

00:06:26.500 Yeah, that's right.

00:06:27.280 It could happen to you.

00:06:28.720 But only if you're on the right and were in Washington on January 6th.

00:06:34.800 That was the only way that could happen.

00:06:37.180 So you were safe.

00:06:38.240 You were totally safe.

00:06:41.660 Or are you?

00:06:44.340 This is a reason to make sure the government is transparent.

00:06:48.940 I don't think there's anybody that wants to be surveilled by the United States government.

00:06:52.860 That's kind of been one of our points lately.

00:06:54.860 You know what I mean?

00:06:55.620 We've been saying that for a while.

00:06:57.180 Hey, they could become really dangerous because they have all of our information.

00:07:03.820 And you were like, no, that's not going to happen.

00:07:08.240 I mean, I mean, unless you're for Trump.

00:07:11.660 But that's crazy.

00:07:13.420 Oh, okay.

00:07:15.100 Okay.

00:07:15.560 So yesterday, anti-Trump critics have called for another boycott against the co-founder

00:07:23.220 of Airbnb.

00:07:25.160 He's decided to join Doge.

00:07:28.520 I don't know what he's doing.

00:07:29.680 Maybe putting people up.

00:07:30.860 I don't know.

00:07:31.560 I don't know.

00:07:32.060 $4.7 trillion missing.

00:07:34.560 Maybe he can get a slice of that.

00:07:35.940 I don't know.

00:07:37.180 But he came out and he said that he was going to go ahead and volunteer time for Doge.

00:07:45.980 Okay.

00:07:46.840 Great.

00:07:47.840 Oh, my gosh.

00:07:48.740 No, not great for the people.

00:07:52.160 I mean, the people who are the elites in Washington.

00:07:54.740 You know, the ones that are having to sacrifice right now might lose their cushy government job.

00:08:00.800 I mean, they've had a job.

00:08:02.220 They've been promised a job for life.

00:08:05.300 You know what that's like, right?

00:08:07.100 Never having to worry about your job.

00:08:09.180 Never having to worry about even a review.

00:08:11.920 Because, really, everyone around you sucks.

00:08:15.780 Oh, man.

00:08:16.540 And they might lose.

00:08:17.800 Where's the sad music, Sarah?

00:08:19.080 I need some more sad music for the government employees that might lose their job.

00:08:24.060 Oh, gosh darn it.

00:08:26.640 Can you imagine not knowing if you could keep your job?

00:08:31.140 A new buy.

00:08:31.760 Try this out for size.

00:08:32.840 You probably can't relate to this.

00:08:34.880 But a new boss comes into your place of work?

00:08:38.780 And you don't know if he's going to like you, not like you, change direction.

00:08:42.820 You could just lose your job.

00:08:45.120 I know you can't relate to that.

00:08:47.040 But for the very first time in American history, these poor employees of the government who were promised a job for life and pension better than any kind of pension you could ever get,

00:09:01.440 they now question whether this new boss of theirs might fire them.

00:09:09.320 I don't know how they deal with it.

00:09:11.720 I don't know how they deal with it.

00:09:15.340 Oh, my gosh.

00:09:16.540 The stress they must be under.

00:09:19.040 Just horrible, huh?

00:09:20.660 By the way, Department of Education has canceled $600 million in woke teacher training grants.

00:09:29.740 You've got to be kidding me.

00:09:32.440 So, wait a minute.

00:09:33.960 Are you telling me nobody's going to be teaching our teachers that little Susie could have a dinky sewed on to her body so she could be a boy? 0.89

00:09:46.880 Nobody's going to teach that.

00:09:48.280 What was sewed on again?

00:09:49.700 A dinky.

00:09:50.360 Okay.

00:09:50.980 Put it right there.

00:09:51.840 Mm-hmm.

00:09:52.680 And nobody's going to teach that to the teachers.

00:09:54.760 So the teachers won't be able to teach that to the kids.

00:09:57.860 Oh, my gosh.

00:09:58.700 This is chaos, people.

00:10:01.160 This is chaos.

00:10:03.920 Kind of like, see, I know you can't.

00:10:06.980 I know you can't relate to this kind of chaos.

00:10:09.560 But the teachers are now going to have to go into school.

00:10:13.300 And what they've known to be true their whole life, you know, that gender is fluid, that a boy could be a girl, that, you know, trans is cool, that drag queens.

00:10:26.820 I mean, they grew up their whole life knowing that drag queens were cool for kindergartners.

00:10:33.140 Okay?

00:10:33.500 They knew it their whole life.

00:10:35.080 And then all of a sudden, Trump gets in, and everything changes overnight.

00:10:40.180 Now all of a sudden, you can't relate to this kind of chaos in your life because this kind of chaos has never happened to you where you believe something your entire life.

00:10:48.920 You think everybody believes something for their entire life.

00:10:52.320 And then a group of people get into power, and they're like, no, there's no such thing as kids being able to change their gender.

00:11:06.400 Imagine what these teachers are going through.

00:11:09.140 The chaos in their life.

00:11:15.960 Man.

00:11:19.780 And what is Doge doing?

00:11:21.140 What are they doing?

00:11:22.100 Really?

00:11:22.540 Honestly?

00:11:23.020 What are they doing?

00:11:24.740 Let me give you this story.

00:11:27.180 The Washington, D.C.

00:11:28.220 Non-profit.

00:11:30.920 A non-profit.

00:11:32.480 The Amica Center for Immigration Rights.

00:11:37.920 Has been running advertisements on Facebook soliciting donations to disrupt Trump's deportation machine.

00:11:45.040 Stop Trump's deportation dystopia.

00:11:47.840 We'll see you in court, Mr. Trump.

00:11:53.620 Now, you might not have ever heard of this NGO, but the federal government has heard about it.

00:12:03.480 In fact, they received just last year $9 million as a subcontractor to provide legal services through the Department of Justice Legal Orientation Program.

00:12:16.680 So this is like a quasi-government agency.

00:12:20.820 Here's the good news, okay?

00:12:22.700 You're going to love this.

00:12:24.920 You've never heard of this group before.

00:12:27.380 You might think, hey, I don't know.

00:12:30.220 I mean, didn't they promise us at one point we wouldn't take federal tax dollars to pay for abortions?

00:12:35.920 No, they never promised that.

00:12:38.120 What are you talking about?

00:12:39.180 You've got a faulty memory.

00:12:41.400 I don't know.

00:12:42.440 I'm kind of against illegal immigration.

00:12:45.700 Why are my tax dollars going to fight against the law?

00:12:50.520 Are you a doge person?

00:12:55.980 Are you somebody who likes Elon Musk?

00:12:58.900 Are you somebody who doesn't understand that the biggest threat to the planet, an existential threat, will be dead in 10 minutes?

00:13:08.960 We'll all be dead if we don't take care of global warming in the next, well, about nine and a half minutes now.

00:13:16.600 Hurry up.

00:13:17.180 You're one of those people, and you're for Elon Musk, you know, a guy who believes the same things that you believe about global warming and has done more, you know, for global warming than anybody else alive on the planet.

00:13:35.320 But I see why you hate him so much because of things like this.

00:13:40.480 He's going to make sure that every dollar that you pay into tax, which I know you love because it's patriotic, right?

00:13:48.620 Am I right?

00:13:50.000 Hey, do your patriotic duty.

00:13:51.840 Pay tax.

00:13:52.460 And you love high taxes.

00:13:54.440 You personally love them, right?

00:13:57.120 It's not, oh, tax somebody else, not me.

00:13:59.720 No, no, no.

00:14:00.220 Not with you.

00:14:00.820 You love taxes, and you just want them as high as they can possibly be.

00:14:06.540 He's just making sure that the tax dollars aren't going to something that you don't necessarily agree with because it's unconstitutional, you know?

00:14:22.300 Like, right?

00:14:24.380 You're for this one.

00:14:25.740 You're for this one.

00:14:26.880 You want, because that one makes sense.

00:14:28.840 But can you imagine if those tax dollars, $9 million, Donald Trump used that to prop up, you know, a pro-Second Amendment NGO?

00:14:41.000 Ha! 0.89

00:14:41.420 That would be crazy.

00:14:42.860 We'd have to stop that right now, wouldn't we?

00:14:48.340 This is incredible what they are doing.

00:14:51.920 They have zero credibility on any of this, any of this.

00:14:59.420 How do you defend this, just this, just this $9 million?

00:15:07.920 Well, $9 million.

00:15:09.740 I don't know if you know this, but $9 million here, there, and everywhere kind of adds up.

00:15:14.440 Usually adds up to, oh, my gosh, where did I pull this number up?

00:15:18.560 $4.7 trillion that the Treasury just has no idea where they put that.

00:15:26.400 Look, the world is easy to explain.

00:15:31.260 Our government and what's happening is really easy to explain.

00:15:36.600 So I'm going to slow the train down a bit.

00:15:39.140 I'm going to explain it.

00:15:40.800 I'll do that in 60 seconds.

00:15:43.100 America is not done.

00:15:44.600 One way or another, we still have our country.

00:15:46.960 Thank God for that.

00:15:48.560 Now it's up to you and me to keep proving that.

00:15:51.800 It's time to keep pushing leftist ideology back from the pit from whence it came.

00:15:56.520 And it's time for you and me to put our money into solid American businesses with solid American values.

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00:16:04.380 I don't want your tax dollars to do this.

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00:16:56.720 Station ID.

00:16:58.040 Why not 11?

00:17:09.720 All righty.

00:17:10.860 All righty, then.

00:17:12.340 Let's see.

00:17:15.180 Why don't we just imagine for just a second that our government is a restaurant, a bustling restaurant, okay?

00:17:24.660 Where every section in the restaurant plays a vital role, okay?

00:17:29.980 Because they want to create a memorable dining experience and make the people happy.

00:17:34.640 At the heart of the kitchen is the chef, okay?

00:17:39.960 In this restaurant, that would be called the president.

00:17:42.440 He's the chef.

00:17:43.640 He crafts the menu and oversees the culinary creations all in line with the original purpose of the restaurant.

00:17:51.140 So if it's an Italian establishment, he can't put goulash on the menu.

00:17:55.460 That wouldn't be good.

00:17:57.400 Every four years, the diners, the citizens, if you will, the diners have the opportunity to review the chef's performance and say, yeah, you know, I don't like his fare.

00:18:10.120 I don't think it's good.

00:18:11.020 It's not good for the restaurant.

00:18:12.020 After all, we, the people, the diners, own the restaurant.

00:18:16.860 So in the dining area, the servers, our elected members of Congress, interact directly with the patrons.

00:18:23.420 They're elected every two years.

00:18:25.180 They're hired every two years.

00:18:26.380 Everybody in the restaurant, all the patrons have to say, you know what?

00:18:29.140 I like him.

00:18:29.760 I don't like him.

00:18:31.100 Replace him.

00:18:31.860 But the servers do that because they're attuned to the immediate needs and the feedback of the diners.

00:18:37.120 Now, they can relay compliments and concerns to the chef, suggesting adjustments or new dishes based on patrons' desires.

00:18:44.780 However, they do not step into the kitchen to alter recipes or dictate cooking methods or tell the chef who to hire and fire.

00:18:57.680 Their role is to represent the diner's voices and ensure their satisfaction.

00:19:01.920 The chef, in turn, selects his own kitchen staff, the sous chefs, the line cooks, the dishwashers, without any interruption from the dining room.

00:19:11.560 And the same can be said for the chef.

00:19:14.620 He can't interrupt and tell which servers are hired or fired or which are assigned to which tables.

00:19:19.680 That's not his job.

00:19:21.700 Now, the servers don't influence the chef's hiring decisions and vice versa. 0.98

00:19:26.440 It's a clear boundary, front of house, back of house.

00:19:30.180 That way, the whole thing runs smoothly.

00:19:33.320 Now, just to make sure that this Italian restaurant remains an Italian restaurant, you've got a critic who comes in once in a while when there's a problem or a dispute.

00:19:46.500 And when they start happening between the kitchen and the dining area, the role is to assess whether the chef and the servers are adhering to the restaurant's founding recipes and standards.

00:19:58.960 Are they holding that true?

00:20:00.800 They don't rewrite the menu or manage the staff instead.

00:20:04.220 All they do is just say, yep, that was what was on the menu and looks like he's creating that.

00:20:11.140 Recently, there's been a stir in our governmental restaurant.

00:20:15.520 The chef has decided to revamp the kitchen, bringing in new staff because it's been wildly inefficient and lacking of good flavor.

00:20:27.480 Goulash is appearing on the menu.

00:20:29.700 However, some of the servers are attempting to stop the chef from hiring and firing his own staff, challenging the chef's authority to manage their own team.

00:20:41.900 Now, the situation, again, akin to the chef trying to dictate which servers should attend specific tables.

00:20:48.920 But this is disturbing the force.

00:20:52.080 I feel like there's a million voices crying out and then suddenly silenced.

00:20:59.860 The restaurant has the servers, the chef, and the critic.

00:21:05.420 In the early 20th century, some proposed a different model for our restaurant, Woodrow Wilson.

00:21:13.260 They suggested that a group of experts should oversee both the kitchen and the dining area, believing they knew best what patrons should consume.

00:21:22.120 This sidelined all of the direct feedback from the diners and concentrated the decision-making power leading to a disconnect between the establishment and the owners of the restaurant.

00:21:32.880 In fact, it was never fully understood what they were doing or run by the patrons who only eat there.

00:21:39.540 They're the actual owners.

00:21:40.860 All three, restaurant, chef, the servers, and the critic, were part of a covert plan to hire someone unknown to the patrons who wanted to run the kitchen and serve only goulash.

00:21:53.900 The chef is now making the changes to restore it to an Italian restaurant.

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00:23:37.700 Oh, my gosh.

00:23:39.180 I was just talking to you a minute ago about the chaos in Washington and how troubling it is for those in Washington.

00:23:48.100 They're just, they're just, they just don't know what's coming next.

00:23:52.320 Here's Eugene Vindman, a Democratic representative.

00:23:57.140 Listen to Eugene here.

00:23:58.520 We've already seen that this doge, I call the Department of Government Inefficiencies, is causing a reign of terror, chaos across the federal government.

00:24:10.600 Just this week, they released classified information about a U.S. intelligence agency.

00:24:16.300 They have access to the American people's personal information, bank accounts, and things like that, that they're frankly not entitled to.

00:24:25.620 And so I have a major, major concern about going into government defense and futzing around with the internal systems there and U.S. national security.

00:24:37.620 Yeah, I couldn't agree more.

00:24:40.480 Now, Vindman, is there any relation to the whistleblower Vindman?

00:24:44.940 There is a relation.

00:24:46.100 It's the same person.

00:24:47.400 No.

00:24:47.860 Yes.

00:24:48.520 Really?

00:24:49.040 The exact same person.

00:24:50.440 Wow.

00:24:50.620 So he is a credible, credible source.

00:24:53.280 And I love that.

00:24:54.180 Huh.

00:24:54.400 And the things that he does.

00:24:56.340 Wait, did you get, though, when he said Department of Government Inefficiency?

00:25:00.440 I did, but here's the problem.

00:25:02.440 Just one of the problems?

00:25:03.500 What's the problem?

00:25:03.920 That starts with I.

00:25:05.080 So it'd be doggy, not doge.

00:25:06.820 Yeah.

00:25:07.340 So.

00:25:08.060 Wait, what could it be?

00:25:09.340 Inefficiency?

00:25:11.160 Inefficiency.

00:25:11.900 It could be.

00:25:12.480 Inefficiency.

00:25:13.100 Of course, none of what he said made sense.

00:25:14.780 Right.

00:25:15.460 But come on.

00:25:16.640 He was talking about a reign of terror in D.C.

00:25:19.700 It's a reign of terror.

00:25:21.560 It's practically the night of long knives.

00:25:23.820 Yes.

00:25:24.400 It's scary.

00:25:25.100 This is an American hero.

00:25:26.820 I think he stepped up.

00:25:28.020 Thank you.

00:25:28.780 He has a whistleblower.

00:25:29.400 Stepped up again.

00:25:30.080 Yes.

00:25:30.160 To try to stop this fascist dictator we had.

00:25:33.800 You're a fascist.

00:25:34.840 Unelected.

00:25:35.420 A fascist fascist.

00:25:36.680 You should put the fascist and put the t-shirt and put the word fascist on it.

00:25:40.560 Yeah.

00:25:41.360 Thank you, Keith Olbermann.

00:25:42.520 Yeah.

00:25:42.940 Yeah.

00:25:43.440 So I just think this is sad because your life has been, since Doge started.

00:25:51.560 Oh, completely turned upside down.

00:25:52.960 Yeah.

00:25:53.080 All of America.

00:25:54.660 I haven't gotten the $35 million that the government usually sends me.

00:25:58.580 Really?

00:25:59.020 Yeah.

00:25:59.280 This time of year.

00:25:59.860 Really?

00:26:00.340 Right.

00:26:00.800 For what?

00:26:01.240 Yeah.

00:26:01.380 About every quarter they send me another $35 million.

00:26:03.800 What was that for again?

00:26:04.700 Because I need to change my, the paper that the gerbils are on top of.

00:26:12.780 Oh, the gerbil paper.

00:26:14.020 Yeah.

00:26:14.100 You know how expensive gerbil paper is?

00:26:16.600 Yeah.

00:26:16.940 It's crazy.

00:26:17.520 Yeah.

00:26:17.780 It's nuts.

00:26:18.360 It's crazy.

00:26:19.120 It's nuts.

00:26:19.560 Yeah.

00:26:19.760 Well, I mean, the whole, can you, listen, can you not hear the chaos in the screams in

00:26:26.380 the streets right now?

00:26:27.420 People are like, I don't know what to do.

00:26:29.220 Will my electricity work?

00:26:30.980 Right.

00:26:31.340 Is there anybody at the nuclear power plants or are they going to melt down?

00:26:35.500 We're all thinking the same thing.

00:26:36.900 Is Elon Musk stealing my social security check, even as we speak, for that extra $1,200 this

00:26:44.600 month?

00:26:44.920 How do you think he got so rich?

00:26:46.140 You know he needs it.

00:26:47.000 Yeah.

00:26:47.320 Yeah.

00:26:47.580 They gave control of all of our money to 19-year-olds.

00:26:51.260 Yeah.

00:26:51.760 Right.

00:26:52.160 Computer programmers.

00:26:53.060 That's right.

00:26:53.320 Who we are not supposed to listen to, as opposed to Greta Thunberg, which we should listen 0.99

00:26:57.140 to everything that she says.

00:26:58.440 Right.

00:26:59.020 Right.

00:26:59.560 And what's his butt?

00:27:00.580 The, you know, the vice chair.

00:27:02.640 David Hogg.

00:27:03.340 Yeah.

00:27:03.640 David Hogg.

00:27:04.460 Yeah.

00:27:04.700 Well, those two are material.

00:27:06.580 They are mature, kind of like the other guy we should listen to, who's very mature, Joe

00:27:12.500 Biden.

00:27:13.380 We needed somebody like him.

00:27:15.280 He's sharp as a tack.

00:27:16.460 He's running circles around his aides right now.

00:27:18.660 Nobody even knows.

00:27:19.520 He's the best communicator in the White House.

00:27:20.760 Yeah.

00:27:21.040 Well, I don't think he does, but we know that's not been confirmed or tested.

00:27:26.680 Or denied.

00:27:27.080 Well, we don't know because the aides programs have all been canceled.

00:27:31.560 Actually, no.

00:27:32.060 You know what?

00:27:32.400 He did address, Biden did address that, at least in the debate.

00:27:35.520 He, remember, he said, I took an aides test.

00:27:37.840 Barack took an aides test.

00:27:39.120 I do remember that.

00:27:40.140 So, he did actually, at least at that point, did not have aides.

00:27:42.900 Okay, good.

00:27:43.440 Which is good to hear.

00:27:44.540 Yeah.

00:27:45.080 Good, good.

00:27:45.860 But, yeah.

00:27:46.980 So, this is going well, I think.

00:27:49.040 It's going really well.

00:27:49.680 The resistance is just fortifying.

00:27:52.620 And I'd be terrified if I happen to be Elon Musk because, you know, it's interesting.

00:27:57.440 And, Clint, can you walk me through this?

00:27:58.780 Pat, maybe you can walk me through this.

00:27:59.900 Yeah, sure.

00:28:02.060 My understanding is.

00:28:03.800 Okay.

00:28:04.520 This is just his understanding.

00:28:05.820 And I think I might be wrong here because I don't see what's happening now doesn't fit into my understanding of the world.

00:28:12.020 He's most likely wrong.

00:28:13.200 Right.

00:28:13.500 That's what I'm saying.

00:28:14.500 Yeah.

00:28:14.600 So, my understanding is the greatest existential threat to this world.

00:28:19.800 Yes.

00:28:20.440 Is global warming.

00:28:21.780 Right?

00:28:22.040 Yes.

00:28:22.260 Well, after white supremacy.

00:28:24.120 Oh, it's after white supremacy?

00:28:25.380 I think it's after white supremacy.

00:28:27.100 Okay.

00:28:27.200 I didn't know that because I thought the greatest existential threat to this nation and this world.

00:28:33.460 I think you're wrong here, Pat.

00:28:33.480 Really?

00:28:33.900 I think it's global warming and then white supremacy.

00:28:37.300 Yeah.

00:28:37.720 So, that threat, the 0.9 degrees Celsius temperature rise over a century.

00:28:43.180 Which will kill all of us.

00:28:44.180 Which will kill all of us.

00:28:45.420 Even though we'll all be dead.

00:28:46.340 Was such a big threat that we have to spend trillions of dollars.

00:28:49.620 Trillions.

00:28:50.240 To solve it.

00:28:51.020 To control that global temperature.

00:28:52.520 $87 trillion.

00:28:53.960 So, there's one guy who's been able to actually make some inroads on this.

00:28:59.060 Yeah.

00:28:59.420 He's built the largest electric car company in the world.

00:29:03.260 I love him.

00:29:03.860 He's built one of the largest solar companies in the world.

00:29:07.720 Yeah, done more than anybody else.

00:29:09.080 He's built a spaceship company and the possibility that the global warming is so bad we need to escape to Mars.

00:29:15.920 Yes.

00:29:16.380 Okay.

00:29:16.760 It's that bad and he knows it.

00:29:18.340 And that guy is now Hitler because he wants to cut spending in our government. 0.85

00:29:25.180 Yes.

00:29:25.920 Yes.

00:29:26.120 So, if I honestly want to know from liberals, would you trade Elon Musk right now?

00:29:33.740 If you could get a guy who, like, let's say Elon Musk doesn't build the electric car company.

00:29:39.280 Are we getting the homes?

00:29:39.680 Doesn't build SpaceX.

00:29:40.940 We're making this trace.

00:29:41.880 Do we get the homes?

00:29:42.240 No, it's going to be a draft pick and a player to be named later.

00:29:44.300 We'll get into that in a minute.

00:29:45.040 But what I'm saying is you give up Musk and the electric cars and the solar power and the spaceships to Mars.

00:29:52.800 You give all that up.

00:29:54.020 And in exchange, you'd have him not cutting government spending, which I'm curious which one they think is actually a bigger problem.

00:30:02.120 Because they've taken this person and made him into Adolf Hitler after he solved all the problems you said were the biggest. 0.88

00:30:09.700 After he was the guy who did everything you were asking for, now you think he's Hitler. 0.89

00:30:16.020 I don't.

00:30:16.920 It feels almost as if that whole bull crap about global warming and how it was their biggest problem wasn't true at all.

00:30:25.200 Oh, but you know that can't be the case.

00:30:26.640 No.

00:30:26.860 That's not the case.

00:30:27.200 That's why I said it was my understanding, and I don't think that understanding could be wrong.

00:30:30.160 No, he was the greatest man to ever live until he became Hitler. 0.98

00:30:34.540 That's clear.

00:30:35.400 Yeah.

00:30:35.700 That's clear?

00:30:36.300 I mean, like, wait, Hitler was a kid. 0.53

00:30:38.760 Did he have friends?

00:30:40.080 Sure.

00:30:40.460 They might have said great things about him.

00:30:42.440 And then suddenly he became Hitler. 0.87

00:30:44.640 So the guy who's Hitler basically solved all of our global problems when it comes to global warming. 0.94

00:30:49.900 Did Hitler not take care of the Autobahn? 0.87

00:30:51.700 He did.

00:30:52.260 Did he not create the Volkswagen?

00:30:53.740 In fact, there's a song about it.

00:30:54.500 He's the same thing.

00:30:55.820 Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon, Autobahn.

00:30:57.880 I mean, that's how.

00:30:59.760 It's a short song.

00:31:01.160 Wow.

00:31:01.660 It is a song.

00:31:02.900 Yeah.

00:31:03.420 Speaking of songs, there's a new song out.

00:31:07.420 Oh, yeah.

00:31:08.480 Really?

00:31:08.960 Yeah.

00:31:09.200 There's a new song out.

00:31:10.400 And this one, you know, the one thing the left has that we don't have.

00:31:15.940 Songs.

00:31:16.580 Really good singers.

00:31:17.440 Really good songs.

00:31:18.740 That's true.

00:31:19.140 Solid.

00:31:19.520 Yeah.

00:31:19.740 Yeah.

00:31:19.880 Yeah.

00:31:20.220 So I just want to give you this beautiful, beautiful song written and sung by a guy just

00:31:29.420 out on the street protesting.

00:31:31.020 Okay.

00:31:31.340 All right.

00:31:31.600 Here it is.

00:31:32.480 Trump is not a king.

00:31:36.700 Trump is not a king.

00:31:38.860 Trump is not a king.

00:31:40.180 He's not a king.

00:31:41.420 He's not a king.

00:31:41.800 Trump is not a king.

00:31:42.940 Trump is not a king.

00:31:44.720 Sing along.

00:31:45.840 Never turning back.

00:31:49.120 There's no turning back.

00:31:50.740 Never turning back.

00:31:51.920 No turning back.

00:31:53.600 So he's not a king.

00:31:54.580 Stop the fascist now.

00:31:56.620 Now.

00:31:57.500 Stop the fascist now.

00:31:59.420 Stop the fascist now.

00:32:01.400 Stop the fascist now.

00:32:03.560 Stop the fascist now.

00:32:04.800 Stop the fascist now.

00:32:08.260 No turning back.

00:32:09.700 No turning back.

00:32:11.920 Is it no turning back?

00:32:12.720 No turning back.

00:32:13.460 No turning back.

00:32:14.480 So we should keep the fascist going?

00:32:16.380 No, there's no.

00:32:17.280 How's the Musk regime?

00:32:18.840 No, the Musk regime!

00:32:20.140 Now I just want you to know.

00:32:21.440 How's the Musk regime?

00:32:23.240 It's what?

00:32:24.180 oust the musk regime yeah it's good i just want you to know he's holding his phone up to his face 0.57

00:32:33.920 to read these lyrics well they're complex they are they are trump is not a king

00:32:38.520 uh no turning back stop the fascists now no turning back oust the musk regime regime and 0.94

00:32:45.780 that's the first time i heard it it's that catchy yeah and i don't need a phone to read the lyrics

00:32:50.460 how did you do that i said it's a musical did you have a photographic memory photographic yeah

00:32:55.840 yeah plus it's going to be in your head all day all day long all day long that's incredible singing

00:33:00.300 that your your co-workers will be driven nuts that really kind of stays in your head the whole time

00:33:06.620 because it's really it's sure it's catchy uh but uh there's no union talk in this one no union talk

00:33:15.820 at all that's sad you hear union well the yeah and the musk regime would be a very pro union song

00:33:20.940 i suppose because elon musk not a big union guy maybe that's the biggest problem right not a union

00:33:28.480 guy but i mean the hole in the sky where the tree once was somebody's making money yeah that i mean

00:33:37.180 good stuff good that's really good that's the classic they're good yes guys why is there's a

00:33:43.680 hole in the sky the tree was in the sky the street he was right there and they took the tree so now

00:33:49.340 you see this hole the big hole so the tree used to was in the sky and it rose up higher into the

00:33:53.900 sky made a hole in the sky no no are you really this stupid i think i might be so the tree was 0.88

00:34:00.660 growing from the ground okay okay and you couldn't see the sky because the tree was there but now that

00:34:06.740 they've taken the tree around there's there's a hole no no that doesn't make any sense the tree

00:34:12.520 once was i'm with you glenn normally i wouldn't abide the the stupid shaming but in this case i

00:34:18.560 gotta make an exception because it's appropriate right yeah he's so stupid so stupid yeah the hole 0.95

00:34:24.820 in the sky where the tree once was so there was not a hole there before no no because it was filled

00:34:30.300 by the tree yeah but now but now it's gone but now we can see the sky there's no hole there we can

00:34:35.380 see the sky there's a hole where the tree was the hole but i mean there's a hole you're just stupid 0.92

00:34:41.280 he's just butt stupid but stupid no no no you're saying the hole is in the sky she specifically says 0.90

00:34:45.880 the hole is in the sky she doesn't say there's a hole where there's a hole in the tree some people

00:34:50.720 you just can't help glenn no i know you try try it's true i know it's it's fair it's fair i didn't

00:34:56.360 understand the whole existential threat let me ask you this dummy okay let me ask you this yes

00:35:02.740 washington state uh-huh they're thinking again about getting rid of washington george washington

00:35:09.340 on their flag yeah because they say rightfully so george washington has nothing to do with their

00:35:16.700 state right so there's a hole in the state where washington once was and somebody's making money

00:35:22.840 when they remove him okay yeah yeah but but you might notice the name of the state

00:35:26.820 is similar is similar but it's not it's not the same it's not the same i think it's i think it was

00:35:33.540 named after like bob washington yes yes he was one of the first timber fellers really yeah tim he was a

00:35:41.360 timber feller he was a timber feller he helped create the hole not a timber lady he's a timber feller

00:35:46.180 yeah well at one point he was a lady now he's a yeah okay now he's a man but you just

00:35:51.860 dead shamed him and i did i'm really darn it man this is really hard it's very difficult

00:35:57.940 created a lot of problems just one more song oh yeah another song yeah okay

00:36:01.520 which side are you on which side are you on

00:36:06.860 hey everybody

00:36:08.060 which side are you on which side are you on i'm doing this without looking at my phone too

00:36:14.480 which side against josh we'll fight evan musk no we let scab within our walls we'll fight from dawn to dusk

00:36:26.480 dusk dusk and musk which side are you on which side are you on hey hey hey which side are you on

00:36:36.480 which side are you oh that is yeah yeah yeah that was beautiful man and i feel the energy out on the

00:36:48.160 streets to go and sing those kinds of songs and stand in the cold in washington don't you feel it

00:36:53.920 it's electric in america people are just wandering around going i don't know what to do i can't even feed

00:36:59.800 my children because all the stores are closed because of doge what do i do what do you do

00:37:06.000 whose side are you on okay it's that simple thank you pat pat gray from pat gray unleashed let's talk

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00:38:16.200 glenn beck we'll be right back

00:38:21.200 welcome to the glenn beck program we got a couple of things uh happening next hour we're going to

00:38:45.560 talk about uh does the united states want to leave nato did i say that out loud do you are

00:38:52.560 you're that far on it uh yeah the way they are behaving right now i don't think we have a lot

00:38:57.840 in common with with nato with you know the direction the leadership is going uh and yesterday starmer in

00:39:05.640 uh england said you know we'll put boots on the ground uh uh in uh in ukraine if we have to

00:39:12.780 hmm not me uh no no i mean we've been promised over and over again we would not be doing that

00:39:18.780 so no we will not be doing that um we don't have to leave i mean it'd be nice if they did if they paid

00:39:24.560 for most of it you know we can be there as a helper it still is a pretty big um deterrent

00:39:31.680 yeah it is i will say to what to russia to places like russia yeah for example um you know

00:39:38.780 russia i think again i mean they're pretty clear about that and that they don't want ukraine joining

00:39:43.620 it for that reason sure because they want to they want to go into ukraine and they don't want to start

00:39:48.360 a war with nato sure but that probably means they don't want to go into finland or they don't want

00:39:53.480 to go into poland as well so i don't know i mean i i do think there are problems with the organization

00:39:59.760 i don't know that like leaving it or having it dissolve is necessarily a good outcome for the

00:40:04.380 world though well i don't i you know i don't see us doing that unless uh they just become uh you know

00:40:12.340 dead set against the things that we stand for which is freedom of speech which they are doing right now i

00:40:17.720 i worry about i worry about uh europe i think oh yeah europe is they're not listening to their people

00:40:25.620 and you know when you get somebody to rise from a populist movement in let's say people places like

00:40:32.480 germany it could not be good it might be okay but it also could be a really bad thing but the longer

00:40:41.380 they they remain not listening and responding to the populace the higher those odds go

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00:42:38.640 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program

00:42:48.320 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program uh i've got a fantastic story to share with you

00:42:56.300 i read about it the other day and call up sean spicer and like can you come on to tell this story

00:43:01.920 uh it's it's so satisfying so satisfying but we're going to start in the way back machine

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00:44:23.600 my friend sean spicer how are you sir i'm fantastic how are you i'm so good i'm so good i don't want

00:44:32.000 you to tell the end of the story yet i want you to start yeah i want you to start at the beginning

00:44:36.680 what happened when you left the white house and biden took over as president i'll make you back one step

00:44:44.820 further okay so i stepped down as white house press secretary and the president has always been kind

00:44:49.280 and and and offered to appoint me to a couple boards i he appointed me to two of them one of

00:44:54.160 them was the white house commission on fellows as a commissioner there and then he also was kind

00:44:58.620 enough to make me uh one of the his appointees to the board of visitors of the u.s naval academy so i

00:45:04.520 sworn into office joe biden comes into office and uh and and so on january 20th myself and all of the

00:45:12.660 white house commissioners at that fellowship committee resigned because it's a white house commission

00:45:17.740 and the new president has a right to have people for white house commission fair enough well

00:45:23.280 september 1st i get an email of 2021 and it says dear mr spicer thank you for your service in the u.s

00:45:30.240 naval academy board of visitors um by six o'clock tonight please submit your resignation or you will

00:45:37.300 be fired and i thought whoa what now just for context remember glenn september 1st my term ended

00:45:45.120 november 1st 60 days later i was like you couldn't wait 60 days just to have it for free

00:45:51.300 so so i was like i'd been sworn into office my term was you know ended that time and i obviously wasn't

00:45:57.600 going to get reappointed biden had his right to appoint his people great so it turns out that he

00:46:02.400 fired everybody myself from the naval academy board rest vote from the naval academy board and then a guy

00:46:09.460 named h.r mcmaster for the west point board who by the way h.r mcmaster you remember was the national

00:46:14.780 security advisor to trump three-star army general who was a graduate of west point a distinguished

00:46:19.820 professor at west point and the friday after that that tuesday email was going to be honored at west

00:46:26.160 point as a distinguished alumni in their awards ceremony so anyway he fires us september 1st i don't

00:46:33.400 resign i said if you i'm not resigning you can fire me if you want and then steven miller in america

00:46:38.980 first came to me and said we have an idea i said okay what's the idea he goes we want to sue biden

00:46:43.940 now glenn i'm not a lawyer but i said guys i watch a lot a lot of a lot of law and order but how in

00:46:50.360 god's earth if we sue the guy in september i mean my term ends november 1st we're never going to get

00:46:56.940 back on the board and they said no no no let's go to court and make joe biden argue that he has

00:47:04.360 the absolute authority to fire anybody and because you're we're not going to win the case

00:47:09.240 they'll they'll rule against us and i was like oh this is brilliant so the only people but here's

00:47:15.280 the kicker the only people who were willing to put their name on that lawsuit are myself

00:47:20.160 and russ vote of all of the other people that were so honored that president trump

00:47:25.200 had appointed them and they went to everyone said hey will you sign on to this and they said

00:47:29.900 uh thanks we're busy russ vote so the case became spicer et al v biden it goes up to the court

00:47:36.440 the court says the president has the absolute authority to that we appeal the decision it goes

00:47:41.740 to the appeals level and the the court again reaffirms the decision that joe biden and the

00:47:47.140 president of the united states have the absolute authority to fire everyone and the media started

00:47:52.500 calling glenn and they go you lost the case and i said at the time did i so donald trump gets elected

00:48:02.080 and i this is where it gets really fun you'll love this because you know you know the rest of the

00:48:07.340 story here it comes yes thank you paul harvey so so so the new york i write this story in the

00:48:13.200 this op-ed for the new york post saying hey guess what spicer v biden has given president trump the

00:48:18.280 authority to fire anyone he wants i hope that president trump executes it and the white house

00:48:23.200 is tweeting it you know sending me messages back guess who we just fired guess who we just fired

00:48:27.180 and i'm living in this glory well i write this piece for the new york post explaining hey here's what

00:48:33.060 we did here's the legal basis all these people who are about to get fired by trump should thank

00:48:37.640 president biden for this now here's where it gets fun the new york post in the edit editing process

00:48:43.660 says to me okay well was it just the service academies and i said no they had the right to fire

00:48:47.920 anyway and they said well give us some examples and so i've got the list of boards and commissions

00:48:53.240 that the president can appoint to there's like a couple hundred or two and i start reading one of

00:48:58.500 the editors i said well they could fire you know there's the battlefield commission there's the

00:49:02.080 truman scholarship there's the kennedy center she goes oh what's that in the op-ed what that people

00:49:07.160 will identify with that and then we went we added a couple other examples to the op-ed so the op-ed

00:49:12.500 gets published in the new york post and i it gets a lot of coverage whatever and president trump

00:49:17.900 continues to fire people and when they fire the board of the kennedy center the washington post

00:49:24.140 calls you know the spokesman for the kennedy center and he says are you going to be opposing president

00:49:30.160 trump firing you and on the record the spokesman for the kennedy center says we can't

00:49:36.080 get spicer b biden sets the precedent for this gives the president the authority to do this

00:49:41.240 so the now here's the kicker the washington post called me and says what do you think about what the

00:49:47.420 kennedy center saying now i have a hard enough time keeping up with president trump i don't focus on what

00:49:53.040 the kennedy center saying i'm sorry that's really not my thing so i said so i said i don't know and they

00:49:59.500 go are you serious you don't know that they just cited your case as the reason that they can't oppose

00:50:05.200 or uh or object to what president trump just did and i said oh my god that's amazing i'm glad to

00:50:11.460 have played a small part a day later the reporter calls me back and says i went and read all of the

00:50:17.800 court documents and you're right and i said of course what do you mean i'm yeah i wasn't lying to

00:50:23.460 you and he said i've got to write this big story and i said to my team at the time my family i was like

00:50:27.880 oh my god this is not going to go well the washington post wants to write a story about spicer b biden and why

00:50:34.220 it's given the president the authorities and sat then i get a text and it says hey we're running

00:50:38.560 we're putting the story up and i go oh like these don't these things don't end well for people like

00:50:43.840 me and people like you it's like you don't get that it's like getting a call from the irs it doesn't go

00:50:48.740 well and they go hey i'm from the washington post and i'm writing a story about glenn beck yeah thank you

00:50:54.420 yeah so so i i click on the story and i'm reading and i'm like okay okay okay like when's the bad part

00:51:03.840 coming and the only part is i normally you know there's that phrase glenn where people say that

00:51:09.180 they they hate watch msnbc or something yeah yeah and i hate i hate read the comments i had to do it

00:51:15.400 i had to do it i normally will not read the comments i don't read the twitter replies whatever

00:51:20.420 but i read the comments and these snowflakes they're so offended they're like sean spicer's

00:51:26.960 an evil person for suing the president i'm like wait a second you you have to understand the context

00:51:32.300 never in the history of the united states had any president ever removed somebody from a service

00:51:41.360 academy board prior to their term being done for anything less than malfeasance and even that we

00:51:47.160 can't find an example never joe biden was so petty and the point is they're mad at me

00:51:54.520 the comments there's like thousands of comments when you click on the washington post story and i

00:51:58.700 posted it on my social media stories if someone wants to go read it and i was like wait a second

00:52:03.060 you're mad at me they're like i can't believe you did this and i'm like wait wait wait i did nothing

00:52:09.380 i literally had 60 days to go i'm sure i would have gotten some little you know medallion from the

00:52:14.740 naval academy said thanks for your service be on your way and yet here they are like all these

00:52:21.380 snowflakes putting comments in the washington post that like i'm the bad guy because why because i

00:52:27.800 stood up and said hey you want to argue that you have to do this then give a future republican

00:52:32.680 president now at the time myself and russ vote had no idea president trump hadn't even declared for

00:52:37.140 re-election yet but we thought to ourselves hey you know what we'll stand up now like i said i watch a

00:52:42.760 lot of law and order but that's my legal prowess here um so so the idea that this case now which

00:52:49.640 we thought at the time hey let's try it has now become the basis for which president trump can run

00:52:55.520 around and say you're fired legit is amazing and i'm just i'm like it get the post wrote in the story

00:53:02.180 that i was giddy i think that's an understatement i am so ecstatic that not just that president trump can

00:53:08.280 execute on this strategy and that it was joe biden that set the president and gave us this gift

00:53:14.620 is such sweet poetic justice you know whenever anybody tries to force their way it it never ends

00:53:21.900 well never ends well but think about this they tried to de-platform trump they censored him they took

00:53:27.280 him off the ballot they sued him civilly and criminal and it just it's backfire backfire backfire

00:53:31.920 learn your lesson folks like i just to me i get such a kick out of this because these dum-dums 1.00

00:53:38.960 keep thinking if we just go after them one more time it'll work and it doesn't so what is the

00:53:44.820 strategy now do you think they have what i mean because none of this is working no no i i hope that

00:53:51.980 it's continue i mean i just love the fact that they keep trying they double down on stupid and they're

00:53:57.300 like what if we just try it one more time and i'm like god bless you but the idea is just at some

00:54:03.780 point you know you you take i was i was take the loss and just say let's regroup let's retreat he's

00:54:10.420 not running again maybe we stop making it about him and we think about what we're for i don't tend

00:54:15.860 to give a ton of advice to the democratic party but at some point recognize it for 10 years you've

00:54:20.720 tried to say that donald trump's the problem we're going to come up against him and it hasn't worked

00:54:25.280 so maybe just maybe you try to rethink this whole strategy so i look i don't really care if that's

00:54:34.120 their problem not mine uh i uh you know i performed at the kennedy center 10 12 15 years ago uh and it

00:54:42.420 was like it almost took an act of congress uh to make that happen i mean you can you can rent out

00:54:47.420 the kennedy center and do whatever you want on there well they had a problem with me uh and they told

00:54:53.860 me at the time i was the first show ever done at the kennedy center that displayed the american flag

00:55:01.900 on stage i found that incredible but i don't care what happens at the kennedy center it doesn't matter

00:55:08.180 to me but the left is freaking out they're just freaking out what i see here's the thing there's a

00:55:16.220 bigger arc that i think is taking place in the first term we were somewhat apologetic we were like yeah

00:55:22.980 you know that remember just think about this and remember the kennedy center is just one thing so

00:55:27.840 president trump can keep firing everybody but but the the when in 2017 we came into office the kennedy

00:55:33.520 center honors right which is supposed to be this annual thing where all these leftist awards and and

00:55:38.240 they celebrate each other they said we won't come if trump shows up and so trump was actually magnanimous

00:55:43.900 and said you know what i i just you guys go on have your event i won't go okay and and i think that

00:55:50.500 there was a lot of feeling around and trying to understand the trappings and and like i said i

00:55:55.280 it was it was just it was new what do we do how do we approach this this term he says screw it you're

00:56:02.280 all fired i'm taking over the board i'm in charge i'm putting my people and i love it this idea that

00:56:08.400 we have learned and this is what i mean about the arc it said don't be don't be you know don't be

00:56:15.000 afraid don't be apologetic fight go out there why are we ceding ground at the kennedy center

00:56:20.840 why is it that glenn beck is the only person that puts an american flag on it why aren't we saying you

00:56:25.520 know what let's bring in more people who do that let's be proud let's be patriotic let's use this

00:56:31.520 institution to celebrate america but i don't understand like the mentality is so different now

00:56:37.260 it's let's fight yeah let's do this i think it's this is i think i love it i think it's absolutely

00:56:44.180 fantastic i thank you for what you did and you know the only thing that would make it better is if

00:56:48.780 you or i were on the board of the kennedy center and we could announce that lee greenwood's residency

00:56:54.260 was now taking place at the kennedy center i think you just like just so you know i now that you've like

00:57:01.240 that's definitely not going to be the last time that we hear that you can take credit for it but

00:57:05.480 i have a feeling we would be leading the residency of like several other country artists

00:57:11.820 that would be fantastic thank you so much i appreciate it sean spicer you bet sir all right

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00:58:38.860 somebody's got to make a meme for that uh

00:58:51.500 can you imagine how they would freak out they just freak out i don't know what they expect us to do

00:59:01.300 you know what are they what are they or well it's just gonna be people with banjos up there playing all

00:59:08.100 the time well banjos i thought that was artistic i thought we should appreciate those kinds of

00:59:13.720 things i know npr will have banjo bluegrass nights from time to time is that not belong at the kennedy

00:59:21.200 center i mean what do they expect us to do i that's why i really want a meme of donald trump

00:59:26.600 announcing lee greenwood's uh residency at the kennedy center i would not be surprised if that happens at

00:59:33.380 all and they would believe it they would absolutely the left would absolutely believe i would believe it

00:59:38.040 and would not be surprised if it happens at all i don't know if residency but i have absolutely a

00:59:43.120 show oh of course 100 and what's wrong with that there's nothing wrong there's nothing wrong with

00:59:47.800 that i mean he should be able to you remember the trouble we had getting into the kennedy center

00:59:52.220 it was impossible basically and it was all history it was all legitimate there was nothing in it that

00:59:58.600 was anti-anything uh they want these institutions though right they oh yeah institutional capture

01:00:04.640 very important on the left and the arts are probably the place they've targeted the most

01:00:09.360 and you know i mean they've succeeded largely they have succeeded and it's time to to push back

01:00:17.400 against those things i mean i don't to me honestly the kennedy center what we should do with it is listed

01:00:22.340 on zillow frankly and i know and get rid of it completely there's no reason for to even have

01:00:27.640 anything like that no but especially with when it has to do with the federal government someone

01:00:31.620 will take that over privately and they'll be happy and they'll make a lot of money with it sure or lose

01:00:36.300 a lot of money but i don't care yeah uh but uh the bottom line is that shouldn't be the business of

01:00:40.980 the federal government at all but considering it is it should be at the very least representative

01:00:45.940 of the country right not just a left-wing only institution

01:00:50.140 what about lee greenwood as the phantom of the opera

01:00:55.700 there's a show

01:01:00.520 i like it you could direct it are you going to get on the uh kennedy center board or what oh i would

01:01:08.900 i would kill to i would kill to be on the board you should i mean legitimately should be

01:01:13.640 i legitimately should i mean seriously it would be a really good choice you're one of the very few

01:01:20.000 conservatives who have taken art seriously for decades you legitimately were on the 100 most

01:01:25.820 important people in the world of art by a real art magazine uh several years ago you have uh i mean

01:01:32.620 you sell paintings for more than hunter biden can even sell them for like legitimately you should be

01:01:38.500 on that that would be a really a really good thing i think if this thing is going to exist

01:01:45.240 you should be on that board well i think they already have appointed all the members of the

01:01:49.780 kick somebody out yeah expand the board do whatever you need to do i'm the person that could bring the

01:01:55.660 residency of lee greenwood yeah kennedy center you know you couldn't put me on a board because i would

01:02:03.080 want to do things like that just to drive them insane oh and that's totally inconsistent with the way

01:02:08.080 trump thinks that's that's what he lives for what are you talking about

01:02:13.800 we absolutely he's you seriously like there should be a movement to get you on that board

01:02:20.660 you do it i mean number one you would actually take it seriously i would and you would do a good job

01:02:25.620 and also you would have many ideas that were serious ideas that would piss the left off

01:02:31.620 to no end this is what you were made for oh yeah it would your entire life is leading to this

01:02:38.380 moment you should absolutely be on this board it could be well i wrote the president a letter yesterday

01:02:43.540 uh and posted it and elon musk retweeted it right away and said yes uh and i was asking for

01:02:51.200 a role in something else that he's doing uh and there's a chance he just might do it maybe maybe not

01:02:59.520 with me but he's there's a chance he's going to do this i'll talk about it in uh the next break stand

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01:04:48.520 so it is weird uh it's almost like great minds think alike and then i think that way sometimes too

01:05:09.660 because elon musk this weekend said we should go in and uh see the gold reserve on friday i gave ricky

01:05:18.020 a letter that i uh that i wanted to send to the president and ended up sending it yesterday

01:05:23.440 morning uh because it needed edits uh but anyway it just said i want to read it to you dear president

01:05:30.740 trump i hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits in the years that i've had the

01:05:35.120 privilege of observing and reporting on your leadership one thing has remained abundantly clear

01:05:38.920 you are a man who values transparency accountability and the right of american people to know the truth

01:05:44.860 about their government it's in that spirit that i'm reaching out to you with a request of historic

01:05:49.240 significance one that could restore the faith in our financial system silence speculation and reaffirm

01:05:55.260 the trust in the american people in the foundational integrity of our economy for decades the question

01:06:00.820 of america's gold reserves has been a subject of controversy fort knox the vaults at the federal reserve

01:06:08.000 and other depositories reportedly house the gold uh the gold reserves that underpin our nation's financial

01:06:14.340 security yet though on paper america is the world's largest holder of gold there has been no full

01:06:22.400 independent audit of these reserves in over 70 years this has led to widespread speculation conspiracy

01:06:31.820 theories and growing distrust in our institutions at a time when americans are most skeptical than ever

01:06:37.740 of their government and financial elites a simple yet profound act of radical transparency could be a

01:06:44.420 game changer i'm asking you for the opportunity to bring a camera crew under the strictest security

01:06:49.960 measures to document and verify the presence of america's gold reserves this would not be a spectacle

01:06:56.300 or a stunt but a serious journalistic endeavor to restore confidence in what should be an unquestionable

01:07:03.100 truth that the wealth of the american people is indeed intact and accounted for the implications of this

01:07:10.980 cannot be overstated restoring trust in our monetary system with inflationary concerns rising and increasing

01:07:18.260 discussions about digital concerns currencies and central bank interventions proving the existence of

01:07:24.400 our gold reserves would reinforce the strength and stability of the u.s dollar

01:07:28.940 b shutting down speculation from wall street insiders to everyday citizens many have questioned whether

01:07:36.520 the gold we claim to have is actually there a definitive answer provided through an open and

01:07:42.100 verifiable process would put an end to decades of uncertainty c defining act of transparency you have long

01:07:50.900 been the champion of exposing corruption and inefficiency in our government what better way to demonstrate

01:07:55.820 your commitment commitment to the people than by doing what no administration has done in nearly a

01:08:02.160 century opening the doors to america's vaults and letting people see the truth for themselves as

01:08:09.240 someone who has spent my career seeking the truth i believe this moment is not about gold it's about

01:08:14.920 reaffirming the principles of honesty and accountability that made america great if our reserves are indeed secure as

01:08:23.240 the government claims there should be no reason why the american people cannot see them with their own

01:08:28.840 eyes i understand the sensitivity surrounding national security but i am more than willing to work

01:08:34.240 within the necessary parameters to ensure that this is done in a responsible manner but i firmly believe

01:08:41.280 that this is a unique opportunity for you to demonstrate once again that you stand with the american

01:08:46.400 people against the forces of secrecy and unchecked power i'd welcome the opportunity to discuss this further

01:08:52.320 at your convenience and explore how we can make this a reality this could be a defining moment in your

01:08:57.140 legacy of fighting for transparency and putting america first thank you for your consideration

01:09:01.480 sincerely glenn beck uh sent that letter to the white house yesterday uh and i also tweeted it i would

01:09:09.200 love for you to retweet um immediately uh elon musk retweeted it and said yes uh and uh senator mike lee

01:09:20.080 uh got into the fray somewhat because people were saying oh that's not true they haven't no there hasn't

01:09:26.700 been full transparency since the 1950s in 19 i think it's 1974 they let some senators in without camera

01:09:36.300 crews to verify that yeah the gold is there well that's not an accounting where is the accounting of

01:09:45.300 our country's gold there were and i'm i'm pulling these numbers out of my butt here so don't hold me 0.68

01:09:50.920 to these exact numbers but in like 1940 we had like 697 million ounces of gold okay that's a lot of gold

01:10:01.540 it's my understanding we're down to about 160 million uh ounces of gold okay i think i'm not sure but

01:10:14.080 i would do my homework on this i think most of that is because we are we rebuilt europe we took our

01:10:21.740 resources and sent it back to europe to rebuild europe uh don't know if that's what happened to it

01:10:28.540 but you know those numbers are out so there's something that is clearly that happened and it was all on the

01:10:35.500 up and up i believe uh but those 167 million ounces of gold are those at fort knox they say half of it

01:10:46.220 is underneath the streets of new york in the federal reserve vault where they are holding it for us

01:10:53.680 i'm not really comfortable with the federal reserve holding our gold i don't know why we wouldn't have it

01:10:59.200 in fort knox but that's a different story but both of them need to be audited audited meaning somebody

01:11:05.520 needs to go in and count every brick and not just count up and across okay right you take each brick

01:11:14.560 weigh it uh and do an analysis on it and count it and put it back in it'd be fascinating i mean we it's been

01:11:23.260 a while since we had an al capone's vault type of special and we can go in there and there's be like

01:11:27.660 papers on the floor and it'll be fascinating yeah that would be it was a letdown with al capone

01:11:33.200 not on this one it would be big news it would be big news if there was nothing in the vault yes

01:11:37.540 yeah and i don't know i mean i it's hard to know exactly what's going on with all that but we should

01:11:43.020 know and and honestly like they have this bill coming up this reconciliation bill i think it would be

01:11:47.160 very easy to put in there an annual a biannual review uh for to check this out and make sure it's

01:11:55.380 all in there i mean do you know that nobody knows no one single person knows how to get into the vault

01:12:00.520 it's like several people that have their portion of opening the door at the vault so it takes several

01:12:07.600 people to open it really yeah i mean i just love just for i mean they and they wouldn't show that to

01:12:12.840 us you know uh you know and here's what you do next to open the vault i mean they're not going to

01:12:17.840 show that but it would be fascinating to know the security just on that building do they have a get

01:12:23.060 smart type of thing going on yeah you get into a phone booth and you go down yeah yeah they should

01:12:27.840 just put that in even if it's not necessary right right we're wasting money on so much other stuff

01:12:32.400 why why not this we spent what 10 million dollars on people getting circumcised in mozambique

01:12:37.940 right we can't get a phone booth why not get a cool phone booth yeah that whole um situation with

01:12:43.340 the social security numbers where there's millions of people that are like 130 years old yeah uh that

01:12:49.420 are uh have social security numbers and are technically still in the books they say you know

01:12:54.220 it's it's actually not that big of a deal that you know they've been a lot of it is you know it's

01:12:58.840 just paperwork stuff and they're not actually receiving payments i think something like 98 percent

01:13:03.440 of the people uh over 100 are not receiving payments now it does indicate that there's

01:13:09.020 probably a few people that are and we should find out who is on that list because there are some

01:13:14.140 people that actually of course are over 100 years old so some of those should be fine but we should

01:13:18.400 be able to check that out pretty quickly and they're like you know the question is cost benefit

01:13:22.560 analysis here it's like the benefit really just to take a bunch of you know numbers off of a list

01:13:27.840 doesn't really do much good for the american people and would cost five to ten million dollars to do it

01:13:32.780 why why would it cost five to ten million dollar let's just start here everybody over 130 you

01:13:41.240 just immediately delete if one of them says hey what's going on with my social security payments

01:13:46.140 i want them in the world record i want them in the world record book let's meet them right and

01:13:49.760 let's triple their payments until they die right just for fun right you know maybe at 130 we

01:13:55.020 automatically triple your payments if you can make it that long at 105 i'm thinking about doing that

01:14:00.040 okay fine congratulations you made it to 105 but 110 i cut you off but like there's no

01:14:05.400 secondary question as to why it would cost five to ten million dollars to remove a bunch of names

01:14:11.840 from a list of people who can't possibly be alive that that's going to cost us 10 million dollars

01:14:18.140 it's like when they always say that with the wall there was like it's going to cost 10 million

01:14:21.900 dollars a mile why why is it going to cost 10 million dollars a mile well i i mean i just it's

01:14:30.180 just absurd and they keep doing these things to us over and over and over again and the left of course

01:14:35.260 puts all sorts of weird restrictions on it it's not as if every single thing you see because when you

01:14:41.220 see oh gosh there's people that are 190 years old with social security numbers that are active

01:14:45.840 the immediate thought understandably would be okay well that's a real scheme and someone's stealing

01:14:53.340 money or whatever in reality there are government reports on this that say that those people and it

01:14:58.580 doesn't seem like they actually are receiving money it's just a record-keeping thing but like

01:15:01.820 why not clean it up take 10 minutes that's a 10 minute database delete so the story that's

01:15:08.720 going around with this is that elon musk repeatedly claim that he found all kinds of fraud

01:15:14.560 in social security but i look at the quote and in the oval office press conference he said

01:15:21.120 a cursory examination so first exam examination of social security we got people out there that are

01:15:27.100 150 years old now do you know anybody at 150 i don't know they should be in the guinness book of

01:15:31.880 world records so that's a case where i think they're probably dead now the articles that i'm reading

01:15:39.000 immediately go into that's just the broken system there there's nobody it was 150 that's scamming the

01:15:48.980 you know the system there that money is well you don't know that for a fact just like you can't say

01:15:55.300 elon musk elon musk can't come out and say massive fraud you can say massive fraud if all of these

01:16:03.960 numbers are still active and paying out you could say that it would be massive fraud you can't say

01:16:11.540 it's not massive fraud you can say it probably isn't but this war on words is just insane because

01:16:22.760 what stu just said is the point why do we have a question on it there was a story out today 4.7

01:16:30.880 trillion dollars not marked for anything from the treasury department now elon musk didn't find this

01:16:38.780 his people who are working with treasury people they're the ones who found this and brought it to

01:16:44.800 the attention and what it means is there's 4.7 trillion dollars of checks where it doesn't you

01:16:51.580 know where it says at the bottom next to your signature four nothing's filled in in that space

01:16:57.800 they'd have no idea what 4.7 trillion dollars where it went what it was for now that could be fraud

01:17:08.860 but shouldn't we know shouldn't we just look into that i mean i don't understand how people are

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01:19:03.080 you ever seen a liberal's hands smoother than a snake on oil guess they're more worried about the

01:19:13.060 meaning of the word female than the word work glenn beck will be right back

01:19:19.540 welcome to the glenn beck program we are so glad that you are here thank you so much for listening

01:19:46.580 you know the thing on uh the gold that we have to be very very aware of uh and why it is important

01:19:52.960 is we are talking about um putting more assets on our balance sheet so in other words i mean we're not

01:20:01.040 broke if you want to count all of the oil that we have in alaska you put that on our balance sheet

01:20:06.960 and that takes a lot of debt uh worry away so they're looking at rebalancing everything but when

01:20:14.820 you go in and look at the the gold you have to make sure that all of the gold is marked u.s treasury

01:20:21.420 when we when i saw not us when the federal reserve returned the gold of germany to germany they demanded

01:20:29.840 it would be released from new york sent back to germany took us about two years to transfer that but

01:20:36.000 they got it but when they got it uh it wasn't stamped german uh it had been re-poured

01:20:43.900 why why why wouldn't you return the german gold to germany the speculation is is re-hypothecation

01:20:56.220 that we have used this gold for several countries and just kept counting our gold and their gold is our

01:21:03.400 gold and our gold and their gold as their gold and it doesn't there's not enough money to there's

01:21:09.960 not enough gold to cover all of it and that all of the countries were in on it uh and that a lot of

01:21:16.680 this gold is not there anymore i hope that's not true uh but i don't trust the federal reserve

01:21:23.560 at all and i don't think we should they've been they've been the ones who have brought us this

01:21:29.140 golden golden era of the stock market where the rich just keep getting richer and the average person

01:21:36.840 is struggling that's the federal reserve uh i don't think we trust them with our gold

01:21:43.500 more in just a second

01:21:47.560 this is glenn beck

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01:23:06.840 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:23:12.820 Well, hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:23:15.800 Back in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games,

01:23:18.460 Tom Brokaw narrated a special about the allyship between Canada and the U.S.,

01:23:25.240 and here's part of what he said.

01:23:26.580 In our darkest hours, Canada has been with us.

01:23:30.840 On September 11th, as the United States shut down its airspace,

01:23:35.140 Canada instituted Operation Yellow Ribbon,

01:23:38.340 landing 239 U.S.-bound flights with 33,000 passengers

01:23:43.460 at 17 different Canadian airports.

01:23:46.520 And then, amid the uncertainty that followed,

01:23:49.560 entire communities housed and fed those thousands of passengers for days afterward.

01:24:00.620 In the long history of sovereign neighbors, there never has been a relationship as close, productive, and peaceful as the U.S. and Canada.

01:24:07.820 We share a continent, and so much more.

01:24:11.080 Speaking before the Canadian Parliament, President Kennedy summarized the relationship this way.

01:24:17.920 Geography has made us neighbors.

01:24:21.180 History has made us friends.

01:24:23.180 Economics has made us partners.

01:24:26.180 And necessity has made us allies.

01:24:30.180 Those from nature have so joined together, said Kennedy.

01:24:36.440 Let no man put us under.

01:24:38.100 Do we still feel that way about Canada?

01:24:41.500 I mean, I do.

01:24:42.880 I don't know if they feel that way about us right now.

01:24:46.300 And here's maybe the most important.

01:24:48.120 I don't really care.

01:24:49.100 I really don't care.

01:24:50.060 But we're going to go into what's happening in Canada and Europe.

01:24:56.460 Is Donald Trump getting out of NATO?

01:24:58.920 And is that a good idea or a bad idea?

01:25:01.160 We go there in 60 seconds.

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01:26:01.680 All right, let's go to Canada and one of our good friends up in Canada, Ezra Levant.

01:26:06.640 Hello, Ezra.

01:26:07.220 How are you?

01:26:08.840 It's great to be on the show.

01:26:10.260 You know, I love America, and I love Canada, too, and I don't think I have to choose.

01:26:16.500 I also love Trump, by the way.

01:26:18.840 And so it's been a bumpy few weeks because Trump said, hey, Canada, fix your border problem or we're going to slap you with tariffs.

01:26:27.500 And when you think of open borders, you think the Mexican border, right?

01:26:30.900 And it's true, the vast majority, numerically, of the smuggling of people and drugs is from the Mexican side.

01:26:38.160 But Canada's not perfect.

01:26:39.500 It's getting worse.

01:26:41.020 There's actually more would-be terrorists that are nabbed on the northern border than the Mexico border.

01:26:46.900 And a lot of Chinese as well.

01:26:48.500 Yeah, exactly.

01:26:51.040 And the cartels are active in Canada, including not just the Mexican cartels, but, you know, there's big meth labs being found in Canada every week.

01:26:59.380 Here's the thing.

01:26:59.980 If you look at the announcement that Trump made, this was back, I think, in November.

01:27:04.020 He said, look, by the time I'm inaugurated on Jan 20, I want you, Mexico, and you, Canada, to basically do the preparatory work to seal the borders.

01:27:16.640 Start working on it now.

01:27:18.660 Or else I'll slap you with a tariff.

01:27:21.140 So I think a grown-up would say, okay, he wants us to seal the borders.

01:27:25.840 We should probably do that in our own interest anyways.

01:27:28.360 And he's got an or else in there that maybe stings a bit, but let's just do the work because it's in our interest, too.

01:27:34.420 Trouble is, Trudeau said, no, I'm not going to seal the border.

01:27:38.860 I'm not going to crack down on illegal migrants and illegal drugs, even though that's something we should do. 1.00

01:27:43.060 I'm going to focus on the or else, and I'm going to get into sort of a staring contest with an ally 10 times bigger than us.

01:27:51.720 And I've watched Trump's announcement.

01:27:54.560 He wants the border fixed.

01:27:56.340 The tariff is the or else.

01:27:58.680 But here's the thing, and I don't know if Trump really thought about this because he's dealing with bigger fish, like he's dealing with Ukraine.

01:28:05.140 He's dealing with Gaza, and he's dealing with the economy and the fires in L.A. and getting his nominees through the Senate.

01:28:12.060 So he's dealing with huge things.

01:28:13.340 I don't think he's following the minutia of Canadian politics because let me tell you one thing I think Trump didn't count on.

01:28:20.020 I mean, Trump's a master negotiator, and the thing about a negotiation is the other guy, you know, you've got to be willing to walk away, and you've got to make it so the other guy sort of doesn't want to walk away because his alternative is worse.

01:28:34.760 But here's the thing about Trudeau.

01:28:36.100 I don't know if you remember this, Glenn, but in January, Justin Trudeau announced he was going to resign, and that's going to take effect on March 9th.

01:28:45.100 That's like three weeks from now.

01:28:47.620 So Trudeau doesn't have the interest of getting a deal.

01:28:51.020 He wants his final few weeks as prime minister to be, you know, an epic superhero coming to save Canada.

01:28:58.940 He wants to be Captain Canada fighting against the big bad Trump.

01:29:02.780 He doesn't actually want a deal, Glenn, because that's boring, and that looks like he's taking orders from Trump.

01:29:10.580 If he fights Trump, if he says, no, no, no, I don't want to spend a few billion on border security.

01:29:16.520 I want to get in a $100 billion trade war.

01:29:19.180 See, Trump's not used to negotiating with a guy who actually wants to hurt himself.

01:29:25.580 But why would Trudeau want that?

01:29:27.440 Two reasons.

01:29:28.240 Number one, to change the narrative.

01:29:30.500 He's the Captain Canada saving our country from the big bad Trump, and we've got a lot of Trump derangement syndrome over here.

01:29:36.380 But number two, Trudeau has wrecked our economy through taxes and debt and inflation and cost of living.

01:29:43.180 And so if Trump actually does bring in punitive tariffs, Trudeau can say, uh-huh, this is on Trump.

01:29:50.440 It's not me.

01:29:51.060 I didn't wreck the economy.

01:29:52.180 Trump did.

01:29:52.860 So the thing is, Trump is dealing with a guy who is acting in bad faith.

01:29:57.000 Justin Trudeau wants a trade war.

01:29:59.960 He wants our countries to fight.

01:30:01.840 So let me ask you this.

01:30:04.640 I've been watching the reaction of some Canadians, and they're like, we're not going to become the 51st state.

01:30:10.440 Do you guys understand trolling?

01:30:12.920 Donald Trump, he's calling Trudeau the governor of the 51st state to minimalize him as a mock of Trudeau.

01:30:24.700 We're not thinking about buying you.

01:30:27.140 We're not offering to buy you, and we're certainly not sending troops up there to take you.

01:30:31.360 Do the Canadians just not understand that?

01:30:34.480 I think it's a combination because here's the thing.

01:30:37.340 For the last 10 years, Trudeau has tried to denature Canada.

01:30:41.960 Our founding prime minister is named John A. McDonald, Sir John A. McDonald, our version of George Washington.

01:30:48.020 He's on our $10 bill.

01:30:49.620 There's statues of him everywhere.

01:30:51.300 Trudeau stripped him off the $10 bill.

01:30:53.700 Trudeau presided over his statues being knocked down.

01:30:58.060 Trudeau has told us that we are a country that committed genocide against Indian people.

01:31:05.000 Trudeau calls us sexist, racist.

01:31:07.180 He says, and he told the New York Times, we have no core values.

01:31:11.640 We're basically a hotel.

01:31:13.360 So he changed our national anthem.

01:31:16.720 Who asked him to do that?

01:31:18.460 Like, he's doing all these things.

01:31:20.200 He went on...

01:31:21.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:31:22.400 He changed your national anthem from O Canada to what?

01:31:26.100 It's still O Canada, but he changed the words.

01:31:28.860 And, like, who asked him to do that?

01:31:30.780 He went on Anderson Cooper's show, and Anderson Cooper said, well, tell me what's a Canadian?

01:31:35.580 Okay, that's a question you'd expect a prime minister to answer.

01:31:38.400 He said, well, we're not Americans.

01:31:40.640 That's not an identity.

01:31:43.020 That's sort of an attitude.

01:31:45.420 And so here's a guy who, for 10 years, has derided what it means to be Canada, and he's

01:31:50.400 given away citizenship to millions.

01:31:53.320 So I think Trump, in his uncanny way, detected within Trudeau a bit of an inferiority complex,

01:32:02.100 a bit of a weakness.

01:32:03.840 And so that 51st state thing, governor thing, it actually stings because Trudeau has spent

01:32:10.760 10 years destroying our national identity.

01:32:12.520 And Trump must have grokked that somehow, because every time Trump says that, it actually

01:32:18.960 hurts because we have spent 10 years destroying what's made us Canadian, and Trump figured it

01:32:25.400 out.

01:32:26.260 So, well, he's very good.

01:32:28.060 He's very good at knowing where people's weaknesses are.

01:32:31.980 I think that's one of his real skills in negotiating.

01:32:36.040 He knows what the other side is thinking and what they're afraid of.

01:32:40.440 Um, let me, uh, let me ask you this.

01:32:44.380 Uh, are we, is this going to turn into something?

01:32:49.700 Well, you know, there was some booing and there was a hockey game between our two.

01:32:53.320 No, we're very well aware of it.

01:32:55.060 Yeah.

01:32:55.520 And, and the boo, I think people are, there's some people sort of startled because the idea

01:33:00.840 of fighting with America is unthinkable.

01:33:02.720 Like we're, you really, you almost can't tell a difference between a Canadian and American

01:33:07.080 other than how we pronounce a few words, like a boot, the hoose, how long you'll wait for

01:33:13.000 healthcare.

01:33:13.660 Yeah.

01:33:13.860 There's just a few things.

01:33:15.400 I mean, there are some differences, of course, but I can't think of two countries that are

01:33:18.840 more similar.

01:33:19.480 Correct.

01:33:19.640 So the idea that we're in some battle with America, it's confusing to Canadians, but

01:33:24.580 here's the thing.

01:33:25.200 And let me just say a quick thing about the first 51st state.

01:33:27.280 You know how California is this huge electoral college that always goes Democrat every time.

01:33:33.480 Let me say this to my brothers in the United States.

01:33:35.820 You do not want another 41 million people who will vote Democrat.

01:33:39.660 Oh, we've made that point.

01:33:43.200 We've made that point.

01:33:44.520 That's right.

01:33:45.020 I myself would be a Trump supporter in a heartbeat and maybe the province of Alberta where I'm

01:33:50.500 from would.

01:33:51.040 Right.

01:33:51.180 But, and by the way, I know you have some challenges with French, sorry, Spanish bilingualism.

01:33:56.380 You know, a quarter of our country's French.

01:33:58.220 Oh, we know.

01:33:59.180 So, I mean, get ready for French to be spoken in your Congress.

01:34:03.080 I'm just saying, you know, there's probably a few details you didn't think about, but let

01:34:06.480 me tell you what, what actually matters.

01:34:09.960 I don't know if you know, but the, our free trade agreement, the Trump renegotiated with

01:34:14.340 Canada, it already gives you everything you want.

01:34:17.540 We have 170 billion, with a B, barrels of oil in our oil sands and you have access to

01:34:26.100 it.

01:34:26.240 You have preferential access to it.

01:34:28.920 And so when Trump talks about slapping that with a tariff, my phrase is, how's that American

01:34:33.340 first?

01:34:34.260 You're the customer.

01:34:35.820 You need that oil to displace the conflict oil you're buying from OPEC.

01:34:39.780 Like, how about instead of slapping oil with a tariff, since that's just going to your

01:34:45.600 refineries, we're the number one source of American oil other than America.

01:34:48.740 You make about half of your own oil in Texas and other places, but the other half, we're

01:34:54.180 your number one source.

01:34:55.040 Then comes Mexico, then Saudi Arabia.

01:34:56.960 How about replace that OPEC oil with more Canadian oil?

01:35:02.320 And I know Donald Trump's a dealmaker, art of the deal.

01:35:04.620 Well, how about do a 50-year deal with Canada?

01:35:09.420 You could buy every one of those 170 barrels of oil, 170 billion, and that would last you

01:35:16.440 50 years.

01:35:17.760 You would be able to displace every single foreign barrel of crude, $13 trillion deal. 0.99

01:35:24.040 That's a bigger deal than Greenland.

01:35:26.160 You have access to that oil.

01:35:28.120 It's yours.

01:35:29.600 But most of the companies operating there are American-owned.

01:35:33.280 Even the Canadian companies, they're all listed on your American stock exchanges.

01:35:36.520 You own the companies that are making the money.

01:35:39.320 It's like it's American all the way down. 0.75

01:35:41.740 And you don't want China to get access to that oil.

01:35:45.120 China's poking around Canada's oil sands.

01:35:47.540 What does China want? 0.99

01:35:48.880 China wants you to push Canada away. 0.91

01:35:50.760 Don't.

01:35:51.440 Don't, don't, don't, don't do it.

01:35:53.900 And I just, I think that Trump is shooting at Trudeau, but hitting us.

01:35:59.120 Don't do that.

01:35:59.560 I have a creative way to get back at Trudeau, but don't do it by attacking Canada.

01:36:03.920 What's your creative way?

01:36:05.820 Well, I'll tell you.

01:36:07.080 I mentioned before that Justin Trudeau said Canada has committed a genocide against our

01:36:12.440 native peoples.

01:36:13.520 But he says that in the present tense.

01:36:16.400 He says, we are committing a genocide.

01:36:19.120 Really?

01:36:20.680 That sounds like a crime against humanity.

01:36:22.480 What if Trump were to issue an executive order saying, taking notice of Justin Trudeau's

01:36:28.560 confession that he is presiding over a genocide.

01:36:32.500 We hereby put sanctions on Justin Trudeau and his cabinet.

01:36:36.560 They may not enter the United States.

01:36:38.540 They may not fly over our country.

01:36:40.140 They may not do that.

01:36:40.920 So just like Trump is doing with that international criminal court.

01:36:46.000 Yes.

01:36:46.500 They wanted to arrest Netanyahu.

01:36:47.920 If you smack Justin Trudeau around, he loves going to New York.

01:36:51.860 He goes down to New York and parties and he sort of does, you know, what happens in Vegas

01:36:56.140 stays in Vegas.

01:36:57.060 Trudeau loves going to America.

01:36:59.320 If you took that away from him, Trudeau would be floored.

01:37:03.680 Go after Trudeau.

01:37:04.820 You want to punish Trudeau?

01:37:05.780 Me too.

01:37:06.500 I got some ideas.

01:37:08.760 But don't treat it.

01:37:10.220 Ukrainians, get all the oil you want. 0.98

01:37:12.720 Let's be good friends.

01:37:13.620 And by the way, you do a $13 trillion deal to buy all our oil for 50 years.

01:37:18.480 Now we got some money to build up our armed forces and be your best buddies again, like

01:37:23.120 we were on D-Day.

01:37:24.260 Okay.

01:37:24.520 Like we were in Afghanistan.

01:37:25.960 Ezra, hang on just a second, because I want to switch because Europe is freaking out

01:37:31.140 about Trump saying, you know, I don't know, maybe we don't involve ourselves in NATO anymore.

01:37:36.760 What he said in Germany, or what J.D. Vance said in Germany was absolutely right. 1.00

01:37:41.820 The people of Germany look like they were with the United States, but Europe has changed

01:37:48.780 a great deal.

01:37:49.860 And I want to talk to you about that here in just a second.

01:37:51.700 Give me 60 seconds back with Ezra Levant.

01:37:53.740 He's the founder of Rebel News, which is kind of the blaze of Canada and host of the Ezra

01:38:00.480 Levant show.

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01:39:19.320 Here's a little event from Rebel News in Canada.

01:39:27.800 Did you see the speech by J.D. Vance last week and then in Germany?

01:39:33.380 You saw them both?

01:39:35.120 Oh, yeah.

01:39:35.700 When he was talking to the Munich Security Conference, and he just said, look, why are

01:39:41.060 you guys abandoning our values of freedom of speech?

01:39:43.880 And he gave lots of examples.

01:39:45.140 It was incredible, and I think it really wobbled them a bit.

01:39:50.540 It shook them.

01:39:51.280 Oh, yeah, it did.

01:39:51.940 I mean, the guy who was, you know, head of the conference cried at the end, saying that

01:39:55.880 we don't have anything in common with America anymore.

01:39:58.420 And I'm like, wow, that's quite a statement.

01:40:00.580 He was talking about freedom of speech.

01:40:03.880 But Canada...

01:40:04.360 No, I looked it up.

01:40:05.020 Go ahead.

01:40:05.620 Go ahead.

01:40:06.380 Well, I was going to say...

01:40:07.120 The U.S. has...

01:40:08.820 Go ahead.

01:40:09.440 No, no, no, go.

01:40:13.300 Now neither of us are going to go.

01:40:14.520 Okay.

01:40:15.140 But Canada and the European Union, they're kind of headed in the same direction.

01:40:21.960 And I...

01:40:23.140 It's especially Europe, it feels like they're just an organ of the WEF, and they're not

01:40:29.440 listening to their people.

01:40:31.820 What happens if we...

01:40:34.620 I mean, if we keep our values and they are opposed to our values, we're no longer allies,

01:40:43.460 nor should we be allies.

01:40:44.840 I agree with you, but there's one difference between the EU and Canada.

01:40:49.620 The EU is largely unelected bureaucrats.

01:40:52.920 They have...

01:40:53.660 You know...

01:40:54.500 Right.

01:40:55.160 It's a terrible monster.

01:40:56.780 Whereas Canada, we are just weeks, or at most months, away from a new election.

01:41:03.320 And all the polls show that Trudeau's party, even if someone else leads it, will be thrown

01:41:09.460 into the dustbin of history, and a new conservative leader named Pierre Polyev will win.

01:41:14.900 And he is very much friendlier to America.

01:41:17.880 He's pro-conservative, pro-military, anti-woke.

01:41:21.340 He's against the carbon tax.

01:41:23.500 He's pledged to scrap it.

01:41:25.120 He's pledged to get rid of our state broadcaster, the CBC, which is very left-wing.

01:41:30.040 So I'd say one huge difference is that Canadians are waking up.

01:41:34.520 The last poll I saw for Trudeau, until this latest superhero revival that he's been able

01:41:41.640 to do by being Captain Canada, he was as low as 16% in the polls.

01:41:46.140 So we were sort of almost done with Trudeau.

01:41:48.600 But funny enough, Trump sort of pumped him up a bit by giving him the 51st state battle

01:41:53.300 to fight.

01:41:53.980 Can I throw one more thing at you?

01:41:55.580 Yeah, I've got about 90 seconds.

01:41:57.700 In energy.

01:41:59.140 Europe buys a lot of its energy from Russia, which is why Russia couldn't afford to evade 0.88

01:42:03.540 Ukraine.

01:42:04.500 You're buying a lot of oil from OPEC.

01:42:06.640 If you bought Canadian oil instead, you wouldn't have to be so militarily deployed in the Persian

01:42:12.700 Gulf.

01:42:13.280 You could be there by choice, not by necessity.

01:42:16.200 You spend $50 billion a year on the U.S. Fifth Fleet defending the Persian Gulf sea lanes.

01:42:22.420 How about just fill up the Keystone XL pipeline and get Canadian ethical oil instead?

01:42:27.660 That's my counter-argument to the tariffs on Canada.

01:42:30.560 Lean into the oil sands.

01:42:31.900 Don't push them away.

01:42:32.840 Okay, replace your OPEC conflict oil with Canadian ethical oil.

01:42:37.340 And then if you want to play around militarily in the Middle East, fill your boots.

01:42:41.160 But you're not doing so just to be the security guard to escort that oil to America.

01:42:46.240 You divide $50 billion a year into the oil America buys from the Persian Gulf, it's like

01:42:51.060 $100 a barrel in military costs just to get that oil.

01:42:54.620 This is my argument, Glenn, for our countries becoming closer friends, not pushing each other

01:42:59.120 away.

01:42:59.600 You've talked me into it.

01:43:00.640 I think we launch military plans against Canada this afternoon and just take all that oil.

01:43:06.660 You don't need to.

01:43:07.920 You've already got all the access to it in the world.

01:43:10.240 It's already in mind by American companies.

01:43:13.120 I know.

01:43:13.660 Ezra, thank you so much.

01:43:14.860 Always great to talk to you.

01:43:16.500 Blessings to you and Canada.

01:43:19.180 Not Trudeau, but everybody up in Canada.

01:43:21.080 We love you guys.

01:43:21.900 Thanks, my friend.

01:43:22.680 You too.

01:43:23.140 Bye-bye.

01:43:23.480 Bye-bye.

01:43:24.560 All right.

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01:45:09.820 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:45:29.920 We're glad you're here.

01:45:30.920 There's a story about Ukraine today, and it is about all of our allies freaking over in Europe.

01:45:39.260 Not all of them.

01:45:40.120 Poland is fine.

01:45:42.180 But Poland, or sorry, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands are like, 0.58

01:45:51.600 well, we need a seat at the table for this Ukraine thing.

01:45:55.420 United Kingdom is the one.

01:45:56.540 Remember, it was Boris Johnson that went over and said, don't take the peace deal.

01:46:00.520 Don't do it.

01:46:01.160 Don't do it.

01:46:02.520 Well, we're going to let you into the room?

01:46:05.580 You weren't for peace then, and I don't think you are now.

01:46:11.040 But they're all claiming that they have to have a seat at the table, and Donald Trump said,

01:46:16.040 I don't think that's going to happen.

01:46:18.500 Why should they have a seat at the table?

01:46:20.400 It's between Russia and Ukraine, and we're the ones making this happen. 0.97

01:46:26.040 And importantly, it's not between Russia and us.

01:46:28.840 No, it's not.

01:46:29.160 We have a role in that, because really, without us, Ukraine has no defense.

01:46:34.320 I mean, is Europe going to step up and spend all those hundreds of billions of dollars?

01:46:37.280 Well, they're trying to.

01:46:38.380 And if they want to, they can.

01:46:40.540 Do you know they spend, if they're lucky, they spend 3% of their GDP.

01:46:46.080 Lucky.

01:46:46.400 I think Poland is the only one that is doing more than that, and it's 4%.

01:46:51.400 Most of them do less than 2% of their GDP for defense.

01:46:56.260 Do you know how much we spend on defense as a percentage?

01:47:00.400 Right in that percentage, right?

01:47:01.920 It's anywhere from 15% to 20% of our GDP.

01:47:06.000 Fiscal years of spending has typically accounted for 15% to 20% of total federal budget.

01:47:12.480 Fiscal year 2023.

01:47:14.500 Of the budget.

01:47:15.580 That's different than GDP.

01:47:16.500 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:47:17.080 Gross domestic product.

01:47:18.040 Oh, yeah, sorry, sorry.

01:47:18.260 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

01:47:19.540 Of the budget.

01:47:20.600 Federal spending was approximately $6.2 trillion.

01:47:24.860 That was, for 2023, 13.8%.

01:47:29.620 Yeah.

01:47:30.520 So, yeah, that's which is, you know, we spend about $850 billion-ish on defense.

01:47:35.040 It would be 3.36 of GDP.

01:47:40.640 Right?

01:47:41.480 Yeah, that's about right.

01:47:42.780 Which is actually pretty low, historically, for us.

01:47:44.920 Yes, it was a lot higher.

01:47:46.000 A Korean more double digits percentage. 0.86

01:47:48.800 Yes.

01:47:49.700 Yeah, I mean, look, this is quite clearly much more a European issue than an American issue.

01:47:56.480 That's not to say that we have no interest in deterring Russia. 0.98

01:47:59.880 We do have an interest in that.

01:48:01.440 I do see that.

01:48:02.500 I know that's not always the...

01:48:03.920 Like, are you willing to put boots on the ground to be peacekeepers?

01:48:07.760 No, I don't want anything to do with that.

01:48:09.680 I want to stay away from nuclear war with Russia.

01:48:11.620 Yeah.

01:48:11.640 That's something I want to do.

01:48:13.220 Starmer is saying the United States needs to be there as peacekeepers.

01:48:18.520 Not a single boot goes on the ground.

01:48:20.360 No.

01:48:20.560 No.

01:48:21.300 No.

01:48:21.520 That's not happening.

01:48:22.400 Not going to do it.

01:48:23.180 And I mean, we've...

01:48:24.300 Honestly, I don't think there's anybody who wants that.

01:48:28.660 Europe does.

01:48:29.780 No, Europe does.

01:48:30.620 I'm talking about Americans.

01:48:31.300 Poland is like, we're not doing that. 0.81

01:48:34.080 We're not putting any footprint in Ukraine.

01:48:36.220 None.

01:48:36.660 Right.

01:48:37.160 I mean, look, Ukraine has to defend Ukraine.

01:48:39.760 If Europe wants to be the sugar daddy for that war, they can be the sugar daddy for that war. 0.58

01:48:45.280 And we won't really...

01:48:46.780 Like, I won't sit back and be like, oh, gosh darn it.

01:48:49.220 Russia is still getting attacked by Europe.

01:48:52.220 I'm not going to sit here and I'm not going to worry about it all that much.

01:48:55.900 Russia is going to be being attacked by Ukraine still.

01:48:58.180 And that war keeps going on.

01:48:59.220 I don't think it's a good thing for the Ukrainian people. 1.00

01:49:01.520 I don't think it's a good thing for the Russian people. 1.00

01:49:02.680 I don't think it's a good thing for the world.

01:49:04.140 But I do think that, you know, pushing back on Russia has some understandable benefits 0.99

01:49:09.800 when you're talking about weakening whatever...

01:49:13.080 One of the closest countries that could compete with us as far as superpower status.

01:49:18.180 That being said, my much larger concern is not being involved in a war with Russia.

01:49:24.460 I don't want to be in a nuclear war.

01:49:25.960 I don't want to be in the middle of that.

01:49:27.340 I don't want something that can spiral out of control in days, in minutes,

01:49:30.720 and lead to half of our country being destroyed by nuclear weapons and half of theirs.

01:49:36.200 That's just not something that I'm...

01:49:37.680 I'm just staying away from that.

01:49:39.260 In every war game ever done by the Pentagon,

01:49:42.140 in every war game,

01:49:44.800 it has only ended in total nuclear annihilation.

01:49:48.020 The entire world.

01:49:48.840 No matter how it starts, no matter where it starts,

01:49:50.920 once somebody launches a nuclear missile,

01:49:53.800 within the first hour,

01:49:55.460 every missile has been launched.

01:49:57.380 No matter what they've tried.

01:49:59.960 That's terrifying.

01:50:00.940 Yeah.

01:50:01.340 It's terrifying.

01:50:01.940 And even if you're completely confident in our side of things, right?

01:50:06.260 Yeah.

01:50:06.540 Which I know the left doesn't seem to be at all.

01:50:08.660 I don't know why they are so still pushing for this,

01:50:11.100 considering they think he's...

01:50:12.480 Donald Trump's a fascist dictator with a temper.

01:50:16.420 Right.

01:50:16.680 But even if you are convinced that Donald Trump will never launch a nuclear weapon

01:50:21.920 in response to something that Vladimir Putin does,

01:50:24.280 you still have to be worried about Vladimir Putin.

01:50:26.840 Right?

01:50:27.060 Like, you can't sit here and be like,

01:50:28.180 oh, gosh, Putin should be fine.

01:50:29.540 He'll never do such a thing.

01:50:31.000 If he believes he's losing,

01:50:33.540 he very well might.

01:50:35.100 We are in a situation now that this has gone on for multiple years.

01:50:37.960 Ukraine had an opportunity with a counteroffensive that we funded,

01:50:42.860 and they, I'm sure, fought valiantly in that effort.

01:50:46.200 But it didn't work, and now we're at a stalemate,

01:50:49.280 and if we can get this thing over with, I'm sorry.

01:50:53.560 It sucks for them.

01:50:54.840 I mean, I don't even say that dismissively.

01:50:56.820 It does suck for them.

01:50:58.460 They got invaded, and they're going to lose a giant chunk of territory

01:51:01.540 on their eastern side if that's the way this thing settles.

01:51:04.320 That sucks for them.

01:51:05.120 It really does.

01:51:06.060 But that being said, our interest as Americans,

01:51:09.160 America first, is to make sure we are not drawn into a giant war against Russia

01:51:14.840 that might end up in a nuclear conflict. 0.64

01:51:17.920 Okay, two thoughts.

01:51:18.660 One, I believe Donald Trump may be the only president that is actually America first,

01:51:26.160 not just some wuss, but actually American first, 0.99

01:51:29.660 and a strong president that would not launch nuclear missiles.

01:51:34.360 I wonder, I mean, I hope we don't ever test it,

01:51:39.180 but I wonder if somebody launched against us if we would actually launch

01:51:43.520 because he knows what that means, and he might just say,

01:51:48.020 take it, we lose a couple of cities, go launch.

01:51:51.680 That's a terrible thought.

01:51:53.680 No, it's not.

01:51:54.740 Not when you know how it always ends.

01:51:58.060 You know, you're saying it's not, you're arguing with me that it's not the worst thought,

01:52:04.620 which I would agree.

01:52:05.180 Yes, it would be horrible.

01:52:06.460 In some ways you could argue.

01:52:07.840 It would be horrible.

01:52:08.840 That it would be worse if it goes back and forth.

01:52:11.300 Yes, yes.

01:52:11.460 Of course it would, although, again, we are,

01:52:14.680 if we just sit here and take nuclear weapons,

01:52:16.880 I don't think we're in a good position either,

01:52:18.780 and probably not one that lasts.

01:52:20.260 No.

01:52:20.580 So either way, pretty much everybody's toast.

01:52:23.040 I know, I know.

01:52:23.340 Which is why it always ends that way, right?

01:52:25.140 That's why it does.

01:52:25.720 It is.

01:52:26.440 The second thing is that,

01:52:29.480 why are we thinking that our interests are aligned with Europe?

01:52:38.400 You know, the one thing that I think is happening in America right now

01:52:41.540 is the whole world is getting off,

01:52:45.400 one way or another,

01:52:47.240 of all of the deals that were made after World War II.

01:52:50.900 That's over.

01:52:52.100 Brexit, I mean, not Brexit,

01:52:53.600 Bretton Woods, you know.

01:52:56.400 Yeah.

01:52:57.360 NATO, you're saying?

01:52:58.560 And even NATO.

01:52:59.580 I think those are last century,

01:53:03.340 a hundred years ago.

01:53:04.740 I think the world is changing so much,

01:53:06.800 and I think our allies have become the World Economic Forum.

01:53:11.860 I mean, the elites, not the people,

01:53:13.960 but the elites in those countries,

01:53:16.240 they're not listening to their people.

01:53:18.220 They are not friends of freedom.

01:53:21.820 They are not going.

01:53:23.060 I mean, I wonder why we would protect them.

01:53:26.480 Well, I mean, look,

01:53:27.320 we were aligned with the Soviet Union against the Nazis, right?

01:53:30.440 So we had very little in common with them.

01:53:33.700 Yeah, but these are our ally allies.

01:53:35.680 We held our nose on the Russians. 1.00

01:53:38.220 No, it's true.

01:53:38.700 And I think at some level,

01:53:39.560 we're beginning to hold our nose.

01:53:41.300 That being said, you know,

01:53:42.240 we always talk about the world changing.

01:53:44.640 You know,

01:53:45.360 the world's not set up all that terribly for the United States.

01:53:49.100 No, it's not.

01:53:49.800 I mean, we're kind of the ones winning this,

01:53:51.880 even though it feels like we're losing ground,

01:53:53.520 which I think is true.

01:53:55.400 We're still the superpower of the world.

01:53:57.880 You still see the, you know,

01:53:59.080 Donald Trump is not magic.

01:54:01.120 He's able to wield this power because it exists.

01:54:04.060 Right.

01:54:04.740 And that is important to hold on to.

01:54:06.460 I don't think we really,

01:54:07.400 like the grass isn't all that much greener

01:54:09.820 in any other scenario.

01:54:12.000 Holding on to this world order the way it stands now

01:54:14.780 and trying to defend it

01:54:16.200 is what I think Trump is trying to do.

01:54:18.320 Recognizing this is actually a positive for us, right?

01:54:20.540 We want to be,

01:54:21.840 we want to be,

01:54:23.400 we don't want to wield the power all the time.

01:54:25.060 We want to have the ability to wield it when we need it.

01:54:27.020 Correct.

01:54:27.560 But we have to fix our country.

01:54:31.420 All of us do.

01:54:32.120 We have to fix our country.

01:54:33.480 And right now,

01:54:35.500 there's two paths.

01:54:37.800 One that leads to the administrative state

01:54:41.260 where unelected bureaucrats,

01:54:43.620 just like in Europe,

01:54:44.680 run everything.

01:54:46.040 And if you fall afoul of them,

01:54:48.480 look out.

01:54:49.380 The other is freedom

01:54:50.580 and a constitutional republic like ours

01:54:54.140 that says,

01:54:55.760 no, you work for us, government.

01:54:57.780 We don't work for you.

01:54:59.180 And while there are laws I can break,

01:55:02.500 expressing myself

01:55:03.500 or speaking out about a politician

01:55:05.120 or whatever

01:55:05.600 is not one of those things

01:55:07.340 that is against the law here.

01:55:09.580 And resetting to common sense,

01:55:11.960 those are the two things.

01:55:14.180 If you get,

01:55:15.820 I'm sorry,

01:55:16.540 I'm going to say,

01:55:17.500 the only thing I know him as

01:55:18.680 is the apple eating politician

01:55:21.380 from Canada.

01:55:22.720 Yeah.

01:55:24.040 You get him

01:55:25.120 and you might have another ally.

01:55:27.560 You get Farage

01:55:29.520 in England,

01:55:32.480 you might have another ally.

01:55:34.300 Malay.

01:55:35.040 I mean,

01:55:35.420 there are some around the world

01:55:36.860 that are better than they used to be,

01:55:39.860 certainly.

01:55:40.360 Yes.

01:55:40.480 Maybe not perfect,

01:55:41.220 but better than they used to be.

01:55:42.420 But until that time,

01:55:44.380 man,

01:55:45.140 I'm just not interested

01:55:46.380 in spending our blood and treasure

01:55:48.820 to protect people

01:55:52.540 who admitted over the weekend

01:55:55.440 tearfully in Germany

01:55:58.140 that we don't really have anything

01:56:00.620 in common with America anymore.

01:56:02.300 Holy cow. 0.89

01:56:03.400 What kind of reaction is that?

01:56:04.920 You're a man.

01:56:06.360 You're a German.

01:56:07.840 I mean,

01:56:08.160 like,

01:56:08.420 I know I'm talking to the guy

01:56:09.380 who cried on TV all the time

01:56:10.960 back in the day,

01:56:11.600 so I,

01:56:11.900 you know,

01:56:12.120 I get that there's a little irony here,

01:56:13.760 but like,

01:56:14.860 come on.

01:56:15.740 What are you talking about?

01:56:16.760 This is a guy saying,

01:56:17.860 hey,

01:56:18.620 you know,

01:56:19.200 maybe you guys should watch

01:56:20.260 where your free speech thing is going,

01:56:22.080 watch how you're treating this.

01:56:23.640 Like,

01:56:24.200 Vansky,

01:56:24.600 be very calm,

01:56:25.720 very rational case here.

01:56:27.800 You might not agree with it.

01:56:28.680 You don't have to agree with it.

01:56:29.820 You're a sovereign nation.

01:56:31.000 But to go out and say,

01:56:31.840 oh my gosh,

01:56:32.720 we're going to cry

01:56:33.760 about how the United States,

01:56:35.480 which is being consistent

01:56:36.780 with its constitution

01:56:38.380 and its principles

01:56:39.280 and its culture

01:56:40.180 and its traditions

01:56:41.240 that have existed

01:56:42.420 for hundreds of years,

01:56:43.900 you're going to start crying

01:56:44.960 and whining 0.99

01:56:45.800 about how,

01:56:47.200 oh,

01:56:47.340 I can't believe

01:56:47.980 we don't agree with them anymore.

01:56:49.260 Yeah,

01:56:49.480 because I think

01:56:50.480 this is what they were so afraid of.

01:56:53.080 This is why they're canceling elections

01:56:55.060 and everything else.

01:56:56.180 They are terrified

01:56:57.400 that the West,

01:56:59.560 that the people will wake up

01:57:01.120 and they'll say,

01:57:01.960 oh,

01:57:02.340 wait a minute.

01:57:03.380 No,

01:57:04.220 we're not doing that.

01:57:05.980 That's why Donald Trump

01:57:07.060 had to be destroyed.

01:57:08.740 He's opened now

01:57:10.040 Pandora's box of freedom

01:57:11.960 and it's going to spread

01:57:14.580 and they are terrified of it

01:57:17.200 and they really have convinced themselves

01:57:19.240 that they were right.

01:57:20.260 But what does this mean?

01:57:20.800 Because I keep hearing this like,

01:57:21.740 oh,

01:57:21.840 Europe,

01:57:22.200 this country,

01:57:23.200 that country,

01:57:23.700 they need their Donald Trump.

01:57:25.420 Look,

01:57:25.900 if what they meant by that

01:57:27.380 was actual Donald Trump

01:57:28.680 or someone who is identical

01:57:30.000 to Donald Trump,

01:57:30.880 that would be a very good change

01:57:32.320 for you.

01:57:32.760 Yes,

01:57:33.040 yes.

01:57:33.360 How Europeans translate

01:57:35.660 what they think Donald Trump is

01:57:37.860 is terrifying.

01:57:38.800 But you know what makes that worse?

01:57:42.380 A government,

01:57:43.560 which all of them are,

01:57:45.020 that are stomping every day

01:57:47.220 on the rights of their people

01:57:48.860 and disenfranchising them

01:57:51.060 even more.

01:57:52.140 Yes,

01:57:52.400 I agree that makes it much worse.

01:57:53.880 I mean,

01:57:54.220 you'll go for anybody.

01:57:56.220 You keep doing this

01:57:57.420 to the people in Europe

01:57:58.420 and in England,

01:57:59.260 they're going to rise up

01:58:01.000 and you're not going to like

01:58:02.620 who they picked

01:58:03.440 to rise up against you.

01:58:06.140 I mean,

01:58:06.420 they're the ones

01:58:07.220 that will go for the strongman.

01:58:08.900 We have to watch

01:58:09.960 our own tendencies here,

01:58:11.860 but at least we have traditions

01:58:13.740 of a constitution

01:58:15.100 and a bill of rights.

01:58:17.500 Now,

01:58:18.000 I don't know how strong

01:58:18.840 that is anymore,

01:58:19.540 but it's at least

01:58:21.160 a lot stronger.

01:58:22.280 They have nothing

01:58:23.340 over there.

01:58:25.440 It's just,

01:58:26.100 they're,

01:58:26.300 they're playing with fire

01:58:28.460 and could set

01:58:29.800 the whole world ablaze.

01:58:31.500 All right,

01:58:31.780 back in just a minute,

01:58:32.560 let me talk to you

01:58:33.100 about rough greens.

01:58:34.940 When you,

01:58:35.700 when you feed your dog,

01:58:36.700 I mean,

01:58:36.920 doesn't that look delicious?

01:58:38.100 Oh,

01:58:38.380 I get,

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01:58:42.740 just thinking about it.

01:58:43.700 It does not look good,

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01:58:46.040 And it's kibble.

01:58:47.120 I can't even imagine.

01:58:48.840 I don't want to talk

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01:59:49.040 More Glenn Beck

01:59:50.400 coming up next.

01:59:51.840 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

02:00:12.000 I'm glad you're here.

02:00:13.880 You know,

02:00:14.380 we were just talking

02:00:14.980 off the air about,

02:00:15.920 you know,

02:00:16.480 how do we save the country

02:00:17.960 with budget cuts

02:00:20.000 and everything else

02:00:20.800 and you're just not

02:00:21.840 going to be able

02:00:22.260 to do it

02:00:22.740 without cutting into

02:00:24.260 things like

02:00:24.960 social security

02:00:26.200 and that doesn't mean

02:00:27.840 that you cut people

02:00:28.600 who are on it now.

02:00:29.980 You know,

02:00:30.880 I mean,

02:00:31.540 I'm 61.

02:00:34.480 The average death now

02:00:36.480 for a guy

02:00:37.140 is 77.

02:00:39.340 So,

02:00:39.900 when social security

02:00:41.220 was put in,

02:00:41.800 the average

02:00:42.380 lifespan for a man

02:00:44.040 was 63.

02:00:45.520 You weren't intended

02:00:46.440 on getting

02:00:47.200 any of it.

02:00:48.540 Now,

02:00:48.920 65.

02:00:49.680 Now,

02:00:49.900 if you're 60,

02:00:50.800 you know,

02:00:50.980 if you're 60 plus,

02:00:52.060 I mean,

02:00:52.280 you planned your whole life

02:00:53.340 around retiring at 65.

02:00:54.840 Okay.

02:00:55.680 But that needs

02:00:57.000 to gradually change.

02:00:58.860 I knew

02:00:59.640 social security

02:01:00.660 was going to be insolvent

02:01:01.900 when I was a kid.

02:01:03.480 I mean,

02:01:03.760 Reagan talked about it.

02:01:05.340 I never expected

02:01:06.240 social security

02:01:07.200 to be

02:01:07.680 my,

02:01:08.860 you know,

02:01:10.040 my only hope.

02:01:11.400 One little baby step

02:01:12.560 on this too,

02:01:13.060 I will say,

02:01:13.540 Glenn,

02:01:13.720 is you are one year away

02:01:15.040 from early eligibility

02:01:16.680 for social security,

02:01:17.700 which sounds crazy.

02:01:18.840 You don't seem like that

02:01:19.700 at all.

02:01:20.680 Which is nuts,

02:01:21.640 by the way.

02:01:22.320 Yeah.

02:01:22.440 You're nowhere near

02:01:23.360 like wanting to retire.

02:01:25.080 I don't ever think

02:01:25.960 I want to retire fully.

02:01:27.320 Right.

02:01:27.840 Right.

02:01:28.340 I would also add,

02:01:29.820 in addition to this,

02:01:31.220 you shouldn't have

02:01:33.180 any eligibility

02:01:33.940 for social security.

02:01:35.580 I know.

02:01:36.000 You,

02:01:36.440 you know,

02:01:37.020 you've done pretty well

02:01:38.120 for yourself.

02:01:38.620 I'm willing to do that.

02:01:39.820 However,

02:01:40.860 the unfairness of it.

02:01:42.600 Oh.

02:01:42.980 Like,

02:01:43.320 I've known my whole life

02:01:45.260 social security

02:01:46.760 was going to melt down

02:01:47.680 by the time I got here.

02:01:49.000 Yeah.

02:01:49.180 Okay?

02:01:49.480 I've known that.

02:01:50.380 They've said that.

02:01:51.400 However,

02:01:52.200 I've paid my whole life

02:01:54.420 expecting it.

02:01:55.660 Now,

02:01:56.040 because I'm a generous guy,

02:01:58.680 that's fine.

02:01:59.400 I won't take it.

02:02:00.460 I don't need it.

02:02:01.460 However,

02:02:02.560 that is a giant scam.

02:02:06.400 It is,

02:02:06.960 although that's the weird thing

02:02:08.260 about social security.

02:02:09.280 We look at it

02:02:09.840 as something that is owed to us.

02:02:11.240 Every other government program,

02:02:12.480 we pay taxes

02:02:13.120 and are annoyed at it.

02:02:14.180 Yes.

02:02:14.580 And instead,

02:02:15.180 with this one,

02:02:15.760 they've twisted our mind.

02:02:17.060 FDR screwed with our mind

02:02:18.660 and said,

02:02:19.160 oh,

02:02:19.520 no,

02:02:19.920 it's actually a savings program.

02:02:21.500 No,

02:02:21.680 it's not.

02:02:22.200 It's the same 0.53

02:02:22.920 as every other dumb thing

02:02:24.460 we pay taxes for.

02:02:25.540 Yes,

02:02:25.560 I agree.

02:02:26.260 And a lot of it,

02:02:27.020 you pay in

02:02:27.520 and you get nothing out

02:02:28.320 and that's how it works.

02:02:29.700 But you have to start

02:02:30.740 with waste and mismanagement

02:02:32.240 elsewhere

02:02:33.220 before you even get there.

02:02:36.180 This is Glenn Beck.

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