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00:04:05.300 Hello to all of those who are bedridden and just cannot get up to change the channel.

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00:04:12.580 Yes.

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00:04:14.120 Hello, Stu.

00:04:14.740 How are you?

00:04:15.140 Glenn, how are you?

00:04:15.780 Oh, my gosh.

00:04:17.180 It's Valentine's Day.

00:04:18.380 It's like the happiest day of the year.

00:04:21.180 It sure is.

00:04:21.900 I hate it.

00:04:22.660 It sure is.

00:04:23.560 Are you excited?

00:04:24.560 No, I hate it.

00:04:25.480 Got a big night planned?

00:04:26.100 No.

00:04:26.840 No?

00:04:27.220 No.

00:04:28.080 My wife, I said to her earlier this week, they said, you have big plans for Valentine's

00:04:33.040 Day?

00:04:33.220 And I was like, no.

00:04:34.660 It's the worst day of the year.

00:04:36.740 My wife and I hate it. 1.00

00:04:37.740 And she was standing around there.

00:04:38.540 She's like, my wife and I hate it?

00:04:41.260 And I'm like, oh, did I just imagine all those conversations over the years on how much

00:04:47.160 you hate it?

00:04:49.100 Apparently, yes.

00:04:50.100 Apparently, yes.

00:04:50.780 So she likes it, and you've planned nothing.

00:04:52.720 And I've planned nothing.

00:04:54.080 That's good.

00:04:54.700 Yeah.

00:04:55.020 That's going to make me mighty popular.

00:04:57.700 And probably, most likely, broke, because you wait until today.

00:05:01.940 Right.

00:05:02.380 And then you try to buy your way out of it.

00:05:03.980 Yeah.

00:05:04.660 It doesn't always work.

00:05:06.300 No.

00:05:06.600 It doesn't always work, especially if you are talking to your friend at work, and your

00:05:10.420 wife overhears it. 0.99

00:05:12.760 Yeah.

00:05:13.240 Then you're in more trouble.

00:05:14.300 You know what I mean?

00:05:14.780 So I've been planning this for months, Stu.

00:05:17.460 I got something special tonight.

00:05:21.340 Netflix has a real-

00:05:23.600 Yeah.

00:05:23.840 You subscribed for Valentine's Day?

00:05:25.700 Yeah, I subscribed.

00:05:26.500 Oh, wow.

00:05:26.860 Well, I asked for the special, I love my wife so much subscription.

00:05:33.100 Really?

00:05:33.620 It looks just like the old subscription, but it's not.

00:05:37.440 It means more.

00:05:38.580 It means more.

00:05:38.980 It comes from the heart.

00:05:40.860 That $15.95 a month.

00:05:42.820 I hate this holiday.

00:05:44.040 Directly from the soul.

00:05:45.300 It is like New Year's Eve.

00:05:48.040 You know what I mean?

00:05:48.520 Just too much pressure.

00:05:49.660 Just too much pressure.

00:05:51.440 And it's, New Year's Eve at least isn't made up.

00:05:54.280 New Year's Eve is something that, you know, Valentine's Day is made up.

00:05:58.080 Yeah.

00:05:58.980 I mean, it's kind of, New Year's Eve is kind of made up.

00:06:01.060 I mean, it just-

00:06:01.740 Well, no, but at least mark something real.

00:06:03.920 That's true.

00:06:04.500 Yeah.

00:06:04.520 All right.

00:06:05.360 Okay.

00:06:05.860 So let's see what the president has been up to in the last 24 hours.

00:06:09.860 Does this guy sleep?

00:06:11.180 What's Melania doing for Valentine's Day today? 1.00

00:06:13.600 Is this something when he's the president of the United States, is he thinking about that

00:06:16.380 type of thing?

00:06:17.780 No.

00:06:18.220 I think he has people who think about that kind of thing.

00:06:19.600 People who have people?

00:06:20.500 Yeah.

00:06:20.760 People who have people.

00:06:21.440 Usually, maybe, like, maybe his son.

00:06:26.000 Like, Dad, maybe you should carve out a couple of hours tonight.

00:06:30.620 Oh, crap.

00:06:31.520 I didn't even-

00:06:32.900 You're president.

00:06:33.660 I think I can make a few calls.

00:06:36.060 I feel like it's interesting just the fact that we have a president that's awake.

00:06:40.200 Like, every day.

00:06:41.340 He seems to wake up.

00:06:43.680 We see him places?

00:06:45.020 Have you noticed this?

00:06:45.940 I don't know if you've noticed this at all, but, like, the current president of the United

00:06:49.240 States, we see him out doing things.

00:06:51.540 Isn't that weird?

00:06:52.280 It feels weird.

00:06:53.140 I don't know about this new system we have where the president is awake every day.

00:06:56.920 That's a strange-

00:06:58.040 It is.

00:06:58.660 It's changing our traditions, Glenn.

00:07:00.040 I'm concerned about it.

00:07:00.980 It is.

00:07:01.200 It is.

00:07:01.600 Well, Barack knows.

00:07:02.900 We've got to change our-

00:07:03.720 That's true.

00:07:04.280 Yeah.

00:07:04.540 Anyway, Trump has dropped the hammer on the rest of the world with tariffs.

00:07:09.780 And I kind of like this tariff.

00:07:11.720 Whatever they charge us, we're going to charge them.

00:07:16.280 Reciprocal tariffs.

00:07:17.180 Reciprocal tariffs.

00:07:18.300 That's fair.

00:07:19.680 We're not going to charge you, I mean, maybe China, but we're not going to charge you more

00:07:23.580 than you charge us.

00:07:24.440 You charge us something, we'll charge you.

00:07:26.940 I think that's good.

00:07:28.120 Yeah.

00:07:28.300 I mean, it's interesting how it certainly seems fair.

00:07:31.260 Yeah.

00:07:31.540 Right?

00:07:31.780 Like, don't fire up.

00:07:33.420 Because the rest of the world loves tariffs.

00:07:35.700 They love tariffs more than we love tariffs.

00:07:37.520 Even though we, you know-

00:07:38.820 I don't love tariffs.

00:07:39.780 I don't love them at all.

00:07:40.620 Yes.

00:07:41.000 Trump does love them.

00:07:41.900 You've talked to him about this even in private conversations.

00:07:44.300 Yes.

00:07:44.500 This is not-

00:07:45.220 By the way, in case you were wondering, does he just saying this for the cameras?

00:07:47.680 No.

00:07:48.060 No.

00:07:48.200 He really loves them.

00:07:49.380 He loves tariffs.

00:07:50.700 I don't agree with him on that particular policy, though.

00:07:53.640 He has used it to great effect, of course, recently.

00:07:55.940 Yeah.

00:07:56.200 That being said, I mean, if someone's charging you 175% tariff on a particular item, picking

00:08:02.540 that same item and putting a tariff of 175% certainly is fair.

00:08:06.640 Now, of course, the reason we import things, typically, is because we don't have them here.

00:08:11.580 Right.

00:08:11.980 Well, but not necessarily like cars.

00:08:13.900 Yeah, not always.

00:08:14.340 Like cars.

00:08:15.040 Europe charges us a 10% tariff to send a Ford over, and we charge them 2% to send a Mercedes.

00:08:23.780 I mean, what's fair about that?

00:08:27.380 Again, one of the things that's fair about that is us not paying an extra 8% on a car,

00:08:32.820 right?

00:08:33.120 Like that is what's, we get a benefit of that as a consumer, that we, if we want to buy

00:08:38.760 a European car, we'll pay a little bit less, and now we'll pay a little bit more.

00:08:42.440 So there is a penalty to that.

00:08:43.840 However, it is certainly fair.

00:08:45.960 The word fair, I think, applies when it comes to nation-to-nation relation.

00:08:50.540 Yeah.

00:08:50.640 One of the things we've liked about having these lower tariffs on our side is getting

00:08:54.560 lower prices for our consumers.

00:08:56.080 Correct.

00:08:56.500 And so, and as Trump has discussed, he's been very upfront with us.

00:08:59.920 There's going to be pain with these policies, but long-term, we think it's worth it.

00:09:03.740 And that's really where, you know, the rubber meets the road.

00:09:06.380 Okay.

00:09:06.600 So now everybody's very, very, very upset about Donald Trump signing off on Doge and the

00:09:13.220 audit of the IRS.

00:09:15.920 Now, I do have to question your sanity when you're against the audit of the IRS.

00:09:24.280 I mean.

00:09:25.640 They seem to be four audits.

00:09:26.900 Wow, yeah.

00:09:27.300 Why can't audit them?

00:09:28.220 Who do you have to be to be against an audit of the IRS and bring every single receipt you

00:09:37.860 have?

00:09:38.260 I want to see every receipt.

00:09:40.740 Oh, I want to help them.

00:09:43.760 By the way, Glenn.

00:09:44.720 Yeah.

00:09:44.980 I work with you.

00:09:46.460 My job is, and for multiple decades now, has to become closely associated with Glenn Beck.

00:09:55.420 Yeah, it's good, isn't it?

00:09:56.200 Oh, it's the perks, the benefits.

00:09:58.780 Yeah.

00:09:59.000 Oh, gosh.

00:10:00.020 I can't even count them.

00:10:01.860 Yet, somehow, I made it through the entire Barack Obama administration and the entire

00:10:08.980 Joe Biden administration without getting audited.

00:10:12.240 Yeah, not me.

00:10:13.200 Yeah, no, I know.

00:10:14.180 I remember.

00:10:15.060 Yeah, yeah.

00:10:15.900 And yet, what happens two weeks ago?

00:10:19.100 I get a letter from the IRS with Trump in office that I'm getting audited.

00:10:23.940 And I don't know if this is just like a pardon gift from the Biden administration.

00:10:28.480 Yeah, that's what I would say.

00:10:30.160 Well, how is that happening?

00:10:32.020 After all that, I mean...

00:10:33.440 Thank God somebody noticed your shadiness.

00:10:35.880 Somebody finally noticed.

00:10:37.440 He's very shady.

00:10:38.560 He's very shady.

00:10:40.360 You know, the good thing is, both of us, to our accountants, we always say the same thing.

00:10:46.580 Anybody who's preparing our tax, stay way away from the line.

00:10:50.080 Yes, 100%.

00:10:51.080 When in doubt, leave it out.

00:10:52.800 But still, it's incredibly frustrating.

00:10:54.540 And like, you know, we were talking to Alan Dershowitz yesterday.

00:10:56.500 He's like, I've got every single book, you know, everything.

00:10:59.440 I know.

00:10:59.720 Like, I mean, yeah, sure.

00:11:01.420 Somewhere, I have every receipt for 2022.

00:11:05.520 I'm sure, but I mean, this is this relationship that we have with the government that is this

00:11:12.640 adversarial torture fest that we pay for every year.

00:11:17.040 We all like, oh, gosh, I can't wait to pay by taxes.

00:11:19.580 Maybe I'll get a refund.

00:11:21.660 Maybe they'll give me some of the money that is mine back to me multiple months later.

00:11:28.100 I believe that's what happened to me.

00:11:29.600 I believe they actually owed me money.

00:11:32.880 After the audit?

00:11:33.820 Yeah.

00:11:34.040 Oh, really?

00:11:34.500 Yeah.

00:11:34.720 Yeah, because you were a psychopath.

00:11:36.060 I stay away from the line.

00:11:36.920 Right.

00:11:37.540 That's what you have to be.

00:11:38.880 You know, jail time doesn't sound good to me.

00:11:40.980 No.

00:11:41.280 In any way, shape, or form.

00:11:42.640 And then you know if the wrong administration is in there, the wrong IRS agent that doesn't

00:11:46.220 like your show happens to be doing it, well, guess what happens?

00:11:50.260 They push it beyond the limits of normalcy.

00:11:54.280 So the good senator and common sense-filled senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden, said, this means

00:12:01.620 Musk's henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America.

00:12:07.160 Wait, what?

00:12:09.220 You mean like the IRS does?

00:12:12.380 It's a core government function to you guys.

00:12:15.160 What are you talking about?

00:12:15.820 What's up with that?

00:12:17.140 And it could very well be the reason behind any possible delays in people receiving their tax refunds for 2024.

00:12:24.560 What a scare tactic.

00:12:27.000 These guys are so freaked out about Donald Trump.

00:12:31.080 I mean, you know, the one thing that happened yesterday that everybody should recognize,

00:12:34.200 Mitch McConnell was alone.

00:12:38.700 He was alone.

00:12:40.060 That's gigantic.

00:12:41.620 On two votes.

00:12:42.640 Tulsi and RFK.

00:12:44.120 I know.

00:12:44.760 And before this, if McConnell said, hey, this is where I'm going, he would always have a bunch

00:12:52.360 of buddies that would come with him, his closest friends.

00:12:54.860 Yep.

00:12:54.980 And they would always do that.

00:12:56.940 It's weird.

00:12:57.560 You cut off the money and things change.

00:12:59.700 Yeah.

00:12:59.840 He no longer has the leadership.

00:13:01.160 He no longer has control of that cash.

00:13:02.740 All of a sudden, he's a lonesome dove.

00:13:05.000 Yep.

00:13:06.220 So let me just, I just want to ask, are you tired of winning?

00:13:09.380 Let me just give you the winning streak so far in Congress.

00:13:14.460 Marco Rubio voted to be confirmed 99 to 0.

00:13:18.980 Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant, confirmed 68 to 29.

00:13:23.180 Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergen, 79 to 18.

00:13:28.080 Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, 72 to 28.

00:13:31.840 Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, 77 to 22.

00:13:36.080 Pam Bondi, 54 to 46.

00:13:38.360 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner, 55 to 44.

00:13:42.360 Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, 59 to 38.

00:13:45.560 Doug Collins, Veterans Affairs, 77 to 23.

00:13:48.420 Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, 59 to 34.

00:13:52.760 Lee Zeldin became the EPA administrator, 56 by 42.

00:13:56.400 I got to tell you, Lee Zeldin, there's some stuff that he did yesterday that you're like, holy cow.

00:14:00.600 I have high hopes for him.

00:14:01.760 Yeah, me too.

00:14:02.460 I mean, he's off to a very good start.

00:14:04.020 Yeah.

00:14:04.200 Russ Vogt, who I just absolutely love, Director of Office Management and Budget.

00:14:09.200 He's done a lot of incredible things this week, 53 to 47.

00:14:12.500 John Radcliffe, confirmed as CIA Director, 74 to 25.

00:14:15.900 Tulsi Gabbard and RFK were confirmed yesterday.

00:14:22.960 You have Kash Patel, who got out of the committee and is going to be voted on early next week.

00:14:29.900 And of course, you have Pete Hegseth.

00:14:31.760 I mean, and Mitch McConnell standing there alone all day yesterday.

00:14:37.540 This is good.

00:14:38.560 Now, the president did a couple of other things yesterday that are groundbreaking, but we need to make sure Congress passes all of these things as laws.

00:14:49.740 And they're not just executive orders.

00:14:53.180 And that's going to require us to keep the heat on Congress. 0.99

00:14:57.300 And they're working on the budget.

00:14:59.760 Congress just put together their budget for next year.

00:15:03.520 The Senate is squealing like stuck little pigs, but we need to get them to pass in one bill.

00:15:11.500 And you're going to get some crap in that one bill, I'm sure.

00:15:14.820 But you really have a hard time going to get two bills through on reconciliation.

00:15:19.880 So we need it in one bill.

00:15:21.400 We'll talk about that coming up in just a second.

00:15:23.600 The Israelis may be gearing up for more conflict in the coming days if Hamas continues to withhold hostages.

00:15:28.900 They said yesterday that they are going to release three hostages, but not all the hostages.

00:15:36.540 And I think Donald Trump was pretty clear, wasn't he, Stu?

00:15:39.340 Release all of them, not dribs and drabs, all of them on Saturday by noon. 1.00

00:15:44.700 I don't know what that means, but they said they weren't going to release any.

00:15:49.900 And yesterday, they're like, you know, we've been thinking about it.

00:15:52.260 You know, not because of anything Donald Trump might have said, but we're going to release three of them.

00:15:58.940 How's that?

00:16:00.140 We might change our mind.

00:16:01.340 Might do more.

00:16:03.180 So this is happening.

00:16:05.040 The Israelis are, you know, just being beat up by the whole world.

00:16:09.620 And the Jews are really facing a problem.

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00:17:17.140 So, we're starting to find some of the hiding places of some of the money that Biden, I've never, think about how long this has been going on.

00:17:31.980 I've never heard of stuff like this, but they're just hiding money.

00:17:35.240 For instance, Biden, you know, through his green energy slush fund, parked $20 billion, which is collecting interest at a private bank, okay?

00:17:47.940 No oversight, just put it in a private bank.

00:17:52.460 And Lee Zeldin found it a couple of days ago and said, yeah, that's all coming back here, and I don't think it's going to be distributed.

00:18:01.260 There was no oversight on it, none.

00:18:06.900 I just love the attitude of this.

00:18:10.020 Oh, my gosh.

00:18:10.520 I don't know that they're going to find everything.

00:18:11.960 I don't know if it's going to be perfect, but, like, they are actually trying to unearth all of the stuff that we've all known exists.

00:18:20.300 Every one of us.

00:18:21.540 Glenn, usually it comes out, you know, six years later, there's an article that you read, and I'm like, did you guys know in, you know, 2020 that they actually had a fund that sat there?

00:18:31.400 And now it's all gone, of course, but blah, blah, blah.

00:18:33.320 No, we're catching it in real time for once.

00:18:35.120 I know.

00:18:35.480 It's great.

00:18:36.080 I know.

00:18:36.660 It's, again, Elon Musk and AI.

00:18:39.920 AI is finding a lot of this stuff.

00:18:42.980 Interesting.

00:18:43.300 Lee Zeldin also tweeted, I just canceled a $50 million Biden-era environmental justice grant to the Climate Justice Alliance, which believes, quoting, climate justice travels through a free Palestine.

00:18:56.120 $50 million.

00:18:57.980 We were funding all of the worst people.

00:19:03.640 I mean, it's just, it's sickening what we're seeing.

00:19:07.840 Now, Doge just has updated their website now.

00:19:12.140 If you have your computer in front of you, go to doge.gov, because everybody's complaining, I can't believe that he's coming with no receipts, and he's just saying all this stuff is happening.

00:19:25.760 He's like, by Valentine's Day, the latest Valentine's Day, we'll have it all posted online.

00:19:31.580 Still waiting for that.

00:19:32.980 But it says at the top of the website, let me see if I can get to it here real quick, that it is, you know, they're waiting for the additional receipts that will be posted by today, they claim.

00:19:46.940 But just what they have posted is pretty incredible.

00:19:51.060 Do you have it by any chance?

00:19:52.580 The doge.gov?

00:19:53.740 Yeah.

00:19:54.140 Yeah.

00:19:55.900 Yeah.

00:19:56.720 It's up on the screen.

00:19:57.960 Yeah, I know.

00:19:58.320 But I want to go to the actual website.

00:20:00.220 Doge.gov?

00:20:03.160 I got it here.

00:20:04.580 Yeah, it looks like they're kind of, they've almost got like what looks like a Twitter feed, right?

00:20:07.960 Yeah.

00:20:08.520 And is that what they're doing?

00:20:09.500 They're just posting their actual Twitter feed on it?

00:20:10.900 No, no, no, no.

00:20:11.800 Go click on some of it.

00:20:13.980 First of all, what's the first box say we need?

00:20:16.940 Today's contract update, 167 cancellations with a savings of $115 million, including a $2.23 million contract for HHS for equity assessments of existing program policies.

00:20:28.200 So that's gone.

00:20:29.080 The Department of Education terminated grants to the four equity assistance centers, totaling $33 million.

00:20:36.540 One provided professional learning around critical race theory and racial literacy.

00:20:41.980 Okay.

00:20:42.440 So now everything has a picture.

00:20:44.260 But if you go over at the top, look at the nav bar, it says savings.

00:20:48.600 And this is where the receipts are coming.

00:20:51.560 And they're supposed to be up by today.

00:20:53.000 So, you know, the New York Times is just writing stuff saying, he don't have any proof of that.

00:20:58.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah, he does.

00:20:59.860 He said he was going to produce all the receipts by Valentine's Day.

00:21:03.420 So we'll see if he makes that.

00:21:05.340 But then you look at meet the U.S. government.

00:21:08.220 If you click over to workforce, holy cow, there are 2,252,162 employees in the executive branch alone.

00:21:21.340 2,252,000 in the subordinate offices, 16,000.

00:21:30.720 And the total wages just for the executive branch is $211 billion every year.

00:21:39.200 So you go down and you see the cabinet level agencies, the large independent agencies, medium and small independent agencies.

00:21:46.520 Just look at the agencies that we have.

00:21:52.360 And if you click on the agencies, let's go to Department of Defense, then it breaks down the Department of Defense into its agencies, how many people work for that, how many subordinate offices and the total wages for that.

00:22:07.860 On this, it's when you click on like Department of Air Force, it shows you the structure, but it's also going to show you what they have found in the future.

00:22:17.140 It will show you what they have found in each department.

00:22:20.000 I don't understand how anyone could be against this.

00:22:24.660 We're not talking about, you know, arguing about what's important or what's not.

00:22:31.140 If the president says and the people have said, we don't want any of this DEI stuff, then it shouldn't be there and we should be able to track that.

00:22:42.440 But when it comes to the Department of Defense and some of these other, it's literally about finding all of these NGOs that God only knows what they've done with the money.

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00:24:39.260 Hello, America.

00:24:40.500 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:24:41.920 I want to talk to you about some of the stuff that Donald Trump has done and just get your feelings on how you think things are going.

00:24:50.840 Anything that you're concerned about.

00:24:53.340 Eight at eight, seven to seven B.

00:24:54.960 E.C.K.

00:24:55.360 I've got a lot of stuff that's just happened over the last 24 hours that we have to talk about.

00:25:00.060 But I want to check in with you first on the phones.

00:25:02.680 Greg in Ohio.

00:25:03.520 Hello, Greg.

00:25:06.100 Hey, Glenn.

00:25:06.820 How are you?

00:25:07.340 I'm great, man.

00:25:08.040 Thanks for listening.

00:25:08.720 I just wanted to call.

00:25:12.400 I've been voting since 1980.

00:25:15.100 My first vote was for Reagan.

00:25:16.600 Yeah.

00:25:17.100 Which at the time also included McConnell.

00:25:20.020 I've been waiting for the last 45 years for somebody to come into our federal government and just turn the thing upside down.

00:25:28.100 And I'm loving every bit of this right now.

00:25:31.060 I know.

00:25:31.620 The team that he's put together, I'm fully in the camp that it was a good, it was actually good that what happened in 2020 happened.

00:25:41.300 The last four years were terrible.

00:25:42.980 But that provided a lot of focus for Trump.

00:25:46.800 He learned a lot of lessons and put together a team that every last one of them.

00:25:51.720 I mean, they're just every part of our government right now is going through an overhaul.

00:25:55.900 And I couldn't be happy.

00:25:57.080 I know.

00:25:57.420 It's amazing.

00:25:58.120 I've never seen.

00:25:59.040 Thank you, Greg, for your call.

00:26:00.220 I've never seen an administration have every cabinet person so focused and working together.

00:26:09.820 You know what I mean?

00:26:10.480 It's like they're finding something like, yeah, that needs to go over to justice.

00:26:14.520 And justice is saying, I need this from Homeland Security.

00:26:17.300 They're all working together.

00:26:18.720 They're all working in lockstep.

00:26:20.120 And they seem to have the people underneath.

00:26:25.120 I haven't seen a single person in the cabinet yet kind of floundering like, I don't know, I'm being sabotaged by my people.

00:26:31.580 Except for Cash, who's not in yet.

00:26:33.940 Yeah, that's true.

00:26:34.500 There hasn't been a lot of that, which you usually do get.

00:26:36.780 Actually, one of my favorite moments of the past couple of weeks was the other day when Elon Musk is sitting there, standing there with his kid.

00:26:42.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:26:43.460 And they said something to him about something he, I guess, tweeted that was wrong and they fact-checked it or whatever.

00:26:51.020 And Elon Musk was like, you know, some of the things I say will be wrong.

00:26:55.300 And I was thinking to myself, like, that's not that you shouldn't say that, right?

00:26:59.820 Like, every lesson you know about politics says you should not just say that.

00:27:05.440 But that's true.

00:27:06.340 Everybody says that.

00:27:07.320 It's true about every single person on earth.

00:27:09.500 You know what?

00:27:09.960 Some of the stuff I say will be wrong.

00:27:11.840 And you should know that.

00:27:12.780 And, like, if we can – and he's moving so fast and he's going to break things.

00:27:16.960 And sometimes these things are – there's going to be mistakes made.

00:27:20.660 There's going to be – but, like, the intent here is to root all this stuff out.

00:27:25.540 And you wonder why all this stuff builds up over a long period of time.

00:27:28.760 It's because the intent is to keep it there.

00:27:31.480 The intent is not – this is not a mistake.

00:27:34.020 There's not $20 billion in some account because, oh, gosh, we missed the $20 billion.

00:27:38.460 It's because there's an entire, you know, foundation and an entire city built on trying to keep those things in place.

00:27:49.940 And we finally have a couple of people who seem interested in rooting all that out.

00:27:54.680 And it's not going to be perfect.

00:27:55.920 There are going to be things that go wrong, I'm sure.

00:27:58.020 But, like, wow.

00:27:59.540 It's just great to see that attitude and approach.

00:28:01.340 But here's the problem.

00:28:02.760 The complaints aren't even real.

00:28:04.660 First of all, you see the people that went into a Senate hearing yesterday and they were, you know, protesting.

00:28:10.880 And they're like, oh, you've got to fix the aid to AIDS in Africa.

00:28:16.040 That's important.

00:28:17.140 And they were kicked out.

00:28:18.500 And the secretary just looked up to the Senate and said, they must not pay attention at all because that was fixed two weeks ago.

00:28:26.980 Right.

00:28:27.720 We did that two weeks ago.

00:28:29.600 To be fair, there's a lot to follow right now.

00:28:30.980 No, there is a lot to follow.

00:28:32.260 But you think if you're going to organize a group, that's your one thing.

00:28:36.620 You should know that, you know.

00:28:38.920 Let me go to Jeff in Arizona.

00:28:41.200 Hello, Jeff.

00:28:43.400 Glenn, I'm going to get right to it because this is such an important thought.

00:28:47.780 This is already a known thought.

00:28:49.520 It's out there.

00:28:50.120 And I believe Trump was actually talking about it during his 2020 election campaign.

00:28:53.760 And that is a national citizenship ID card, which he can do as the executive.

00:29:00.980 With the pen and the phone, he can, from a national department, I'm going to suggest it's the Treasury Department, order out national ID cards.

00:29:10.220 And I think you know the reason why.

00:29:12.000 It's because de facto, this can then act as voter ID.

00:29:17.520 And this will then act as the death knell, the actual knife in the heart of the Marxist progressive left to get control over our vote.

00:29:27.300 And the way it de facto acts as a voter ID card is the states just adopt it.

00:29:34.600 And you're going to immediately have 15 to 20 states who already want voter ID who will just say, oh, we suddenly have a national citizenship ID card.

00:29:44.540 This will now be used as voter ID card.

00:29:46.760 And you will create a wave across the country, and you will kill the voting corruption from the progressive left.

00:29:55.820 And I have a vision I want to cast on how he gets to that.

00:29:58.980 But please, yeah, hang on just a second.

00:30:00.620 I just would like to say, I don't think I'm for a national ID.

00:30:04.900 I don't like anything national, especially when it comes to our ID.

00:30:10.300 That sounds like it's one step away from a digital ID, which I'm absolutely against.

00:30:18.460 I could understand if you are not here legally, if you are, you know, even here on a visa, you are not a natural born citizen.

00:30:29.180 You could be required to have a national ID, but I don't like I don't like the government with any more lists of anybody else.

00:30:40.780 Just don't like it.

00:30:42.500 I'm surprised to hear you say that because everything in life has a tradeoff.

00:30:46.340 And when you look at killing voter fraud, when you hear I get what you're saying, Glenn.

00:30:51.560 But when you look at the upside of killing voter fraud and killing, you know, these groups, Mecha, La Raza, leftist groups who want to literally overthrow our country by polluting our votes.

00:31:05.220 This will this would kill that because the national government can do that and then the states can just adopt it. 0.56

00:31:11.060 And then here's the vision on how it would go through the Treasury Department is you already have a national card.

00:31:16.880 This pathetic little piece of construction paper that comes mailed to you is literally the Social Security, because the most important number in your life is to this day, just like we got this stupid mind seven stories down with paperwork for people's retirement.

00:31:33.240 The most important number in your life is why I said we come with the Treasury Department.

00:31:36.880 The Treasury Department just simply changes over to a hard card that protects beyond our Social Security number, protects the most important thing we have, Glenn, our citizenship, our citizenship.

00:31:52.820 They've already been talking about it.

00:31:54.320 It's already out there.

00:31:55.120 And I would love to see Trump sign on July 4th of this year the Protect Citizen, Secure Citizen Card, Secure Citizenship ID July 4th of this year.

00:32:07.680 And everybody next year on the 250th anniversary of the declaration has a Protect Citizenship ID card in their hand.

00:32:16.340 Jeff, I'd like to hear more about it.

00:32:17.860 I am against National ID, but, you know, when you're bringing up the Social Security, if it's nothing more than a glorified, very, very, very hard to recreate, and you actually have a fence around Social Security, maybe.

00:32:34.300 Maybe, but I don't know.

00:32:35.600 I don't know.

00:32:36.120 Again, they've talked about – when I've heard Trump talk about National ID, the idea is more for – typically we're talking about legal migrants, right?

00:32:45.520 Like the idea that you would have an identification for those who are here legally that have to hit a different standard than a U.S. citizen would have to hit.

00:32:55.980 Like a sophisticated green card.

00:32:58.660 Yeah.

00:32:59.060 I think that's a little bit more – because you talk about this, you know, the states will adopt it.

00:33:02.840 Well, what states?

00:33:04.100 Is California adopting it?

00:33:05.720 Probably not.

00:33:06.880 Like what you're going to do is, if anything, you'd have red states doing it, which would be great, I guess, but, I mean, there are probably a lot less – fewer problems in those states anyway. 0.62

00:33:14.860 And, again, we have to also project past Donald Trump.

00:33:20.160 Yes.

00:33:20.260 What does a national ID card look like when you have the next president in who wants to, you know, do all sorts of things with it that are going to make you very uncomfortable?

00:33:29.340 You know, I think giving – there are a lot of ways to push back against a voter – I mean, a voter ID law is something that you could pass, but states would be the ones in control of that.

00:33:43.540 And I think that's a better approach.

00:33:44.700 And states must be in control of the vote, never the federal government.

00:33:48.160 Right.

00:33:48.760 It's really tempting because we all are like, oh, we want to get the vote results immediately on election night.

00:33:54.460 We should just have a national election.

00:33:56.140 And it's very tempting to people, but there's a very bad path that that leads down.

00:34:01.360 All right.

00:34:01.880 Let me take Chuck in Kentucky.

00:34:04.380 Hello, Chuck.

00:34:05.800 Hey, Glenn.

00:34:06.660 Great to talk to you again.

00:34:07.980 We met about 15 years ago in Melbourne, Florida.

00:34:10.460 Oh, my gosh.

00:34:11.340 Chuck.

00:34:11.920 Ah, Chuck.

00:34:12.640 We were just talking about you, Chuck.

00:34:14.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:14.900 No, no.

00:34:15.380 We love you.

00:34:15.820 We love you.

00:34:16.140 Thank you, man.

00:34:16.540 We love you.

00:34:17.120 Thank you.

00:34:18.620 A couple of things.

00:34:20.080 Yeah.

00:34:20.320 One, thank you for supporting Preborn.

00:34:22.840 My wife and I support them as well.

00:34:24.440 Awesome.

00:34:24.960 Yes.

00:34:25.180 Great organization.

00:34:25.720 For the most part, I'm really happy with what Trump is doing.

00:34:30.380 I love the Doge stuff.

00:34:33.280 I'm a little concerned about the Gaza stuff and how that's going to work out. 1.00

00:34:38.480 Yeah.

00:34:40.840 Hang on just a second.

00:34:43.280 Let's say more than eh on that.

00:34:46.300 If we're actually taking over things in Gaza, I don't think that's a good idea.

00:34:52.120 We're if they build a nice pickleball facility there. 0.97

00:34:54.060 That would be nice.

00:34:54.780 Yeah, maybe we can just steamroll and just make a big pickleball court. 0.52

00:34:58.660 Doesn't this just strike you, though?

00:34:59.800 I, you know, I just it just strikes me as just pure Trump negotiation.

00:35:03.560 Yeah, it does.

00:35:04.540 Except I saw a story today.

00:35:06.600 Let me see if I can find it to where I think it's the UAE said the ambassador to America

00:35:13.200 from the UAE said, I don't think there's any way to stop that. 0.91

00:35:16.040 I just think that's the best.

00:35:17.380 You got a better idea.

00:35:18.920 Go for it.

00:35:19.360 And I'm like, somebody's got to come up with a better idea than that.

00:35:22.180 And now I don't mind if we have American business over there.

00:35:28.200 You know, the Waldorf Astoria wants to build some hotels over there.

00:35:32.940 Yeah.

00:35:33.240 Go for it.

00:35:33.960 And he's kind of said that it's not going to be taxpayer dollars.

00:35:36.220 Yeah.

00:35:36.420 Not U.S. troops.

00:35:37.480 I don't want any troops over there.

00:35:38.780 But again, it's not very America first.

00:35:42.940 It's not consistent with most of his platform here.

00:35:46.160 To me, it's just very much him saying like, hey, guys, release these hostages.

00:35:50.400 Do it.

00:35:51.280 Because we will just take this land from you and you will go to different countries and 0.99

00:35:55.080 we'll build resorts.

00:35:56.480 Yeah.

00:35:56.740 So get it done.

00:35:57.680 And I think he's what he has done is he's changed the narrative.

00:36:01.240 You know, all of the countries around, we're not talking about, wait, the Gazans have to 1.00

00:36:09.720 stay in the Gaza Strip.

00:36:11.080 No, no, no.

00:36:12.080 Nobody was talking about that.

00:36:12.980 They were like, we can't have the United States come in and build anything there.

00:36:16.680 That's what I mean.

00:36:17.040 And that's what you need in that situation is to change the conversation.

00:36:19.580 How long have we been talking about a two-state solution?

00:36:22.320 It's never going to work.

00:36:23.340 Stop it.

00:36:24.460 Stop it.

00:36:25.360 Change the solution.

00:36:25.940 If you guys want to stay on this land, you will start acting like civilized people.

00:36:33.400 And while I'm sure there are some there that have, generally speaking, when you look at

00:36:37.340 the polls, it's not all that encouraging.

00:36:38.940 So change what you're doing or things are going to change.

00:36:41.860 All right.

00:36:42.260 Let me go to Rob in Indiana.

00:36:46.620 Glenn.

00:36:47.320 Yeah.

00:36:48.360 Thank you so much for taking calls, man.

00:36:51.040 There's so many of us that just want to get through and talk to you.

00:36:53.940 And I understand things have changed.

00:36:56.140 But it just is what it is.

00:36:58.340 We love taking calls.

00:36:59.300 You guys call whenever you want to.

00:37:00.640 We don't solicit for them enough anymore because we just get off ranting on stuff.

00:37:04.220 But you're always welcome to call.

00:37:05.360 The line's always open.

00:37:06.740 BJ's in there screening your calls.

00:37:08.120 He's yelling at people most of the time.

00:37:09.380 I don't know what he's doing in there.

00:37:10.400 But 888-727-BECK.

00:37:12.720 Thank you.

00:37:13.180 That's right.

00:37:13.840 Mr. Executive Producer.

00:37:14.800 You know, I've been a listener.

00:37:16.620 Yeah.

00:37:17.340 I've been a listener, you know, from the beginning.

00:37:19.440 And I'm a Blaze subscriber.

00:37:23.640 Thank you.

00:37:23.860 Last night I purchased tickets to go to the American Journey Experience.

00:37:28.560 Really?

00:37:29.080 Oh, cool.

00:37:29.580 I'm going to make a pilgrimage in March to Dallas.

00:37:31.940 I think I'm around in March.

00:37:34.980 So you make sure you tell the people over at the museum that we spoke.

00:37:40.140 And I'd love to see you when you come.

00:37:41.700 But anyway, go ahead.

00:37:42.640 Okay.

00:37:43.700 Hey, that would be great.

00:37:45.240 Yeah.

00:37:45.460 But anyway, I love everything.

00:37:47.360 You know, I can't believe how close we came to the point of no return.

00:37:50.840 Yeah.

00:37:51.160 And, you know, it's unbelievable.

00:37:55.180 You know, voting day, it was like this thing.

00:37:57.820 We all knew it in our gut, in our soul, in everything within us, knew how close we were

00:38:04.320 and how dire everything was.

00:38:07.000 Yeah.

00:38:07.260 And thank God, you know, that things went the way they did.

00:38:11.880 Yeah.

00:38:12.140 And literally, thank God.

00:38:15.460 Because I think he stepped in and did it.

00:38:18.680 Real quick, what is the one thing that you say concerns you?

00:38:23.320 Oh, well, if people don't start going to jail, all this will just be a four-year blip.

00:38:30.040 Yeah.

00:38:30.660 Well, here's the good news.

00:38:32.620 Kash Patel got out of committee yesterday.

00:38:36.020 He's going to be confirmed maybe early next week because they just had to go to Germany.

00:38:41.180 All these senators had to go to, stay home, take care of business here, quite honestly.

00:38:46.860 But they're going to confirm him next week.

00:38:49.700 Now you have Pam Bondi.

00:38:51.380 She's already issuing, you know, charges around the country.

00:38:55.980 And when Kash Patel comes in, I think you're going to see a massive change in the FBI and DOJ.

00:39:03.360 And that's, you have to have the FBI to start putting people in jail.

00:39:09.120 So that's the last piece to come in to play.

00:39:12.240 And it's going to happen next week.

00:39:13.740 So let's watch what happens beginning next week because I think it's going to happen quickly.

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00:40:31.620 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:40:54.040 So we're going to take your phone calls again over the top of the hour.

00:40:57.560 So 888-727-BECK.

00:41:00.120 And we're going to continue to tell you the things that just happened overnight.

00:41:03.480 I mean, there's just so much going on right now.

00:41:05.640 And the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is happening this weekend.

00:41:10.680 And Stu, strangely, is excited for it.

00:41:14.460 I guess it's...

00:41:15.140 I'm kind of into it a little bit.

00:41:16.540 It's a historical sort of thing.

00:41:18.020 I don't care about the current cast.

00:41:19.560 But it's like, who are they going to bring back?

00:41:21.560 Who's going to be the musical guests?

00:41:22.720 Who's going to be in the room?

00:41:23.700 What are they wearing?

00:41:24.460 What are they wearing?

00:41:25.180 Who are they wearing?

00:41:25.980 Who are they wearing?

00:41:27.100 Exactly.

00:41:27.820 So very, very...

00:41:28.520 I'm so on the edge of my seat.

00:41:31.160 I actually am kind of into it.

00:41:32.760 Yeah.

00:41:32.940 Have you seen AP Bio by Lorne Michaels?

00:41:35.900 Oh, yeah.

00:41:36.400 That's with Dennis from It's Always Sunny, right?

00:41:38.980 Gosh, is that funny.

00:41:40.720 Just so funny.

00:41:42.420 Horrible, but funny.

00:41:43.900 This is Glenn Beck.

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00:43:54.220 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:00.400 Hello, America.

00:44:01.280 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:44:02.740 Quite a show for you today.

00:44:04.060 We're going to give you all the information on everything that has happened in the last 24 hours.

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00:44:14.800 Also, Zachary Levi is going to be on with us next hour in studio.

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00:44:36.020 So he's coming up in about an hour from now.

00:44:38.140 But let's get right to you and the things that have happened in the last 21 hours since we last met.

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00:45:49.900 Well, I got to tell you, I think the left just doesn't know what to do.

00:45:57.780 They are on the ropes.

00:46:00.780 And then you put somebody like David Hogg in.

00:46:03.380 I mean, what are you thinking?

00:46:07.200 Vice chair of the DNC.

00:46:08.240 Yeah, what are you thinking?

00:46:10.520 They've learned nothing.

00:46:11.800 Nothing.

00:46:12.420 I think they're just panicking right now.

00:46:13.940 And there is a reason to believe, if we're being honest here, that the American people

00:46:19.160 are fickle.

00:46:20.940 And they usually just run out of gas for whoever's in office.

00:46:25.020 And you can't look ahead and think, OK, this is 40 years of success ahead.

00:46:31.520 Like, they're going to do something.

00:46:33.320 Right now, they're flailing, though.

00:46:34.940 But we're three weeks into this.

00:46:36.520 We need to remember.

00:46:37.160 But you also have to remember that it wasn't too long ago that books were being written

00:46:41.920 how the Republican Party will never come back.

00:46:44.480 Yeah.

00:46:45.000 It's over.

00:46:45.660 It'll be 100 years of Democratic rule.

00:46:48.160 There was a book.

00:46:49.320 Was it James Carville that wrote it?

00:46:50.940 About how Republicans would be a regional party only?

00:46:54.540 Yes.

00:46:54.820 This is after Barack Obama's 2008 election.

00:46:57.780 The 2010 election was the biggest wave election in 100 years.

00:47:02.180 Yeah.

00:47:02.800 That's how fast this stuff can dry up.

00:47:04.720 So this is why I'm so encouraged by what Trump is doing here.

00:47:08.980 In that we are at a situation that he's realizing that he doesn't maybe have the longest road

00:47:16.440 to do all of this stuff.

00:47:18.080 He's got to get it done.

00:47:19.160 And hopefully it works and excites the American people.

00:47:21.700 And we don't lose the house, for example, in 2026, which is usually what happens.

00:47:27.180 But you have to have somebody competent to run, somebody who has vision.

00:47:31.120 I mean, when you're putting in as your vice chair David Hogg, it doesn't show –

00:47:36.820 It's a somewhat meaningless role, but still.

00:47:39.060 I know that.

00:47:39.420 But still, it shows me that you're still on the same message.

00:47:45.760 I was talking to somebody yesterday.

00:47:47.340 Do we have that picture of the front of Rockefeller Center?

00:47:51.900 This is one of the buildings in Rockefeller Center.

00:47:55.100 Pull it up if you can online.

00:47:58.040 And it is a glass cutting of the front of Rockefeller Center.

00:48:04.480 Do you have it?

00:48:05.680 They are working on it.

00:48:06.840 Okay.

00:48:07.280 They are working on it, Glenn.

00:48:08.280 There it is.

00:48:09.820 So it's hard to see, but see, there's two horses and then the strong guy naked standing, holding those horses back.

00:48:18.780 He's standing on a chariot, and the two horses are being held back.

00:48:22.260 Looks like he works out.

00:48:23.240 And there is a sunrise right in front of the horses, and you'll see the youth in front of the horses, kind of leading the horses.

00:48:32.080 Okay?

00:48:33.000 Yeah.

00:48:33.720 All right?

00:48:34.340 So what this means is this is the socialist movement, the Democratic Party.

00:48:42.660 This is the horses represent industry.

00:48:47.240 The strong man in the chariot is the government, and it's holding back the reins of industry.

00:48:54.800 It's got industry completely in its grip and control, and the youth of tomorrow lead us into the sunrise in the new chapter.

00:49:05.580 This is socialism.

00:49:07.820 This is what they're still offering us, where Trump is saying, no, we don't want the strong guy in the chariot.

00:49:14.340 We don't want that, and we just want competent people.

00:49:19.100 I don't care if they're 12 or 112, if they're competent.

00:49:23.380 We just want competent people, you know, setting the course for us, and that could be – it doesn't necessarily have to be elected.

00:49:31.480 The elected guy is in the chariot.

00:49:33.420 I want that guy just to be really small and really not even in the picture, quite honestly.

00:49:41.220 Yeah.

00:49:41.620 I mean, this goes back to the speech J.D. Vance made this week about AI, which we haven't really discussed all that much.

00:49:47.100 But it was, like, really encouraging.

00:49:49.120 It was, like, saying, hey, we're freaking America here, you know?

00:49:53.640 We're going to – of course we're going to dominate this industry, obviously.

00:49:57.320 Yeah.

00:49:57.480 Do we want it?

00:49:58.760 Yeah.

00:49:59.400 So we're going to take it.

00:50:01.220 And, like, that – we're not going to lose to China.

00:50:04.500 Like, it was, like – it wasn't apologizing for that.

00:50:08.260 It wasn't saying, well, really, we should give this technology to everyone because everyone needs it.

00:50:12.600 No, it was just, like, no, we're the best at it, and we're going to do it, and we're going to do everything we can.

00:50:17.100 To make sure we're the ones in control of this because it's not only important for our economy but also for the nation's security.

00:50:23.160 And freedom of the world, quite honestly.

00:50:25.080 Do you see what James Cameron came out and said?

00:50:27.240 Normally I don't care what James Cameron said, but because he's the guy, you know, with Skynet and the Terminator.

00:50:32.860 Okay, yeah.

00:50:33.200 He came out and said, you know, I wrote a fictional nightmare, he said, but this time it's not fictional, it's not speculation, it's already happening.

00:50:44.840 That's a quote from him.

00:50:46.400 He said, it's a scarier scenario than what I presented in Terminator 40 years ago.

00:50:50.960 If for no other reason that it's no longer science fiction, it's happening right now.

00:50:56.140 You'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, are forced to share with a super intelligent entity that wants to follow the goals of a corporation.

00:51:06.560 This entity will have access to your communications, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country through personal data.

00:51:16.100 He said, it's ability to predict and influence human behavior.

00:51:21.680 This is surveillance capitalism.

00:51:25.480 And surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism.

00:51:30.480 This is the hard place is I don't want the government to own it, but I also don't trust corporations to own it.

00:51:39.240 I trust corporations more than I trust the government.

00:51:42.760 I do.

00:51:43.740 That one's not a tough decision for me.

00:51:45.880 I understand it's, I feel like it's a little more difficult than maybe conservatives felt at one point.

00:51:51.420 I mean, I distrust them equally.

00:51:53.620 It's not like I trust one more than the other.

00:51:56.700 I distrust both of them.

00:51:58.360 I trust corporations more.

00:52:00.680 And the reason is that there's that there's actual competition between them.

00:52:03.940 And it's not, I don't trust any individual corporation necessarily, but like the, the, the impacts of the market, I think generally speaking, lead us to good things.

00:52:13.580 You know, but that it's up for debate, of course.

00:52:16.300 I mean, the problem of here is you, you sort of have to choose one path or another.

00:52:20.460 And I can tell you, I do not want centralized control of AI.

00:52:23.440 Do I want guardrails around it for national security purposes?

00:52:29.480 Sure.

00:52:30.400 But when it comes to whether I, I don't love tech companies, for example, I think, you know, there's been a lot of good things, but, but there's been a lot of bad things.

00:52:39.100 That being said, the difference between that and the government is to me, there's a pretty, pretty bright line there.

00:52:45.460 I have to tell you that, you know, if you look at what's happening in Europe and Canada, I mean, did you hear that Canada, they are, they are now trying to pass a bill that you can go to prison.

00:52:55.500 If you say anything favorable about oil, gas, or coal, go to jail.

00:53:02.120 That's sensible.

00:53:03.380 Yeah.

00:53:03.980 That's going to work out really well, isn't it?

00:53:06.360 I mean, this is, these are products that have built our civilization.

00:53:10.800 Exactly right.

00:53:11.620 Like that's how.

00:53:12.100 You can't run, not, not just built it in the past.

00:53:15.540 Currently.

00:53:15.780 We can't live without any of that stuff.

00:53:18.600 Nope.

00:53:19.300 And they're like, oh, you can't even talk about it positively.

00:53:21.720 That's crazy.

00:53:22.400 That's, it's basically crazy about everything, let alone something that's been really positive to our, to our world.

00:53:28.440 Also, Linda McMahon, uh, yesterday, she talked about in her confirmation hearing, um, she said, uh, fund educational freedom, not government run systems.

00:53:39.740 This is her plan.

00:53:40.880 Uh, listen to the parents, not the politicians, build up careers, not college debt, empower states, not special interest, invest in teachers, not Washington bureaucrats.

00:53:49.040 It says, November proved that Americans overwhelmingly support the president's vision and I'm ready to enact it.

00:53:55.100 Education is an issue that determines our national success and prepares American workers to win the future.

00:54:00.780 The legacy of our nation's leadership and education is one that every person in this room embraces with pride.

00:54:06.820 Unfortunately, many Americans today are experiencing a system in decline.

00:54:11.300 I think she's, I think, I mean, I don't know how you argue about the, uh, against these things.

00:54:17.400 I really don't.

00:54:18.480 We all know our schools are failing like crazy.

00:54:22.240 And she was asked, uh, does that mean you're going to cut off, uh, the funds for schools that need, you know, help because they're in low tax base?

00:54:31.120 No, no, we'll still help those, but we're going to get rid of all of this crap that you're required to do to get any of that money.

00:54:41.060 Um, they have to be run.

00:54:43.300 The classrooms need to be run by the parents and the teachers locally, not some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

00:54:51.240 Yeah, and she, McMahon's a real advocate for school choice.

00:54:55.320 This is an incredible, I mean, this is, we have a real opportunity to make a massive difference for millions of children, uh, in this four year period.

00:55:03.600 And, uh, it's really exciting.

00:55:05.440 Even here in Texas, where we had an election, um, uh, you know, we talked about the house speaker situation, uh, who we did not go the way that conservatives were hoping here in Texas.

00:55:16.240 But at least as of today, uh, Burroughs, who is the guy who is not the, you know, more conservative option, is claiming that they are going to go forward with school choice in Texas.

00:55:27.160 Even, I mean, we're at the point that now even, you know, what you might call, you know, the rhino contingency is like, okay, yeah, we'll do that.

00:55:34.260 This is incredible, Glenn.

00:55:35.360 We've been talking about this policy for 20 years.

00:55:37.720 Longer than that.

00:55:38.320 Longer than that.

00:55:39.000 But, you know, as long as, as long as the show's been on the air, we've been discussing it as this sort of like pie in the sky.

00:55:43.400 Hey, maybe that will have vouchers.

00:55:45.400 Like, like it was this thing that would never occur.

00:55:47.560 And all of a sudden it's occurring all over the, all over the country.

00:55:50.400 So here's what concerns me is, uh, Donald Trump is, I love these people who are coming out from the democratic side saying, oh, you know, have you checked inflation?

00:55:59.940 No, there is no inflation.

00:56:01.340 This is the greatest economy ever.

00:56:02.940 What are you talking about?

00:56:04.340 The, uh, Biden inflation is, you know, the work against, uh, inflation that Biden has been doing.

00:56:09.460 Bidenomics, that's working.

00:56:10.640 It's, it's the greatest thing ever.

00:56:11.840 I can't believe people who told us for four years, there was no such thing as inflation are now crying, you know, the inflation numbers.

00:56:18.740 And I'm happy to say that our president is saying, yes, inflation is, it's going to go up and it's going to be hard.

00:56:24.440 And we're working to, to reverse that.

00:56:27.320 He's at least recognizing the reality of the situation.

00:56:32.620 Uh, and it is going to go up and get worse before it gets better.

00:56:36.540 We talked about this before.

00:56:38.020 We talked about this before November.

00:56:40.320 It's concerning though.

00:56:41.560 It is concerning.

00:56:42.380 Because if it, look, you know, think about the average person.

00:56:45.880 They don't, they're not sitting here like you are listening to, you know, a bunch of talk radio and, and like, and thinking about these issues.

00:56:53.380 If these prices go up and they continue to, if it feels like Biden, they won't care what the rest, what else is going on.

00:57:01.160 You've got a very short runway with, hey, there's going to be some pain here.

00:57:05.920 You just need to take it and it'll get better later.

00:57:08.180 That, that can work, worked with Reagan, I would argue.

00:57:11.460 I mean, the early, remember, I mean, inflation in, in that, in 81, 82 was really high.

00:57:18.480 And then it came down and everything was fine.

00:57:20.220 And he won in a landslide.

00:57:21.160 So it's, it's possible to turn it around, but you know, it's, it's a, it's a tough tight, tight wire walk.

00:57:27.520 You know, I'm looking at the price of gold.

00:57:29.080 What is the price of gold?

00:57:29.720 It's almost $3,000 an ounce, uh, it was yesterday.

00:57:32.960 It was, uh, 26, nine, or sorry, 29, 61.

00:57:38.000 Um, um, um, I'm looking for that because this is the seventh weekly gain on, uh, on gold.

00:57:44.840 And it has something to do with the, the trade war.

00:57:48.200 Uh, but also something else is happening with gold and we're not sure exactly what it is.

00:57:53.340 Um, but it looks as though some people are thinking that we're going to go back and revalue all of our gold, which would be good.

00:58:00.740 If you had gold, um, you know, really good if you had gold, but, uh, it's going to be, it's going to cause problems because of the dollar getting stronger, et cetera, et cetera.

00:58:12.320 It's the, the cure is not going to be worse than the disease, but the cure is going to make it seem as though the disease is getting worse, uh, before it gets better.

00:58:22.500 By the way, one other thing, uh, that happened yesterday, you know, Rachel Maddow came on and she was like, uh, yeah, I told you, I told you Elon Musk.

00:58:31.260 I'm sorry.

00:58:31.780 It's Rachel Maddow.

00:58:32.700 I told you that Elon Musk was double dealing, right?

00:58:36.220 Am I right?

00:58:37.720 MSNBC, Rachel Maddow viewers.

00:58:40.880 I'm always right, right, right.

00:58:43.240 So he's, you know what he did?

00:58:46.240 He just got the government to buy 400 million.

00:58:50.420 That's almost half a billion dollars of armored Tesla vehicles.

00:58:55.400 And he got a contract through the state department.

00:58:57.840 What a jerk.

00:58:58.660 Wow.

00:58:59.140 What a bastard.

00:59:00.120 That's unbelievable, Glenn.

00:59:01.780 I know.

00:59:02.020 You know, the fact is he got, well, this is what happened, Glenn, is his money bought influence with Donald Trump.

00:59:06.980 Yeah.

00:59:07.300 And then Donald Trump gets elected, probably falsely, by the way.

00:59:11.860 And then, uh, Musk becomes the real president and just directs all this money to his own company.

00:59:17.360 Right you are.

00:59:18.340 Thank you, says Rachel Maddow.

00:59:20.280 Unfortunately, 100% wrong.

00:59:22.320 The government, because of green energy.

00:59:24.600 Can you imagine how long these batteries last carrying around an armored vehicle?

00:59:30.380 Like what are the, like 10, 10 minutes out of the car?

00:59:33.920 But, uh.

00:59:34.780 Elon would not agree with that.

00:59:35.940 Yeah.

00:59:36.000 So he's, uh, so the Biden wanted armored vehicles for the state department and he wanted them all EVs.

00:59:44.200 So he put out a bid.

00:59:45.680 The only one that responded to the bid was Tesla.

00:59:49.940 Okay.

00:59:50.420 Nobody else responded to the bid.

00:59:52.580 Everybody else was like, uh, 10 minutes.

00:59:55.780 I don't think that'll be good.

00:59:57.640 So he was, he was the high bidder on the government's, uh, list of, of providing all of these vehicles.

01:00:06.360 However, Trump stopped that, said it's not going to happen.

01:00:11.680 So Rachel Maddow is, oh, geez, man. 0.58

01:00:13.760 I got to tell you, a pack of cool cigarettes, maybe some Alka-Seltzer, and I'm going to be fine.

01:00:18.060 I'm going to get over this.

01:00:19.020 But I'm telling you right now, all lies.

01:00:21.760 Uh, all of that is, is not true.

01:00:25.480 They are so desperate.

01:00:27.780 Yeah.

01:00:27.900 I'd be real.

01:00:28.360 I mean, if you had a network that cared, you'd be really concerned about that.

01:00:32.580 I mean, she does one show a week. 0.85

01:00:35.080 The main focus of her monologue wasn't even true.

01:00:38.300 Like that's got to be really concerning as a network.

01:00:40.980 You would think in any other circumstance, you know, I was going to say, wow, I didn't know she was doing one show a week. 0.54

01:00:46.440 And then I thought, no, the real wow is, wow, she's still doing one show a week. 0.95

01:00:53.260 She's their star, Glenn.

01:00:54.440 I know, I know she is.

01:00:56.160 All right.

01:00:56.540 Uh, let's see.

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01:02:07.300 Let me go to Jim in, uh, Georgia.

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01:02:23.300 Hello, Jim.

01:02:23.960 Welcome to Friday.

01:02:24.780 Hey, Glenn.

01:02:25.980 I met you 15 years ago when, um, when Ted Cruz was running.

01:02:31.120 Wow.

01:02:32.080 It's you, Jim.

01:02:33.360 We were just talking about you, Jim.

01:02:35.160 Yeah, it's amazing.

01:02:36.360 What happened to Jim?

01:02:37.980 I had a jacket that said, death to ISIS, you know, anyway.

01:02:41.860 Oh, yeah.

01:02:42.660 Sure, I remember now.

01:02:44.220 That's right.

01:02:44.900 Anyway, and I have to contact your producers afterwards because I got screwed over by a Soros-funded prosecutor,

01:02:52.120 weaponized government, uh, media lies against me.

01:02:54.700 But that's not what I called about.

01:02:55.840 Yeah, you're going to have to stand in line on that.

01:02:57.060 What I called about is the 501c status that is currently still being retained by two what I consider

01:03:03.960 domestic organizations.

01:03:05.100 That's the American branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, CARE, uh, which, and Black Lives Matter. 0.92

01:03:11.620 They both have 501c status.

01:03:14.280 I think, and if I'm not mistaken, the DOS team even showed that USAID money was going to Black Lives Matter as well.

01:03:21.980 I think that their funds need to be seized.

01:03:25.220 They need to have their 501c status shut down.

01:03:28.800 And actually, they need to be designated terrorist organizations like the cartels.

01:03:33.540 And the second thing I want to make real quick and finish up with is I love Pam Bondi. 0.83

01:03:38.360 I love Trump's team.

01:03:39.340 I'm really excited.

01:03:40.280 Except there's only one downside on that is threatening long shoots.

01:03:44.580 No, I think an example needs to be made of Phil Murphy in New Jersey openly admitting

01:03:49.840 to committing a federal offense of harboring a fugitive that's illegal in his garage.

01:03:55.800 Yeah, well, that's an amazing story.

01:03:58.160 Bring it on, Trump.

01:03:59.820 Good luck if you try removing people from my city.

01:04:02.420 Yeah.

01:04:02.880 So those two guys need to be dragged into jail, not just lawsuits.

01:04:06.820 They need to be charged and arrested and swatted.

01:04:09.780 Well, I will tell you, you're going to be very, very happy when we come back.

01:04:14.280 I'm going to play some audio from Tom Holman next about prosecution.

01:04:20.920 Wait until you hear him.

01:04:23.520 That's next on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:04:31.800 This is Glenn Beck.

01:04:34.840 Yeah.

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01:05:56.400 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:06:13.960 We're glad you're here.

01:06:15.200 You know, Elon Musk said yesterday that if you can have a federal judge stop a president,

01:06:20.120 then we don't live in a democracy.

01:06:21.280 That's not entirely true.

01:06:23.040 If there is a law passed by Congress, then the president has to remain in that law.

01:06:31.340 And you have three branches of government.

01:06:33.800 However, the reason why Donald Trump can get away with a lot of stuff is because,

01:06:39.160 and this is why the government needs to be shrunk down,

01:06:42.660 because the power of the president is far too great.

01:06:46.060 He's got 2 million employees, and he's got all of these different agencies.

01:06:52.420 And if you go to doge.gov, if you look under regulations, you'll see they've put together

01:07:00.440 the unconstitutionality index.

01:07:02.880 And there are agencies that have been created and created without Congress.

01:07:11.580 And then it shows you the number of regulations that are passed by Congress for each of these,

01:07:18.440 and then the actual regulations.

01:07:21.480 For instance, there are in the, which one is this one?

01:07:25.520 The, oh, this is by year.

01:07:28.620 So let me go 2024.

01:07:31.280 There were 176 laws passed for the administration,

01:07:40.900 and there were 3.25,000, 3,200, 500, 32,000, no.

01:07:50.800 3,250?

01:07:51.540 3,250, yes, thank you.

01:07:53.680 3,250 regulations passed by these agencies.

01:07:58.400 So what the president can do is say, all those regulations, nope.

01:08:03.140 Because government, the Constitution says that Congress is to enact these things.

01:08:09.960 Congress just abandoned their role because they never wanted to get in trouble for passing

01:08:13.740 something that was unpopular with the American people.

01:08:16.740 That is what he's trying to take back, is reduce the code of federal regulations.

01:08:22.980 There are 215,000 sections of regulation and 98 million words of regulation.

01:08:33.620 None of it was passed.

01:08:35.160 That's way too much power for these, all of these organizations.

01:08:40.620 Let me go to Sherry in North Carolina. 0.68

01:08:43.360 Hello, Sherry.

01:08:46.440 Happy Valentine's Day.

01:08:48.080 How are you doing today?

01:08:49.260 Very good.

01:08:49.920 Rub it in.

01:08:53.980 Sorry about that.

01:08:54.840 That's all right.

01:08:55.300 I'm just a little exuberant because RFK was formally sworn in yesterday.

01:09:03.620 And that is that immensely important to people in the medical freedom movement.

01:09:11.580 Incredible.

01:09:12.260 I didn't choose to be in the medical freedom movement.

01:09:17.300 I consider myself an accidental member because most people join that movement after they've

01:09:23.700 been injured or someone's been killed.

01:09:27.300 Right.

01:09:27.700 So, yeah, I'm one of them.

01:09:31.860 We've been praying for him to at least be confirmed and sworn in because our hope is, our goal

01:09:43.560 is, that he will be able to have some effect on getting rid of the PREP Act.

01:09:50.580 What's the PREP Act?

01:09:53.820 The PREP Act, oh dear, you're going to ask me what it is.

01:09:57.700 Pandemic readiness and preparedness, I believe.

01:10:01.500 Got it, got it, got it, got it.

01:10:02.560 And I have heard attorneys describe it as the most evil document they've ever read.

01:10:13.360 Because one of the things it does is it gives the HHS secretary, once the emergency is proclaimed,

01:10:19.320 it gives the HHS secretary complete and utter control over large portions of the government,

01:10:28.720 even more control than the president has in some cases.

01:10:33.560 And one of the major sticking points within it is a structure that says that,

01:10:43.000 particularly under pandemic preparedness, is that whatever the government says is a covered countermeasure.

01:10:52.900 So that as long as you, as a medical professional, do whatever the government has laid out as a protocol,

01:11:03.520 which was what we all know happened in the hospital under COVID,

01:11:09.820 once that was enacted, all covered countermeasures became immune to suit or prosecution.

01:11:18.000 And in 2020, almost every state also wrote their own laws that codified that on a state level,

01:11:27.980 so that no matter, literally, no matter what happened in a hospital,

01:11:36.100 as long as that patient was classified as a COVID patient,

01:11:40.160 judges will not hear it, prosecutors will not prosecute it,

01:11:47.020 attorneys will not recognize it,

01:11:50.760 and in many cases, most cases,

01:11:54.840 family members of the patients are unaware of what's really going on because they were locked out.

01:12:04.060 Well, I think you're right about RFK being an answered prayer on that one

01:12:07.960 because that is exactly what he has been railing against.

01:12:11.140 And it's strange because he used to be for kind of these kinds of things until he saw it in action.

01:12:16.960 So I think you're going to have that prayer answered for you probably pretty quickly.

01:12:22.000 Let me play something that I promised the last caller in the last half hour.

01:12:26.960 We were talking, you know, he said, you know, consequences need to happen.

01:12:32.680 I want you to listen to Tom Homan on Sanctuary Cities.

01:12:38.080 Listen to this.

01:12:39.120 What do you say to the people of America tonight about those people who are holding on to sanctuary status?

01:12:45.740 We'll see you in court.

01:12:46.860 Pam Bonney is going to take these Sanctuary Cities down. 1.00

01:12:48.980 We're going to pull federal funding.

01:12:50.380 We're going to start suing people.

01:12:51.640 If we have to, if we have to, if they impede us,

01:12:55.580 actively impede us, or if they're going to harbor and conceal an illegal alien from us,

01:13:00.360 especially a child predator, we're going to seek prosecution.

01:13:03.840 And Pam Bonney's all in.

01:13:05.160 So govs are off.

01:13:06.820 Game over.

01:13:07.580 We're coming.

01:13:08.320 So you can hide all you want.

01:13:09.900 But I'm not going to be satisfied.

01:13:11.600 To every gang member, every TDA member, we eradicate them from this country.

01:13:15.360 Every illegal gang member, they need to be gone.

01:13:18.740 He is, he's very confident in that.

01:13:24.600 And Pam Bonney is very confident.

01:13:26.540 The one piece you don't have yet is the director of the FBI.

01:13:30.180 That will happen with Kash Patel next week.

01:13:32.900 When that comes in, boy, if you were a sanctuary city, I would look out.

01:13:37.320 If you were an FBI agent that was responsible for the leaking of what our ICE agents were going to do,

01:13:45.920 I think it was in Denver or Los Angeles, and you put these guys in danger, you're in trouble.

01:13:51.040 You're in big, big trouble.

01:13:53.140 Because they're serious about it.

01:13:55.000 And that's the way it needs to be.

01:13:56.760 Tim, in West Virginia, you're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:14:00.460 This is awesome, Glenn.

01:14:01.600 You are absolutely a hero of mine.

01:14:03.760 And we get to talk to you.

01:14:04.720 It's awesome.

01:14:05.280 Thank you.

01:14:05.820 You too, Stan.

01:14:06.860 You too, Stu.

01:14:07.540 I love you.

01:14:08.160 Stan, I think I liked it when he called you Stan.

01:14:10.160 Call me Stan.

01:14:10.900 Yeah, you too, Stan.

01:14:12.240 I said Stu.

01:14:13.980 No, no, no.

01:14:14.880 You said Stan, and I want to leave it that way.

01:14:16.860 But anyway, go ahead.

01:14:17.820 Go ahead, Tim.

01:14:18.800 But anyways, I was going to say I love the cowboy entrance, too.

01:14:22.760 That has been – I go around the house saying, oh, oh, oh, oh, and my wife is like, what are you doing? 0.99

01:14:27.800 No, I know.

01:14:28.280 But anyways, I guess I'm concerned about how fast we are going about these doge cuts.

01:14:35.800 And I know a lot of the doge or like the DEI stuff, a lot of it is tied to a lot of disability things.

01:14:41.720 And I'm a health care worker.

01:14:42.980 I'm also a pastor.

01:14:44.760 And so I look at that and I see these people in my congregation, things like that, that are worried that they're going to cut food for kids and things like that.

01:14:52.880 You hear those sort of things.

01:14:54.300 And so I'm just afraid, are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

01:14:57.880 And, like, I know there's going to be some temporary pain in this, but how long will the people that really need the help the most have to suffer?

01:15:04.740 No, I think there's – I think there are going to be some pain and some things that slip through the cracks.

01:15:10.520 But they're not cutting, you know, food, welfare, any of that stuff that is not connected to the appearance, at least, of massive graft and fraud.

01:15:23.160 The essentials of medicine and food are not being cut.

01:15:26.900 As the people found out yesterday when they were in, you know, a Senate hearing and they started shouting at the secretary saying, you've got to put the AIDS packages back in from USAID for Africa.

01:15:44.820 AIDS is a real problem.

01:15:46.020 They started chanting and screaming and they were escorted out.

01:15:49.060 As the secretary said, that happened like 24 hours after.

01:15:53.140 I mean, we cut everything and said put it on hold.

01:15:55.360 And then we started going through what's real and what's not.

01:15:58.140 And we restored that.

01:15:59.600 So stop your belly aching.

01:16:01.380 I don't think that's the problem that you're going to see.

01:16:04.680 What I think is the problem is cutting so rapidly and not growing the economy fast enough.

01:16:14.860 We are changing everything.

01:16:18.320 We're changing this whole model.

01:16:19.780 Remember, before there was Obamacare.

01:16:22.780 Do you remember what was it?

01:16:23.620 21% of the industry in America was controlled by government, something like that.

01:16:31.240 Yeah, it's higher than that, I think.

01:16:32.840 No, now it's in its 40s.

01:16:35.140 But it used to be much smaller.

01:16:36.920 You want to be careful on what you cut and how you cut and the effects of these tariffs.

01:16:43.480 He needs to grow the economy at the same time.

01:16:46.720 Right.

01:16:46.940 Because pain people don't like and chaos people don't like.

01:16:49.920 Exactly right.

01:16:50.400 A lot of those things, you know, you got to be really careful with that stuff.

01:16:53.260 I also say, we talked about this a little bit off the air, Glenn, but like, if you're looking at the success of Doge, I think, in my opinion, the wrong standard is to look at how much money they cut.

01:17:04.160 You will find some cutting of spending here and there.

01:17:06.880 But, like, the way you cut spending in the United States budget is to reform Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security.

01:17:13.320 And defense.

01:17:13.960 And defense.

01:17:15.020 There are ways you can do it, but there are big programs, and a lot of this is required spending by Congress, and you can't cut that stuff.

01:17:22.820 You can make things more efficient.

01:17:24.140 You can come in under budget for, like, you got a $100 million program.

01:17:26.960 You might only spend $75 million and be able to get the same stuff done, but you're not going to notice that.

01:17:32.740 And we talk about these employees, you know, 75,000 employees resigned.

01:17:37.400 You know, they're spending a couple hundred billion dollars a year on employees.

01:17:41.040 $211.

01:17:42.540 $211 billion.

01:17:43.200 If they cut all of that, would anyone even notice?

01:17:45.720 I mean, from just a dollar perspective.

01:17:49.060 Right.

01:17:49.240 We send that to Ukraine. 1.00

01:17:50.220 It seems like weekly.

01:17:51.660 So, it's not necessarily going to be the money.

01:17:54.540 What you need to look at is the regulations.

01:17:56.320 If they're cutting that, that they're making these things more efficient, and that they're able to put in a bill that locks these things in long term, which will have longer term effects.

01:18:06.700 I don't know that they're going to honestly cut.

01:18:09.320 At the end of the day, will our budget go up or down from last year?

01:18:12.600 My guess is the spending still goes up.

01:18:15.980 That's because a lot of this is locked in from Congress.

01:18:19.060 There's nothing you can do about it.

01:18:20.180 The House put together a new budget, and it's $4.7 trillion.

01:18:24.920 That's still about a trillion dollars more than we bring in.

01:18:29.260 Minor issue?

01:18:30.100 Yeah, minor issue.

01:18:31.560 But it's down from, what, the six?

01:18:34.300 Now, if Doge, and they won't be able to do it in the first year.

01:18:37.100 If Doge can cut a trillion dollars from the budget, that helps.

01:18:41.500 That helps.

01:18:42.360 But not enough.

01:18:44.060 I mean, if we actually lived within our means, and we took in $3 trillion and spent $2.9 would be nice, but $3 trillion.

01:18:55.120 That alone would change everything with our loans, with us refinancing our mortgage, if you will, the debt.

01:19:06.120 We have to redo a lot of that debt, and it's going to be at higher interest rates.

01:19:10.820 We're paying a trillion dollars now on interest rates.

01:19:13.300 If we can take this and make these loans long term, and we're showing our creditors that we're now living within our means, there's a chance we could turn things around pretty quickly.

01:19:25.660 But that is going to be almost impossible to do.

01:19:29.660 The nice thing is he's moving so quickly now that if he can get a lot of this big stuff done before the midterms, we'll have a good start on it.

01:19:45.100 But we've got to get our Congress to codify these things.

01:19:51.240 You know, yesterday, he just cut, what was that Elizabeth Warren thing, you know, consumer protection?

01:19:57.680 Oh, yeah.

01:19:58.120 He just cut that to zero.

01:19:59.800 Well, you can't do that.

01:20:01.260 That's got to go through Congress.

01:20:04.160 No, actually, no, you don't.

01:20:05.800 Because Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama were so arrogant, they made it go through the Federal Reserve.

01:20:12.880 And they just funded the Federal Reserve and said, you know, here's a quarter of a trillion dollars, you know, for this agency.

01:20:20.340 And then the Federal Reserve doles that out.

01:20:24.220 Well, the president just said zero.

01:20:27.460 We're not giving you zero, and we don't want any money from the Federal Reserve for this.

01:20:32.500 So because they didn't do it through Congress, it's gone.

01:20:35.600 However, if Trump loses the next election or his, you know, his predecessor, if he loses, then that thing's coming right back.

01:20:47.340 That's why it has to be done and codified by Congress.

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01:21:59.880 All right, we're going to South Carolina and Don.

01:22:23.340 Don, we only have about a minute.

01:22:24.820 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:22:27.000 Yes, God bless you, Glenn, and your whole staff.

01:22:28.940 Thank you.

01:22:29.880 You have said many times that we are all put here for a reason at this time and this place,

01:22:34.020 and it's obvious that President Trump was put here at this time and this place for us.

01:22:38.640 And he has more energy, wisdom, and courage than I think any other human on the planet.

01:22:44.020 I think so, too.

01:22:45.900 I've come to realize that I think Biden was put here also for a reason, and I didn't like it.

01:22:51.120 I was very angry and frustrated when it happened, but I've come to realize that he was put here to make things so bad in this country that it had.

01:22:59.160 That's what opened up the eyes of so many millions of people.

01:23:01.720 I'm not sure if God plays chess quite like that.

01:23:07.980 I think he lets us live with the ramifications of our own choices.

01:23:12.280 But then, if you choose correctly, he can make the worst things turn into great things, which he did with Biden and Trump.

01:23:22.700 This is Glenn Beck.

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01:23:26.460 You know what, sweetheart, you know what you're getting for Valentine's Day?

01:23:31.540 A burner launcher.

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01:23:35.460 Okay, that might not be the best idea for Valentine's Day.

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01:23:52.940 I mean, they're all over 18, but that's the only restriction you have on a burner launcher is you have to be over 18.

01:23:58.920 But there's no background checks or anything because it's less lethal.

01:24:04.920 I mean, I suppose you could kill somebody with it, but I mean, I think you'd have to work really hard.

01:24:08.780 What it does is it incapacitates people for up to about 45 minutes.

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01:24:28.840 Excited to have Zachary Levi on with us next.

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01:24:34.020 I just watched her last night.

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01:25:39.280 Hello, America.

01:25:40.740 I saw a great movie last night with one of my favorite actors, Zachary Levi.

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01:27:15.380 Zachary, how are you, sir?

01:27:17.440 I'm well, thank you, Glenn.

01:27:18.860 Good to be back and talking to you.

01:27:20.280 Yeah, I know.

01:27:20.880 So good.

01:27:21.440 I thought you were coming in today, but Texas is a large state, and you have a Cybertruck,

01:27:26.640 and what, you'd have to stop and plug that thing in three times?

01:27:31.720 I think it's a couple charges to get up to Dallas.

01:27:35.300 Well, good to talk to you again.

01:27:36.460 I just watched your movie last night, my wife and I, and just loved it.

01:27:40.300 It is such a good movie.

01:27:43.640 Thank you.

01:27:44.420 Yeah, I'm, listen, I'm very grateful for the career that God's blessed me with over these

01:27:48.700 25 years and very proud of lots of things that I've done, but I am particularly proud of this

01:27:53.140 film.

01:27:53.420 I think it's, honestly, it was kind of a miracle that it even happened.

01:27:58.180 It's very God-breathed.

01:27:59.340 It happened in the height of the pandemic, and, you know, just the right of us, the right

01:28:05.940 of a number of us, and people came together to make this very, you know, slice of life.

01:28:10.760 It's a grounded film, as you know, as you've seen it.

01:28:13.800 You know, there's nothing big or splashy or, you know, big special effects or anything.

01:28:18.040 It's a true story about a family, you know, navigating life and all of its complexities,

01:28:23.060 but specifically navigating the waters of having a child on the autistic spectrum.

01:28:27.760 And I have never seen or heard of a film like ours that tackles it in such an authentic and

01:28:34.460 beautiful way.

01:28:35.140 And also, you know, diving into the human condition of the parents as they are trying

01:28:40.800 to figure out how to love themselves and each other and their children.

01:28:44.060 And it's powerful, you know, but it's also done with such a big heart.

01:28:51.120 And so it never feels like you're trudging through the drama too much or too long.

01:28:57.260 It's there to provide the groundedness of, you know, and the redemption in the story,

01:29:02.180 because as you know, we all go through our darkness.

01:29:05.280 And if we don't tell that part of the story, then I don't think you ever really get the

01:29:09.300 triumph of coming around at the end and having enlightenment and waking up to bigger and

01:29:14.420 better things in your life.

01:29:15.620 I mean, my character specifically, the father, you know, his journey is, and, you know, kind

01:29:21.680 of then what the messaging in the film is.

01:29:24.180 And the large part is what it means to radically accept the life that God has given you and

01:29:29.280 radically surrender to it.

01:29:31.100 And when you do, when we do that, you know, it's amazing the peace and the love, the radical

01:29:36.620 love that flows from us and into those around us.

01:29:40.480 And so I just think it's something that's applicable to everybody, you know, and now, as it turns

01:29:46.680 out, because autism has become so ubiquitous, you know, we're all touched by it in some way.

01:29:51.860 And so I think it's, even that resonates with almost everyone.

01:29:54.800 I have to tell you, this, this rang so true in my life.

01:29:58.040 I mean, it was almost in many ways, many parts of it.

01:30:00.780 And I probably think you are kind of in this world too, where so much of it rang so true.

01:30:07.220 Uh, I spent a lot of the time, uh, uh, crying in a way of relating, but also crying with tears

01:30:16.880 of joy.

01:30:17.480 The kid that is represented, um, which he's a real kid.

01:30:23.220 This is a true story, but the actor who plays him is incredible.

01:30:28.940 There is such joy in that kid.

01:30:32.340 What's he like?

01:30:32.900 Yeah, Jacob is a, he's a really special kid.

01:30:35.580 He's, he's got such a beautiful heart and we were so lucky to have found him.

01:30:40.240 Like I said, I mean, very God-breathed, everything.

01:30:43.100 And all the rest of the cast, Megan Fahey, who plays my wife and Peter Facinelli and Drew

01:30:47.340 Powell and, uh, Amy Acker, Patty Heaton, Patricia Heaton plays my mom. 1.00

01:30:51.300 She's great too.

01:30:52.380 Every, every, yeah.

01:30:53.300 And everyone kind of slid right into their role and inhabited it so authentically, but

01:30:57.920 Jacob, as you were pointing out, really has such a special energy that he brings to this

01:31:03.140 character, Austin, who, as you, as you said, yes, is a real, a real kid who's about 31 now.

01:31:08.940 Um, but Jacob just brings that effervescence and optimism to life in a way that really, you

01:31:17.360 know, affects obviously us in the story, but affects the viewer, affects the audience.

01:31:21.280 Like you, you can feel it.

01:31:22.540 It's, it's, um, it's real, it's palpable.

01:31:25.260 Yeah.

01:31:25.900 Uh, and, and he's, he doesn't have any disabilities himself.

01:31:29.700 He's just a, a regular kid.

01:31:32.380 Uh, as far as I know, yeah, I've, uh, I've never heard Jacob having been diagnosed with

01:31:37.180 anything, uh, neurodivergent, although listen, man, at this point, I wonder how many of us

01:31:42.160 could probably all be, you know, um, categorized as being somewhere on some, you know, spectrum,

01:31:48.960 whatever it is.

01:31:49.700 I mean, it's, it's fascinating to look at how all of our minds and bodies, uh, continue

01:31:55.760 to change, uh, and not always for the better as we progress as a society, you know, specifically

01:32:03.720 with all this technology.

01:32:04.720 I mean, how wonderful it is that we can be on the phone right now on your show that, or

01:32:08.840 I could be, you know, zooming in or, um, you know, the, the things that we have now at

01:32:13.440 our disposal, that our fingertips, it's pretty incredible.

01:32:16.380 And also, um, it's, uh, it's been a real, uh, it's been a real toxic thing in our lives

01:32:24.940 and blue light EMF, like all of these things, they reprogram us.

01:32:29.180 So, you know, even if we were born and had nothing going on for a long time in our lives,

01:32:35.720 you start introducing these types of technologies where you might start reprogramming your brain

01:32:39.220 in a lot of ways.

01:32:39.740 So anyway, that's kind of a tangent, but also I think in line with some of the stuff

01:32:43.460 we're going to talk today, like AI.

01:32:45.000 Yeah.

01:32:45.380 Um, I want to stay in the movie here for just a, uh, second longer.

01:32:49.760 Um, stay as long as you want.

01:32:51.600 I want to talk about it.

01:32:52.340 Yeah, no, it's, it's just, I just really loved it.

01:32:54.400 Um, the, um, the, the, the kid doesn't only have, um, uh, you know, he's not only on the

01:33:02.360 scale, but he also has a disease that I, man, I can't even imagine.

01:33:08.340 And he has very breakable.

01:33:10.800 Osteogenesis imperfecta.

01:33:11.720 What is it?

01:33:13.700 Osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bones disease, essentially.

01:33:16.260 Oh my gosh.

01:33:17.120 I mean, and when the baby is born and you find out that my wife and I were talking about

01:33:21.780 it as she was giving birth, we were like that.

01:33:24.180 Why didn't that break any bones?

01:33:25.580 And you find out it did broke two ribs.

01:33:27.520 And that's why the baby was crying all the time.

01:33:29.400 You didn't know it at first.

01:33:30.840 And then he's constantly falling and breaking bones on the simplest of things.

01:33:36.800 My gosh, what the real parents went through and what the kid went through too.

01:33:41.400 But I mean, my gosh, that's just turns your life upside down.

01:33:47.080 Yeah, no, it's, it's definitely, um, it's definitely, you know, part of this overall

01:33:52.540 journey that they went on.

01:33:53.780 And again, a journey that they, they got pregnant on their third date.

01:33:57.640 It was definitely a big curve ball that they stepped up to the plate and we're like, we're

01:34:01.740 going to go have this child and we'll figure out our relationship as we go.

01:34:05.800 And so they were already kind of navigating those waters.

01:34:08.940 Then they've got this, this new baby that is crying nonstop and they don't even know

01:34:13.560 why.

01:34:13.980 And so years later, when they finally are able to diagnose that he in fact did inherit

01:34:18.360 the genes from his mother to have osteogenesis imperfecta and then to have them in pain and

01:34:24.760 be worrying about them constantly that they're going to break another bone.

01:34:27.640 And I mean, it, it's, it's a, it's a ride, man.

01:34:31.120 Like I can't even imagine what Scott and Teresa were going through in that time and for them

01:34:35.340 to continue to stay strong and navigate through that, then just to find out, you know, later

01:34:39.220 on in life after having their second son, Logan, who, you know, God, God, you know, uh,

01:34:45.320 thank God he was, he did not have osteogenesis imperfecta and, and seemingly was, you know,

01:34:51.180 operating in a normal level.

01:34:52.240 But then Austin was starting to operate in very atypical ways only for them to test him

01:34:57.380 and find out that he indeed had autism.

01:34:59.720 Um, and that's a whole other challenge, you know, that's, um, that's in that for Scott,

01:35:03.780 I think that was him.

01:35:06.260 That was this real struggle with, with fighting his life.

01:35:11.000 Like, this is not my life.

01:35:12.260 This can't be my life.

01:35:13.120 Like I, I've got these expectations of what my life is supposed to be, which I think is

01:35:16.900 applicable to all of us.

01:35:17.900 We all have these ideas of no, no, no, no, my life is supposed to go this way or that

01:35:22.180 way.

01:35:23.120 And we fight and we fight God essentially in that we're like, no, it's gotta be different.

01:35:27.180 It's gotta be different as opposed to radically accepting that.

01:35:29.840 Well, perhaps God knows better than me.

01:35:31.560 And perhaps though my son, I wish my son would have been born without having to battle these

01:35:37.180 things through his life, that God is still going to use my son in, in beautiful ways and

01:35:42.320 has, and that's what was so transformative in that story.

01:35:44.820 Yeah.

01:35:45.180 And the, the fact that you're running away, uh, to alcohol, um, and, and part of it being,

01:35:52.600 I'm just a bad dad.

01:35:53.940 I mean, he's a, he's a normal guy.

01:35:56.940 Uh, and you know, he's out on the swings and his son, you know, has horrible break.

01:36:03.860 Um, and you know, his wife is like, it always happens with, with you, not, not with me.

01:36:08.320 How does that, and he just starts to think he's just such a bad guy, uh, and runs from

01:36:14.720 life with alcohol.

01:36:15.920 And I mean, it's, uh, as somebody who's been there, I get it, I get it.

01:36:20.600 And I thought it was really well done.

01:36:22.920 Thank you, man.

01:36:23.880 I, uh, that really means a lot.

01:36:25.700 And I'm very grateful that you were able to see it before we even talked, you know,

01:36:29.420 it gives it a lot more context for your viewers and listeners, because I really would love

01:36:36.400 for this movie to do well and not, you know, obviously biasly, I always want the things

01:36:40.980 that I, I do to do well, but I think that this is bigger than that.

01:36:45.540 I think this story is bigger than that.

01:36:47.280 And, um, you know, particularly nowadays with so much content that's out there that I don't

01:36:53.320 think has good messaging or great messaging or, um, that a whole family can actually watch

01:36:59.740 together.

01:37:00.880 Um, and it speaks to the, the human condition in all of us.

01:37:04.260 And so, yeah, I implore everyone listening, please go see it.

01:37:07.540 And if you enjoy it, please tell everybody that, you know, and also not for nothing, but

01:37:11.380 I do encourage people to go to movie theaters.

01:37:12.940 And I think for, you know, some of the same reasons that, that some people in my industry

01:37:18.400 talk about it, but I think there's one thing that is often overlooked.

01:37:22.000 And it's very important, which is theaters, you know, historically have been places, um,

01:37:30.800 that provide us the public of all different backgrounds and belief systems and whatever

01:37:36.740 to gather in the same place to experience the same thing.

01:37:41.280 And what's really powerful about that is, and I think something that's been lost as people

01:37:46.140 have continued to like kind of leave theaters and watch things on television is that when

01:37:50.400 you're in a public theater with a bunch of people that are not you, that believe different

01:37:54.160 things than you, and you know that, and you're all watching a thing, but yet, even though

01:37:58.700 you all have these different opinions and different belief systems, you're all laughing at the

01:38:02.800 same jokes.

01:38:03.760 You're all crying with the same moments of despair and pain.

01:38:08.520 And that those types of things help to remind us that we are all on this planet together,

01:38:14.440 that we're on team human together.

01:38:17.420 And yes, we might have differences of opinion and yes, we need to have more conversations

01:38:21.560 about trying to find more middle ground, but how can we even get to that point if we don't

01:38:26.600 see that the person on the other side of the aisle is a human being just like me that cries

01:38:31.240 and laughs at nearly all of the same moments.

01:38:33.840 You know, there's something that's very unifying in all of that.

01:38:35.900 So I encourage people to go to theaters mainly for that reason, go, go put yourself back into

01:38:41.580 a world where we start seeing each other again.

01:38:44.180 And I think this movie has a lot of that.

01:38:46.420 No matter what background you have, you're going to laugh and cry at a lot of the same

01:38:49.500 spots because it's just about being a human.

01:38:51.840 Zach, I have to tell you, I got in huge trouble when I got home after interviewing you because

01:38:55.980 my son was in town and he was staying for a couple of weeks and he said, wait, wait,

01:39:03.140 wait, who, who did you interview today?

01:39:05.140 And I said, Zachary Levi, he's like, you, you interviewed the guy who played Kurt Warner,

01:39:10.280 one of my favorite movies, and you didn't even tell me.

01:39:13.480 So I got in, I got in a huge trouble next time you're, you're coming up.

01:39:17.500 I, I have to tell him in advance if you don't mind.

01:39:20.520 100%.

01:39:20.880 Yeah.

01:39:21.620 You know what that's like, you know what that's like.

01:39:24.540 Anyway, come back.

01:39:26.420 I want to talk to you about AI and, uh, and your concerns about it.

01:39:31.620 And the thing I like about your take on this is that you're, you're not against AI, you

01:39:37.520 are warning against AI, but you have no problem using it as long as it's used and in control

01:39:44.420 of humans.

01:39:45.340 And I want to talk to you about that coming up in just a second.

01:39:47.460 Give me 60 seconds.

01:39:48.360 And back with Zachary Levi.

01:39:49.900 Uh, he's the guy in case you don't know, uh, he's the guy he did play, um, Kurt Warner,

01:39:55.020 uh, in, uh, I can't remember the name of the movie.

01:39:58.400 He was in, uh, the marvelous Ms. Maisel.

01:40:00.580 He played Chuck, uh, and all kinds of stuff, uh, Shazam. 0.60

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01:41:16.040 So you came to Texas and no offense, but this scares me because all of Hollywood is starting

01:41:29.560 to move to Texas and I don't want Hollywood in Texas.

01:41:32.800 Uh, it can stay in California.

01:41:36.620 Uh, but, uh, you know, in the Superbowl, there was this big push to get Texas, uh, to, uh,

01:41:43.480 start doing tax breaks for, uh, Hollywood and bring them, bring them here.

01:41:47.700 How, how do you feel about Hollywood moving to Texas?

01:41:52.720 Are you going to, is Texas going to remake Hollywood or will Hollywood remake Texas?

01:41:57.520 Well, I mean, listen, my, I think I might've shared a little bit of this with you last time,

01:42:02.760 but I moved to Texas specifically because 25 years ago when I started working in the industry,

01:42:07.180 I saw behind the curtain and I saw just how broken it all was.

01:42:11.120 And I felt very, I don't know.

01:42:14.300 I'm very angry about it all.

01:42:15.680 I really care about human beings.

01:42:17.060 I care about our casts and crews.

01:42:19.080 I, you know, I, I believe that I was put on this earth to be a leader of positive change.

01:42:23.440 And I didn't understand why God was leading me to such a broken industry because I, I would

01:42:27.780 not be able to stomach that I'd be fighting all the time.

01:42:31.100 And I really felt like God told me in that moment, 25 years ago, like Zach, you're not

01:42:36.120 wrong.

01:42:36.380 It's very broken, but I, God, I'm going to make a better version of this.

01:42:39.740 And I'm going to use you to go do that.

01:42:41.180 And that required me writing on the broken boats that is Hollywood for as long as I needed

01:42:46.200 to, to build my relationships and reputation resources.

01:42:49.400 And then at some point, God was going to lead me somewhere else.

01:42:53.500 And I knew very early on, it was probably going to be some, somewhere like Austin in

01:42:57.560 order to go buy a bunch of land and build essentially a new United artist type movie studio that

01:43:02.480 didn't just stop at a place to work, but also building a living community into that building

01:43:06.140 other like really cool hospitality and health and wellness.

01:43:09.120 And it's kind of like what they have in, uh, what is the name of the Chick-fil-A people

01:43:13.040 made it in, uh, Georgia.

01:43:14.380 Trillith, yeah, Trillith out in, uh, in Georgia.

01:43:17.060 Yeah.

01:43:17.340 There's some, there's some crossover DNA there and I have a lot of love for those guys.

01:43:21.020 What I'm building is going to be, uh, definitely different, but have some similar elements for

01:43:25.100 sure.

01:43:25.500 But ultimately, you know, just trying to build a campus that, that makes not just our

01:43:30.800 entertainment industry, a better one and saves it from itself, you know, from my standpoint,

01:43:35.600 but also helps to fix a lot of the problems that are just present in life, everyday life,

01:43:40.020 giving people, giving kids better education, schools that are actually education and not

01:43:44.480 indoctrination, giving people, you know, health and wellness services that actually heal them

01:43:48.940 and not just throw a bandaid on them or, you know, another drug that they have to take every

01:43:52.560 day.

01:43:53.520 Um, you know, regeneratively grown organic food every day, all day, clean water, like all

01:43:59.020 of these things that we all want.

01:44:00.180 We all want those things.

01:44:01.160 We all want to live in a, in a community where we know and trust our neighbors again.

01:44:05.680 Uh, and you, and there's no better way of knowing and trusting your neighbor than to

01:44:08.960 work with them every day.

01:44:10.200 You know, I think this is one of the things that we've lost that used to be very commonplace

01:44:14.960 in the communities that built around this country.

01:44:16.860 And even this world, they were communities that were built around a common, uh, economic

01:44:22.440 driver, you know, like Hershey's, Pennsylvania, that, that, that was a guy named Hershey's who

01:44:26.700 was making a bunch of chocolate and said, you know, I'm not just going to build a factory.

01:44:29.900 I'm going to build places for all of my factory workers to live and schools for the kids and 0.72

01:44:34.060 clinics so they can stay healthy.

01:44:35.600 You know what I mean?

01:44:36.140 These are not, um, uncommon concepts.

01:44:39.060 It's just that most people don't do it anymore.

01:44:41.040 And, uh, and so I've wanted to make a version of that in entertainment for a really long time.

01:44:45.060 That's why I moved to Texas.

01:44:46.260 I bought my acreage out here outside of Austin.

01:44:49.160 Subsequently, many people have then also had this idea because, um, I think other people saw

01:44:54.280 the same value in Austin or Texas in general.

01:44:57.500 If all these other States are doing, you know, filming incentives, why shouldn't we, I understand,

01:45:02.360 listen, I've been lobbying down to the Capitol in Texas and also in Oklahoma, because I think

01:45:06.320 that's another place they have an opportunity.

01:45:08.480 They have a filming incentive, but it could get a lot better.

01:45:10.940 And I've lobbied personally, shook the hands and kissed the babies of, you know, various,

01:45:15.220 you know, legislators and stuff.

01:45:16.700 And I've tried to convince them of, uh, you know, the positive side of what, uh, all of this

01:45:22.800 is.

01:45:23.060 And I understand concern.

01:45:24.260 I understand your concern and other concerns, which is, well, how do you implement that

01:45:27.920 without having that culture and not entirely that culture, but the parts of that culture,

01:45:34.020 you know, the, the, the woke side of things or whatever it is that, you know, a lot of

01:45:37.660 us have concerns about, how do you keep that at bay?

01:45:40.420 So hang, so hang on just a sec.

01:45:42.040 Cause I, I've got to take another network break and I want you to come back and answer

01:45:44.900 that.

01:45:45.100 And, and I also want to talk to you about, you know, what you saw in Hollywood, this,

01:45:49.360 this, uh, you know, this stuff with, uh, uh, Diddy and, uh, and all of that.

01:45:55.040 I mean, how much of that is real and why aren't people going to jail, uh, for that?

01:46:00.140 And, and if you want to bring Hollywood to Texas, how do you keep that kind of stuff

01:46:04.080 out?

01:46:04.320 Cause it's just absolutely evil more in just a second with Zachary Levi.

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01:47:36.680 On my podcast tomorrow, about 90 minutes, sit down with Ben Shapiro.

01:47:58.380 It's a fascinating conversation that happens tomorrow.

01:48:01.240 Right now, I'm talking to Zachary Levi, the actor and the owner of Wildwood Studios here

01:48:08.840 in Texas.

01:48:09.740 He's got a new movie out called The Unbreakable Boy.

01:48:12.980 It's a true story.

01:48:14.680 And here's just a clip from it.

01:48:16.400 I'm Austin.

01:48:17.360 But you can call me Oz Man.

01:48:18.900 Welcome back, everybody!

01:48:20.840 I have a lizard named Marty and a killer hat collection.

01:48:25.220 When I meet people, I tell them everything.

01:48:27.920 Logan, this is Tyler.

01:48:29.100 He said we can be best friends.

01:48:30.480 All I have to do is shut up.

01:48:33.580 Oh, yeah!

01:48:34.440 I'm always so autistic.

01:48:36.560 Autism presents itself in many different ways.

01:48:39.520 It's a class for kids with special needs.

01:48:41.360 They think that it's time, that it's only going to get worse.

01:48:44.460 Earth to Austin.

01:48:45.580 I think his brain's on another planet.

01:48:47.340 Nope, my brain is right here in my head on Earth.

01:48:51.660 This is not what I thought it was going to be like.

01:48:54.360 She was on it.

01:48:54.800 Dad's late for work.

01:48:55.600 Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa!

01:48:56.660 Austin, what are you doing?

01:48:57.760 Two! 0.99

01:48:58.460 I feel like I'm failing every day.

01:49:00.260 And the harder I try, the worse I do.

01:49:02.640 Honey, your mistakes don't define you.

01:49:05.020 How you healed us.

01:49:07.320 You've given up so much for this family.

01:49:09.440 And you have never stopped fighting for us.

01:49:12.140 Here's the one day at a time.

01:49:14.240 Check how much we knew Borg.

01:49:15.720 Why are you such a jerk, man?

01:49:16.700 Give it back.

01:49:17.440 It's not, but you can borrow some time.

01:49:19.680 Why do you even want to be friends with him?

01:49:21.620 Because he's sad.

01:49:23.000 Here's a true fact.

01:49:27.340 Sometimes a sad moment feels happy.

01:49:31.420 And sometimes a happy moment feels sad.

01:49:35.340 I don't always know why.

01:49:37.860 That's just what it's like to be Austin.

01:49:39.980 You're doing awesome, dude.

01:49:41.920 Go on, get back out there.

01:49:43.040 I can't.

01:49:43.820 Sure you can.

01:49:44.600 Watch this.

01:49:45.300 Austin, Austin, Austin!

01:49:51.300 Yeah!

01:49:54.760 Hey, Oz, man.

01:49:56.100 Do you want to fly?

01:49:57.100 Yeah!

01:49:59.140 Woo-hoo! 1.00

01:50:00.420 Woo-hoo! 1.00

01:50:03.260 I wish I could enjoy anything as much as my son enjoys everything.

01:50:07.460 Woo-hoo! 1.00

01:50:08.520 Look, Dad, it's a dragon!

01:50:11.020 Because the Austin every day can be the best day.

01:50:13.460 Every moment, the best moment.

01:50:16.840 This is the best day of my life!

01:50:19.680 You just have to be able to see it.

01:50:23.300 I'm telling you, if this, if Hollywood were reasonable, this kid next year will be nominated for an Oscar.

01:50:30.060 I mean, he was just fantastic.

01:50:31.880 Zachary Levi joins us now.

01:50:33.320 We were talking about moving Hollywood here to Texas, which I'm, you know, torn on, obviously.

01:50:39.920 How do you keep that culture, and how much of the ditty stuff do you think is true, and what is the, how deep does that culture go in Hollywood?

01:50:56.460 Well, I'll start with the, with the first question, which is, you know, how do we maintain, how do you keep Texas, Texas?

01:51:04.420 How do you keep Austin, Austin, with the influx of lots of people from California or New York or this industry in general?

01:51:09.860 And what I would say is, first and foremost, the vast majority of the people that have moved, you know, immigrated exodus from L.A. and New York and places like that to Austin or Dallas, they are people that saw the brokenness in their states.

01:51:25.900 And they're not trying to change Texas into California.

01:51:29.680 Some people, obviously, are bringing some of their bias and whatnot, and they might a little bit.

01:51:35.100 But I think for the majority of them, they came here because they see freedom and liberty in a way that California did not provide that during the pandemic, right?

01:51:42.600 So I think that there's still some really shared value in all that.

01:51:45.740 But as far as the industry is concerned, and this is what I've told a lot of legislators, the reality is that 75% of the industry, I mean, a lot of the crew that I work with all the time, specific departments, you know, particularly, are quite conservative.

01:52:00.480 Yes.

01:52:00.700 Or at the very least, very libertarian and center.

01:52:03.040 I would say the vast majority of people in entertainment are pretty moderate and centered.

01:52:07.160 They're not, they're not crazy.

01:52:08.900 They're not, like, losing their mind about certain things.

01:52:10.920 They just want a good life, like most of us do.

01:52:14.180 And so I think it's a shame to not try to incentivize an industry where you could be supporting a lot of those various people.

01:52:22.100 Most of the crazy stuff comes from the top, the very top.

01:52:24.960 And those aren't the people that, you know, you would be trying to help out here.

01:52:27.800 More than that, when you have an incentive program, you know, a lot of states have the ability to look over all of these submissions for movies that want to be incentivized in those states.

01:52:36.700 You can approve or not approve those scripts based on what you're trying to do in your state, the type of messaging that you'd like to, you know, protect in your particular area and your community.

01:52:48.600 So I don't think it should be an issue.

01:52:50.560 I think, you know, there's been this prevailing thought of, well, we don't want to subsidize, particularly in conservative states like Texas and Oklahoma, that they don't want to subsidize an industry that's putting out that type of messaging.

01:53:01.580 You know, whatever that is, and I say, A, you have more control over that than you think, but also it's not like you're stopping them.

01:53:08.220 It's not like they're not going to then go make that somewhere else that will subsidize.

01:53:11.940 What you're doing is you're leaving a lot of money on the table and a lot of jobs that you could be providing to people in your state by just coming to the table and figuring out how to play the game a little bit.

01:53:22.540 And it's a good one, by the way.

01:53:23.620 I mean, Georgia, for every dollar they spend in incentive program, they get $6 back.

01:53:28.560 I mean, that's a heck of a return.

01:53:29.720 Right now in Texas, part of the reason why I think we're going to be successful in getting a better filming incentive is they've already tried.

01:53:36.680 They've been seeing that for every dollar they're spending, they're getting $4 back.

01:53:39.880 Well, that's good for your economy.

01:53:41.500 That's good for the workforce.

01:53:42.540 And they absolutely should keep going down that road, I think, as far as the ditty of it all.

01:53:50.020 Brother, I'm very grateful that I was never cool enough to ever be anywhere near at least being invited to any of those things, right?

01:53:57.420 Just a lot of God protecting me and also just my own hard lines of where my morals and integrity all lay.

01:54:04.420 But I could guarantee you there's probably some very good people with good morals and integrity that were probably invited to some of these parties, not realizing what they were getting themselves into.

01:54:14.860 And the next thing they know, they're being oiled up with drugs, right?

01:54:17.560 I mean, this is what ultimately went down.

01:54:19.900 These freak-offs and stuff, a lot of people were unaware that they were being drugged.

01:54:23.440 He was drugging people with baby oil and with certain drinks that were spiked.

01:54:27.560 And so I have a lot of grace for a lot of people that might end up in a lot of these files as a part of this stuff because I know that there have got to be a lot of them that were unwitting in whatever that was going to be, which has not absolved them of hopefully having better judgment of, like, maybe I don't put myself in that situation.

01:54:46.880 But still, we have to have grace in all of that.

01:54:49.520 And I would also say, even with Diddy himself, what I'm finding or what I believe is probably at the root of all of this, what I've heard, is that, listen, he was a young guy who was looking for success in stardom.

01:55:02.580 And there were people above him who kind of wrapped him into all of this.

01:55:05.700 And then he started becoming, you know, the face of it and the person that they would use to go, you know, the catalyst to throw these parties.

01:55:12.500 But it was all something that's above him and, again, does not absolve him from anything that he has done.

01:55:18.600 I don't know all that he has done.

01:55:19.900 The files have yet to be released.

01:55:21.400 I think they should.

01:55:22.560 I think we should have transparency as the American people.

01:55:26.520 I think this is why Doge is so great right now.

01:55:28.740 I think this is why, I mean, I literally was crying tears of gratitude and joy when Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy got confirmed, like, oh, my gosh, like, this is happening.

01:55:37.220 I know these people have the integrity that we need to actually go and not just shine the light and show the world what's going on, but also do it in grace.

01:55:46.140 Do it in love, like hold these people accountable, but not be vicious about it, not be, you know, people that need to go tear other people down.

01:55:53.880 The information will do it alone.

01:55:56.020 You know, we got to be able to handle it.

01:55:57.620 Otherwise, we're just swinging this pendulum back and forth.

01:56:00.080 It's a battle constantly.

01:56:01.320 And we need to be able to hold people accountable, but still see them as human beings.

01:56:06.020 May there be punishment for any crimes.

01:56:09.020 May there be accountability.

01:56:10.800 But may we on this side, holding them accountable, not lose our humanity in the process.

01:56:15.320 I don't want to become everything we despise.

01:56:18.260 Listen, Zach, I've only got about four minutes left here, and I want to talk to you about AI.

01:56:22.940 How it is moving so rapidly, and I've been warning about this for 30 years.

01:56:28.660 We are now at the doorstep of AI, AGI, ASI.

01:56:34.520 What is your concern on AI?

01:56:38.040 So, yeah, I mean, in a nutshell, I think that AI in a vacuum, amazing, cool, wonderful.

01:56:44.940 We can apply it to basically everything.

01:56:46.660 We can make all of our technology work better.

01:56:48.800 We can make our systems work better.

01:56:51.060 I think we ought to be embracing it.

01:56:52.720 I philosophically, I believe that you can't stop progress.

01:56:55.800 You can only hope to guide it.

01:56:56.940 So we got to guide it.

01:56:58.080 But we have to be very aware and awake of what its potential is and not burying our

01:57:03.240 head in the sand, which I think a lot of people are doing.

01:57:05.440 Because my crystal ball tells me that in two years, we're going to start seeing massive

01:57:10.940 disruption of multiple industries, particularly the entertainment industry, because anything

01:57:15.980 that you record, video, audio, I mean, that's any movie, TV show, video game, music, whatever,

01:57:21.060 all of that goes through a computer.

01:57:22.280 And now the computer itself can just create it from scratch, just putting in a few prompt

01:57:27.120 words with a little bit of creativity.

01:57:29.240 Anyone and everyone will be able to make whatever the heck they want.

01:57:31.560 And I think the studios themselves are going to start allowing it as a bonus to access their

01:57:37.320 catalog of IP.

01:57:38.240 That's how they'll continue to make money on their existing IP by selling us the ability

01:57:42.940 to start playing with it in our own little sandbox.

01:57:44.900 And what's amazing, I just saw somebody who does music testing and they said, we've tried,

01:57:49.280 you know, we've tested hundreds of thousands of songs.

01:57:52.280 And now, you know, people have always said, well, you know, AI is not going to be able to

01:57:57.620 replace the heart and everything else.

01:57:59.360 And they said, fully developed AI, the lyrics, the music and everything, test in the top 10

01:58:07.140 of all songs they've ever tested.

01:58:10.140 Yep.

01:58:10.860 That's incredible.

01:58:12.560 That's what I've been screaming.

01:58:13.700 I mean, honestly, you know, you can go even further back.

01:58:16.980 You've all know Harari, like him or lump him. 0.95

01:58:19.620 I think he's a fascinating human being, but I, I was intrigued very much by his books,

01:58:24.000 uh, sapiens and homo deus, his follow-up to that.

01:58:27.020 And he talks about this stuff years and years ago, there was a computer they were, they were

01:58:30.740 plugging classical music into, um, and they asked the computer way back.

01:58:35.580 And this was like maybe even close to 20 years ago.

01:58:37.360 They said, make a classical, you know, composition and, uh, by after feeding it lots and lots and

01:58:44.480 lots of concertos and whatever.

01:58:45.900 And then it, it, it gave them this, this composition and they went to some of the most,

01:58:51.800 you know, snobby classical music experts.

01:58:55.680 And they said, and they had, you know, they took the names off of these two examples.

01:58:59.340 One was, you know, Bach or something.

01:59:01.120 And the other one was, was computer generated.

01:59:02.960 And they said, tell us which one of these is computer generated.

01:59:05.520 And to a person, they all said that the AI one was the one that must've been from a

01:59:10.080 person because it felt too real and genuine and human.

01:59:13.880 And they were all wrong and this was decades ago.

01:59:16.400 So now we're at a, we're at this point.

01:59:18.380 And I think this is the hubris of man.

01:59:20.240 We all like to think, Hey, we're never going to get duped.

01:59:22.380 No one's ever going to get one over on us.

01:59:23.980 This is nonsense.

01:59:24.980 This has happened over and over and over again.

01:59:27.200 And somehow that our taste is going to prevent us from whatever wanting to enjoy something

01:59:32.040 that humans had nothing to do with.

01:59:33.620 But listen, man, even all of us artists, we're all regurgitating the things that we have

01:59:38.960 seen and that we love.

01:59:39.780 Every great director will tell you that they're just borrowing from all of the greats when

01:59:43.640 they're cobbling together their great work.

01:59:45.960 I've always said, steal from me.

01:59:49.920 You've stolen twice.

01:59:51.580 Yeah, exactly.

01:59:54.520 Right.

01:59:54.900 So this is what's going to happen.

01:59:55.940 And I think it's not only going to play on all of that stuff, but it's going to be very

01:59:59.240 dazzling because you'll be able to, again, make whatever you want.

02:00:02.600 You can, you can make a movie with Luke Skywalker and, and, and Han Solo and the Avengers and

02:00:07.200 Flynn Rider and they can go on a journey together and you made it all by yourself.

02:00:10.220 Look at you.

02:00:10.600 You're a filmmaker now.

02:00:11.720 Also, you can scan your face and your voice and you get to be the star of what you made.

02:00:15.620 Who's not going to do that.

02:00:16.840 And you can bring back long dead actors to put them in the movies just because why not?

02:00:21.680 And it'll, but at the end of the day, one of the biggest, I think, you know, factors

02:00:25.260 in all of this and what's going to sway people toward AI is it will be a fraction of the price.

02:00:29.260 A human made movie right now is a $20 ticket.

02:00:31.900 Let's say an AI movie will be pennies on those dollars and more and more people are making less

02:00:37.140 and less money.

02:00:37.920 They will fall victim to, gosh, this is so dazzling and so interactive and so immersive and so fun

02:00:43.080 and it's cheap and I got to make it.

02:00:45.880 Well, I'm going to go do that thing.

02:00:47.140 So that's why here at Wildwood Studios, one of our mandates is that we are building a place to

02:00:51.880 safeguard certified organic human made content, because I think we must, if we do not, then I

02:00:58.200 think all human art and entertainment will go the way of the dodo.

02:01:02.140 And I'm really serious about that.

02:01:03.720 I don't think people realize how close all of these things are to just slipping away

02:01:06.920 if we're not more intentional about protecting them.

02:01:10.000 Yeah, the Blaze made the same commitment.

02:01:11.700 I mean, there's ways we could do things much cheaper and we want it to be 100% organically grown

02:01:19.720 human content.

02:01:21.100 Yeah, and by the way, and to that point, just really quickly, you know, AI in and of

02:01:27.860 itself, in a vacuum, it can be a very good thing and I believe that we should implement

02:01:31.400 it in as many ways as we can to make things better for everyone, but it should remain

02:01:35.340 a tool in a human's toolbox to the extent that we can keep it there.

02:01:38.420 Once it starts replacing humans, we have to be very careful about what we do.

02:01:43.200 I think like right now, there's going to be a technology that's basically days away from

02:01:47.160 breaking, which is essentially a universal translator.

02:01:50.140 You can have your ear pods in and your phone will be able to, you can talk to anyone in

02:01:54.420 the world in whatever their native language is and it will, in real time, translate it

02:01:57.820 for you.

02:01:58.280 That's amazing.

02:01:59.080 We should all have that.

02:02:00.100 It will displace translators as a job.

02:02:02.140 That will be sad.

02:02:03.060 Some people will still learn languages because it's a cool thing to do and it's like artisanal,

02:02:06.960 awesome, but by and large, that won't be a job that you will need to hire someone

02:02:10.300 to do.

02:02:10.960 But I think the juice is worth the squeeze in that regard.

02:02:13.800 Once we start looking at much larger industries with lots and lots of jobs, like for example, we're

02:02:18.560 going to have automated driving.

02:02:19.700 We already do, but soon it's going to be so ubiquitous that why do you need to hire a driver

02:02:23.840 for anything?

02:02:24.700 That's a lot of jobs.

02:02:26.140 What do we do with all of those people that have been driving professionally for all these

02:02:29.020 years?

02:02:29.340 Truck drivers and cab drivers and Uber drivers and everybody else.

02:02:32.360 That's going to be a massive shift and we need to be prepared for that.

02:02:35.400 I'd love to have you back in the studio and do another podcast just on the future and what

02:02:40.920 you see coming our way.

02:02:41.820 You're fascinating.

02:02:42.500 Would love to.

02:02:43.180 And you're a great guy.

02:02:44.140 Thank you so much, Zachary.

02:02:45.580 Appreciate it.

02:02:45.740 Thank you, Glenn.

02:02:46.260 Really appreciate you.

02:02:46.980 Thank you for the time today and thank you for promoting Unbreakable Boy.

02:02:49.740 You bet.

02:02:50.400 Zachary Levi.

02:02:51.720 The name of the movie is The Unbreakable Boy and it is really good.

02:02:57.180 Really good.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 14, 2025

How Does Rachel Maddow Still Have a Job？ ｜ Guest： Zachary Levi ｜ 2⧸14⧸25

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How Does Rachel Maddow Still Have a Job？｜ Guest： Zachary Levi ｜ 2⧸14⧸25