On today's show, Glenn Beck talks about Valentine's Day and how he and his wife are celebrating the day of love and romance. He also talks about how important it is to slow down and take a step back from the pace of life.
00:14:38.560Now, 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.
00:14:49.740And they're not just executive orders.
00:14:53.180And that's going to require us to keep the heat on Congress.
00:16:05.040The Israelis are, you know, just being beat up by the whole world.
00:16:09.620And the Jews are really facing a problem.
00:16:12.500I mean, I can't believe I said 15 years ago the hatred of the 1930s was going to come back in our streets and Jews would be under attack.
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00:17:17.140So, 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.
00:17:31.980I've never heard of stuff like this, but they're just hiding money.
00:17:35.240For instance, Biden, you know, through his green energy slush fund, parked $20 billion, which is collecting interest at a private bank, okay?
00:17:47.940No oversight, just put it in a private bank.
00:17:52.460And 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.
00:18:21.540Glenn, 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?
00:18:31.400And now it's all gone, of course, but blah, blah, blah.
00:18:33.320No, we're catching it in real time for once.
00:18:43.300Lee 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.
00:18:57.980We were funding all of the worst people.
00:19:03.640I mean, it's just, it's sickening what we're seeing.
00:19:07.840Now, Doge just has updated their website now.
00:19:12.140If 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.
00:19:25.760He's like, by Valentine's Day, the latest Valentine's Day, we'll have it all posted online.
00:19:32.980But 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.
00:19:46.940But just what they have posted is pretty incredible.
00:20:13.980First of all, what's the first box say we need?
00:20:16.940Today'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.
00:21:05.340But then you look at meet the U.S. government.
00:21:08.220If you click over to workforce, holy cow, there are 2,252,162 employees in the executive branch alone.
00:21:21.3402,252,000 in the subordinate offices, 16,000.
00:21:30.720And the total wages just for the executive branch is $211 billion every year.
00:21:39.200So you go down and you see the cabinet level agencies, the large independent agencies, medium and small independent agencies.
00:21:46.520Just look at the agencies that we have.
00:21:52.360And 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.
00:22:07.860On 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.
00:22:17.140It will show you what they have found in each department.
00:22:20.000I don't understand how anyone could be against this.
00:22:24.660We're not talking about, you know, arguing about what's important or what's not.
00:22:31.140If 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.
00:22:42.440But 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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00:26:34.500There hasn't been a lot of that, which you usually do get.
00:26:36.780Actually, 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.
00:28:50.120And I believe Trump was actually talking about it during his 2020 election campaign.
00:28:53.760And that is a national citizenship ID card, which he can do as the executive.
00:29:00.980With 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.
00:29:12.000It's because de facto, this can then act as voter ID.
00:29:17.520And 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.
00:29:27.300And the way it de facto acts as a voter ID card is the states just adopt it.
00:29:34.600And 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.
00:29:44.540This will now be used as voter ID card.
00:29:46.760And you will create a wave across the country, and you will kill the voting corruption from the progressive left.
00:29:55.820And I have a vision I want to cast on how he gets to that.
00:29:58.980But please, yeah, hang on just a second.
00:30:00.620I just would like to say, I don't think I'm for a national ID.
00:30:04.900I don't like anything national, especially when it comes to our ID.
00:30:10.300That sounds like it's one step away from a digital ID, which I'm absolutely against.
00:30:18.460I 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.
00:30:29.180You 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.
00:30:42.500I'm surprised to hear you say that because everything in life has a tradeoff.
00:30:46.340And when you look at killing voter fraud, when you hear I get what you're saying, Glenn.
00:30:51.560But 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.
00:31:05.220This will this would kill that because the national government can do that and then the states can just adopt it.
00:31:11.060And then here's the vision on how it would go through the Treasury Department is you already have a national card.
00:31:16.880This 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.
00:31:33.240The most important number in your life is why I said we come with the Treasury Department.
00:31:36.880The 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.
00:31:52.820They've already been talking about it.
00:31:55.120And 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.
00:32:07.680And everybody next year on the 250th anniversary of the declaration has a Protect Citizenship ID card in their hand.
00:32:17.860I 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.
00:32:36.120Again, 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?
00:32:45.520Like 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.
00:33:06.880Like 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.
00:33:14.860And, again, we have to also project past Donald Trump.
00:33:20.260What 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?
00:33:29.340You 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.
00:50:33.200He 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.
00:50:46.400He said, it's a scarier scenario than what I presented in Terminator 40 years ago.
00:50:50.960If for no other reason that it's no longer science fiction, it's happening right now.
00:50:56.140You'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.
00:51:06.560This entity will have access to your communications, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country through personal data.
00:51:16.100He said, it's ability to predict and influence human behavior.
00:52:00.680And the reason is that there's that there's actual competition between them.
00:52:03.940And 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.
00:52:13.580You know, but that it's up for debate, of course.
00:52:16.300I mean, the problem of here is you, you sort of have to choose one path or another.
00:52:20.460And I can tell you, I do not want centralized control of AI.
00:52:23.440Do I want guardrails around it for national security purposes?
00:52:30.400But 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.
00:52:39.100That being said, the difference between that and the government is to me, there's a pretty, pretty bright line there.
00:52:45.460I 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.
00:52:55.500If you say anything favorable about oil, gas, or coal, go to jail.
00:53:22.400That's, it's basically crazy about everything, let alone something that's been really positive to our, to our world.
00:53:28.440Also, Linda McMahon, uh, yesterday, she talked about in her confirmation hearing, um, she said, uh, fund educational freedom, not government run systems.
00:53:40.880Uh, listen to the parents, not the politicians, build up careers, not college debt, empower states, not special interest, invest in teachers, not Washington bureaucrats.
00:53:49.040It says, November proved that Americans overwhelmingly support the president's vision and I'm ready to enact it.
00:53:55.100Education is an issue that determines our national success and prepares American workers to win the future.
00:54:00.780The legacy of our nation's leadership and education is one that every person in this room embraces with pride.
00:54:06.820Unfortunately, many Americans today are experiencing a system in decline.
00:54:11.300I think she's, I think, I mean, I don't know how you argue about the, uh, against these things.
00:54:18.480We all know our schools are failing like crazy.
00:54:22.240And 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?
00:54:31.120No, 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.
00:54:43.300The classrooms need to be run by the parents and the teachers locally, not some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
00:54:51.240Yeah, and she, McMahon's a real advocate for school choice.
00:54:55.320This 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.
00:55:05.440Even 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.
00:55:16.240But 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.
00:55:27.160Even, 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.
00:55:45.400Like, like it was this thing that would never occur.
00:55:47.560And all of a sudden it's occurring all over the, all over the country.
00:55:50.400So 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?
00:56:42.380Because if it, look, you know, think about the average person.
00:56:45.880They 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.
00:56:53.380If 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.
00:57:01.160You've got a very short runway with, hey, there's going to be some pain here.
00:57:05.920You just need to take it and it'll get better later.
00:57:08.180That, that can work, worked with Reagan, I would argue.
00:57:11.460I mean, the early, remember, I mean, inflation in, in that, in 81, 82 was really high.
00:57:18.480And then it came down and everything was fine.
00:57:29.720It's almost $3,000 an ounce, uh, it was yesterday.
00:57:32.960It was, uh, 26, nine, or sorry, 29, 61.
00:57:38.000Um, um, um, I'm looking for that because this is the seventh weekly gain on, uh, on gold.
00:57:44.840And it has something to do with the, the trade war.
00:57:48.200Uh, but also something else is happening with gold and we're not sure exactly what it is.
00:57:53.340Um, 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.
00:58:00.740If 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.
00:58:12.320It'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.
00:58:22.500By 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.
01:00:57.760Over a decade ago, after desperately trying to sell a house and continually hitting a brick wall with real estate agents, I realized I didn't know what I was doing with real estate agents.
01:14:44.760And 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.
01:14:54.300And so I'm just afraid, are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
01:14:57.880And, 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?
01:15:04.740No, I think there's – I think there are going to be some pain and some things that slip through the cracks.
01:15:10.520But 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.
01:15:23.160The essentials of medicine and food are not being cut.
01:15:26.900As 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.
01:16:50.400A lot of those things, you know, you got to be really careful with that stuff.
01:16:53.260I 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.
01:17:04.160You will find some cutting of spending here and there.
01:17:06.880But, like, the way you cut spending in the United States budget is to reform Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security.
01:17:15.020There 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.
01:17:51.660So, it's not necessarily going to be the money.
01:17:54.540What you need to look at is the regulations.
01:17:56.320If 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.
01:18:06.700I don't know that they're going to honestly cut.
01:18:09.320At the end of the day, will our budget go up or down from last year?
01:18:12.600My guess is the spending still goes up.
01:18:15.980That's because a lot of this is locked in from Congress.
01:18:44.060I mean, if we actually lived within our means, and we took in $3 trillion and spent $2.9 would be nice, but $3 trillion.
01:18:55.120That alone would change everything with our loans, with us refinancing our mortgage, if you will, the debt.
01:19:06.120We have to redo a lot of that debt, and it's going to be at higher interest rates.
01:19:10.820We're paying a trillion dollars now on interest rates.
01:19:13.300If 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.
01:19:25.660But that is going to be almost impossible to do.
01:19:29.660The 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.
01:19:45.100But we've got to get our Congress to codify these things.
01:19:51.240You know, yesterday, he just cut, what was that Elizabeth Warren thing, you know, consumer protection?
01:22:45.900I've come to realize that I think Biden was put here also for a reason, and I didn't like it.
01:22:51.120I 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.
01:22:59.160That's what opened up the eyes of so many millions of people.
01:23:01.720I'm not sure if God plays chess quite like that.
01:23:07.980I think he lets us live with the ramifications of our own choices.
01:23:12.280But then, if you choose correctly, he can make the worst things turn into great things, which he did with Biden and Trump.
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01:50:33.320We were talking about moving Hollywood here to Texas, which I'm, you know, torn on, obviously.
01:50:39.920How 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?
01:50:56.460Well, I'll start with the, with the first question, which is, you know, how do we maintain, how do you keep Texas, Texas?
01:51:04.420How do you keep Austin, Austin, with the influx of lots of people from California or New York or this industry in general?
01:51:09.860And 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.
01:51:25.900And they're not trying to change Texas into California.
01:51:29.680Some people, obviously, are bringing some of their bias and whatnot, and they might a little bit.
01:51:35.100But 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?
01:51:42.600So I think that there's still some really shared value in all that.
01:51:45.740But 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.
01:52:08.900They're not, like, losing their mind about certain things.
01:52:10.920They just want a good life, like most of us do.
01:52:14.180And 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.
01:52:22.100Most of the crazy stuff comes from the top, the very top.
01:52:24.960And those aren't the people that, you know, you would be trying to help out here.
01:52:27.800More 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.
01:52:36.700You 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.
01:52:48.600So I don't think it should be an issue.
01:52:50.560I 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.
01:53:01.580You 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.
01:53:08.220It's not like they're not going to then go make that somewhere else that will subsidize.
01:53:11.940What 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.
01:53:29.720Right 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.
01:53:36.680They've been seeing that for every dollar they're spending, they're getting $4 back.
01:53:42.540And they absolutely should keep going down that road, I think, as far as the ditty of it all.
01:53:50.020Brother, 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?
01:53:57.420Just a lot of God protecting me and also just my own hard lines of where my morals and integrity all lay.
01:54:04.420But 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.
01:54:14.860And the next thing they know, they're being oiled up with drugs, right?
01:54:17.560I mean, this is what ultimately went down.
01:54:19.900These freak-offs and stuff, a lot of people were unaware that they were being drugged.
01:54:23.440He was drugging people with baby oil and with certain drinks that were spiked.
01:54:27.560And 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.
01:54:46.880But still, we have to have grace in all of that.
01:54:49.520And 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.
01:55:02.580And there were people above him who kind of wrapped him into all of this.
01:55:05.700And 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.
01:55:12.500But it was all something that's above him and, again, does not absolve him from anything that he has done.
01:55:22.560I think we should have transparency as the American people.
01:55:26.520I think this is why Doge is so great right now.
01:55:28.740I 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.
01:55:37.220I 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.
01:55:46.140Do 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.