IRS Whistleblowers DESTROY Joe Biden's LIE About Hunter's Business Dealings ｜ Guests： Alan Dershowitz & Kimberley Strassel ｜ 7⧸20⧸23
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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by special guest Stu Smith to discuss the latest in the scandal involving Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Glenn and Stu discuss the scandal and how it relates to the former Vice President and current House Minority Leader, Joe Biden. Glenn also talks about his son's new job as a drug dealer.
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Well, I think that's the way the world works now
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About any of his, uh, business dealings whatsoever?
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Just not all of the prostitution, drug, and, uh
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That story's kind of falling apart now, isn't it?
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funding it. We should be organizing an organization, bipartisan, nonpartisan, an organization of people
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who love the Constitution, to go after the 65 project and go after these lawyers who are trying
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to prevent Donald Trump and others from getting lawyers. Look, I won't be cowed. I'm too old for
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that. I'm going to be 85 in a month. I'm not going to be cowed by a bunch of radical left-wing
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lawyers. But, you know, a 45-year-old lawyer with a family to support is not going to take on Donald
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Trump's case if he knows he might lose his bar license. So we have to fight back. And you can
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start organizing that campaign to fight back. We need people who love the Constitution, whether
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they're right, left, or center, to fight back against this McCarthyite, unconstitutional attack
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on lawyers who want to defend controversial defenders. Look, I didn't vote for Donald Trump.
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I defended him because his impeachment was unconstitutional. And I think today some of
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the charges against him are unconstitutional. I don't care whether he's a Democrat or Republican.
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I only care about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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So, Ellen, you tell me, you find a group or you put a group together, and I'll help finance. I mean,
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I think a lot of people in the audience will do the same thing. And you're right, it shouldn't be
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partisan, but it might end up being because it seems there's too many people that are too afraid,
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even of their own side, to actually get involved. And it's shameful, just shameful.
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There's no doubt about that. What people on Martha's Vineyard, for example, did to my wife and my family
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when I defended Trump, these are people who I've helped for years. I've been living on the vineyard
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for 53 years. And once I defended Trump, I was denied the right to speak in the library. I was
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denied the right to speak in the community center, in the book fair. My wife was attacked. The
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restaurant we go to was told, if you dare to serve the Dershowitzes, we'll never come there again.
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I mean, it's pure McCarthyism. McCarthyism. There's a new movie out called Oppenheimer. I haven't seen it,
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but I read the book. And it's about what happened in the 1960s and 50s when I was a college student.
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We don't want to ever see a recurrence of that. We want to see the Constitution alive and well and
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thriving, whether you're right, left, or center. So can you talk to us a little bit about what's
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happening with the Hunter Biden case yesterday? Yeah. This is phenomenal that we have two really
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credible, one a Democrat, whistleblowers, very high up in the IRS, talking about how they were
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obstructed on this, and that even the Secret Service alerted Hunter Biden before and made sure
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that he wasn't available. And then on top of that, that the transition team was briefed by the DOJ.
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What? It's a terrible attack on our legal system. Look, Hunter Biden was lucky. He got a very,
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very good lawyer. Abby Lowell is a great lawyer. And he defended him and got him a good deal. I don't
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know if the judge is going to allow the deal to go through in light of all this. There has to be a
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special counsel appointed. Why? Because we now know that the U.S. attorney in Delaware, who was
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essentially appointed by Democrats, although he nominally was appointed by Trump, the recommendation
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came from the two Democratic senators. That is not what matters. What matters is he was told he had
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complete jurisdiction to follow the money and follow the crimes to the District of Columbia and to
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California. And when he tried to do it, according to reports, he was stymied. So we have to have a
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special prosecutor who has universal jurisdiction, can follow the money to Ukraine, can follow the money
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to China, no restrictions on his jurisdiction, and see what the truth is. Remember, a whistleblower,
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I'm so proud of whistleblowers that come forward, and there ought to be more. But being a whistleblower
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doesn't guarantee that you have complete credibility. So we have to check everything that was said
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yesterday. But if it turns out to be true, there's more than probable cause to appoint a special
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prosecutor to look in depth into this case rather than the current situation.
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Yeah. Can we trust a special counsel at this at this time? I mean, how many have we had? And
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Well, some have done good jobs. You know, the Whitewater Council against Clinton, and then they
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and then the star, they were very aggressive, and they pursued it to to impeachment, which failed,
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but impeachment, the right person, it's all about the right person. Archibald Cox was the right
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person. I could give you a list of 10 people, former judges, people who are Republicans.
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Give you two examples off the top of my head. Mike Mukasey, the former attorney general of the
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United States under Bush, he would be a perfect special counsel. Louis Free, the former head of
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the FBI, again, a Republican, but a moderate, a former judge, both of them former judges.
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They would be extraordinary. These people have great reputations, and they'll never allow their
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reputations to be sullied, and they will never take orders from Garland. They would never take
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orders from Bush. They would never take orders from anybody. They would do their job, and they
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could do it well. And they're at the end of their careers. They don't have to worry about whether or
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not they're going to get another job later. We could see real justice done if people like that were
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appointed to get to the bottom of this. I don't know whether it's true or not, but if it's true,
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it is devastating. And who appoints that special counsel? What are we waiting for?
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Well, the appointment comes from Garland, but it has to come with a lot of political pressure
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from the House of Representatives, from other people, from the public. And he should make an
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appointment, and he should appoint somebody who is beyond reproach. Somebody who everybody,
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the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, CNN and Fox and MSNBC and Newsmax, all agree,
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this is the guy, this is the woman, this is the person who can get to the bottom of this. Without
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that, America's faith in the legal system is diminishing.
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So I have to tell you, I'm listening to this podcast, I'm driving in my car, and I'm thinking,
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well, okay, well, that's not going to happen. I mean, I think people, they say they don't care
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anymore. It's not that they don't care. It's that they don't think anything's going to happen.
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If we are reliant on a guy who, quite honestly, Merrick Garland, who I think should,
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it should at least be considered that he faces an impeachment. If you expect him to appoint somebody
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that the world is going to trust, we're living in fantasy land.
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Well, that may be the case. What's the alternative? Look, Merrick Garland could have been on the
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Supreme Court. It ends up he may not be the right man for the job he has now. But he's a man,
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he can't be impeached, by the way, because he hasn't committed any crimes. To be impeached,
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it has to be treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. Just having mal-administration or
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malpractice, the framers of the Constitution rejected that. So I don't agree.
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Well, that would be an impeachable offense, obviously, if it were perjury.
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My understanding is that the allegations that he lied were mostly in media discussions. But you
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have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he actually knowingly lied, not that he made a
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mistake. But put that aside. If the public pressure is enough, look, there's another alternative. And
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that is voting for third-party candidates. We're now seeing this new group emerging called
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No Labels with Joe Lieberman and Manchin and others who are thinking about saying to the American
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public, look, you don't have to choose between Biden and Trump. Here's the third alternative of
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moderate, middle, centrist people who can give you a third alternative. Having that, a strong option,
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puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the Attorney General, on the President to do the right thing.
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And maybe it won't succeed, but your guy driving the car has a point. You know, it's unlikely. Any of
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All right. So, Stu, did we decide whether or not the digital version of Dark Future is finally up or not?
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My understanding is the audiobook is not. The Kindle is. That's where I believe State of Affairs is at this time.
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We like to just roll things out smoothly here at the Glenn Beck Program. It is still being checked,
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the audiobook, I guess, by Amazon because, you know, we're not a trusted source that have sold millions
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of books and audiobooks through Amazon. You know, anything could happen. All of a sudden, this one
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could be a little spotty or sketchy, you know, technologically speaking. So, they've only had it
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for a few weeks. What do you expect them to do? Really? The audiobook will be coming out very soon on Amazon
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or I'm going to find another way to release the audiobook. And don't think I haven't contacted my CEO and
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asked him to start working on that right now. The audiobook is available. By the way, New York Times,
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we were legitimately number two behind a K-pop book, something. Sold a bazillion books to kids,
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I guess. So, we were number two. But the New York Times put us at number 12 this time. So,
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congratulations on that. I wear it as a badge of honor, really. The name of the book is Dark Future.
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You can grab a hardbound or the Kindle is available today. Who knows? Maybe the audiobook will come out
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soon sometime. Thank you, Amazon. It's available now. Dark Future.
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you're here. Let me go to Carol Roth. Hello,
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Carol. How are you? Hey, good morning, Glenn. How are you? Very good. Is your audio book available
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yet? Yes. In fact, I get people on Twitter to listen to my audio book and say, Glenn, where is
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your audio book? I don't know. You would have to ask Amazon that question. We couldn't get our audio
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book up for some reason. It's strange, isn't it? Well, you know, it's not strange because they
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actually wouldn't release the people who did the early reviews for my book either.
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Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's a big head scratcher there.
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Yeah, I know that we have violated all kinds of rules by even having the Great Reset on the cover
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of the book. That's a verboten phrase that you're just not supposed to say, but it's the truth.
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And we'll take on the World Economic Forum, but they're not making it easy. If you haven't had
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the chance to get the book Dark Future, hurry. You can do that at, you can find it at glennsnewbook.com.
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Also, Carol Roth just put her new book out and it's You'll Own Nothing. And I wanted to have her on
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today. By the way, it's a great companion book. These two go together really, really well.
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I wanted to talk to you and pick it up where we were the other day, and that is renting the
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American dream and talking about how the American dream is not a house, but that's how we describe
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it. And we describe it as such is because that is the one thing that grows wealth. You know,
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you always hear my mom and dad bought this house for, you know, 1965 for $5,000 and now it's worth a
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million. It is something that allows you to grow wealth. And if you can't grow your wealth in
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something like that, then you lose the American dream, which is to be able to chart your own
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course, especially if you are renting and you're not renting from a neighbor, you're renting from a
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corporate entity. This is just disgusting what is happening. Can you explain a little bit more?
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Yeah. So this is really something that the corporations coming in and competing with
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individuals for single family homes, which, as you mentioned, is the largest driver of wealth on
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household balance sheets across the U.S. This is something that didn't happen before 2010.
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So after all of the ridiculous policies that came out of the Great Recession financial crisis that
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bailed out Wall Street and, you know, cost almost 6 million Americans their homes via foreclosure or
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short sale, they did not get the bailout. You know, there was all of this supply in the markets of really
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cheap homes. At the same time, the Fed decided they were going to give a gift to Wall Street and that was
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going to be abundant cheap capital through their policy of artificially suppressing interest rates and
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printing a lot of money. And it was to the point that what we call there was almost free money, that they had
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negative real interest rates, that basically the interest rates that they had on the loan were actually lower than
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inflation was at that point in time. So when Wall Street had access to all of this money, it started to invest in
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various assets and inflate those. For some reason, that never counts as real inflation because it benefits
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the wealthy and the well-connected when those asset prices go up. And then they ran out of places on a
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sort of a risk-reward basis that they felt they could put the capital. So in 2010, you started getting
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corporations competing with individuals to buy homes. It did not meaningfully exist prior to that, to the
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point that we now have more than one in every five homes as of the end of last year that was purchased
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by a corporation. And these corporations are not looking to make them better and get them back to
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you so you can have that wealth creation opportunity. They are looking to rent you the American dream.
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They want to take that wealth that you would have created for your family, for your legacy, and they want to
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transfer that to Wall Street. And so one of the things I did in the book, Glenn, I like to let
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everybody speak for themselves. So I went to their financial statements and their financial filings,
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the 10Ks, the annual reports, and I just reprinted what they said. And they said they are specifically
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targeting the middle class because those are the ones who have the jobs, who can go out and earn money
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and basically give that wealth over to Wall Street, and that this is a golden opportunity for this new
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asset class. And so really, the implications of you owning nothing in terms of not being able to own
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a house, which, by the way, is also influenced not just by this policy, but by additional government
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regulations at the federal, state, and local level, the disruption of labor in the labor market
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means that you don't, that you're not able to generate this wealth. It also has social credit
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implications. As we talk about on this program, I talk about in You Own Nothing, you reference in
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Dark Future. Think about if you don't own your home, and now you have to rent that from one of these
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corporations, which, by the way, happens to be backed by all of the big financial companies that are
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pushing things like ESG and whatnot. What happens if you say something that they don't like on social
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media? Do you then lose access to your home, just like you've lost access, perhaps, to the Twitter
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platform or to some other social media platform or to one of these online payment systems? It really
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And that's happening already. I mean, you try to get my kids into certain schools. Just because
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you're white, try to get your kid in a certain school. We're already doing this. We're just not
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doing it systemically throughout, organized throughout all of society. But that is coming.
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The IRS is also going after your inheritance. And this is really so nefarious. I have spent my life
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making money and the money that I want to keep it to pass on to my kids. I'm doing it through
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my ranch. And we have been building and taking care of this property. And really, I mean, we're really,
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really look at this land as sacred. And my kids, I have to put enough money away. So my kids will be
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able to pay the taxes on the land, etc, etc. Because you don't honestly ever own anything, they can take
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it from you at any time. But when I die, if I haven't, you know, done the, you know, the legal
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loopholes with all the attorneys, and, and only the rich can really do things like this. My kids will
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lose the where they will have to sell the ranch for the taxes. And that's obscene. And what happens
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is when they take it for the taxes, the government takes all of the money for the taxes. And then
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they sell the farm to probably some corporate entity to get it out of the hands again of, you know,
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the average person. There, this is, this is stripping the American dream and just putting
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it into the water like chum. It's true. And there's another thing that I talk about, I have a
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chapter on the upcoming wealth heist that relates to this. So you talk about, you know, your farm is
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being something that you want to your ranch is something you want to be passing down. There is an
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estimated $84.4 trillion in wealth that is set to turn over via inheritances in the next 23 years.
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It's a staggering amount of money. And that's not from billionaires. That is from, you know,
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mostly from, from middle-class Americans that have worked hard and put away something.
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And so what, what are we hearing out there? We're hearing things like, oh, Janet Yellen,
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she wants to go after unrealized capital gains, which are these weasel words that basically say,
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we're going to tell you what your stuff is worth on paper. You haven't realized the income from it,
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but we're going to tax you on that. So think about the implications. Your parents bought a house
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in 1970. And then all of a sudden, one day they wake up and someone looks on Zillow and decides that
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it's worth $2 million. And now your parents owe taxes on $1.9 million. I mean, where are they
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getting that? That's crazy. They're not. Of course, they're not going to do that. So what are they
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trying to do here? They're trying to trick people and say, no, we just want this for the billionaires
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and the ultra wealthy because it's not fair. But that's not the bulk of that $84.4 trillion that's
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set to pass down. So they're trying to get wealth taxes. They're trying to get inheritance taxes
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increased with the carrot that they're going after the ultra wealthy so that you seed the
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principle. They want you to say there are no property rights and this is okay to do. And the
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second you do that, that means that it's not just for the billionaires, it's for you. And there's so
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much wealth that, by the way, we've got $32 trillion plus in growing and national debt. We also have more
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than $129 trillion in unfunded liabilities and promises that, of course, they're not going to
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walk back. So wouldn't that $84.4 trillion of your wealth go a long way to helping them maintain their
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power and control? So one of the things I did in the book is I got an estate planning attorney
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and chapter 11, we have all of these ways that you can fight back. And one of the things he says is
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you have to go to an estate planner and you have to do like you did, Glenn, and get a trust put in
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place. It sounds like it's just for the wealthy, but you can do it even if you're the average
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American right on Main Street. We can't guarantee that there will be a grandfathering, but the reality
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is we know that the wealthiest people are going to be protected. So you need to start doing the
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things that they're doing to make sure that when they come in and they change the rules, you're
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protected. Yes, exactly right. And it's, you know, it's not cheap to put a trust together, but it is
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also not, it's not something to adjust for the wealthy. And I'm telling you, they're going to come,
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they're going to come for all that you have every way they have. And you're exactly right. You've got to
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start doing what the wealthy are doing. And thank you for doing all the work. I want to have you back
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maybe next week and talk about something else you talk about in the book, which is the water rights
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that are being bought up by the elites, including places like Harvard, buying up all kinds of water
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unbelievable artists. Um, but it is an honor to have them here and host them here at the Standing Rock
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Ranch. Uh, even though it's yesterday, I, I put an Instagram out and I don't know what kind of flood
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It is honestly like roulette. You just spin the wheel and see which contractor shows up,
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01:22:17.000
I mean, we'll just stand here and wait for Bill to come back. It is crazy.
01:22:21.160
We really are at that point where you get like, all you need to do is show up and you're better than
01:22:25.960
94% of your competition. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I, I, I mean,
01:22:31.720
I have all this landscaping to do and I live out in the middle of nowhere. So there's like,
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there's, I don't know, there's one person that we found that can do it. And they're like,
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yeah, I'm not going to answer my phone for like two months. Oh, okay. And, uh, the guy who's in charge
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of the, the whole build, he said, uh, well, it looks like we're going to have to wait until
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next summer to landscape. And I'm like, no, no, I'll dig it out with my hands if I have to.
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But I don't know what to do. I mean, you're pretty skilled. Why don't you just paint some
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flowers and what do you need done? You know, just, uh, I'm down to that. If it wouldn't turn to dust,
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I would, I am so willing. I tell you my wife, uh, this is a few months ago. We had these like
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Hello and welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Did you know the first senator to endorse
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Biden. Joe Biden was the first senator to endorse Jimmy Carter's presidential run.
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It's great to have you on now. It's so great to talk to you.
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Thank you. You wrote the book on the Biden malaise and you have a happy ending to it,
01:28:25.880
but your contention is Joe Biden is worse than Jimmy Carter ever was. I think at this point,
01:28:32.040
that's pretty obvious to even maybe Democrats. Do you agree with that?
01:28:38.520
Well, I don't, I mean, they won't admit it, obviously, but it should be obvious to everyone,
01:28:46.200
especially looking at his dismal poll numbers and the state of the economy. And by the way,
01:28:51.480
there were Democrats that warned him not to take the steps he took. So they understood what would
01:28:57.560
come from it, the inflation, the high gas prices, and he did it anyway.
01:29:01.000
Is anybody do, would you say that's different this time around? It seems like every, all the
01:29:07.240
Democrats are on board with everything he's doing. Oh yeah. I mean, look, the reason this has all
01:29:13.320
happened is because Joe Biden is not a leader and he's not willing to stand up to the crazies in his
01:29:19.720
party. If you look back over his long history, he's always just been a vessel. Wherever the party power
01:29:25.720
was at the moment, that's what he reflected. And if he'd have stood up, if he'd have actually taken
01:29:31.720
the advice of sane economists, et cetera, we wouldn't be in the situation we are right now.
01:29:37.640
But he was never going to push back. That's another big difference between him and Jimmy Carter. Jimmy
01:29:42.280
Carter had a very rollicking, sprawling party. And a lot of them didn't like him because he actually
01:29:47.400
got in fights with them. Right. So, um, Carter, I never, I mean, I never had the feeling that he was
01:29:58.360
intentionally trying to dismantle America. I just thought he was a mess. Um, can you compare their
01:30:06.520
philosophies? Uh, I mean, Biden is surrounded by all kinds of, uh, anti-American or anti-capitalist,
01:30:16.360
uh, kind of, of people. Was it the same with Carter?
01:30:22.440
You just put your finger on the word that matters here and, and what really separates these two
01:30:28.360
presidents, Glenn, and that is intent. Um, you know, if you go back and you look at Jimmy Carter,
01:30:33.160
first of all, he was dealt a far harder hand than Biden was. I mean, we were already in the middle of
01:30:38.560
global inflation. Uh, there'd already been an oil shock. We were in the middle of a very aggressive
01:30:43.620
cold war. And to the extent that he desperately mismanaged all of this, he was at least trying to
01:30:50.380
make things better, right? He was trying to actually help unemployment. That was the reason
01:30:54.620
he took a lot of the steps he did. It didn't work. He had the wrong advice. Uh, he was still enthralled
01:30:59.940
to Keynesian economics, but, but, but he had the best interests of the country at heart. You know,
01:31:05.320
Joe Biden took what should have been an amazing economy, just turning the corner from COVID,
01:31:10.760
an amazing energy sector, which we had just become a net exporter of oil. Um, and in a fervor to turn
01:31:19.320
us into European style socialism, use COVID as an excuse to spend $6 trillion to attack fossil fuels
01:31:28.600
in a climate agenda and manage to spiral up inflation to massively increase the size of government
01:31:36.120
and to make it impossible for people to fill their cars up with gas, um, or to pay their heating
01:31:40.680
bills. And, and so it's intent. His goal is to transform the country. And we all know that the
01:31:47.280
methods that he's chosen lead to rack and ruin, but he doesn't care.
01:31:53.720
So let me, let me switch to what you talk about towards the end of your book. And that is Reagan.
01:31:59.900
Reagan comes around and he's not liked by the Republicans. Um, they, he's an, he's an outsider.
01:32:08.040
Um, but he is cheerful and he reminds people who we really are. Do you see that candidate out there?
01:32:16.740
Not yet. And that makes me very sad because I truly believe that we could potentially have another
01:32:23.640
moment like the end of the Carter administration in which a country has seen up close and personally,
01:32:29.880
again, what it's like to have failing economic policies. Uh, and one consequence of that in
01:32:36.360
Carter's years was it was this incredible opening and Ronald Reagan with his ideas, which were very
01:32:42.260
different, as you know, from Rockefeller Republicans, uh, and with his very cheery message, uh, was able
01:32:49.420
to not just change an election, but change electoral politics in this country for a generation. You know,
01:32:55.340
the whole Reagan Democrat movement, which by the way, those people are now the Republican base.
01:33:01.020
Um, but I look out at the field now, I think what we have is a lot of people who are all trying to
01:33:05.480
show that got fight, right. To show that they, they can throw a punch as just as much as Donald Trump
01:33:11.160
cam. Um, and, but we're not hearing as much about their vision and we certainly aren't seeing enough
01:33:16.700
people smile for God's sake, like just smile and have an optimistic vision for the future. Um, and
01:33:23.640
everyone's just, yeah. Isn't it really hard to have an optimistic future when you know how deep,
01:33:32.380
unlike Carter, you know, the Republican or the democratic party back then didn't seem to hate
01:33:38.520
and be against the country. Um, you have almost every institution corrupted and falling further
01:33:47.380
and further away from defending our constitution and our way of life. I mean, it's kind of hard to
01:33:55.120
have an optimistic attitude because it's a real, it's the biggest fight perhaps of our entire country's
01:34:01.600
history. Don't you think? Oh, I agree with you. It's very difficult. I think it was also a very
01:34:08.160
hard back for in the time that Reagan was running. Not necessarily. I agree with you. The democratic
01:34:13.700
party was a different beast, but the depths of the kind of, uh, the tearing apart that the country
01:34:20.980
was very divided back then. It had been through a lot of traumas, Vietnam, Watergate. I mean,
01:34:27.220
people were so demoralized. So it was very hard to do it then too. I think what has to be done is
01:34:33.120
someone's got to remind, this doesn't mean you could be optimistic and still call out those
01:34:37.740
failings, right? Because what, what you got to do is you have to remind people, uh, in a, in again,
01:34:44.820
in a way that shows leadership, uh, just how off the rails that party has gone, um, and show that
01:34:52.880
you can actually accomplish stuff and have a vision and have an optimistic without resorting to their
01:34:58.100
tactics. Um, and I think a lot of people would gravitate to that.
01:35:01.980
So I agree with you a hundred percent. Your book is kind of more of a guide than anything else to
01:35:08.640
show us what we, what we really need to do. Um, and it is, it's the greatest opportunity right now
01:35:16.920
to reset America and put our principles, you know, it's, it's, I would say, have we tried unplugging it
01:35:25.000
and plugging it back in? We need to restore its original principles, its factory settings. Um,
01:35:32.540
but there doesn't seem to be, uh, except for the people, it doesn't seem to be anybody really willing
01:35:40.360
as far as parties go. The Democrats are way off the rails. The Republicans are kind of like they were
01:35:47.300
under Reagan, where I'm not sure that there are all that helpful to somebody who believes in the
01:35:52.640
constitution. I, I agree with you. Um, and especially here's the positive thing, Glenn,
01:36:00.420
I truly believe that while the parties and the party leadership are at each other's door, I think
01:36:05.520
most Americans fundamentally agree with those constitutional principles that you just outlined,
01:36:13.680
or at least are open to hearing about how we need a return to that. One of the problems I see in the
01:36:19.960
Republican field at the moment is that there's very much a kind of you versus us mentality, uh,
01:36:27.040
even among the candidates basically saying, you know, if you, if you think this, then you are,
01:36:33.420
you know, morally reprehensible. Um, and, and, and, and that, and taking it to extreme levels,
01:36:38.940
not seeming to understand that a lot of Americans do have very nuanced views on abortion or other
01:36:45.220
cultural issues. You know, that's why they're hot buttons. Um, one of the great things about Reagan
01:36:50.060
is he didn't do a you versus us thing. He, he spoke to everyone as Americans and said he'd lead
01:36:56.260
everyone as Americans. And that's what convinced people to switch parties and come in.
01:37:02.680
Well, he did take a you versus, uh, us in one way. It was us against the government. He said,
01:37:08.960
government was the problem. I'm going to get them out of your, your hair. Uh, and that's the same
01:37:14.620
kind of message that would win today. Absolutely. Uh, you know, I know that the party is having a,
01:37:20.920
you know, long involved debate about how it needs to transform itself, but you know, sometimes like
01:37:26.100
it, like if you got a wheel and it turns like, and it's not broken, like there's a formula.
01:37:31.940
Right. Um, people don't like government and, and you just hit on something. We need to have a leader
01:37:38.240
that figures out the things that unite us. And guess what? Most people don't like government. I mean,
01:37:43.160
even people who, you know, are sat by while it got bigger, uh, their interaction with it. Isn't that
01:37:48.540
great? Uh, you know, uh, everyone understands that it's all one big version of the DMV. So, uh,
01:37:55.580
some themes like that, those things that unite us, uh, I think the way to go, I'm still waiting to see
01:38:02.840
it though. Uh, we're talking to Kimberly Strassel. She is, uh, the author of the Biden malaise. It just
01:38:10.000
came out this week. She's also, uh, a wall street call, uh, wall street journal columnist,
01:38:15.440
uh, and an editorial board member, uh, and a good friend of the program. We are going to take a quick
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break. I don't want to come back. And if you're willing to, I'd like to talk to you about the
01:38:24.580
individual candidates and what you see, uh, how's that shaping up and strengths and weaknesses of
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So Kimberly Strassel is with us. She is the author of the Biden malaise, how Joe Biden is far worse than
01:40:08.560
Jimmy Carter ever was, and the need for a new Reagan. So first of all, I guess, tell me what
01:40:16.140
you think we should be looking for in these candidates. And then let's go through some of
01:40:20.900
the candidates. Sure. And by the way, I wish I'd had you do this subtitle on my book, Glenn,
01:40:25.940
because it's much better than the one that's actually there. I'm sorry. What is the actual
01:40:30.320
subtitle? I'm sorry. No, no, no. I know. No, no. Yours is better. That's what I'm saying. Let's not
01:40:35.320
even say the other one. It's a mouthful. Yours is much more direct. All right. So let's go. Who do
01:40:42.260
you want to go first? What are we looking for? Well, I think the, yeah, tell us what we're looking for,
01:40:48.560
and then let's go through the candidates. Well, I think what I'm looking for, what I think the nation
01:40:53.780
would benefit for is, is some of that old fashioned Reagan philosophy, which is limited
01:40:59.400
government, right? Fiscal responsibility and, you know, strong national defense on the grounds. I
01:41:07.640
know there's a debate about this in the GOP at the moment, but my view is that when America's
01:41:12.900
standing strong, there's less likelihood of conflict. And that actually allows us to dedicate
01:41:19.000
more of our time and resources to our own problems here at home. I think, I think that
01:41:23.960
was very clear with Donald Trump. I mean, you know, I don't think Putin would have gone
01:41:27.860
into Ukraine with Donald Trump there. If you have somebody who is strong, the military is
01:41:33.500
strong. And honestly, I've always said somebody with a twitchy eye where you're like, you know,
01:41:39.380
I think he just might do that. As long as the, the enemy of the United States is feeling
01:41:46.000
that way. We're pretty safe. We're pretty safe. I couldn't agree with you more. Yep.
01:41:52.080
Okay. So when you look at the, the candidates, I mean, there's a lot to, a lot to go, but Donald
01:41:58.880
Trump is the one that it's really at his point, his to lose, I think. What are your thoughts
01:42:06.820
on Donald Trump? So I agree with you that it's his to lose. Although, you know, it's really
01:42:13.580
interesting. I live in kind of a town where this really was Trump country. It's a very
01:42:21.800
conservative area, kind of place where you would see like the double Trump flags on the
01:42:25.880
back of the pickup truck waiting, you know, right. I've been really surprised by how many
01:42:32.120
people who voted for him twice have said that they would like to get a look at other people
01:42:37.560
and that they're not sure this time. And I think you see that reflected a little bit in the polls
01:42:42.860
too, in that, you know, he's got a solid number, mostly 35, 40%. That's a little bit more than he
01:42:50.240
had back in the 2016 primaries. I think, I think what's going for him though, is this crowded field,
01:42:57.280
just as it was back in 2016. And, you know, there's clearly more voters who haven't yet decided on
01:43:04.720
him yet, but they're all splitting the field. You know, my one concern with Trump in terms of
01:43:10.800
what we've been talking about is, I don't think a, that he is a natural communicator of a philosophy.
01:43:17.600
It's not his deal. He likes the politics, right? Much more than he likes the policy idea of this.
01:43:23.620
And, and he, and he's certainly not your sunny guy, you know?
01:43:27.600
Right. It's funny because in some reasons, but yeah, he's not. Yeah.
01:43:34.640
It's he, I think he used to be at times, uh, a sunny guy before he got into politics. Um, but,
01:43:41.600
uh, yeah, not, not necessarily, uh, now and, and probably good reason, uh, Ron DeSantis.
01:43:48.080
So Ron DeSantis, in my mind, uh, he's got the ability to do all this, but I think his problem,
01:43:57.720
and we're seeing it from, from the reset, of course, his campaign says it's not a reset,
01:44:01.720
which confirms that it is a reset. He, uh, you know, I think what's happening there,
01:44:10.380
and I've kind of heard this, he felt a lot more comfortable in Florida, knew what he was doing,
01:44:15.320
he felt comfortable making his own decisions. This campaign looks to have been very poll driven
01:44:21.160
so far. Um, and I keep wanting to say like, let Ron DeSantis be Ron DeSantis. Um, because if you look
01:44:27.900
at that amazing reelection, he won in Florida, I mean, sure. There were probably a number of base
01:44:33.940
voters who liked what he did with Disney and liked what he did with the schools and transgender stuff.
01:44:39.780
But a lot of people just loved that he was competent when they had that storm, that the gas
01:44:45.580
got delivered, that their taxes got lowered, yet that government got smaller, that you just had a
01:44:51.600
leader who knew how to get stuff done. And I really wish we heard more of that from him.
01:44:57.160
The, the other one I'd be interested in, in hearing, uh, about is Vivek Ramaswamy.
01:45:02.220
I think he is so fascinating. I think he's got a few like really out there ideas. Um,
01:45:10.100
but, but on the, on the upside, uh, it's because he has ideas. I mean, that guy is so sharp. Um,
01:45:18.240
he is a font of policies. Um, when he's not sure what he's talking about, he goes and gets educated
01:45:25.280
on it. He's obviously got an enormous amount of energy. And I think that he's actually getting
01:45:30.300
the real look. I mean, people kind of just immediately wrote him off when he got into this,
01:45:34.480
but that guy is out there and he is working like a dog. And I think he's making some gains.
01:45:40.580
I think so too. I think he could be a vice presidential, uh, nominee if, if not, uh, uh,
01:45:46.600
presidential, uh, nominee in the end, if he keeps going the way he's going, he is a very different
01:45:53.300
and sunny kind of guy. He has the Reagan son to him. It's really important. Yeah. That's the other
01:46:02.280
thing is he does have a vision. And, you know, if you listen to him, he talks a lot about what it
01:46:08.200
means to be American and how we need to be proud to be American. He talks a lot about those values.
01:46:12.620
You mentioned Glenn. Um, and that's a little bit of what Reagan did. Obviously he he's a very different
01:46:17.620
person. Um, but, uh, he, he's closer to that than I think a lot of the other candidates.
01:46:23.920
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Glad you're here. Looking at your Twitter here, Glenn,
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you just tweeted a photo outside your broadcast studio and you say outside of my broadcast studio
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are some of today's best artists. Now, which one of them is Hunter Biden? I know he's really the top
01:48:29.000
guy. He's not here. No, he's not here. No, but look at the name. I don't know if you know anything.
01:48:34.540
I don't know anything. No, I don't know anything. I will be honest with you. I don't know anything
01:48:38.820
about art, but I, I've seen some of these people's work and it's incredible. I mean, I,
01:48:42.940
it's incredible. And, uh, I bring them up to the ranch, uh, once a year. Uh, and, uh, it's for the
01:48:50.920
inspired arts league, which I don't run or, you know, I'm just a member of, uh, and we donate the ranch and,
01:48:57.520
uh, and, uh, put on the food and everything else. And these guys come up and they just paint and
01:49:02.480
I'm allowed to sit and listen and watch. And, oh my gosh, it is, they are amazing. We, two days ago,
01:49:10.640
um, we were given a challenge. Uh, there's how many of us, 15, 12. And, uh, we were given a nine foot
01:49:20.820
panel and said, the only instruction was, uh, something that you, that scared you, that you
01:49:28.800
got through, you have two hours to paint it. All of you paint one painting together, go.
01:49:38.440
And we were all like, what, wait a minute, wait a minute. And all of us thought it would be an
01:49:44.540
absolute disaster. I should tweet out what, what happened. Just then this giant thunderstorm came
01:49:51.000
rolling through the Valley and it got very, very dark. And everybody just looked up at the sky and
01:49:56.700
went, okay, that's it. And within two hours, we painted a painting that is just unbelievable.
01:50:04.340
And there were like 10, 10 of us at least working on it at the same time. And we'd all step back and
01:50:10.120
go, okay, that needs to be, who wants to do that? And boom, we do. It was really fun. Really fun.
01:50:15.540
That's really fun. Uh, and it's so weird that we had a conversation.
01:50:20.340
What, what does that mean? Well, it's strange. Are you, you're, you know, I, I, I would imagine
01:50:25.840
that your politics are not necessarily aligned with every artist. We don't talk politics at all.
01:50:33.140
Smart. Nobody talks politics. There were a couple of artists last year. They were like, I don't know,
01:50:37.000
I'm going to glad back. I mean, uh, but feel sorry for the guy from India. He was like, I looked him
01:50:43.960
up on, I mean, really? I mean, he's Satan. I don't have to sacrifice a chicken. Do I
01:50:49.260
not like, no, but we are slaughtering cows. Uh, anyway, uh, we don't talk politics at all.
01:50:59.460
And that's a good thing. I think a really good thing. Have you talked at all with, with them,
01:51:03.780
you know, being really famous, accomplished artists about what they think is going on
01:51:07.740
with AI? Yeah. Uh, none of them like it. Um, and I think, I think they are still of the mindset
01:51:18.880
that handcrafted things will be worth more than, uh, AI things. And I think in the long run,
01:51:27.640
that's true. Um, but it's like, for instance, I, I, I equate it to, um, when quartz came out,
01:51:36.600
I'm a watch collector. Quartz came out. You could not buy a handmade, a beautiful watch
01:51:44.620
that you would have to wind because everybody went to quartz. I mean, even the biggest watch
01:51:50.100
houses went, you know, to quartz. And all of a sudden the price of a handmade watch went
01:51:56.480
through the floor, smart people bought up all of those watches and just kept them in vaults.
01:52:04.900
Now it's the same. You don't, if you're a watch collector, if you're somebody who really likes
01:52:11.080
a time piece for the handmade quality, you buy that you don't buy quartz. If you're somebody
01:52:16.900
that just wants time, you'll buy a quartz watch because that's all you need it for.
01:52:21.640
But there is a place for handmade everything. And I think it's going to become more valuable.
01:52:30.460
Yeah. I mean, I think that's, it's definitely true. I think, you know, like I, my, you know,
01:52:34.500
my, my son is a, you know, he likes sports collectibles and like, obviously you could
01:52:39.200
print a baseball card that looks the same as the one that was released in 1985 or 1955.
01:52:44.520
A signature is a perfect example of this. Obviously you could recreate a signature easily,
01:52:48.640
but the real signature is, is what's worth it. Right. And I, I assume that continues though,
01:52:53.980
with the AI stuff, some of it looks so real. I don't even know anymore.
01:52:58.560
I don't know. There's something to be said though, when, uh, I mean, I can think of so many things
01:53:05.160
like this, that, you know, it was fun for a while. Let's take, uh, um, the, uh, what do you call it?
01:53:15.020
The hero movies, uh, that are being made the Marvel company is that Marvel Marvel was great
01:53:21.920
because at first it was like, wow, I've never seen anything like that. Now you're like, Hmm.
01:53:25.660
Yeah. Because it's all that, you know what I mean? And nothing is, is real where you look at
01:53:33.140
mission impossible, where it's AI assisted. And you know that, uh, he was actually in the plane,
01:53:40.600
the helicopter doing that, that adds something to it. I think the Tom Cruise movie is a great example
01:53:47.760
of real life mixing it. And Marvel is just kind of meh because it's not real. Yeah.
01:53:55.520
It's almost like you're buying the story. I find so much of this, a lot of the stuff that goes viral
01:54:00.260
on the internet has the same sort of thing where like, you know, like dude perfect is like one of
01:54:05.700
the biggest, uh, you know, accounts on YouTube and they do crazy trick shots is one of the things
01:54:10.760
that they do. And they'll, you know, they recently, you know, shot, uh, you know, basketball shot off
01:54:16.480
the top of some Vegas tower, you know, it was the highest basketball shot ever. And you see the thing
01:54:20.920
go down and like they could easily do that in CGI and it would be nothing right to see that. But the
01:54:27.980
fact is the whole story of them taking multiple days and thousands of shots to try to make this
01:54:32.900
and then finally making it is what you were interested in. And I think, I guess that's where
01:54:38.680
it goes, but like, I, it, you also can see the other side of it. I know with, um, you know,
01:54:44.340
Hollywood obviously is on strike now and they're doing this, this, the actors and the writers,
01:54:49.620
a lot of that has to do with AI and the, the possibilities were of where that's going
01:54:56.420
is really fascinating. I don't know if you saw this from Justine Bateman. You remember
01:55:00.180
her from family ties and, uh, she's very bright. Yeah. She's also a computer. She has a computer
01:55:05.560
science degree as well, apparently. Um, but she tweeted, she tweeted this thread. This is a couple
01:55:10.160
of months ago, but I think it's fascinating. Where does AI going with film? Uh, listen to this
01:55:15.440
one, AI written scripts. Okay. You kind of figured that's already happening. I'm sure.
01:55:20.180
Um, and digitally scanned actors, image and or voice both already exist. Some talent agencies
01:55:26.120
are actively recruiting their clients to be scanned. You can choose the projects, but you'll
01:55:31.060
only get 75 cents on the dollar, but okay. And now you're thinking you're not even doing any work,
01:55:35.240
right? What's the big deal there? It's all an AI. Um, then it says your dividend, your digital
01:55:39.460
image can be triple or quadruple booked. So that bodes well if you happen to be a, you know,
01:55:43.600
a top 10 percenter, uh, number two films customized for a viewer based on their viewing history,
01:55:50.720
which has been collected for many years. Actors will have the option to have their image bought
01:55:54.720
out or to be used in anything at all. Three films ordered up by the viewer. For example,
01:56:02.260
I want to film about a panda and a unicorn who saved the world in a rocket ship and just put Bill
01:56:07.160
Murray in it. Imagine that typing that into Netflix and then you just get the movie. And if you happen to,
01:56:13.140
well, I will tell you to be a, uh, uh, what is it? Black mirror watcher. And you watch the first
01:56:17.460
one from this season, you, you know, it seems completely absurd, but I mean, that's the sort
01:56:21.560
of stuff they're talking about. Oh, it could be done. Oh yeah. And you know what? Somebody will
01:56:25.700
hit on a hit. Somebody will have an idea, put it together and it will become a hit and it'll be
01:56:32.140
like, you know, YouTube movies. This, this happened with, what was it? Drake? Uh, I think it was one of
01:56:36.960
those, you know, some musician and he had, there was an AI song written that sounded like his
01:56:41.340
voice. It wasn't him, wasn't his song, but it was becoming popular. They had to suppress it
01:56:45.780
to make it not become a hit. Um, but that's just all coming, right? That's all around the corner.
01:56:53.000
And the problem is, is where is, uh, plagiarism? Where's the line? I mean, you can look at, for
01:57:01.600
instance, um, we were talking, I can't remember what the painting was. We were talking about some
01:57:06.900
painting and, uh, this person had done another painting and it was very similar. Now, did he
01:57:14.840
copy that or did he go and say, Oh, I, I, I don't even remember seeing that before. Maybe
01:57:22.080
honestly, not seeing it or seeing it a long, long, long, long time ago, maybe in his childhood.
01:57:27.200
And it just kind of pushed to the front with AI. There is no childhood. There's no memory that you
01:57:34.020
lose that. There's no subliminal anything. It's all there. And if it's read and consumed,
01:57:40.580
everything, everything is plagiarism. All of it, all of it is plagiarism. Yeah. That was
01:57:47.260
some degree or another. There's that Sarah Silverman, uh, uh, lawsuit. I don't know if
01:57:52.280
you saw that from a couple of weeks ago where, you know, basically the AI, you can ask AI to
01:57:57.020
summarize her book, right? And the AI will summarize her book and all the things that are in it, stories
01:58:01.820
from inside the book. And she's like, that's my book. You just took all the stuff from my book and
01:58:06.540
just gave it away for free, right? Like, yes, I think she has an argument there, honestly.
01:58:11.880
Um, a couple more, she does a couple more from this Glenn, uh, other possibilities of AI in the
01:58:16.500
future of what happens in film viewers getting digitally scanned themselves and paying extra
01:58:21.540
to have themselves inserted into custom films. Easy. Totally licensing deals made with studios so
01:58:28.540
that viewers can order, uh, order up older films like star Wars and put their face on Luke Skywalker's
01:58:34.060
body and their ex-wife's face on Darth Vader's body, et cetera. Uh, six, training an AI program
01:58:40.080
on older hit TV series and creating an additional season. Family Ties, which she was in, uh, had 167
01:58:47.800
episodes. An AI program could easily be trained on this and create an eighth season because they
01:58:52.400
only shot seven. I mean, this is going to be a really weird world. And it's, and there's a,
01:58:59.060
and there's that window Glenn. It's coming fast. Yeah. Coming really fast. And there's that window
01:59:02.420
where right now people like, you know, Bill Murray, right. They'll want to be, they'll want those
01:59:07.200
people in these movies. They'll have a chance to license themselves out. But like over time,
01:59:11.800
they're just going to create AI stars from scratch that will just replace all the, you don't need
01:59:18.400
Bill Murray. People won't remember him. He'll be dead 30 years from now and they'll just be all AI
01:59:23.320
people out there acting. Stu, why would you, I mean, it's the same thing that I say about AI
01:59:29.260
for relationships. Actors are a pain in the ass. They're a pain in the ass. Okay. All the stuff
01:59:37.540
that you have to do, you know, I need this, I need that. No, I don't know if I worked all of that stuff.
01:59:44.240
Hmm. Why would any mega studio say, no, let's have all that drama here on the set instead of
01:59:53.900
saying I can take them license their image and I don't have anything to do with them. Yeah. I'll do
02:00:00.080
that. Yeah, no, totally. And by the way, I, as you brought that up, I thought, man, talk show hosts
02:00:04.660
can be difficult too. Uh, this would be no, no offense. I will tell you this. We, we won't be able to do
02:00:11.260
it. Uh, Ben Shapiro will be able to do it because you don't ever hear him go, um, Oh, what was that
02:00:17.700
name? Uh, like me. So if I'm ever replaced by AI, you'll know, because I'll sound like Ben Shapiro
02:00:25.260
with a spoon style forks. Yes. Thank you. Ben Shapiro may actually be AI right now. I still love it. I
02:00:35.020
still love it. Well, you know, you mentioned the relationship thing, which of course is, uh,
02:00:39.720
coming with all sorts of weird weirdness, but like the, what I was reading an article this morning
02:00:44.280
about, uh, they're doing this with a, with like Instagram influencers, right? Where, I mean,
02:00:49.900
what's an Instagram influencer? I mean, to be true, like, we don't know who these people are.
02:00:53.400
They haven't accomplished anything of note that we know of. They come out and they become popular
02:00:57.620
because they're hot and they're wearing bikinis and like, you know, foreign locations. Well, that's
02:01:01.580
easy for AI. You don't even have to know who these people are. They're just creating them from scratch
02:01:05.720
to look perfect, to be wearing bathing suits in, you know, some incredible, with some incredible
02:01:11.020
backdrop. And then they're trying to sell you the bathing suits or whatever they're trying to hawk
02:01:15.460
to you. And it's like, you're just going to create these people from scratch over time. Those people
02:01:20.580
will be the famous people, right? The, the fake people will be the famous people.
02:01:26.540
I have to tell you, I think that's wrong. I mean, look at me here. I am in an exotic location,
02:01:31.540
wearing a bathing suit right now. And you're creating horrible imagery for the radio listening
02:01:39.140
audience. I assure you, if you're watching Blaze TV, he's fully clothed. Everybody's like,
02:01:44.520
oh dear God, AI, save us. Back in just a minute. First, let me tell you about Goldline. I want to
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I do think it's going to happen. So what do you do? Well, you might think, I don't have enough money
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02:02:35.760
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02:02:41.440
prior to 1929, uh, maybe we would have been wealthier, but we didn't. Here's one of the
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad to hear dark future is out digitally. Now you can get
02:03:58.140
it, uh, on, uh, your Kindle or wherever you get your digital books. For some reason, the audio book
02:04:03.300
is still not out. We want to thank Amazon for that. Uh, Glenn scale of one to 10, uh, one being these
02:04:09.760
whistleblowers change nothing. And Joe and Hunter are going to go on with our lives as normal. 10 being
02:04:18.200
this ends in them being thrown out of office and maybe into prison. Uh, where are you right now?
02:04:25.040
Six, six. Yeah. I mean, okay. Where am I? Where am I in the real America, the real world that I grew
02:04:34.180
up in? Yeah. I should clarify. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm saying, what do you think is going to
02:04:38.360
happen though? Not the world that you think should exist? The world that does exist. Uh,
02:04:44.760
I would put it at a one, but I think this evidence is so strong that if they keep pounding it and that
02:04:57.340
you find as much as you have in the last few weeks, if it continues this way, it's going to be a slow
02:05:03.440
drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, and a stone, uh, moves with just small little drips, it decays and,
02:05:11.480
and, uh, crumbles. Uh, I think this could be a slow drip that even in today's world will end in real