The Glenn Beck Program - 'It Looks Like Hell'： California Fires Teach a Tough Lesson

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00:02:28.080 Hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Today we're going to talk about fires and

00:02:37.780 responsibility, taking personal responsibility. I don't want to make it about politics,

00:02:44.740 but in some ways, because in America today, everything is political, even responsibility.

00:02:54.740 We're going to have to cross those streams, but I pray that I can do it in a very compassionate way

00:03:00.880 because people's lives are at stake. People have lost everything, but they are the right kind of

00:03:07.580 people. You know what I'm saying? They're the people that everybody cares about.

00:03:11.580 And that really bothers me because we were still, in fact, we're still in Lahaina,

00:03:19.800 Mercury One is. We're in California, so you know that we're in California and doing everything we

00:03:25.080 can there. But we're also still in North Carolina where people are shivering in tents, not able to

00:03:33.340 get any help really from the government. And nobody seems to care about those people. But because I've

00:03:39.740 seen this person in a movie or on TV or on Netflix, all of a sudden, we're supposed to care. They are

00:03:47.340 the people that have the most resource. They're not the people that just couldn't find a hotel.

00:03:54.060 They're not the people who are looking for FEMA to give them their $700 so they can try to live

00:04:00.120 on that. No, these are the people who have millions of dollars and can go and stay at,

00:04:05.880 you know, the peninsula of Beverly Hills. It's a tragedy, but it is an inconvenience.

00:04:12.980 It is not life-threatening for these people after they get out of the way of real danger with the

00:04:19.760 fire, which is no small order. We're going to talk about the fire start to finish in 60 seconds.

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00:05:40.220 what's happening in California. And my heart is truly heavy for those people who have families in

00:05:47.760 California. The people in California that have lost their homes are still fearing that they might

00:05:53.780 lose their home. If you've never seen a forest fire, you can't really describe it. It's almost

00:06:05.320 like a tornado. Unless you've been in a tornado or seen the damage afterwards, you really don't know

00:06:13.280 what you're talking about with a tornado. It is unlike anything I've ever seen. Same thing with

00:06:17.760 a forest fire. We had a small forest fire here up in the mountains of Idaho. Last summer, it was just

00:06:28.000 about, I don't know, two miles down the street from me. Luckily, the winds weren't there. But if the

00:06:33.380 winds had kicked up, it probably would have burned my house down. I mean, it is, you cannot describe

00:06:41.180 a forest fire. It is when it's out of control. You have no chance. Just get out of there.

00:06:50.220 And my heart breaks for people who are going through this right now and breaks for the people

00:06:55.400 of California. Let me address that person right now. If you happen to be in California, know that

00:07:01.660 you're not alone. You may feel like the flames have stolen everything from you. And I was thinking

00:07:08.340 about this, well, this summer when I came back from that forest fire and thought all of this could be

00:07:14.420 gone. The things that you have in your house, they are just things. But there are certain things,

00:07:21.040 memories, pictures, things that you've collected over the years with your family that can't be replaced.

00:07:27.480 And I know what that must feel like. But two things. One, you're alive, you have your family,

00:07:37.320 and help is on the way. My charity, Mercury One, along with the Red Cross and everybody else,

00:07:44.400 is working tirelessly to bring relief and comfort and assistance to those who are affected right now.

00:07:50.100 We are doing what our government is asking us to do. We don't want to get into the way of forest or

00:07:58.580 firefighters. They have enough trouble. But I want to talk to you first with compassion about why this

00:08:09.940 keeps happening and what California needs to do about it. This is not my state. This is their state.

00:08:17.820 But if you're asking for our help, one of the hardest things I've ever had to do is I had a friend I

00:08:30.900 went to church with. And he called me one time and he said, Glenn, I really need, I don't remember what

00:08:38.760 it was, let's just say $1,000. Because I got to get home, some family stuff. And I was about

00:08:47.760 to say yes. But in my faith, it's the largest welfare program, I think, in the world. And we

00:08:59.960 take care of, you know, not just our own, but anybody who lives in the district of that particular

00:09:06.660 church. The bishop is responsible for them, and we have to take care of our neighbors.

00:09:11.660 And so with that, it's very orderly. You know, when you have a problem or if there is a problem

00:09:19.960 with a neighbor or something, you go to the church and say, hey, my neighbor who's not a member of the

00:09:25.020 church is really in trouble. Can you help? And they usually will. But with that, there are certain

00:09:31.940 things that you have to do. You like, you just don't get free money. You know, you have to change

00:09:39.200 your life. You'll take classes on how to, you know, manage money or whatever the thing is.

00:09:45.440 And so I said to this person, I was just about to say yes. And I said, hey, have you talked to the

00:09:51.300 bishop yet? And he said, no, no, I haven't. Now, that's unusual in my faith. If you have a big problem,

00:10:00.360 especially with money, you normally would go to the bishop. And I said, okay, let me call you back.

00:10:07.840 And I called the bishop. And I said, hey, so-and-so just called me and I can do this.

00:10:13.220 You know, is there anything I'm missing here? And he said, Glenn, I'm so glad you called me.

00:10:17.620 He said, yes. He said, this particular individual is struggling. And we've been helping him for a

00:10:26.280 while, but he won't connect with the problem and correct the problems. And he said, he's doing this

00:10:34.480 from time to time. He'll call people and they'll just give him money. And then that hurts it. He

00:10:38.640 said, so I'm going to ask you to do the thing that is probably going to be the hardest thing you've ever

00:10:42.080 done. I know you have the money to help. Please don't because it will set him back and not let him

00:10:50.080 feel the full ramifications. And I said, okay. So I had to call my friend back and say, I can't right

00:10:56.840 now. And I felt awful. I felt absolutely awful about it. But if we don't talk and face the problem,

00:11:07.180 problem, you're never going to solve it. Now, this again is not my problem. California,

00:11:19.600 you're not my problem. Okay. I mean, I want to help. And as a citizen of America, you're another

00:11:26.240 citizen. You are my neighbor. I want to help. I want to help people all around the world. But first,

00:11:32.020 you have to help yourself. Natural disasters most times are out of our control. The extent of the

00:11:40.480 destruction in California could be mitigated if we made smarter choices about how Californians

00:11:49.360 manage their land and their resources and their votes. California has been playing with fire

00:11:55.980 literally for a long time. Their forests are full of underbrush, dead trees, dried vegetation,

00:12:03.560 which is kindling for those flames. The material builds up on the forest floor. It's a perfect

00:12:11.560 condition for fire. If you're going to start a fire, go to California because that's perfect condition.

00:12:19.640 I'm not saying that literally, by the way. But it doesn't have to be this way. You know,

00:12:24.700 you go to places like Sweden or Finland or Austria, countries that have large vulnerable forests,

00:12:31.760 they understand the importance of forest management and they prioritize the clearing out of the underbrush

00:12:37.940 and the dead trees. And they, because they're a little socialist in nature, they do it in a sustainable

00:12:44.980 way. They partner with local industries that will take that material from the forest floor and they use

00:12:53.020 it as biomass energy for other products. So it doesn't just reduce the fire risk, it creates jobs and

00:13:00.060 a healthier ecosystem. Here in America, some states do it right. I mean, Florida has fires, but not like

00:13:07.860 California. Why? Because they do controlled burns, forest thinning, routine practices. You know what?

00:13:15.700 Honestly, God does this. Lightning. Before we would put forest fires out or could, lightning would strike

00:13:25.600 and that would burn the forest down and it replenishes the soil and everything else. Well, we don't want to

00:13:30.740 do that because our houses are now surrounded by trees and forest and everything else. So we have to

00:13:36.780 either do a control burn or we have to go in and take all of that stuff that lightning would have taken

00:13:44.440 out to replenish everything. But California's won't do that. Why?

00:13:52.740 The answer lies in bureaucracy and priorities. And really, honestly, eggheads. You know, these people

00:14:03.940 from the cities that want to manage our forest have no idea. It's common sense.

00:14:11.740 The environmental regulations, the lawsuits that block or delay any kind of forest management,

00:14:19.740 ideology has gotten in the way of the practical, the life-saving solutions. And this has to change,

00:14:27.240 California. It has to. You see devastation every year. And, you know, honestly, I really don't like

00:14:36.300 insurance companies. But insurance companies, what they do, it's, honestly, it's legal gambling.

00:14:45.620 They are gambling that you are going to pay them more money than they have to pay out as a collective.

00:14:52.740 Somebody's house might burn down. You might have something catastrophic, cancer or something that

00:14:58.500 costs a buttload of money. But they're betting that all of the people in their community,

00:15:03.580 they're sharing the risk. And not everybody's going to get cancer at the same time. That way,

00:15:08.920 they can make money. It's legalized gambling. Honestly, it is. Well, that's the way insurance works.

00:15:15.560 And I don't like insurance companies because many times they're, you know, scamming people or hurting

00:15:22.360 people. However, let's not blame the insurance companies for getting out. If I'm a company and I

00:15:29.100 have to make a bet, I'm pulling out of California. It's landslides, it's fires, it's floods. It's every

00:15:37.740 year. Whole swaths of the state are burning down to the ground. What kind of bet is that? How do you

00:15:48.860 keep a country? Now, what they'll say is they'll do what they did when you couldn't get flood insurance

00:15:54.520 on the coastlines. We used to say, well, then don't live there. Or if you live there, accept the risk

00:16:01.540 yourself. Okay. Instead, we didn't think that was fair. So we came up with government funding.

00:16:10.440 If you couldn't get flood insurance, no longer was it don't live in a flood zone. Build your house

00:16:16.440 somewhere. I don't know if you've seen the country, but there's lots of open space. Don't build in a

00:16:21.540 flood zone. Instead, we wanted to help everybody live their dreams. So now we pay as a federal government

00:16:29.720 for insurance for the coastlines. Why? Okay. The other issue is water. And let me tell you what the

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00:18:51.620 we look for water because water is essential to life, at least the life we understand. Um,

00:18:59.900 and that is a major issue in California and has been for an forever. However, California

00:19:06.520 take responsibility for the fires to some degree. You haven't built a new major reservoir since

00:19:16.000 1979. That was four decades ago. Now, I don't know if you know this, but 40 years ago, the population

00:19:24.080 of your state was not the population that it is now. So the reservoirs that you had 40 years ago

00:19:31.220 is way out of step with your population and your needs today. Your water storage capacity is exactly

00:19:39.580 the same as it was almost half a century ago. And on top of that, and this is something Trump has

00:19:47.600 addressed recently. Billions with a B billions of gallons of rainwater flow straight into the ocean

00:19:58.820 every year because you don't, you haven't built the infrastructure to capture and store the rainwater.

00:20:06.180 Now, imagine what could be different if you had reservoir and aqueducts and

00:20:10.700 desalination, desalination, uh, plants to store and provide water for all of the dry seasons.

00:20:19.740 Water is life. California has spent decades neglecting its water infrastructure while prioritizing

00:20:30.080 projects that make no meaningful impact on people's lives. This is not a failure just of government.

00:20:37.880 It is a failure of vision. When the, when the, the, when a leader is not around, when the people

00:20:47.540 lack leadership, there is no vision. And without vision, people perish. That's what's happening now on

00:20:57.700 leadership. I'm sorry to make this about politics, but you have to learn the lesson. It has to be said

00:21:06.060 how you vote matters. Look at Los Angeles, the progressive mayor cut the fire department's budget

00:21:14.460 to fund other programs, to give money and housing, they say for, uh, the homeless, but it's also illegal

00:21:21.660 programs. And she gave it to NGOs. Now these NGOs, they're not fighting fires in the, in the,

00:21:30.400 in comparison of the cost of lives, homes, and communities that have been lost in these fires,

00:21:36.620 those NGOs, there's no comparison dollar for dollar. You have to have leadership that prioritizes the

00:21:46.020 safety and the wellbeing of the citizens over their political agendas. And that's not happening in Los

00:21:52.420 Angeles. Okay. It wasn't happening in Lahaina either. Same goes for the environmental policies.

00:21:59.980 Progressive leaders block sensible forest management practices because they're more concerned about

00:22:05.640 pleasing activists than protecting lives. They're more concerned about the dead trees in the forest

00:22:12.720 than they are about the live animals who live in that forest. It's not compassionate. It's dangerous.

00:22:19.960 Uh, mercury one, we help everybody. I don't care where you come from. I don't care who you voted for.

00:22:27.260 We are there for you, but we're also in North Carolina and other areas, uh, reeling from the hurricanes.

00:22:35.700 We're also still in Lahaina and no one's talking about those guys and they will be out of a home for years.

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00:24:31.500 I want to take you back to November 7th, 1983. Ronald Reagan is in office. Do you know the

00:24:58.680 date November 7th, 1983? It's a night that echoes in the halls of American history. It

00:25:07.080 is the date that a radical group known as M-19 bombed the North wing of the United States

00:25:14.680 Capitol. They bombed it. It went off. You don't know that date, November 7th, 1983. I mean,

00:25:21.800 isn't that the day that democracy almost died? It was worse, uh, than the, worse than the civil war.

00:25:30.300 Oh no, sorry. That was January 6th, which all of us know January 6th. Why not? November 7th,

00:25:35.700 1983. Now the group that did it M-19 claimed they were fighting imperialism.

00:25:42.100 What they really were fighting for, uh, was the threat to the foundations of democracy.

00:25:50.520 These were radicals. Now, why am I bringing this up today? Because if you're going to understand

00:25:55.500 today and the future, you have to understand the past. And one name is out right now that people are

00:26:05.320 talking about that you need to understand who this individual is. This individual is currently the

00:26:11.780 mayor of Los Angeles. Her name is Karen Bass. Now, this is the same mayor that was over in Ghana.

00:26:20.000 Uh, and, uh, when she got back with the fires, she was asked, you know, do you have any comment?

00:26:28.580 You were over in Ghana. Is this dereliction of duty? What were you doing? You have any message to

00:26:34.620 the people of Los Angeles? Listen to this exchange. Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent

00:26:41.000 while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions

00:26:46.300 of dollars, Madam Mayor? Have you nothing to say today? She's standing in the airport.

00:26:53.640 Absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today. Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.

00:27:00.400 Are you considering your position?

00:27:04.620 Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this

00:27:09.460 disaster?

00:27:16.000 No apology for them.

00:27:20.180 Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?

00:27:24.680 Now she's standing, you know, that part that, you know, where the, it bends to go right into the,

00:27:33.020 uh, right into the airplane, you know, right as you're going down the ramp and then it bends into the

00:27:37.920 airplane. She's standing right at that bend. She was actually looking through the window of the glass, uh,

00:27:44.520 at security because she gets special treatment. She gets to not go through the airport. She can just go down

00:27:52.240 down those stairs, uh, and a car will pick her up and whisk her away.

00:27:57.680 So she's standing there looking at security, like open the door. When are you going to open the door?

00:28:03.460 Finally, she just looks through and shakes her head and gets instruction. Just go the other way.

00:28:09.040 So she leaves. Now, what does she, what does she have to say? Well, not a lot, not a lot, but let's

00:28:21.580 understand who she is and why she doesn't have a lot to say. Karen Bass built her career as a

00:28:27.800 community activist. Oh, there's a code word. We now understand what it means. The activism, uh,

00:28:36.680 is a polite term now, um, for her history. She's an activist. Well, okay. Her history is tied to

00:28:47.360 radicalism, Marxism, and a dangerous ideology that bled from the fringes into the mainstream here

00:28:54.160 recently. So let's start with the facts on her. Back in the 1970s, Karen Bass was not just a casual

00:29:00.620 traveler to Cuba. Were there any, when she went to Cuba many, many times, uh, she was a devoted

00:29:10.080 participant in what's called the Venceramos brigade. What is that? I never heard of it. Well,

00:29:17.140 it's a Marxist training program directly tied to Fidel Castro's regime between 1969. And today,

00:29:24.600 this group has sent hundreds of young Americans to Cuba, not for a vacation, not for cultural exchange,

00:29:31.560 but for radicalization. You don't join the, uh, Venceramos brigade because you want to learn,

00:29:38.640 you know, what is that? What, what is the emoji with the salsa dancer? Can I use that? If I

00:29:44.000 join the Vencerama, that's not what that's about. It's not about good Cuban coffee. You join

00:29:49.640 because you're a confirmed Marxist Leninist. A Los Angeles police investigator testified before

00:29:56.720 Congress about this group. He said members were trained in guerrilla warfare, sabotage,

00:30:01.200 and bomb making. These are not idealists. They're insurgents in training. Karen Bass,

00:30:09.700 she wasn't just a participant. She was a leader. She visited Cuba repeatedly. They say every six

00:30:17.620 months, we could verify eight times. She praised Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba, who was

00:30:25.060 imprisoning dissenters, left a legacy of poverty and fear. In fact, this is not just her youth.

00:30:31.900 She's still there. When Castro died, she was one of them who called his death a great loss to the

00:30:39.160 people of Cuba. Really? A loss to the same people who risked their lives freeing his regime, trying to

00:30:48.840 get out of Cuba? This is Karen Bass. She's the Los Angeles mayor, one of the largest cities in the

00:30:57.920 United States of America. So let's fast forward to the president. Four million people, a city on fire,

00:31:05.160 literally and figuratively. Wildfires raging across the city. Firefighters begging for resources like

00:31:13.620 water. Mayor Bass had other priorities. Instead of supporting her own fire department, she cut

00:31:21.040 their funding. Where's the money going? To NGOs, non-government institutions. That will be understood.

00:31:29.660 NGOs, non-governmental institutions or organizations that will come to know you'll let that's code

00:31:36.240 for leftist activists most times. And she gave the firefighting money to homeless NGOs who are fighting

00:31:48.280 for the rights of illegal immigrants. Oh, now they're packaging that as she gave money to fight

00:31:55.840 homelessness. Okay. Well, homelessness is a crisis, but let's not kid ourselves. Los Angeles has poured

00:32:03.920 billions of dollars into solving this problem. And it ends up in tent cities, open air drug markets,

00:32:11.680 streets lined with garbage and human waste, chaos spreading. And wait, what does she do? She defunds

00:32:19.660 the people who are fighting fires. That's not, you don't take money away from the firefighters in an

00:32:26.680 area of the country where it's known for firefighting. They don't even have enough firefighters. Okay.

00:32:36.180 First responders, the people that run into buildings, instead, she's in a different building in a

00:32:42.120 different hemisphere. She's in Ghana, attending the swearing in ceremonies of the, I guess, the president

00:32:49.740 of Ghana, who I don't know anything about. Stu, I asked to look it up and maybe give us an update here

00:32:54.680 in a second. So her city is burning and Mayor Bass was thousands of miles away, rubbing elbows at a

00:33:01.480 presidential inauguration in Ghana. Is that leadership or is that dereliction of duty? I mean, you know,

00:33:08.940 you can go, but was she on taxpayer funds going to Ghana? Why was she there? Anyway, let's go back to

00:33:16.180 the radical history for a minute because it didn't end with the Vence Ramos brigade. M-19, the same group

00:33:24.640 that bombed the Capitol in 1983, had direct ties to Cuba and the brigade. Remember, she's a leader in this.

00:33:36.140 Now, Susan Rosenberg, she was one of the women that traveled to Cuba and returned as a domestic

00:33:42.800 terrorist, shared the same ideological roots as Karen Bass. I'm not saying Karen Bass planted the

00:33:49.120 bomb or anything, but let's be clear. She was part of exactly the same radical network. She called Fidel

00:33:56.820 Castro charismatic. She praised the dictator who was brutalizing his people. She aligned herself with a

00:34:04.040 movement that believed in revolutionary violence, including the bombing of the Capitol.

00:34:12.360 Now, she hasn't reformed. She hasn't come out and said, oh my gosh, have I learned my lesson? That was

00:34:18.420 all really bad. I was a stupid kid. No, no. She's held on to those things. And in fact, she was considered

00:34:27.260 a front runner for the vice president under Joe Biden. Her record was so toxic, so troubling that

00:34:35.600 even the Democratic Party said, well, I don't know. Can we do that? When your Marxist roots are too bad,

00:34:43.980 too heavy for the Democrats, the progressives in Washington, D.C. today, that says something.

00:34:50.940 So here we are, 40 years since the Capitol bombing, something that people just don't remember because,

00:34:59.040 well, the media didn't make it into a big deal. And the ideology that fueled that bombing is alive

00:35:06.500 and well and sitting in the mayor's office in Los Angeles. Karen Bass is just using new words. She's

00:35:13.220 fighting for justice, for equity. She's fighting for the people. But what has her leadership actually

00:35:20.860 brought? Homeless encampments, not housing, tent cities, fires burning out of control. Fire

00:35:29.560 departments stretched to its limits. Millions are funneled to political pet projects. And all the while,

00:35:34.840 the city is spiraling deeper and deeper into chaos. November 7th, 1983. I want you to remember that date

00:35:45.360 because the seeds of radicalism planted then are still bearing fruit today. And Karen Bass? Well,

00:35:55.480 she's not just a relic of that radical past. She, in many ways, is a torchbearer.

00:36:04.840 By the way, I got tipped off by this, by a short documentary I saw on Karen Bass from Errol Weber.

00:36:15.060 Errol Weber is a very smart guy who did a great, great job on this. We tried to contact him

00:36:22.200 to get him to tell this story on the air today. We didn't get a recall back. He lives in Los Angeles.

00:36:31.540 And we hope and pray that we just missed each other. And it's not because he is in jeopardy or his family

00:36:40.380 is in jeopardy or his home and neighborhood is in jeopardy because of these same fires.

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00:38:35.920 So before before we leave the realm of Karen Bass, the Los Angeles mayor who cut the funding of the

00:38:57.480 fire departments, let me just share this little piece, a report from 2022 on the fire chief.

00:39:04.860 Listen to this. I'm super inspired. She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her

00:39:11.340 vision for the department's future. One that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.

00:39:17.500 People ask me, well, what what number are you looking for? I'm not looking for a number. It's never enough.

00:39:21.860 Out of 3,300 city firefighters, only 115 are women right now. She's already looking at ways to change that.

00:39:29.180 But she's quick to point out that doing so has a greater purpose, attracting the best and brightest for the job.

00:39:35.260 They feel included. They feel valued and they feel part of a cohesive team.

00:39:39.660 The chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity and diversity at this department.

00:39:45.020 She's a proud member of the LGBTQ community.

00:39:48.020 So, by the way, she just was looking for new fire people and, you know, but diverse fire people.

00:39:56.160 They still don't have enough fire people. They still don't have everybody covered that they need.

00:40:01.240 But good that we have a diverse, a diverse team there, especially today.

00:40:05.300 Here's James Woods, the actor, talking about his home and describing what it was like in this fire.

00:40:14.100 I posted this on X, but Sarah was on with her eight-year-old niece last night.

00:40:20.920 She came out. I'm sorry.

00:40:24.300 Just, you know, one day you're swimming in the pool and the next day it's all gone.

00:40:28.960 But she came out with her little Yeti piggy bank for us to rebuild our house.

00:40:36.200 Oh, my gosh. James Woods, we all hope that you will be able to rebuild your house,

00:40:45.080 maybe starting with that little Yeti piggy bank.

00:40:48.800 And we're just glad that you're okay and your wife is okay.

00:40:52.380 I'm sorry. I have your lives.

00:40:54.680 Yeah, no, I mean, this is real and it's raw.

00:40:57.140 I thought I would be stronger than this.

00:40:58.920 You don't need, you are, you know what, strength is not measured by whether, you know, you hold in crying or not.

00:41:05.620 Strength is what you are doing now and helping your neighbors and shining a light on the great, amazing work

00:41:11.160 of all those firefighters and emergency crews out there.

00:41:16.120 James Woods, a friend of the program.

00:41:19.540 We wish him the best and our thoughts and prayers are with James Woods.

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00:41:58.600 This is Glenn Beck.

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00:44:12.400 Well, California is on fire again.

00:44:17.300 We want to talk about the insurance.

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00:45:41.660 Okay, we're going to talk a little bit about what's going on with the fires in just 60 seconds.

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00:46:14.740 Let's talk here a little bit about the fires.

00:46:17.780 Let's go back to some of the audio.

00:46:20.020 Here's a woman who has just been kicked out of her house and she's going to lose her house.

00:46:28.500 But home insurance also was taken away all of the coverage just a few weeks before.

00:46:34.900 Cut three.

00:46:35.280 They've lived in this house for 75 years and they've had the same insurance and these insurance

00:46:45.280 people decided to cancel their fire.

00:46:48.900 And we're going through this and it just happened and they have no fire insurance.

00:46:53.360 So thank you, California insurance companies supporting residents who pay taxes and love

00:47:03.960 California.

00:47:05.040 And they wonder why people leave California.

00:47:08.100 I don't know what insurance company she was talking about.

00:47:11.040 And she would lead you to believe that it was some state insurance.

00:47:15.840 But I'm not aware of any state fire insurance that is run through the state.

00:47:20.600 I know that all state was one of those companies that about a year ago, right, Stu, decided

00:47:25.560 they were going to start cutting insurance in California.

00:47:29.900 There are several, yeah, several different stories like that.

00:47:32.800 But yes, one of them was within the past year, actually a few months in some cases.

00:47:38.740 So, you know, look, let's say some unpopular things here, but they have to be said.

00:47:44.740 Insurance companies are at times monsters.

00:47:47.180 They're horrible to deal with because of federal regulation and because of Obamacare.

00:47:53.620 Now you have bean counters making decisions instead of doctors.

00:47:58.780 Your doctor is not making the decision.

00:48:01.040 Your insurance company is making the decision in many, many cases.

00:48:04.660 And that's monstrous.

00:48:06.140 But that's because of federal regulation.

00:48:09.120 OK, that's because that's they've been incentivized to do all of those things.

00:48:14.660 It's it's a horrible, horrible thing.

00:48:17.880 You want to fix insurance.

00:48:20.060 You can fix it in by getting government out of it and stop with all the restrictions.

00:48:25.040 It is a private company.

00:48:27.740 Most of these are private companies or, you know, publicly traded companies.

00:48:32.240 And the point of a company is to make money.

00:48:34.960 Now, insurance, the insurance game is if I get a big enough pool, I can cover people's tragedies.

00:48:43.900 You know, nobody says anything when they write a five million dollar check for, you know, Joe Blow's cancer treatment because Joe Blow will say, well, I paid for it.

00:48:53.120 Well, no, you probably paid ten thousand dollars over your history and they're going to pay out five million dollars.

00:48:58.840 So if you want to look at this as gambling, they lose or do they?

00:49:05.500 Because while you paid ten thousand dollars, so did everybody else in the plan.

00:49:10.380 And in the end, they're banking on the fact that they'll have some profit left over from that.

00:49:16.840 If they you know, if the numbers play out the way they are intended to play out through actuaries.

00:49:23.700 So here's the here's the real problem with this.

00:49:27.840 If you live in California and you're living by the beach, mudslides, you got a high up on the hill.

00:49:39.460 I don't think you should be able to get insurance or your insurance should be so I bleed expensive because that's posing a greater risk.

00:49:47.860 If you're living in California fire until they change the the laws and start actually cleaning out the forests and doing the things with water like building reservoirs.

00:50:01.300 There's no way you're going to you're going to keep these fires under control.

00:50:05.080 And so me as a business person, I don't want to be in California.

00:50:08.940 OK, me as a business person, I'm not even in insurance.

00:50:12.320 It's California is too big a risk to my company to move my company to California.

00:50:17.540 So I don't do business there.

00:50:19.080 Well, insurance companies have the same right to do that.

00:50:22.160 Where the where the rubber meets the road here is they did it five weeks ago.

00:50:26.840 If you bought a house in a place where all of a sudden insurance says I'm not going to cover this, I don't think they should be able to give you, you know, five weeks, maybe a year.

00:50:38.720 They should say, look, we're going to cancel your insurance in six months or a year.

00:50:42.660 You've got to find either get out of that neighborhood because you're going to probably have to self fund your insurance or you're going to find somebody else to do it.

00:50:54.400 And I don't think five weeks is a reasonable amount of time to turn that around.

00:51:00.580 Do you, Stu?

00:51:01.900 No, there has to be some sort of cushion.

00:51:04.640 I know a lot of legally there is in many cases.

00:51:08.920 I don't know all the specifics of the California law.

00:51:12.880 You'd think there, if anything, they would be overprotective in favor of against the companies.

00:51:18.640 But who knows?

00:51:20.380 There has to be some sort of rational thing.

00:51:23.120 You can't, you know, you shouldn't just be able to cancel something, you know, as the fire rolls in.

00:51:27.960 Right.

00:51:28.440 It's not exactly fair.

00:51:29.640 Usually it comes at the end of a term, though, right?

00:51:31.500 You come to an agreement and like you have a year long policy, right?

00:51:35.780 And that policy ends at some point and they can choose not to renew you.

00:51:39.820 They should give you some sort of notice on that.

00:51:42.620 Notice.

00:51:42.880 But if we're thinking of getting out in California, you shouldn't be notified of that, you know, at the end of the term.

00:51:51.800 Right.

00:51:52.380 And it shouldn't just be like, by the way, your policy is over next week and we are not going to renew it.

00:51:59.040 There should be something built into that, obviously, to protect people.

00:52:02.220 But like, you know, it's a tough balance, right?

00:52:05.600 Like we are building really, really expensive houses in areas, in this particular case, that are very prone to fire, but also on the coasts of all these.

00:52:16.280 And floods and land slides and earthquakes.

00:52:18.560 Prone to everything.

00:52:20.100 Yes.

00:52:20.640 And not to mention, every disaster movie goes through L.A.

00:52:23.360 You never know when, if there's going to be a Sharknado, you know it's hitting there.

00:52:27.120 Correct.

00:52:27.480 And then, of course, all over the country, though.

00:52:29.800 This is Florida.

00:52:30.580 This is all over the place.

00:52:31.740 We're putting really expensive homes in areas that are threatened by hurricanes and every other natural disaster.

00:52:39.220 And, you know, it's, that doesn't always, like something like this is, how does an insurance company even come close to handling it?

00:52:48.220 I saw a picture of one of the, it was an overhead of one of the communities that's been totally wiped out by this fire.

00:52:54.360 And it was a Zillow page.

00:52:58.800 And every house on the page was $5 million, $3 million, $8 million, $7 million.

00:53:05.320 I can't even imagine the destruction and the cost of it.

00:53:09.840 I don't know how any insurance company could handle it after that.

00:53:12.780 No.

00:53:13.540 Let me just, if you happen to be watching the blaze, let me show you a video, and Stu, maybe you can describe it.

00:53:18.600 This is the view flying into Los Angeles, into LAX yesterday.

00:53:24.340 Watch this.

00:53:25.080 It's cut seven.

00:53:26.360 Yeah.

00:53:26.760 I mean, you see one of the typical hills you see out there in LA, and it's just half of the mountain.

00:53:34.660 It's just covered in flames.

00:53:36.600 It just, it looks like, you know, the entire ground is on fire.

00:53:43.060 Yeah.

00:53:43.480 Yeah, it does.

00:53:44.000 It looks like hell.

00:53:44.760 It looks like you're flying into hell.

00:53:46.280 It looks like one of those old coal mines that catches on fire, and they can't put it out, and it just lights on fire for like 50 years.

00:53:53.780 That's what it looks like from the air.

00:53:57.440 Incredible.

00:53:57.800 It's remarkable what's happening in California, and, you know, you don't want to do the blame game, but I certainly do want to talk about common sense.

00:54:10.500 I mean, look, the insurance companies, they've always covered, you know, and if you want to say this is about global warming, fine.

00:54:20.260 Then why are the banks still writing, why are they still writing mortgages for those homes that are, for instance, by the sea, by the forests?

00:54:34.460 Why are they still writing mortgages?

00:54:36.620 They're writing mortgages knowing that if you can't pay, they get the property.

00:54:41.660 Well, that's a really bad investment for them.

00:54:44.900 That's a really bad deal for them.

00:54:46.780 They're fiscally irresponsible for their own shareholders if they're writing policies where they know those areas are going to be unlivable because people will just walk away from those houses.

00:55:02.920 If the sea levels really do rise and those beaches erode there in Malibu, if you're so close to forests and it's going to burn your house down in California, it's unlivable.

00:55:18.960 Why would the banks continue to write the mortgages?

00:55:24.240 Answer, because global warming isn't serious.

00:55:28.920 It's not real.

00:55:30.140 Otherwise, you would see these banking institutions saying, we're not going to do anything on the coast.

00:55:37.040 That's, it's bad business for us.

00:55:40.960 And so, you know, when you look at what's going to happen in these cities, first of all, I want to tell you in a few minutes, I'm going to tell you the story about the great San Francisco fire.

00:55:52.540 The facts on that one compared to today is remarkable, absolutely remarkable.

00:56:02.940 But this time in the rebuilding, what do you think is going to happen on the rebuilding?

00:56:08.500 Do you think that's going to be an easy process?

00:56:10.700 I mean, if I want to just talk politics, and I don't, I hate it when people do this, but I mean, just to make the point on how bad it's going to be.

00:56:19.040 These are the bluest people of blue people.

00:56:22.160 These, this is like Smurf City.

00:56:25.040 Okay.

00:56:25.960 They're all blue.

00:56:27.440 And they soon will be red because they're now going to have to deal with the laws and regulations themselves of rebuilding there.

00:56:38.760 And do you think the government's going to expedite, the California government, going to expedite the permitting process?

00:56:47.740 Do you think they're going to make it easier to build houses and rebuild in that area?

00:56:52.200 Or is a group of elites going to get together and say, well, we can redesign this whole thing.

00:56:58.600 Wait, wait, wait.

00:56:59.980 It's all been burned to the ground.

00:57:01.900 Let's think of what other regulations would we like.

00:57:06.380 That's what's going to happen.

00:57:07.940 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:57:09.800 And they are, to your point earlier as well, they're going to blame climate change for every little bit of this fire.

00:57:17.260 And the reason they're going to do it is because it's the only excuse that doesn't point the finger at them.

00:57:24.320 Every other thing, they have to say it's SUVs.

00:57:28.040 They have to say it.

00:57:29.200 They have to say it's your fault in Indiana for, you know, driving an SUV too many miles.

00:57:36.660 Because if not, everything points at them.

00:57:39.420 Every little point of the management is their fault.

00:57:42.600 But do they, does it matter to them?

00:57:44.860 Listen to this cut from CNN.

00:57:47.660 This is Newsom talking to Anderson Cooper.

00:57:50.780 Listen to how Governor Newsom answers this question from Anderson.

00:57:57.320 Cut nine.

00:57:59.020 What is the situation with the water?

00:58:00.740 Obviously, in the Palisades ran out last night in the hydrants.

00:58:03.420 I was trying to fire a firefighter in this block.

00:58:05.020 They left because there was no water in the hydrant here.

00:58:07.540 The local folks are trying to figure that out.

00:58:10.020 I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system.

00:58:21.000 I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.

00:58:24.820 You have something at this scale.

00:58:26.020 But again, that's going to be determined by the local.

00:58:27.800 Okay, so it's not the state's fault.

00:58:33.040 He can't help you on that.

00:58:34.840 The local people have to figure out the water situation.

00:58:38.420 But wait, isn't the state involved in every water decision made in California?

00:58:44.520 There's some real issues there.

00:58:49.680 All right, let me take a quick break.

00:58:51.240 Come back in just a second.

00:58:52.620 Listen, very soon, maybe, maybe, very soon, we might own Greenland and the Panama Canal will come back.

00:58:58.800 Maybe Canada, you know.

00:59:00.600 I don't know if I want all of – they can keep Quebec, you know, keep that.

00:59:04.860 Hey, I tell you what, you keep that, and for this deal, we'll also throw in Minnesota for free.

00:59:10.760 Anyway, there's also going to be the new Gulf of America.

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01:00:23.680 So there's a couple of things here.

01:00:37.880 I just want to go through some of the audio and video of what it's like in California.

01:00:43.200 Play Cut 6.

01:00:44.700 This is a local news report from KTLA showing how bulldozers are now being used.

01:00:51.240 The cars that I'm looking at right now, there are Mercedes, there are Teslas, there are Cybertrucks here.

01:00:56.460 Very nice vehicles.

01:00:58.240 But the owners decided to take their keys and just take off.

01:01:01.540 So emergency officials once again said, you can't do that.

01:01:05.140 You shouldn't do that.

01:01:06.100 That causes more of an emergency situation for them to try to get to these homes and the condominiums.

01:01:12.880 Because they're not exactly sure if up that hill, if there are people up there.

01:01:16.300 It is kind of a remarkable scene to see.

01:01:21.980 I mean, but wouldn't you do that if you're freaking out?

01:01:25.300 You know, you take the keys, you put it in your pocket, because that's the last thing you're thinking of.

01:01:30.220 You're just saying, I got to get out of my car and get out of here and run.

01:01:33.420 But people are taking their keys, and so nobody can move the cars.

01:01:36.580 So they're just bringing in bulldozers, and they're just bulldozing very expensive cars off to the side.

01:01:41.660 Yeah.

01:01:42.040 What are you going to do?

01:01:42.820 You got to get them out of the way.

01:01:43.580 Did you see the clip on the local news clip where they were like, the guy came up, and he's talking to some resident.

01:01:49.360 And he's like, well, you know, I just want to tell people, if you happen to be out on the roads, and you got to abandon your car, please leave your keys in your car, because we need to move it out of the way for the fire trucks.

01:01:59.820 And the host is like, yes, yeah, that's a great advice.

01:02:02.480 Thank you so much.

01:02:03.360 And what's your name, sir?

01:02:04.800 Steve Guttenberg.

01:02:05.720 The actor from the police academy movies.

01:02:11.700 But, like, it's just such a weird thing, because, you know, look, obviously these people, as you point out, very, very politically opposed to us, and, you know, they're elitists, and we complain all the time.

01:02:25.720 But they're people, and they're losing their lives, their livelihoods, their homes.

01:02:31.420 They're, in many cases, you know, their child, their children grew up in these homes, and they have memories in these homes.

01:02:38.400 And, like, you know, just like it could hit anywhere else, it's just weird, right?

01:02:42.300 Like, it makes it weird.

01:02:43.560 It's like those disaster movies, they put them in New York and L.A. for a reason, because people, they're big, familiar cities with, you know, giant homes and giant buildings.

01:02:54.240 And, like, that's why they're there.

01:02:56.540 Wow.

01:02:56.840 And, like, this is kind of happening here at the same time.

01:02:58.720 You're probably not old enough to remember the name Erwin Allen.

01:03:02.680 Do you remember him?

01:03:03.880 No.

01:03:04.520 Erwin Allen was the guy who was the brain behind the Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno, Earthquake, all of those big disaster movies were Erwin Allen.

01:03:16.160 I think Airport 77 was Erwin Allen.

01:03:18.380 Okay.

01:03:18.560 And Erwin Allen movies were known for one thing, disaster, and all of the celebrities you could possibly fit into one movie.

01:03:27.880 Yeah.

01:03:28.360 This is like an Erwin Allen disaster movie in real time.

01:03:32.920 It's got, like, all the celebrities in it.

01:03:34.800 Yeah.

01:03:35.380 That's exactly it.

01:03:37.580 They don't want to be in this one, but...

01:03:39.980 No, they don't want to be in this one, but they're in it, you know?

01:03:43.220 You're just like, oh, my gosh, I know.

01:03:45.640 He's in this, too, huh?

01:03:47.040 Yeah.

01:03:47.280 Wow, they got everybody.

01:03:48.780 It's weird.

01:03:49.180 It's really amazing.

01:03:49.840 Yeah, it's like if you're watching a news broadcast and you saw, like, a friend of yours from high school, you know what I mean?

01:03:54.260 Like, it's just weird to see familiar faces in this, because luckily, most of the time, these things aren't hitting you.

01:03:59.240 You're watching it hit somebody else, you know, just statistically, that's going to happen.

01:04:03.540 Here, it's hitting these guys, and, you know, I mean, you think about some of these homes, Glenn.

01:04:07.780 There was one of the fires in the Hollywood Hills.

01:04:09.500 These are some of the most expensive homes in the world we're talking about.

01:04:14.220 Yeah, and when you say that, it's...

01:04:17.080 I am conflicted on it, because I have compassion for them, because you're losing your house, your family, everything else is just gone.

01:04:30.060 So you have compassion, but you're also like, yeah, but you have the money that the people in the hurricanes did not have to just go to some...

01:04:37.960 You can go to Fiji for a few weeks.

01:04:42.180 All right, let me talk to you about pre-born.

01:04:44.740 Hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, people are going to look back on this time and be shocked that we not only tolerated abortion in our society, but we actually embraced it.

01:04:56.640 I want to be listed as one of those who stood up against it.

01:04:59.740 I think this is the modern-day abolition movement.

01:05:03.620 I really do.

01:05:04.240 I think someday it's going to be viewed, and people are going to go, they did what?

01:05:08.900 And it will be nice to be part of a group that stood up and said, no, life is life.

01:05:16.500 The abortion pill now accounts for over 60% of all abortions, which is a real problem, because abortions happen now 24-7 a day, and it's happening in maybe your own bathroom with your daughter.

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01:06:33.880 Are you ever going to learn this lesson?

01:07:03.880 I think God says, will they ever learn?

01:07:05.760 Will they ever learn?

01:07:06.500 This isn't bad.

01:07:07.740 This, yes, changed their course, but it's not bad.

01:07:10.880 It doesn't have to be.

01:07:12.340 Take the bad and now find out what you want to do with that.

01:07:16.740 How do you grow from that?

01:07:19.060 Let me tell you a great story about this.

01:07:21.500 It relates to the fires in California.

01:07:25.100 It was early, early in the morning.

01:07:28.980 It was April 18th.

01:07:30.180 And people were jolted out of bed.

01:07:35.700 They were on their feet.

01:07:37.800 They could feel the earth beneath them trembling.

01:07:43.980 Not a shudder.

01:07:44.880 It was a violent, relentless earthquake.

01:07:47.840 Tore through buildings, streets, lives.

01:07:51.180 Merciless power.

01:07:52.620 But it only lasted 42 seconds.

01:07:55.860 But in 42 seconds, everything changed.

01:08:00.480 The ground rippled like waves.

01:08:02.680 It split open streets.

01:08:04.220 It swallowed homes entirely.

01:08:07.140 Buildings crumbled as if they were made of paper.

01:08:10.620 The Great Palace Hotel, which was a symbol of the city's wealth and prestige,

01:08:15.380 collapsed, smoldering ruin.

01:08:17.860 People were screaming in terror for those 42 seconds.

01:08:23.820 But they scream and ran in terror in the minutes and hours that followed.

01:08:30.540 The earthquake was only the beginning in 1906 in San Francisco.

01:08:36.920 What followed there was an inferno unlike anybody had ever really seen.

01:08:42.680 It reduced the entire city to ash.

01:08:46.740 Firefighters back then with the steam-powered pumps,

01:08:51.820 they were brave.

01:08:53.680 They were desperate.

01:08:54.640 They tried to battle the flames.

01:08:56.640 But just like today, no water.

01:08:59.900 The water lines back then were severed because of the quake.

01:09:05.000 No way to stop the blaze.

01:09:07.480 Last-ditch effort, they decided to dynamite the buildings.

01:09:12.700 Can you imagine this?

01:09:13.600 They decided that they had to take dynamite and blow up all of the buildings,

01:09:21.580 everything, to create some sort of a fire break.

01:09:25.560 And so they did.

01:09:28.960 It didn't work.

01:09:30.100 By the time the fire is burnt out, 80% of San Francisco was gone.

01:09:36.380 80% of the city.

01:09:38.620 Nearly 500 city blocks.

01:09:41.020 28,000 buildings were destroyed.

01:09:44.400 3,000 people were dead.

01:09:47.840 Half of the population of the city,

01:09:50.560 250,000 men, women, and children, homeless.

01:09:53.540 Now, what we're looking at is bad, but it's not this.

01:09:59.960 They were living for weeks and weeks and weeks in makeshift tents.

01:10:05.420 They were living in parks, on the beaches, in the streets.

01:10:09.520 And for a long time, the air that they were breathing was filled with smoke and ash.

01:10:15.660 And it wasn't just the city that burned.

01:10:19.680 It was the livelihoods, the futures, the dreams.

01:10:23.080 People came to San Francisco at that time because it was a new, fresh start.

01:10:29.940 Well, when you're faced with those times, you have a decision.

01:10:35.200 I'm not living here.

01:10:36.020 I mean, I don't know if you saw the TV show, 1882.

01:10:40.840 Is it 82, 83?

01:10:43.080 And it's about the beginning of Yellowstone and what it took for the pioneers just to cross

01:10:48.960 over to get to a place like Montana.

01:10:51.180 It was insane.

01:10:53.280 Insane.

01:10:54.700 Anybody who tried to do that?

01:10:56.260 I mean, we don't give our pioneers enough respect.

01:10:59.880 What they faced to get across the mountains and the West was nuts.

01:11:06.020 Well, that's the kind of people that were out in California at the time, in San Francisco.

01:11:14.780 They didn't just rebuild.

01:11:16.500 First of all, they didn't wait for the government, the federal government to come in.

01:11:21.500 They didn't wait for everybody to tell them what to do.

01:11:25.320 They weren't.

01:11:26.740 I mean, it was bad.

01:11:28.860 It was really bad.

01:11:30.760 And they did have people that came in and help.

01:11:33.520 But they had to do it themselves.

01:11:36.920 Now, think about this.

01:11:39.100 They decided that they were going to rebuild.

01:11:42.520 They refused to give up.

01:11:47.400 There was such devastation that it would have broken the spirit of most people.

01:11:52.760 But the city did something extraordinary.

01:11:55.700 All of the citizens refused to give up.

01:11:57.860 Almost immediately, they began to rebuild.

01:12:00.320 Not just their homes and their businesses, but their entire way of life.

01:12:04.140 There was nothing.

01:12:04.860 So the first thing that had to happen was all the citizens of San Francisco needed to clear the rubble, brick by brick.

01:12:12.560 They had to get all of it out.

01:12:14.180 Then they began laying the foundations for a new San Francisco.

01:12:20.120 Engineers, architects all came together to create plans for a stronger, safer city.

01:12:25.220 And one that they hoped could withstand future earthquakes.

01:12:28.880 But it didn't.

01:12:30.300 But they tried.

01:12:31.560 And they didn't just rebuild.

01:12:33.360 They reimagined.

01:12:35.320 Now, this happened in 1906.

01:12:38.380 How long do you think it's going to take before you're going to be able to go in the Pacific Palisades?

01:12:45.220 You're going to be able to go into California.

01:12:47.160 And you won't see anything from the fire.

01:12:49.920 How long before that's a new and just magical thriving area again?

01:12:58.080 That place is different because of all of the money that is there.

01:13:03.200 Think about Appalachia.

01:13:05.460 Think about what's happening in the Carolinas.

01:13:07.660 Think about what's happening in Hawaii right now where they're still trying to rebuild.

01:13:14.140 How long?

01:13:15.460 They're not building houses there yet.

01:13:17.620 How long is that going to take?

01:13:19.920 So, within nine years, in San Francisco in 1906, by 1915, San Francisco had completely rebuilt.

01:13:33.740 They stood ready to show the world what determination and hard work could accomplish.

01:13:38.460 They had already been signed up for the Panama Pacific International Exposition.

01:13:43.760 This is like a World's Fair, but it was in honor of the completion of the Panama Canal.

01:13:50.460 And it was to show what the American spirit could do.

01:13:54.100 And so, San Francisco raised their hand.

01:13:56.580 Remember, there's nothing left.

01:13:57.840 They raised their hand that we want to host that.

01:14:00.160 We want to host that.

01:14:02.520 Now, think of this.

01:14:03.360 Where ashes nine years before covered the ground, there was new, breathtaking architecture.

01:14:11.220 The Palace of Fine Arts, it's still standing in San Francisco.

01:14:15.980 It is a landmark.

01:14:17.820 It is stunning to see in person.

01:14:20.840 It was the symbol.

01:14:22.180 They built it as the symbol of the triumph of the soul.

01:14:27.240 They said, we're going to create beauty out of these ashes.

01:14:34.680 And it wasn't a fair.

01:14:36.040 The Panama exhibition of 1915 was not just a fair.

01:14:40.440 It was a declaration.

01:14:42.120 It was saying to the world, we're not only still here, we're strong, and we're going to lead into the future.

01:14:50.260 This is the thing that really is exciting me about what Donald Trump has been doing lately.

01:14:54.060 We're not talking about just survival anymore.

01:14:57.460 Have you noticed that?

01:14:58.800 I said to my wife last night, I'm beginning to love my job again.

01:15:03.480 She said, really?

01:15:05.580 And I said, yeah, because I don't have to just give people bad news all the day.

01:15:09.740 I don't have to just say, here, put your finger in this hole because that's going to help hold the dyke together just a little longer, knowing that we're all going to be wiped out.

01:15:19.720 We're actually talking about building a new future.

01:15:24.160 That is exciting.

01:15:27.320 That's what happened in 1906.

01:15:33.920 California, once again, is facing challenges, and it's going to feel overwhelming.

01:15:41.060 But the question is, does California have the leadership to have vision?

01:15:52.160 Do the people have it in them anymore like the people in San Francisco did?

01:15:58.640 That they're not going to be wiped out.

01:16:00.340 They're not going to sit down.

01:16:01.340 They're not going to wait for somebody else.

01:16:03.120 Does the city and its citizens have it in themselves to create something better?

01:16:13.520 I come at times like this, and I look at tragedies, and I know how dark things can seem.

01:16:21.400 But I always pull out of this, and I'm watching California for this.

01:16:27.400 And I think you're beginning to see it to some degree.

01:16:30.480 But I know I saw it in North Carolina.

01:16:35.040 The human spirit is stronger than any disaster.

01:16:39.300 When you come together, we can rebuild the cities.

01:16:44.480 We can rebuild the lives, the communities, the future for our children.

01:16:49.420 May the people in California have the courage and determination that their forebears did in San Francisco

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01:18:24.500 I have to tell you, on a completely different subject, I want to take you just for a second to 1968.

01:18:51.380 It was January 21st. It was cold.

01:18:54.400 And we had a B-52G Stratofortress bomber.

01:18:58.280 It was flying near the Arctic Circle.

01:19:01.400 And it catches on fire.

01:19:05.040 And the reason why it catches on fire is kind of unique.

01:19:07.920 It was cold.

01:19:09.400 And catches on fire.

01:19:11.940 Seven of the airmen bail out.

01:19:14.200 One's killed.

01:19:15.380 He's bailing out too late.

01:19:16.780 He's killed.

01:19:17.320 The Stratofortress just smashes into the ice.

01:19:22.760 Now, this has happened many times before.

01:19:26.960 But this particular story and this particular Stratofortress is one of the reasons why Denmark doesn't really want the United States to have Greenland.

01:19:38.700 And it all stems from what happened in 1968.

01:19:43.780 And I'll tell you that story a little later on in the program today.

01:19:48.240 There's a lot going on.

01:19:49.640 Boy, are you excited for the inauguration in a couple of weeks?

01:19:55.540 I mean, what I am excited for is Donald Trump to become president of the United States and not Joe Biden.

01:20:02.340 That's what I'm excited for.

01:20:03.440 I don't care about the pomp and the circumstance and the parties and all that.

01:20:06.280 Yeah, no, I don't care about that either.

01:20:08.240 I just want him to be president.

01:20:10.480 Can we play the coverage on the wildfire?

01:20:13.780 Biden was speaking about the wildfires yesterday, apparently.

01:20:17.940 I haven't heard this.

01:20:18.980 Have you heard this clip yet, Stu?

01:20:20.220 Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

01:20:22.620 Okay, he brings his addressing reporters.

01:20:24.500 I'm a great-grandfather.

01:20:26.420 I don't know today.

01:20:28.300 I'm a great-grandfather.

01:20:31.080 I'm a great-grandfather.

01:20:31.940 I'm a great-grandfather.

01:20:32.780 I'm a great-grandfather.

01:20:32.980 I'm a great-grandfather.

01:20:34.780 I'm a great-grandfather.

01:20:35.780 Tough to make out, but they're asking him about the fire.

01:20:38.240 They're talking about the fires, the response and everything else, and he just blurts out

01:20:41.560 that he's a great-grandfather as of today, which is kind of...

01:20:45.780 He said, that's the good news.

01:20:47.100 Yeah.

01:20:47.300 That's the good news.

01:20:48.120 Right.

01:20:48.440 Wait, what?

01:20:49.440 What would that happen?

01:20:49.840 Can you make something not about you?

01:20:53.720 He can't.

01:20:54.540 He really isn't capable.

01:20:55.920 All the corruption isn't about him.

01:20:58.300 All the disasters isn't about him.

01:21:00.140 All the things his family has done.

01:21:02.300 That's got nothing to do with him whatsoever.

01:21:05.300 But no, it's true.

01:21:06.560 I mean, he always does this.

01:21:07.840 He does this famously with families that have lost a loved one in the military.

01:21:13.920 And every time he goes and talks to them to supposedly soothe them, he talks about how

01:21:18.400 his son died in Iraq, which he didn't die in Iraq.

01:21:22.880 But California, here's the good news.

01:21:24.820 Here is the good news.

01:21:26.220 I don't know where that story came from.

01:21:28.240 What he didn't say yesterday was, California, I know you're suffering.

01:21:33.040 I had a kitchen fire in my house in Delaware once.

01:21:37.080 Don't put this past him.

01:21:38.940 This absolutely could happen.

01:21:40.820 So I know what it's like to live through a fire.

01:21:43.900 I know you're dealing with a hurricane, North Carolina.

01:21:46.660 And I had a fan that I could not get off high.

01:21:48.880 It was only stuck on high all night long.

01:21:53.520 By the way, can I ask you, where is Kamala Harris?

01:21:57.280 Who?

01:21:57.580 She's the vice president.

01:21:59.220 This is her home state.

01:22:01.440 Yeah, nothing.

01:22:03.260 Where is she?

01:22:05.680 I mean, I guess she's just resigned.

01:22:07.400 You know, I'm never going to hold public office.

01:22:09.680 So I hate those people anyway.

01:22:11.920 They didn't vote for me.

01:22:12.840 Is that what's happening here?

01:22:14.600 Well, they did vote for her in California.

01:22:16.120 No, I know, but not in great enough numbers, of course, Stu.

01:22:20.440 Apparently, she even lost the popular vote.

01:22:21.540 She doesn't have to serve the public anymore.

01:22:23.840 So, I mean, you would think she would be out in front on this just because she could.

01:22:30.700 Let me ask you this.

01:22:31.300 I don't know if you put any thought into this whatsoever, but what's the path forward for Kamala Harris?

01:22:35.600 Well, I would buy bonbons and fuzzy slippers.

01:22:42.140 Maybe a bathrobe.

01:22:43.320 What do you think the path is?

01:22:48.740 I mean, she'll probably sit, you know, at Boeing or, you know, some, you know, McDonnell Douglas, something that is going to give her money and pay her to become part of the military industrial complex.

01:23:07.200 Something that she's never been a part of, per se, but now the money will be there.

01:23:12.360 So she'll take that job and she'll start, you know, saying, we should have more war.

01:23:15.800 She'll get on a board somewhere, right?

01:23:17.340 Like, and she'll make a bunch of cash that way.

01:23:19.240 I don't think she's getting necessarily Netflix podcast special, you know, $40 million deals.

01:23:25.240 That doesn't seem like, like it's a, she's in between.

01:23:28.020 She's not hated by the left, but she's still lost.

01:23:31.420 She's, she's, she's done.

01:23:34.300 She would, 10 years we will be going.

01:23:36.600 Kamala, who, who was that vice president that was running against Trump again?

01:23:40.180 It was.

01:23:58.020 Down the road where shadows hide, feel the dark on every side.

01:24:27.760 Stand your ground when times get tired.

01:24:30.460 Gotta face the dog and embrace the fire.

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01:24:39.240 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:24:44.860 Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:24:47.220 Last night on TV, I did a prediction show where I take the top 10, 15 items that I think we have to watch.

01:24:57.760 And look out for and prepare for.

01:25:00.420 And I put them all together in a show last night.

01:25:02.920 And then my chief researcher took all of my notes and then put them into ChatGPT and had the AI look at them.

01:25:11.820 And to see what the AI thought would be the odds of those things happening.

01:25:21.440 And it was a little eerie because it's one thing when it's coming from me.

01:25:27.060 And it's another when AI starts to almost quote word for word what I said was going to come.

01:25:33.840 It was a little freaky last night.

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01:27:20.560 So, let's see.

01:27:23.480 Stu, you said a minute ago that there is a story about the death of the Internet because that's, I mean, it's cleverly worded here,

01:27:31.040 but that's what I predicted on last night's show.

01:27:34.460 And you said two stories came up about that last night?

01:27:37.620 Yeah, I saw it.

01:27:38.200 I kind of went into a little bit of a rabbit hole on this last night because I think it's fascinating.

01:27:42.220 But I hadn't really heard that much conversation about it until hearing your prediction from the show last night.

01:27:49.760 And it's basically, you were talking about the death of the Internet, that basically we're going to lose whatever we had in the Internet.

01:27:57.740 While that might sound appealing.

01:27:59.020 I'll give you the whole prediction here in a minute.

01:28:00.740 Let's hear what they were saying.

01:28:03.320 Oh, okay.

01:28:03.860 No, let's hear what you were saying.

01:28:05.440 Got it, got it.

01:28:06.220 So, the news story is from the Guardian.

01:28:09.640 AI-generated slop is slowly killing the Internet.

01:28:13.100 Why is no one trying to stop it?

01:28:15.120 And it goes into the fact that, like, you start, you know, you start going through social media,

01:28:20.180 you start going through searching and Google, and you wind up finding basically nonsense.

01:28:26.620 I find this all the time when I'm reading stories.

01:28:28.060 Like, I'm reading stories.

01:28:28.720 I'm like, there's no way a human wrote this.

01:28:30.120 It's just terrible.

01:28:31.200 It's like, you can tell it's bad.

01:28:33.520 And it's, like, written in a format that is really familiar from AI stories, like these short paragraphs with new headlines a lot.

01:28:41.020 It doesn't really give you any information.

01:28:44.560 And it started going down a sort of a rabbit hole in that.

01:28:46.800 And there are now people who are basically mastering the skills of almost taking the Internet into a time machine to 2023 and figuring out ways to search on Google to exclude everything from 2024 on.

01:29:03.180 Because the second AI started, the Internet results get worse and worse and worse and worse and worse.

01:29:07.740 You look for pictures of things.

01:29:09.160 You can't tell if the pictures are real pictures or not.

01:29:13.640 And AI is now improving to a level that, like, for example, like, if you, they have these stories that kind of pop up every once in a while of, like, you know, AI model is making millions of dollars on OnlyFans or something.

01:29:27.660 And, like, it's this completely ridiculous, over-the-top-looking, buxom AI figure.

01:29:35.940 Then the new generation of these, apparently, are AI people made that look kind of, I don't want to say frumpy in comparison, but, like, real.

01:29:50.620 Like, the type of picture that, like, an actual woman would look like.

01:29:54.120 You know what I mean?

01:29:54.740 Right.

01:29:55.040 And they're doing this now and just funneling this to people.

01:30:00.040 And they're taking in a world that doesn't, you know, even exist.

01:30:03.280 So you have to now kind of retroactively go into a time capsule and say, hey, I want to search Google, but only give me your results from 2023 and previous, because that way I'll know it's actually at least somewhat real.

01:30:18.400 So that kind of touches on some of the things that I was predicting last night.

01:30:25.280 And ChatGPT, Jason ran all my predictions through ChatGPT and said, what are the odds of this happening?

01:30:31.840 This one came back with 90%, okay?

01:30:35.740 Listen to what I was talking about last night.

01:30:38.480 The internet will be, whoops, the internet will be destroyed and reborn in 2025.

01:30:44.860 I know that sounds absolutely nuts, but it's actually not.

01:30:51.120 It's something that we have talked about, and people like Elon Musk have talked about it.

01:30:56.660 It's just, it's not as bad as you think it is.

01:31:00.500 It's actually something that has to be done.

01:31:03.280 It's a little understood reality that you don't really have access to the internet.

01:31:12.220 What you get is access to a little sliver of the internet that it kind of brokers.

01:31:20.100 It's an index, and it brokers what the internet will give to all of us.

01:31:25.680 The internet has been dying a slow death for a while now, and everybody's been aware of it.

01:31:31.560 And what the problem is, is that have you ever done, have you ever gone on the internet

01:31:35.640 and you're reading some great article, and then you're like, oh, it says click here and

01:31:39.380 watch the video, or click here and see this study.

01:31:42.460 And then you click there, and you get a 404.

01:31:44.340 You get, you know, there's nothing.

01:31:46.100 It's just been removed.

01:31:47.300 And you're like, oh, crap.

01:31:50.240 Well, that's because about, let me look in here.

01:31:53.960 What is it?

01:31:55.100 A recent study found 1,000 peer-reviewed research papers published as recently as 2015.

01:32:01.600 More than 35% of those are now dead links.

01:32:05.720 So 35% of what you're clicking on from those things that have been published since 2015 now dead

01:32:13.180 because somebody moved them, somebody took them down, they weren't valid, whatever it is.

01:32:19.360 Uh, it's no longer linked there.

01:32:22.360 So what happens if we don't, well, let me put it this way.

01:32:28.580 Do you want the internet to appear like California appears today?

01:32:34.580 The reason why California keeps catching on fire is because they refuse to clear the underbrush,

01:32:42.880 all of the dead stuff.

01:32:44.580 And that dead stuff catches on fire and then burns down all the good stuff.

01:32:50.120 What this would do if we don't start cleaning it out is it will make it impossible.

01:32:57.280 You'll spend so much time just going to dead links.

01:32:59.660 So we have to do this.

01:33:02.100 The problem is, is that the reason why we haven't done it before is because it requires individuals

01:33:08.620 to do it.

01:33:09.920 And that just is time consuming.

01:33:12.700 But now AI can go and find all of those things, um, and remove all of the dead stuff or the

01:33:21.440 stuff that's not relevant.

01:33:24.040 So as we give the internet kind of a digital enema, if you will, um, you're going to the

01:33:32.340 good people at Google to clear it out, scour the active web to, uh, let AI find and store

01:33:40.800 what it determines to be relevant con, uh, content and live links.

01:33:47.640 I don't trust Google, nor do I trust AI to do this.

01:33:52.620 It's a little frightening to think that the record of history, you know, this is like going

01:34:00.120 into a library and having, you know, one person who has been trained by a group of people that

01:34:06.660 you don't know, or you don't necessarily trust going and go, you know what, let's go into

01:34:11.120 the library.

01:34:11.860 There's some few pages in a few books that we just got to rip out.

01:34:15.500 I'm not comfortable with that.

01:34:17.340 Uh, so you're kind of in this situation where it's necessary, but also a little terrifying

01:34:24.540 because of the power we are now giving to AI to be our memory, not necessarily good with

01:34:35.380 our research.

01:34:36.120 I always, uh, tell the guy who, um, prints all of our stories every day that puts it together

01:34:43.640 for our morning newsletter that you could get in your email box.

01:34:46.520 I tell him, I want you to take and get those stories and download them and burn them on

01:34:51.240 a disc because I know they're going to disappear at some point.

01:34:54.720 They'll become irrelevant.

01:34:56.000 And we want the original stories, not just the story of us quoting the story, but the

01:35:01.660 actual story, um, that's going to become harder and harder now.

01:35:07.060 Um, but we can just trust AI, right?

01:35:11.640 So what does chat GPT say about this?

01:35:13.660 From chat GPT, the probability of this happening, Glenn's prediction, 90% probability.

01:35:20.640 They say specifically AI driven tools will continue to restructure the internet.

01:35:25.200 Dead links, outdated content, and paywalls will give way to AI curated summaries and dynamic

01:35:30.280 updates.

01:35:30.920 The internet as we know it.

01:35:32.320 Ooh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

01:35:35.080 AI curated summaries?

01:35:38.400 Yes.

01:35:38.860 That doesn't sound good.

01:35:40.220 No.

01:35:41.400 They go on.

01:35:42.420 The internet as we know it will feel more like a centralized, streamlined knowledge platform

01:35:47.040 controlled by a few gatekeepers.

01:35:49.500 Google, Microsoft, open AI.

01:35:52.180 This will change.

01:35:52.900 This change will be seamless to users, but will raise concerns about censorship and bias.

01:35:57.840 You think, Glenn?

01:35:59.020 Wow.

01:36:00.020 Wow.

01:36:00.760 That is, that's terrifying.

01:36:02.500 I'm not freaked out by mine.

01:36:04.480 I'm freaked out by chat GPT.

01:36:09.200 So that's, you know, that kind of plays into what you're talking about, of letting AI come

01:36:16.220 in and generate things.

01:36:18.300 You know, what was the story we were talking about the other day, Stu?

01:36:21.980 And I said, get that, get that from chat GPT.

01:36:25.480 See if you can verify that through chat GPT.

01:36:27.400 And remember, the story came back and part of it, it was very, very accurate, except parts

01:36:34.120 of it were like starting to say, you know, like, well, but that's really kind of Donald

01:36:41.100 Trump.

01:36:41.480 Do you remember this?

01:36:42.400 It was so skewed to the left.

01:36:44.820 But it was subtle enough to where the average person may not catch it.

01:36:50.760 All they have to do is delete all of the things that are no longer relevant, and you can't

01:36:58.140 find it anymore.

01:36:58.980 I don't know.

01:36:59.540 I want to find, I want to find the work of the people who said, no, it's a flat earth.

01:37:05.640 I think those are important things to have.

01:37:08.580 It's not relevant, flat earthers, but you know what?

01:37:11.620 If you don't know it, you're going to come around to it, and we're going back around

01:37:15.100 to flat earthers again.

01:37:17.080 Well, first of all, I'm looking out the window right now, it looks pretty flat to me, so I

01:37:20.400 don't know what you're talking about.

01:37:21.500 Okay, I know.

01:37:22.220 Well, you can't see the curve when you're up in an airplane.

01:37:25.140 That's right.

01:37:25.820 Thank you.

01:37:26.840 No, but I think that's, I think that's, it's true.

01:37:29.560 And, you know, I don't remember that particular story, but like, that's going to be a massive

01:37:32.580 problem.

01:37:33.160 We talked about an example of that with CNN, right, the other day, where CNN started a story

01:37:39.280 with, you know, one of the most amazing political comeback ever has started with Donald Trump.

01:37:45.760 And by the end, it was like, how did Donald Trump get power when his people invaded the

01:37:50.100 Capitol?

01:37:50.800 And it was the same story with just a different headline every few hours.

01:37:54.280 None of those were archived, by the way.

01:37:56.300 You know, there's no archive of what those were.

01:37:58.840 They're only archived because we took screenshots of them as the day went on.

01:38:02.440 Um, and you know, this is a, a, a massive story.

01:38:07.440 I mean, a lot of people would say like, well, I'm not just, I don't want to use AI.

01:38:10.740 I don't want to use chat GPT.

01:38:12.000 I'm not going to do it.

01:38:13.220 Well, you know, all this stuff is built into these systems.

01:38:16.760 I mean, Google, for example, and you search Google and now the first thing that pops up

01:38:22.340 every time is an AI summary of what you're looking for, right or wrong.

01:38:26.560 It's just AI is the first thing you see and they put it right at the top for you to take

01:38:31.340 in.

01:38:32.220 And then under that, there are some, you know, the, the little question section and then

01:38:36.040 the actual links that we're all kind of used to when it comes to using Google, they, what

01:38:41.520 does that mean?

01:38:42.060 Well, they're now, instead of, it's not like, and we've always talked about like how

01:38:45.520 Google can deprioritize links, put them on page three instead of page one.

01:38:50.080 Uh, and that affects people.

01:38:52.180 Imagine when they're writing with their own AI, the same company that was, you know, when

01:39:00.400 you tried to make a night from the medieval times would have a black and an Asian and

01:39:05.140 LGBTQ character pop up in their photo generating software.

01:39:09.040 That same company is now writing the summaries of everything you search for.

01:39:14.460 I will tell you, I will tell you, I considered putting on the list this year, but it's far too

01:39:19.940 early, but it will be coming, you know, probably in the next five years.

01:39:23.200 And that will be, this is the year that historians will look back and say, that was the beginning

01:39:27.980 of the end of free will.

01:39:30.440 Hmm.

01:39:32.200 Um, but we are approaching that because of things like that.

01:39:35.520 You won't be able to access the information and the acts and the information that is being

01:39:40.640 given to you is all curated to shape you one way or another.

01:39:45.700 And if you add advertising budgets into that, you're not going to know what you know and

01:39:51.760 what you don't know, what you chose.

01:39:53.480 If it was your idea or somebody else's idea or AI's idea, and you will eventually end up

01:40:00.160 with the death of free will.

01:40:01.300 You, you'll still have a choice, but they've nudged you exactly where you need to be for

01:40:07.780 them.

01:40:09.320 Uh, and so you'll still feel like it, but you won't have it.

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01:41:45.360 Uh, I got to tell you the story of, uh, I'm going to tell you the story here in a minute

01:41:50.780 of, of Greenland.

01:41:52.360 I kind of found an interesting little, little tidbit of history that kind of will inform

01:41:58.500 you of how smoothly relationships are and how smoothly things would go with Denmark if

01:42:04.720 we actually were serious about, uh, Greenland.

01:42:07.440 And I think we are dead serious.

01:42:08.640 Don't you think?

01:42:09.540 I think Donald Trump is dead serious about that and the Panama Canal.

01:42:12.980 Yeah.

01:42:13.060 Trump is definitely serious about it.

01:42:14.720 I mean, he, he wants it and it's something that, you know, a lot of people in America have

01:42:19.140 wanted for a long time.

01:42:20.720 It certainly makes sense that it would be part of our country as opposed to Denmark.

01:42:25.240 Yeah.

01:42:25.560 It really doesn't make much sense that it's part of Denmark.

01:42:28.600 Um, so I do think he's serious.

01:42:30.360 Do I think it's going to happen?

01:42:32.140 I would say no.

01:42:33.740 Um, I don't think it's.

01:42:34.660 I made a prediction on that last night.

01:42:36.320 Well, yeah.

01:42:36.680 What did you think?

01:42:37.900 You'll have to watch the show to find out.

01:42:39.660 I made a prediction on that Panama Canal, uh, the P Diddy and Epstein thing made a prediction

01:42:45.620 on all those on what's going to happen this year.

01:42:48.840 It's pretty interesting.

01:42:49.940 Yeah.

01:42:50.200 Watch it tonight on YouTube or it's available for blaze TV subscribers whenever you want

01:42:54.000 it on demand.

01:42:56.180 Uh, there's another story out that maybe we should pay a little attention to.

01:43:00.580 And that is the fact that we have, uh, a new speaker of the house in Texas.

01:43:06.780 We're voting on the speaker of the house and, uh, the, the Democrats and the rhinos are doing

01:43:13.640 exactly the same thing.

01:43:14.880 We just got rid of a guy who, you know, was a bipartisan pick.

01:43:19.260 And in Texas for some reason, they keep allowing this to happen.

01:43:23.720 Um, they'll get a bipartisan pick.

01:43:26.560 And then even though the Republicans control the house and the Senate, they'll give half

01:43:30.960 the committees to the Democrats, why would you do that?

01:43:35.420 Um, because Democrats, these rhinos, those are the quote Democrats and they're Republicans.

01:43:42.460 Otherwise you don't get elected here.

01:43:43.960 The ones that actually run as Democrats, they are, they're, they're Democrats on steroids.

01:43:51.300 You know what I'm saying?

01:43:51.860 So we give the Democrats, uh, rule over some of the committees.

01:43:56.880 It's ridiculous.

01:43:57.860 And the Republicans are trying to do it again.

01:44:00.220 We just got rid of fail and a really bad guy.

01:44:03.340 And, uh, and everybody, you know, the Republicans put up a really good, honest conservative.

01:44:10.760 And now the Democrats and about 15 Republicans are floating this other guy who is a, I think,

01:44:18.640 best friend with the last speaker failing and is going to do exactly the same thing.

01:44:24.160 Uh, Republicans, you better learn your lesson.

01:44:27.380 Uh, we'll have more on this coming up, but I think that vote is Tuesday.

01:44:31.660 I think it is Tuesday.

01:44:32.580 Like, please, we can't let that happen.

01:44:34.920 It's just, it's, it's Texas.

01:44:37.060 It's embarrassing.

01:44:38.300 This shouldn't be a problem in a place like Texas, right?

01:44:40.840 Like you'd understand in, I don't know, Illinois, you know, Maine, um, you know, uh, some,

01:44:48.040 maybe even like a purplish state, you might even take something like this, but in Texas,

01:44:52.260 this should be easy.

01:44:53.100 A real conservative should be leading, uh, each, each little tiny piece of the government.

01:44:58.480 Yeah.

01:44:59.280 If you, I mean, look at what happened to our country.

01:45:03.200 You start going down this road and you see where it leads.

01:45:08.300 You can't allow that to happen to Texas.

01:45:12.380 Republicans, learn your lesson from the last election.

01:45:16.960 This is Glenn Beck.

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01:47:06.280 Stu, what are the odds that we're going to have the Super Bowl with you rooting for

01:47:12.940 the Eagles and me with the Chiefs?

01:47:15.200 I mean, this would be the first time I actually would care about the Super Bowl.

01:47:19.380 I mean, a little bit last year, but I'm like really a, I'm, I'm a Kansas City Chiefs fan

01:47:23.500 now.

01:47:23.840 You're into it.

01:47:24.560 You're into it.

01:47:25.140 I'm in.

01:47:25.640 You didn't care the last Eagles Chiefs Super Bowl a couple of years ago?

01:47:28.940 No, I didn't.

01:47:29.860 I didn't.

01:47:30.360 I was, uh, I was quietly rooting against the Eagles, uh, for you.

01:47:34.940 You weren't quietly.

01:47:36.340 You were, you were outwardly, but I, I got a sense it was more of just you trying to torture

01:47:40.800 me than the actual football.

01:47:42.580 Yeah.

01:47:43.040 Yeah.

01:47:43.240 I didn't care about the game.

01:47:44.300 I just wanted to torture you.

01:47:45.540 Yes.

01:47:46.020 Um, but this, this comes with double pleasure.

01:47:48.500 My team would win and you would lose.

01:47:50.800 Well, that's what theoretically happened in 2022.

01:47:53.740 But, uh, you know, you were apparently weren't that big of a fan at that point.

01:47:57.280 I wasn't.

01:47:57.780 I wasn't.

01:47:58.400 You've been watching football though, a lot.

01:47:59.960 Like you come in with actual details of games.

01:48:02.180 It's weird.

01:48:03.280 It's, it's, it's, it's, it's like a little unsettling.

01:48:06.740 It is very, a little, it's very unsettling.

01:48:09.460 It's very unsettling, my entire worldview.

01:48:11.920 I don't even know how to, how to process it.

01:48:13.780 I've decided I really like football.

01:48:15.860 It's great.

01:48:16.220 Yeah.

01:48:16.500 Yeah.

01:48:16.900 It's freaking great.

01:48:17.760 It's great.

01:48:18.380 I love it.

01:48:19.000 I love it.

01:48:19.820 And, uh, I am very excited to watch the playoffs this weekend.

01:48:22.300 I think the, you know, there's a lot of really good teams this year.

01:48:27.180 I mean, I think there's four or five in both conferences that could go to the Super

01:48:30.200 Bowl.

01:48:30.500 So, but I would put the chiefs as the favorite in the AFC and the Eagles as probably, I mean,

01:48:37.340 they're the two seed.

01:48:38.220 I think that's probably the right place for them.

01:48:40.100 Like they're probably the second out behind maybe the lines.

01:48:42.380 I have to tell you, I was so bored with your answer there.

01:48:45.200 I just typed it in the chat GPT.

01:48:47.140 The odds are 12%.

01:48:49.040 Okay.

01:48:49.920 Odds are 12%.

01:48:50.860 12%.

01:48:51.400 I mean, I don't know why I'd have to.

01:48:53.020 You, you, for a guy who criticizes AI a lot, you, you do seem to be using it quite a

01:48:57.140 bit.

01:48:58.200 That's good.

01:48:58.660 Well, I use it.

01:48:59.120 I use it over Google.

01:49:01.200 You know, have you tried Grok yet?

01:49:04.180 Yeah.

01:49:04.540 I played around with it a little bit.

01:49:05.560 It's the one on X.

01:49:06.720 It's, yeah, it's, it's, it's there.

01:49:10.800 It's another version.

01:49:11.680 Yeah.

01:49:11.880 I don't, I don't, I don't Google things very much anymore.

01:49:15.300 I use chat GPT because you get answers like this.

01:49:17.640 Uh, the odds suggest the chiefs have an implied probability of approximately 20.4% to win

01:49:23.660 the Superbowl.

01:49:24.500 Eagles have a 12.5.

01:49:26.600 Uh, to estimate the likelihood of both teams reaching the Superbowl, consider the probability

01:49:30.600 of each team winning the respective conference.

01:49:32.820 Chiefs have 40% chance to win the AFC.

01:49:35.740 Eagles have a 30% chance to win the NFC.

01:49:37.980 Combined probability is about 12%.

01:49:40.420 That sounds about right.

01:49:41.800 That sounds, I'm comfortable with that answer.

01:49:44.180 Now, a lot of the other answers you're getting from chat GPT, God only knows.

01:49:47.460 Uh, but.

01:49:48.060 Yeah, I know, I know, I know.

01:49:49.220 Yeah, it sounds about right.

01:49:49.920 Well, I, I, I double check anything that matters.

01:49:52.580 This doesn't really matter.

01:49:53.920 Um, but, uh.

01:49:55.860 How dare you?

01:49:56.380 This is the only thing that matters.

01:49:57.540 Other than the fact that you might lose and my team might win, so.

01:50:02.180 But the, have you considered the alternative?

01:50:05.700 I mean, what does it feel like with you and your new, your new bandwagon-y Taylor Swift

01:50:09.760 team comes and loses?

01:50:11.860 No, it's not, no, that almost shook me.

01:50:13.060 I know, I know, I know you're just a big Swifty and that's how you're, that's how you

01:50:15.640 got on board.

01:50:16.000 Yeah, right, right.

01:50:17.400 But like, what happens if they lose to America's team, the Philadelphia Eagles?

01:50:21.320 What happens then?

01:50:24.620 That would be fun.

01:50:25.480 Well.

01:50:25.980 That's a, that's a fun.

01:50:26.800 I mean, there is assisted suicide in Canada.

01:50:30.540 And you're pretty close.

01:50:31.580 You're already in Idaho.

01:50:33.080 So.

01:50:33.400 Yeah, I mean, I'm right there.

01:50:34.880 So, you know, what's the problem with that?

01:50:36.780 Trudeau, by the way, Trudeau will do that one personally.

01:50:39.580 He'll take care of that euthanasia personally.

01:50:42.220 You know, what's, you know, what's, uh, what would make that worse is your team losing

01:50:48.120 and you're in New Orleans.

01:50:52.720 Well, that, I will be there.

01:50:54.240 Uh, and.

01:50:55.300 I mean, yeah.

01:50:55.960 I mean, New Orleans is, I love the food.

01:50:58.880 I really actually like many of the people.

01:51:00.880 I, I'm, I'm, I'm a little hesitant on the voodoo stuff that happens in New Orleans.

01:51:06.300 It has a spooky feel to it at times, you know?

01:51:09.460 Uh, and it's like my least favorite city, I think in, in the country because of that.

01:51:14.560 Uh, maybe, maybe even the, I mean, I haven't been to Calcutta, so I'll just leave it at

01:51:18.920 the country.

01:51:19.940 So, uh.

01:51:21.720 Hey, you might have to go to New Orleans.

01:51:23.560 No.

01:51:23.940 I'm sorry.

01:51:24.680 It's a fun city.

01:51:26.380 You're right.

01:51:26.760 I'm like, I'm, and I will say I'm not a fan of the food.

01:51:29.000 I'm not particularly a Cajun.

01:51:30.640 I'm not a gumbo guy.

01:51:31.640 I am not a Cajun food guy.

01:51:33.600 Um, so I'm not even in love with the food.

01:51:35.360 A lot of people are, but, uh, like.

01:51:38.860 I'm also not a party guy or a drinking guy.

01:51:41.740 Yeah.

01:51:41.960 Like, so it's like, it's just not much bourbon street.

01:51:46.060 I mean, seeing that, uh, you know, I'm trying to avoid bourbon.

01:51:50.620 I might want to avoid the whole street here too.

01:51:53.240 I said, as a recovering alcoholic, you shouldn't be allowed in the city limits.

01:51:56.500 I will say, I know, but like I was there a few years ago and was walking down bourbon

01:52:02.920 street, you know, at night.

01:52:04.460 And I was thinking to myself, like if I was 22 and single, this would be incredible.

01:52:11.060 Maybe.

01:52:11.300 Right.

01:52:11.720 Like I bet I would love this as a, an old person.

01:52:15.820 Um, all I was thinking about is if another freaking person bumps into me, uh, you know,

01:52:22.940 like it's just, you know, it's people everywhere they're bumping into you.

01:52:26.920 It's, you know, it's, you know, look, especially that area is supposed to be dirty and gritty

01:52:32.420 and like, you know, that's what it's supposed to be.

01:52:34.860 And it's like, I'm just too spoiled in life now.

01:52:37.120 I don't, I want to be in a bubble.

01:52:39.120 Like I would never want to escape the bubble.

01:52:41.300 Right.

01:52:41.880 That's the whole point.

01:52:42.720 I want to be in a bubble where people aren't, you know, uh, there aren't like homeless people

01:52:47.940 bumping into me and, and I drunk people throwing up on my leg.

01:52:52.380 I want to avoid those circumstances.

01:52:54.380 It's funny.

01:52:54.920 I grew up in a small town and couldn't wait.

01:52:57.880 I mean, you know, I, all I wanted, since I was a kid, all I wanted to do was live in

01:53:02.060 New York city, uh, and been there, done that.

01:53:04.940 And I cannot believe I'm at the place to where, you know, uh, I never thought I would want to

01:53:11.060 live in a town of 400.

01:53:12.520 Uh, and I, I still don't, uh, I'd like my town to be about 200, maybe, maybe 150, you know,

01:53:20.980 and we're a thousand miles away from another city.

01:53:24.540 I, that would be ideal for me.

01:53:26.740 It's like, I can't get away from all of that crap fast enough, but I think that comes with

01:53:32.040 age.

01:53:32.380 Maybe, I don't know.

01:53:33.820 You kind of been, you know, seen that done that.

01:53:35.840 All right, let's move on, please.

01:53:37.100 Let's find something real.

01:53:39.200 Uh, last night I was having dinner with my wife at a restaurant.

01:53:43.020 It was our 25th anniversary, uh, last night.

01:53:46.320 And it's weird getting to a place to where you have a, you know, 25th wedding anniversary

01:53:53.500 and that's your second marriage.

01:53:56.160 Um, it's very, very strange.

01:53:58.840 Uh, and I said last night, I said, I want to make a pact with you.

01:54:02.660 And she said, okay, uh, what this time, last time we made a pact, I got stuck with you as

01:54:09.480 my husband forever.

01:54:10.860 And I was like, what?

01:54:12.100 Anyway, um, I, uh, I said, I want to make a pact.

01:54:16.220 I want, uh, cause I remember my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and it was cool, but they

01:54:22.240 were generally, I mean, at the time they were old, but it was like, you know, 65 years old

01:54:28.760 or 50th would, I'd be 87.

01:54:33.000 And I'm like, I want to make that pact, but 87, man, I'm going to probably be pretty cranky

01:54:40.640 by 87.

01:54:41.720 You know, I, I, I, are you a little afraid of what you're going to be like when you're

01:54:46.280 old and tired?

01:54:47.220 And I mean, because I know already, I say whatever I'm thinking.

01:54:51.000 And I remember my grandfather, we'd always be like, yeah, my grandpa just kind of says

01:54:55.200 what he wants, you know?

01:54:56.300 So yeah.

01:54:57.420 Ha ha ha.

01:54:58.200 That's funny.

01:54:58.780 Grandpa.

01:54:59.320 You know, he kind of get into that situation where there's no filter anymore and probably

01:55:05.140 should be a filter at some point.

01:55:06.940 And I'm wondering when I lose that filter.

01:55:09.580 And honestly, if anybody would know, if anybody would notice, it might happen slowly.

01:55:13.740 I was going to say, if this is you filtered, I don't, I hate to see what unfiltered looks

01:55:19.580 like.

01:55:20.380 Yeah.

01:55:21.100 Yeah.

01:55:21.560 By the way, I just, I just asked ChatGPT a question as well, which was Glenn Beck just

01:55:28.180 had his 25th anniversary.

01:55:29.760 What are the chances he makes it to his 26th?

01:55:33.180 And they think it's almost 90%.

01:55:35.420 There's a chance.

01:55:36.780 Well, there's a chance.

01:55:37.480 Like 26th.

01:55:38.820 You're 26th.

01:55:39.460 So we'll, cause I think, cause there's two factors.

01:55:42.620 People are like, oh, well, I mean, he'll, he'll live another year and that's possible.

01:55:46.180 They think that chance is in the high nineties, but then you got to combine it with the chance

01:55:49.420 that she might leave you.

01:55:50.780 So I think we're at 89% on that.

01:55:53.940 Hang on just a second.

01:55:54.900 I'm going to ask it something too.

01:55:56.880 89% chance.

01:55:57.980 So that's good, Glenn.

01:55:58.640 That's honestly, it's higher than my, I, I, I take that bet.

01:56:02.280 I take the other side.

01:56:04.340 I take the other side of people, a little bit of odds.

01:56:06.140 I mean, I think that's appropriate.

01:56:07.200 So I don't know.

01:56:09.140 I mean, how did she, was she into it?

01:56:10.560 Did she, do you think she's in for another year or what, what was her vibe?

01:56:13.860 Do you think she's, she had.

01:56:16.140 Yeah.

01:56:16.480 Yeah.

01:56:16.660 She was, she was, she was into that.

01:56:18.240 She was.

01:56:18.720 Yeah.

01:56:18.840 Yeah.

01:56:19.320 Interesting.

01:56:19.820 Yeah.

01:56:20.220 Yeah.

01:56:21.200 I wonder why.

01:56:22.040 I'm just curious as to what the reasoning was.

01:56:26.260 Why would she want to stick around for, I mean, it's 52, she'd tell her it's 52 full

01:56:30.560 weeks and that's a long time.

01:56:32.120 I mean, I mean, I imagine all she has to deal with to get through those weeks.

01:56:37.380 I asked her about the 25 years.

01:56:39.280 I didn't ask her about the year.

01:56:40.300 And she was like, that's hard for me to comprehend.

01:56:43.420 Okay.

01:56:43.800 That's not a good answer.

01:56:44.860 She said, oh, wow.

01:56:46.420 Okay.

01:56:46.840 I'm getting, I'm getting actual odds of what it would.

01:56:51.420 What?

01:56:52.600 Oh my gosh.

01:56:54.580 Current age of Glenn Beck.

01:56:55.720 So I asked Jet GPT, what are the odds Glenn Beck makes it to his 50th wedding anniversary?

01:57:02.620 Predicting somebody's odds of making it to a specific milestone, like their 50th wedding

01:57:06.200 anniversary, depends on several factors, including current age, health, lifestyle, and genetics.

01:57:10.460 While I can't provide specific odds for Glenn Beck without detailed information, I can extend

01:57:15.080 some general context.

01:57:17.240 Current age, Glenn Beck was born February 10th, 1964.

01:57:20.480 He's 60 years old to reach his 50th wedding anniversary.

01:57:23.740 Another 25 years.

01:57:24.860 He'd need to live to be 85.

01:57:27.320 Life expectancy.

01:57:28.780 I thought I was 62, but I am 60, I guess.

01:57:32.120 Life expectancy for U.S. males.

01:57:34.020 Don't ask.

01:57:34.620 I don't, you lose track of your birth years after a while.

01:57:38.360 Lost two years there.

01:57:39.420 That was sad.

01:57:40.120 Anyway.

01:57:41.200 Last year was a very long year.

01:57:44.400 It was.

01:57:44.900 It was.

01:57:45.460 According to recent data, the average life expectancy for males in the U.S. is 77.

01:57:52.020 Gosh, we're not that far away.

01:57:54.340 17 years.

01:57:55.840 Now remember though, that's life expectancy at birth.

01:57:58.280 When you get to, you make it to 60, your life expectancy is higher than 77.

01:58:04.000 When you, when you get to 60, you've, you've eliminated all the deaths you could have had

01:58:08.140 in your first 60 years, which are included in that average of 77 overall.

01:58:13.400 So wait, when I'm at 77, then I've.

01:58:15.980 Right.

01:58:16.140 Your life expectancy.

01:58:17.100 If I'm at 78, I've, I've conquered all of the deaths that were possible in my life.

01:58:22.160 Right.

01:58:22.380 And when you make it.

01:58:23.680 So when you make it to seven.

01:58:25.120 Well, when you make it to 78, your life expectancy is like probably 88 or something,

01:58:30.600 because you've eliminated the possibility of dying between zero and 78.

01:58:36.080 This is, this is, there's math involved in this.

01:58:38.080 I can see him.

01:58:39.120 He's in trouble.

01:58:39.820 No, here's the bit.

01:58:40.560 No, no, no.

01:58:40.940 Here's the bad news.

01:58:43.420 Positive factors.

01:58:44.580 He has L as a public figure probably has access to excellent healthcare, wealth and resources.

01:58:51.080 Financial stability can provide better nutrition.

01:58:54.020 No.

01:58:54.360 Is there a weight management?

01:58:55.500 Is there a weight section?

01:58:57.580 Support system.

01:58:58.620 Strong family and community can enhance both mental and physical health.

01:59:01.700 I got that one.

01:59:03.100 Potential concerns.

01:59:04.900 High profile careers, particularly in media and politics often come with stress.

01:59:09.100 Nah.

01:59:10.260 And that impact long-term health, if not managed well.

01:59:14.120 Health history.

01:59:14.720 Glenn Beck has spoken publicly about health challenges in the past, including neurological

01:59:18.260 issues.

01:59:19.340 These factors may play a role in his future longevity.

01:59:22.080 Conclusion.

01:59:22.960 While there are some uncertainties, reaching his 85th birthday is achievable, especially with

01:59:28.760 proactive health measures and lifestyle adjustments.

01:59:31.280 If Glenn Beck continues to prioritize his health and well-being, celebrating his 50th...

01:59:36.920 Continues.

01:59:37.720 ...is within reason.

01:59:41.440 They won't give you odds.

01:59:42.660 They just say it's theoretically possible.

01:59:45.420 Theoretically, it's possible.

01:59:46.960 But then again, so is, you know, the transporter on Star Trek.

01:59:53.080 But they didn't even include the chances of her just ditching you, which is still far more

01:59:58.720 likely.

01:59:59.320 I'm much more confident in your long-term health than that.

02:00:03.660 Yeah.

02:00:04.500 Okay.

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02:01:34.800 More Glenn Beck coming up next.

02:01:37.040 You know, Glenn, part of the defeat of communism happened in a grocery store in America.

02:02:01.800 When Boris Yeltsin came over and saw the plenty that we had in our, you know, regular grocery stores.

02:02:11.020 And he was amazed by it.

02:02:11.960 Do you remember this?

02:02:12.860 And he couldn't help himself but praise the incredible situation Americans found themselves in.

02:02:19.840 And, you know, it wound up weakening the case to hold on to communism.

02:02:25.900 There's another story that's similar to this, which is a Cuban immigrant going for the very first time to a Costco in America.

02:02:35.120 There's video.

02:02:35.760 Oh, wow.

02:02:36.000 Yeah, watch this.

02:02:36.480 He says, close your eyes.

02:02:43.600 That's him reacting to the meat freezer, uh, fridge there.

02:02:49.320 He's going crazy.

02:02:51.380 Just huge sides of, like, beef or something there.

02:02:56.520 He's holding them up.

02:02:57.700 Imagine that.

02:03:04.060 Just thrilled to see this.

02:03:10.600 He says, there's so much more here.

02:03:12.880 I can't believe people can just buy meat.

02:03:17.700 I can't believe people can just buy it.

02:03:19.700 He looks, look, it's apples.

02:03:23.000 Amazing.

02:03:25.000 Apples.

02:03:32.320 Just can't believe there's coats and clothing and everything else in this one store.

02:03:38.160 He says it's just like it is in the movies.

02:03:41.320 I mean, that's incredible.

02:03:42.140 And they're so close to the United States and have no idea that that stuff is real and attainable for them as well.

02:03:53.780 Notice how he was really excited at first, and then he kind of got almost a little reflective.

02:03:59.640 Yeah.

02:03:59.860 I think it would be an overwhelming experience.

02:04:03.720 It really would.

02:04:04.720 I mean, it's a life-changing thing that we celebrate every single day and don't even acknowledge.

02:04:09.660 Maybe we should a little bit more.

02:04:10.840 Yeah, maybe we should celebrate it a little more.

02:04:14.100 At least recognize our blessings.

02:04:16.640 This is Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 09, 2025

'It Looks Like Hell'： California Fires Teach a Tough Lesson ｜ 1⧸9⧸25

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