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00:03:09.820 Oh, we have so much to cover today. We're going to start with Jeffrey Epstein because, I mean, why not?

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00:04:41.720 emails. My gosh, Stu, why are they trying to cover up that Donald Trump had sex with children?

00:04:49.500 I mean, it's as clear as day in the emails. He spent hours with one of the victims. What else could

00:05:01.720 possibly have occurred in that arrangement? We don't know. And it's one of the victims, Stu.

00:05:07.880 One of the victims. One of the victims. That's all we know. That's all we know. One of the victims.

00:05:11.480 Let me, let me read what Jeffrey Epstein wrote. I want you to realize that the dog who hasn't barked

00:05:20.540 is Trump. Victim, redacted, victim spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned.

00:05:31.040 Police chief, et cetera. Okay. New information just released. Or is it? Because in 2011,

00:05:40.120 2011, 2011, that was released and everybody knew it. It's been out floating around. Here's the change.

00:05:48.740 In 2011, this is what it read. I want you to realize the dog who hasn't barked is Trump.

00:05:55.180 Virginia spent hours at my house with him. Why would you redact a name that is already out

00:06:02.180 in the public square? It's already out. The memo is already out. The email is already out. It's been

00:06:09.820 out for years. Why would you redact that name now? Well, because it makes it all suddenly new and

00:06:16.480 shiny. Shiny and new. If you don't know who said it, you see victim and you're like, oh, there's a

00:06:22.660 victim that he was. Who was the victim? I don't know. But when you know it's Virginia, you know,

00:06:27.660 this is already gone to court. This is she already testified about this. He didn't partake in any of

00:06:37.000 this. Any sex with any of it. It's true. He didn't partake in any sex with us. And I'm quoting this is

00:06:44.660 from the testimony. But it's not true that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with

00:06:51.000 me. Have you ever met him? Yes. At Mar-a-Lago, my dad and him. I wouldn't say they were friends,

00:06:56.700 but my dad knew him and they would talk. Have you ever been in Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein's

00:07:02.780 presence with one another? No. What's the basis of your statement that Donald Trump is a good

00:07:08.000 friend of Jeffrey? Jeffrey's told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his. He didn't partake

00:07:13.040 in any of any of the sex with any of it. He flirted with me. It's true that he didn't partake in any

00:07:21.420 sex with us, but it's not true that he flirted with me. So I don't understand that. But she goes on.

00:07:26.780 Donald Trump never flirted with me. Okay. So what's new about this? This is the same girl.

00:07:38.040 This is the same person that didn't she work at Mar-a-Lago or she was going to get a job at Mar-a-

00:07:44.060 Lago. She did. Yeah, I believe she did it. Yeah. So we know they know each other. We know they know

00:07:50.120 each other. We know that at Mar-a-Lago, Jeffrey Epstein would come and he was poaching the

00:07:57.280 employees, the girls there to go work for him. And Donald Trump went to and said, Hey man, stop it.

00:08:03.420 Stop poaching people from me. That's not cool. Don't do it. And then he said, Oh yeah. All right.

00:08:10.280 And then he did it a second time. And he's like, you know what? You're out. I don't want you here

00:08:14.420 anymore. I asked you not to do that. And you did it. Now that doesn't mean that he knew anything

00:08:19.580 about the girls or what was happening or anything else. And even if it did mean he knew something was

00:08:25.680 happening with the girls, he was saying, Hey, stop it. Don't take any of the, don't take any of the

00:08:31.280 girls or the women here. Don't do it. I don't believe he knew anything about any of this, but

00:08:37.560 God only knows. And really God only knows this is not new news. Donald Trump, he might end up

00:08:48.920 beating Bezos as the richest man on the planet when all is said and done. Because again,

00:08:59.600 they're, they're presenting this as new fact, a giant scandal is Stu. I don't know if you know

00:09:07.420 this, this is a, this is, this breaking news is a giant scandal. Yeah. I've heard democratic

00:09:12.100 representatives saying that over the past 24 hours, like, yeah, we said we need to investigate

00:09:16.240 this. We need to vet this. This is shocking stuff. It's a massive scandal. And even ABC news,

00:09:21.520 I heard push back against this and say, well, what scandal, what are you implying occurred here?

00:09:27.740 We know who the victim was. We know the victim. Like why, why did you even redact that name? And

00:09:34.060 they're like, well, we always redact the name of victims. Like, do you really, when they're already

00:09:38.600 out publicly, not to mention, we should point out that the, this particular victim is not even alive.

00:09:44.360 You know, she sadly died. I mean, it's a terrible, terrible story. Terrible story. Terrible story.

00:09:50.080 But yeah, she passed away. You know, she's suicide. It was at least the, uh, the report,

00:09:55.080 I believe. Um, but she has a book, uh, posthumous book coming out. Um, but like a terrible,

00:10:00.780 terrible story. It's, you know, but like to, to, to act as if you have to protect her identity when

00:10:06.740 number one, she's dead. Number two, everyone already knows who she was, including the news

00:10:12.560 sources who also have a policy you would think. And ABC news has a policy that they would redact a

00:10:17.820 victim that was in this type of situation, but it's already been out. We already knew who it was.

00:10:22.720 So they redacted to make it look like he's a, with other people who have not already told us in

00:10:29.580 nothing bad occurred. Uh, you know, it, it, it is an absolutely awful tactic. And at least that's

00:10:36.780 at least, I think litigation should follow again. I think he should sue them again. Anyone who is

00:10:44.420 presenting this as new information, ABC did their job. Congratulations for ABC. They did their job.

00:10:51.660 They pointed out, this is not new information. Why would you read? Why are you releasing this now?

00:10:58.080 And you're redacting a name? This, this, this email is already out. You're presenting this as a

00:11:05.360 new scandal and you redacted that name. This is completely dishonest. The news media shouldn't even

00:11:11.680 run with it. They shouldn't have even run with it. They should have said old news, old news. And if

00:11:17.420 you did run with it, you should handle it the way ABC handled it. Wait a minute. Why, why would you

00:11:22.300 redact the name that there's nothing new here? What do you mean? There's a big scandal. There's no big

00:11:26.360 scandal. She's already testified against exactly opposite of what you're believing Jeffrey

00:11:32.500 Epstein over the victim. Now, I just want to make sure we understand the Democrats here.

00:11:37.980 You're taking the word of Epstein over the victim. Oh, okay. And Epstein doesn't even say

00:11:46.200 that anything occurred, uh, that there's not, it's just, it would be something you'd have to

00:11:52.580 jump to a conclusion to accuse Donald Trump of something like this. And we know what happened

00:12:00.320 because the victim said nothing, said it was nothing. In fact, it wasn't even a flirtation,

00:12:06.860 which by the way, what, you know, even that you might think it's creepy. It wouldn't even have been

00:12:10.500 a crime. Uh, but it wasn't even flirtation. Uh, so I, it's just, it's, it's a disgrace in every

00:12:17.200 single way. All right. So let me, let me take you here. Let me take you here. Um, if you remember

00:12:23.300 when the shutdown first started, what did the Democrats say? The reason why they did the

00:12:31.500 shutdown, not them, why Mike Johnson and everybody else wouldn't negotiate. Why wouldn't it? Why

00:12:38.200 wouldn't the Republicans negotiate? Because the heat was on to release the Epstein files and they

00:12:45.180 didn't want to have to do that. So they shut the government down. Okay. They wouldn't negotiate.

00:12:51.060 You didn't hear any of this. It's incomprehensible. It doesn't make any, I know, any sense at all,

00:12:56.780 but that is probably what they said. So the government is open. And what does Mike Johnson

00:13:01.900 do yesterday? He said the house is going to vote on a bill to release all of the files related to the

00:13:07.380 late financier, uh, convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein next week. He said on Wednesday

00:13:13.080 that a discharge position to bypass leadership and force a vote on the bill, hit the benchmark for

00:13:18.860 needed signatures. It's been decided by him to expedite the vote for the bill, which under the

00:13:24.400 current rules could have been delayed until at least early December. So as he says, as soon as that

00:13:30.580 petition hit the needed 218 signatures, I brought it up unanimous consent. Let's go release it.

00:13:38.700 So he's pushing this forward. Good, Mike, release all of it. Thank you. Get it out. Lance this boil.

00:13:49.880 I mean, if anybody thinks that you're ever going to get the truth on this in the first place,

00:13:54.440 it's madness. It's madness. Everybody, I mean, so many important people were involved in this

00:14:01.380 and it was in the hands of the Democrats for the longest time. Okay. So they had all of this

00:14:09.300 information. You don't think it was all picked through. And, and if there was anything about

00:14:15.000 Donald Trump, you don't think that would have come up between 2020 and 2024. There's nothing in there

00:14:23.340 about Donald Trump. I mean, you, these people are so stupid. This time we got him boys. This time we got

00:14:29.200 him. No, you don't. It's, it's like your wily coyote. This time we've got the road runner. No,

00:14:37.000 you're never going to catch him on this. It doesn't work. There's nothing there. The guy was the most

00:14:43.320 investigated person in the history of the world. And you got nothing. Now it's good to come out. But if

00:14:53.760 you think you're going to catch a bunch of people on the left, you're not going to, because they had

00:14:58.400 it, you know, in their possession, you don't think all of the names were taken out. You don't think

00:15:03.240 things were destroyed. If there was anything, I believe there was something, but I don't believe

00:15:09.940 there's any names in it anymore. You're not going to get the truth on this one. You're just not going

00:15:14.940 to get the truth, but release everything that we have. Everything. Oh, by the way, also in the

00:15:24.500 Epstein emails, how come nobody's talking about this one, Stu? Uh, this one is from Michael Wolf

00:15:31.560 to Jeffrey Epstein. And then Jeffrey Epstein responds. So Michael Wolf writes, what's the

00:15:38.780 thumbnail on Nesbaum Foster? And Jeffrey Epstein writes back Nesbaum White House counsel, dot,

00:15:46.700 dot, dot Hillary doing naughties with Vince. Now, Vince Foster killed himself, you know,

00:15:55.180 and then he killed himself in the White House and then drug himself across the street to the

00:15:58.460 park. Um, I mean, I don't know that Vince Foster thing is so old and it does, but why is nobody

00:16:06.280 talking about that one? Why is no one talking about that? Also in the Jeffrey Epstein email

00:16:14.600 bundle, ABC, you don't feel that's necessary to bring that one up? Huh? Interesting. All right,

00:16:22.340 let me take a quick break and I'm going to come back. We're going to talk about the shutdown here

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00:17:43.380 Okay, so the record-breaking shutdown is over. Last night, Donald Trump signed the continuing

00:17:49.860 resolution into law, so we don't have to worry about this until January, where they're going

00:17:56.040 to do it again. I got to tell you, Carolyn Levitt is just the best. She's the best. She came out

00:18:09.860 yesterday and said, just want to remind you everything that's going on. The Small Business

00:18:14.260 Optimism Index and the Federal Reserve reported the shutdown has already negatively impacted the

00:18:18.900 economy. Millions of Americans are employed by the federal government. Millions more work as federal

00:18:24.000 contractors, subcontractors, or for businesses that depend on federal contracts or funding.

00:18:28.460 Hundreds of thousands of federal employees have missed their paychecks. Tens of billions in wages

00:18:32.440 and benefits were withheld, impacting vulnerable families. Millions of low-income American families

00:18:38.360 missed their SNAP benefits. Nearly 20,000 flights at airports across the country were delayed due to

00:18:43.940 staffing shortages, causing Americans to miss family events, vacations, and work obligations.

00:18:48.060 She noted American Airlines estimate flight disruption already have or will impact 5.2 million people who

00:18:56.080 are traveling. Congressional Budget Office estimates the cuts to the fourth quarter GDP growth could be as

00:19:02.500 large as 2%, potentially delivering a negative blow to the Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's plan to keep the

00:19:09.420 federal deficit at 3% of GDP in his 3-3-3-3 plan. Most of the decline in real GDP will be recovered

00:19:16.760 eventually, but estimates are between $7 billion and $14 billion will never be recovered because of the

00:19:23.680 shutdown. So congratulations to the Democrats who, what did you accomplish? Nothing. Well, no, this, the FAA

00:19:32.920 still can't reopen. Their reduction of 6% is still in effect. They said that, you know, Sean Duffy, who is

00:19:42.040 the Department of Transportation Secretary, he said he's going to look at it hourly, but they have to make

00:19:48.240 sure that they have the air traffic controllers back at work and everything is running fine. He said we have

00:19:54.300 to make sure the skies are safe, so they are going to keep this reduced. They are not going up. It was supposed

00:19:59.440 to go up to 8% and then I think 10% by the weekend. And now they are, they're going to keep the 40

00:20:08.640 airports the way they are right now. So there's still going to be some problems for the next few

00:20:15.500 days on flights. I got to tell you, the guy who I'm really impressed with is John Fetterman. I mean,

00:20:22.400 I, I, I remember when he first started making sense, I was like, how, how is the guy with brain

00:20:30.840 damage, the guy who's making sense here? And I think I said before that, the guy with the explains

00:20:37.580 how you become a Democrat, you know, you have to have brain damage to understand the guy has turned

00:20:43.780 into, I mean, I don't agree with his policies, but he has at least turned into an honest broker

00:20:50.700 of, of, uh, information and honest broker of what's really going on. He calls the shots the

00:20:58.320 way he sees them. I mean, he's absolutely alone. He talked about this on CNN. Do we have the audio

00:21:03.320 of CNN? He was on CNN and he was talking about how much hate he gets from the left as opposed to the

00:21:11.160 right. Listen to this. You said, quote, I've drunk deeply of the venom of both the left and the right

00:21:17.600 as a connoisseur. I can confirm that the most poisonous, the bitterest is from the far left.

00:21:24.840 That is pretty remarkable, um, to hear you say that as an elected Democrat. Why?

00:21:32.360 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, um, you know, it's been, it's just been my personal experience on this thing.

00:21:39.220 The difference is, I mean, uh, the right would say really rough things and names,

00:21:43.420 you know, some names I won't, I won't repeat on, on TV, but, but, but the, the, on the left,

00:21:49.620 it was like, they want me to die or that we're cheering for your next stroke or that's terrible.

00:21:55.340 That depression one, why couldn't it depression one? Um, and, and I hope your kids find you.

00:22:04.120 Gosh. And it's unfortunately true. Unfortunately true.

00:22:10.460 Not surprising though. Are you at all surprised by that? I mean, I know she was. Yeah. I mean,

00:22:18.940 I guess that's, you're not supposed to say that obviously as a Democrat. And I, I'd agree with

00:22:23.060 you that Fetterman has been certainly better than I would have expected him to be getting when he got

00:22:26.840 into office. Um, you know, he is, I don't agree with his, I don't agree with his policies, but he's

00:22:33.180 a guy who seems to have the same kind of American principles that we behave a certain way. You know what I

00:22:39.880 mean? Uh, and we are a, you know, a country that has certain things that we just know are,

00:22:45.220 we, we find self-evident and he seems to be that guy, kind of an old style Democrat that I'm not

00:22:52.060 going to agree with on policies, but I can at least say he doesn't hate the country. And how did that

00:22:57.680 happen? Cause that I thought for sure he hated the country when he was running, when he was running,

00:23:02.300 or at least his wife hated the country. Yeah. I don't know. I that's, it has been an interesting

00:23:07.560 turn. He's because it's not just been, uh, that he's had a couple of things that we agree

00:23:12.820 with him on. There's been a couple of issues he's good on. Um, but he also has been really

00:23:17.600 outspoken and taking on his own side. I don't know, maybe something like this, you know, stroke

00:23:21.300 changes you, right? Like we've talked about that with the president getting shot, right? Like when

00:23:25.420 it's, when something like that happens to you, it can be a life-changing event. Maybe some of that

00:23:29.700 has happened. He's just been, you know, I'm not going to sit here and, and, uh, play these games.

00:23:34.940 I, you know, my life was threatened not that long ago.

00:23:39.900 It's amazing. It's going to be amazing to see because, you know, the left is not happy

00:23:46.480 with him. Uh, and with the socialist movement growing, are they going to take him out?

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00:25:20.200 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. So if you take what Fetterman said yesterday about how people are

00:25:43.280 cheering for him to die on the left, and then you couple it with something that was, uh, on the Joe

00:25:49.220 Rogan show on Tuesday, he was saying that the reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk, um, makes

00:25:55.540 him think that the U S is closer to civil war than, than he thought. Let me quote him. He said after

00:26:00.760 the Charlie Kirk thing, I'm like, Oh my, we might be like at seven. This might be like step seven on

00:26:06.420 the way to a bonafide civil war. Charlie Kirk gets shot and people are celebrating like, Whoa, Whoa,

00:26:11.080 Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Uh, you want people to die? You disagree with, where are we now on the scale of

00:26:17.240 civil war? Well, let me go over the scale of civil war because it's, it's sobering. Now, none of this

00:26:25.940 has to be true. If we wake up and decide, I don't want to do this anymore. Okay. Here's step one,

00:26:35.120 step one, loss of civic trust. Every civil conflict begins when people stop believing that the system

00:26:41.140 is fair. Are we there? We heard so far in, we're so far past the doorway. We are comfortably asleep

00:26:48.980 on the couch on this one. Gallup and Pew both show trust in Congress, media courts, the FBI and

00:26:54.500 government are now at record lows. The Edelman trust barometer classifies the U S now as severely

00:27:00.620 polarized. Majority of Republicans distrust federal elections. Majority of Democrats don't trust the

00:27:06.980 Supreme court. Americans are really united on one thing. And that is the other side is corrupt.

00:27:15.080 When faith in the rules collapses, the Republic begins to wobble. But that's step one. Step two,

00:27:21.100 polarization hardens into identity. Political disagreement is normal. Identity conflict is fatal,

00:27:31.640 but that's what Marxist push identity politics. This is when politics stop being about policy and

00:27:38.540 start being about who you are as a person. Have we crossed this one into step two? I mean,

00:27:45.240 we're neck deep in this, uh, a study on this from PRRI. It's a survey found 23% of Americans believe

00:27:54.000 political violence may be necessary to save the nation. I think that's an old study. Americans now sort

00:28:00.500 themselves by zip code into ideological enclaves, the big sort universities, activists, corporations,

00:28:07.820 everybody is promoting oppressor versus oppressed. And that what does what it puts us into incompatible

00:28:16.840 tribes. Opponents aren't wrong anymore. The opponent is dangerous. If you go back and you look at civil

00:28:25.080 wars, Lebanon before 1975, Yugoslavia before 1991, that's we're doing that. Okay. Step three,

00:28:34.360 breakdown of the gatekeepers. The gatekeepers are kind of like the referees of society. It's the media,

00:28:40.600 political parties, churches, civic leaders. When they fail, extremism feel fills the vacuum.

00:28:47.360 Okay. So where are we on this one? Have our gatekeepers failed us? Uh, yeah, I think both,

00:28:54.760 you know, both parties, especially the left, uh, you know, everything I predicted that the left was

00:28:58.900 going to be eaten by the extreme left. Um, and then the communists and the socialists is now happening.

00:29:05.480 Um, they've lost control of the fringe of each party, media transformed, you know, from referees into

00:29:12.380 team coaches, tech platforms. It's, it's outrage for profit. Universities are not there to cool things

00:29:19.340 down. They heat them up. Churches, churches are useless, useless. When the referees leave the field,

00:29:28.340 the game devolves into a brawl and the refs are gone off the field. So there are only nine steps.

00:29:34.460 We're at step four. Here's step four. You ready for this one? Parallel information realities.

00:29:42.060 Civil wars don't require different opinions. They require different realities. I remember reading

00:29:48.840 about, uh, Germany at the beginning of, you know, the Nazi era, how the new two newspapers, one was

00:29:57.120 propaganda for the government and the other one, it was the last one that was kind of a holdout.

00:30:01.680 And they said you could read them and they would cover the same thing, but they had almost no

00:30:08.480 information was the same except that happened yesterday. Here's what they said. And then

00:30:14.020 everything else was different. That's, that's exactly, I mean, step four is complete. We can't

00:30:20.360 agree on facts, right? Crime rates, border numbers, inflation, election security. Two Americans can watch

00:30:28.380 the same video and see opposite truths. Social media algorithms are creating customized political

00:30:35.980 universes, digital echo chambers, deep fakes. We're just at the beginning of that. And both sides

00:30:42.680 accuse the other of running disinformation machines. Why? Because we don't have a shared reality.

00:30:47.940 So if you don't have a shared reality, you, how do you settle any dispute on the nine steps? We're up to

00:30:55.180 number five coming in at number five loss of neutral rule of law. This out of the nine steps five is the pivot

00:31:06.460 point. It's not corruption. It's the belief that the law no longer is neutral. Are we there yet?

00:31:16.740 Let me tell you the CBS, uh, you gov poll 67% say the justice system is used for political

00:31:24.340 purposes. I think that's low January six defendants given years in prison, 2020 rioters were released

00:31:30.640 high profile political figures prosecuted or shielded based on party FBI whistleblowers alleging

00:31:37.880 pressure to inflate domestic extremism numbers. States like Texas directly defying, uh, defying federal

00:31:43.980 directives on border enforcement and now leading the way with the federal government. History is really

00:31:51.040 cold and unforgiving on this point. Once the people believe justice is political, remember this is the

00:31:59.460 turning point. The Republic stands on borrowed time. Once you no longer believe that justice is

00:32:05.380 achievable. Step six. Are we there? I think we are. Step six, normalization of political violence.

00:32:13.380 This is where violence stops shocking the system. Are we there? Remember where violence stops shocking

00:32:23.060 the system. Look at the evidence just from Virginia, what they just voted for. He was calling for the death

00:32:33.080 of a, uh, a, uh, a political opposition calling for his children to be killed, was called on it,

00:32:42.800 never apologized, never said anything other than, yeah, I know he dug it deeper. Was anyone shocked by

00:32:50.720 it? Apparently not. They elected him. Here's the evidence. 2020 riots, 574 events, $2 billion in damage.

00:33:00.060 Was anybody outraged by that? Or was it downplayed and excused? Assassination attempts.

00:33:09.040 Assassination attempts against the president, Supreme Court justice, fistfights and mob actions on college

00:33:15.580 campuses to silent speakers, rising tolerance for punching a fascist or stopping genocide, depending on

00:33:22.240 the ideology. Online chatter discussing civil war, national divorce and revolution. When violence becomes part of

00:33:29.780 the political language, a nation crosses an invisible line. We're now up to step seven out of nine.

00:33:38.760 This is where Joe Rogan said, are we at step seven? The rise of militias and parallel forces.

00:33:45.560 When a state loses its monopoly on force, the countdown accelerates. So where, where are we on this one?

00:33:52.280 I think we're seeing maybe early signs of this. You're starting to see the, the states kind of organize these

00:34:01.240 mobs, you know, to go after, uh, ice, right? Armed groups, right wing, left green, left wing radical secessionist,

00:34:12.080 against anyone. Once they start forming their own police forces or their own opposition forces,

00:34:19.460 then you have, then you have everything really falling apart, uh, entirely. I don't think we're

00:34:28.140 there yet, but we're starting to see the beginnings of this step eight, the trigger event.

00:34:34.880 Civil wars don't begin with a plan. They begin with a spark. So where are we? We're not here yet

00:34:40.540 either, but the conditions are right. Potential triggers, disputed election in 26 or 28, political

00:34:46.760 assassination or a major attack, Supreme Court decision that ignites mass unrest, financial crisis

00:34:53.520 or dollar crisis, a state federal standoff turning violent. Nothing is ignited yet, but the room is

00:35:00.940 soaked in gasoline. So we don't have seven. We are on the verge of eight at any time. And here's nine.

00:35:12.740 This is the point of no return when police, military or federal agencies split.

00:35:19.420 Even if no one calls it that, well, where are we? Well, I just read a story about how with the

00:35:32.680 Mamdani election in, uh, New York, a good number of the police force is going to leave and they're going

00:35:42.420 to go join police forces elsewhere. You also have the tension between the state national guard and the

00:35:51.580 federal directives, the state guard and the state directives, uh, law enforcement crew, uh, recruitment

00:36:00.420 is a crisis lows. Um, the distrust of the FBI, DOJ, CIA, tens of a million, tens of millions of Americans.

00:36:08.920 I always really respected those institutions. I have no respect for them. Now, if you have states openly

00:36:15.100 defying federal rules on immigration, drug laws, sanctuary policies, whistleblower claims of internal

00:36:21.440 politicization, all of these things are in play for the first time in 150 years, people can imagine.

00:36:29.560 So I give this to you not to be fearful of, but to know where you are as a map, know where you are.

00:36:39.520 And hopefully it might wake some people up. If you chart America on the nine step model of civil war,

00:36:47.580 steps one through four completed step five happening step six happening step seven, beginning step eight,

00:36:57.860 just waiting for it. And step nine avoidable only if step eight never happens.

00:37:06.840 Again, I'm not telling you for doom purposes. This is diagnosis. This is a doctor going,

00:37:12.400 I want you to look at the chart. And this is a doctor saying, I want you to look at it. Do you see

00:37:19.060 what's happening to your body? If you don't stop this habit, you are going to die. You don't have to

00:37:27.620 die. You can stop smoking and drinking right now. You can start exercising, but if you don't, you are

00:37:34.040 going to die. The question is, are we the nation that says, nah, it's not going to happen to me?

00:37:40.180 Or are we the nation that wakes up and sees our chart and goes, good heavens, it's far. It's way

00:37:48.800 out of control and far more gone than I thought it was. But I feel something in the air. I'm going to

00:37:54.440 change my behavior. The nation that refuses to look and wake up and stop calling their neighbors enemies

00:38:03.440 is the nation that fails. We have to strengthen these things that have already fallen. And you

00:38:12.080 know what the easiest one to do is church? Where are you ministers and pastors and priests and rabbis?

00:38:18.820 Where the hell are you? I think there's going to be a special section for you when you cross over to

00:38:27.160 the because you're doing things in the name of God. So when you get to the other side, I think there's

00:38:33.020 going to be a special section for those who remained silent while his rights were being taken

00:38:40.500 away. You don't own that right. I don't own that right. The Lord gave us those rights and said,

00:38:47.400 protect them by you being the representative, the voice box, if you will, of the Lord to shepherd his

00:38:55.920 people by you not standing up and saying, Hey, by the way, we have a, we have a moral responsibility

00:39:03.580 to protect these rights for the next generation by you refusing because you're afraid because you

00:39:10.160 think there's no politics in the Bible. There's no politics in the Bible. Really? The whole thing

00:39:17.640 is about politics is about the moral, uh, way you have to live your life, calling things as you see

00:39:25.580 them, calling them back to eternal principles. He didn't tell anybody how to vote rendered and

00:39:31.440 Caesars what Caesars, but there are certain principles that you have to have, or you'll lose

00:39:38.080 not only this citizenship, but the next citizenship, the one that really matters. And boy, if you are doing

00:39:44.440 it because you're a coward, you are in the wrong business, get out of the pulpit and go to work

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00:46:21.140 You know, if I was a betting man, and I'm not,

00:46:24.360 I would only bet on one of two states

00:46:27.240 to really be able to stand whatever is coming our way.

00:46:33.040 And I would, those two states would be Florida and Texas.

00:46:38.060 Texas is the strongest in business.

00:46:42.200 Texas is just not going to sit down 1.00

00:46:44.540 unless they forget they're Texas.

00:46:46.720 And Florida has just found what it means to be a free state

00:46:50.560 unless they forget.

00:46:52.180 But these two states are the strongest in the nation

00:46:56.680 and Texas just keeps pummeling all other states.

00:47:00.940 I think it's 75% of all jobs created in a recession

00:47:05.480 in 2008 were created in Texas

00:47:10.920 because they're free and they get it.

00:47:13.780 The governor of the state has just announced

00:47:16.600 that he's running for governor

00:47:18.340 and running again for governor

00:47:20.580 and is going to take on, this time,

00:47:23.940 property tax.

00:47:26.440 It is an out-of-control problem in Texas.

00:47:29.460 Property tax.

00:47:30.540 Not a state issue.

00:47:31.720 It's a local issue.

00:47:33.240 We're going to talk to the governor.

00:47:35.240 It's his birthday.

00:47:36.120 We're going to talk to him in 60 seconds.

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00:48:50.860 Governor Greg Abbott, welcome to the program.

00:48:52.500 How are you, Governor?

00:48:53.820 Hey, I'm doing great.

00:48:54.720 How are you doing?

00:48:56.140 I'm good.

00:48:56.740 It's not my birthday.

00:48:57.860 And you are a brilliant man.

00:49:01.780 And I wish I would have thought of this.

00:49:04.320 It's your birthday today.

00:49:06.120 And you married a woman who has the same birthday,

00:49:09.520 so you never forget her birthday.

00:49:12.160 Brilliant.

00:49:13.720 Very simple.

00:49:14.880 I wanted to make sure I married a wife 1.00

00:49:17.260 whose birthday I would never forget.

00:49:20.160 But of course, she would tell you

00:49:22.260 she's much younger than I am.

00:49:23.460 Well, welcome to the program.

00:49:28.140 We're glad you're here.

00:49:29.540 Let's stop.

00:49:31.460 Let's start talking about property taxes in Texas.

00:49:35.500 They're out of control.

00:49:39.240 And I know people who were born and bred in Texas,

00:49:42.420 and they've said the same thing.

00:49:44.260 Politicians always talk about changing property taxes,

00:49:47.300 and it's never done.

00:49:48.400 So why is this promise from you different?

00:49:53.060 So I will tell you about the five solutions

00:49:56.180 that I have announced in my re-election campaign,

00:49:59.360 but before that, to discuss it appropriately,

00:50:02.600 I need to set it up correctly.

00:50:04.440 And that is very important for listeners to understand

00:50:07.500 in the state of Texas,

00:50:08.420 and that is the state does not impose property taxes.

00:50:12.440 Property taxes in Texas are imposed

00:50:14.320 only by local jurisdictions.

00:50:16.040 It could be schools, cities, counties,

00:50:19.360 other local taxing jurisdictions.

00:50:21.720 Even though the state doesn't oppose a property tax,

00:50:25.060 and hence in the legislature,

00:50:26.660 we can't go in and say,

00:50:27.520 well, we're going to cut this property tax.

00:50:29.420 What we have done is we have used state money

00:50:33.000 to try to buy down the local property taxes,

00:50:36.640 especially the school district property taxes.

00:50:38.980 This last session that we just completed earlier this year,

00:50:41.580 that we used $51 billion of state money,

00:50:46.960 which is a quarter of all of our state funds,

00:50:49.280 to buy down property tax rates.

00:50:51.580 And when Texans open up their property tax bill

00:50:55.420 this next time,

00:50:56.160 they are going to see that property taxes have decreased.

00:50:59.980 However, Glenn, this is the problem,

00:51:01.800 because this is what we've been dealing with year after year,

00:51:05.460 and that is even though we are able

00:51:07.520 to buy down property tax rates,

00:51:09.020 the local taxing jurisdictions go behind our back,

00:51:13.740 and they start pumping up those property taxes again.

00:51:17.620 And so the benefit that we provide

00:51:21.400 to our taxpayers is fleeting.

00:51:23.700 So I have four or five solutions

00:51:27.100 to make sure we are going to put the end

00:51:29.680 to the skyrocketing local property taxes.

00:51:31.860 Number one, there's only one reason

00:51:34.060 why property taxes would go up in the first place,

00:51:36.440 and that's because of out-of-control spending

00:51:39.420 at the local level.

00:51:41.140 And the state of Texas has four constitutional limitations

00:51:44.860 on our ability to increase spending.

00:51:46.860 Local governments don't have that.

00:51:48.740 Local governments have to live within their means,

00:51:50.920 just like families,

00:51:51.800 and just like the state has to live with our means.

00:51:54.240 And so we want to impose spending limits

00:51:57.400 on local government that are common sense

00:52:00.300 to make sure that they are not spending

00:52:03.100 in a way that increases property taxes.

00:52:05.160 It's second.

00:52:06.260 Like, what does that mean?

00:52:08.680 How do you make a spending limit?

00:52:11.760 Well, for example, in the state of Texas,

00:52:14.500 one of our constitutional spending limits is

00:52:16.480 our spending cannot increase more than

00:52:19.360 the aggregation of population growth and inflation,

00:52:25.100 or 3%, whichever is the low.

00:52:27.560 And so, in other words,

00:52:29.640 if your population is growing a whole lot,

00:52:32.620 obviously you've got to spend more on roads

00:52:34.500 and different things like that.

00:52:35.900 Or if inflation is going through the roof,

00:52:37.780 you've got to find a way to keep up with that

00:52:39.180 so you can buy the appropriate food,

00:52:41.380 all that kind of stuff.

00:52:42.460 But, you know, to be honest,

00:52:45.020 population and inflation growth

00:52:49.280 only aggregates about 3% a year.

00:52:52.160 So that's one of the ways.

00:52:53.640 Another thing I'll tell you,

00:52:54.760 and that is in Austin, Texas,

00:52:56.280 which is one of the worst offenders

00:52:58.220 in the state of Texas,

00:52:59.360 their population growth has been roughly flat

00:53:02.180 for the past 10 years,

00:53:03.140 and despite that fact,

00:53:04.120 their property taxes have increased

00:53:06.060 almost double in that time period.

00:53:08.780 And so, clearly, Austin is spending

00:53:11.660 far in excess of population growth plus inflation.

00:53:15.780 And we see that in so many cities across the state.

00:53:19.980 So another thing that has to be done

00:53:22.600 on the spending side

00:53:23.520 is to stop the deficit spending.

00:53:26.140 The state cannot go into a deficit.

00:53:28.520 And actually, we have the largest budget surplus

00:53:31.100 of any city in the United States.

00:53:33.100 But local taxing authorities

00:53:35.760 sometimes increase property taxes

00:53:37.660 to take care of deficits,

00:53:39.040 and that means they have a spending problem.

00:53:41.400 And that has to be corrected.

00:53:43.200 So that's item number one.

00:53:44.780 Item number two is that

00:53:46.440 no property tax should ever be increased

00:53:49.960 without it being voted on by the public

00:53:52.760 and require a two-thirds vote to approve it.

00:53:56.220 That alone...

00:53:56.660 Wow.

00:53:58.000 Yeah.

00:53:58.420 So hardly any taxes would be increased

00:54:01.460 if it requires a two-thirds vote

00:54:03.260 of all the people

00:54:04.420 who are going to be voting on that.

00:54:06.960 Another thing is to put the power

00:54:08.380 in the hands of the people

00:54:09.460 to slash their own property taxes.

00:54:11.600 If 15% of residents

00:54:16.420 petition to put on the ballot

00:54:18.860 a property tax rate rollback,

00:54:21.820 they will get to vote

00:54:23.300 on reducing their own property tax rates

00:54:27.160 in that jurisdiction

00:54:27.980 so they can slash...

00:54:29.060 Oh my gosh, that's good.

00:54:29.820 And then one thing

00:54:32.620 that's kind of frightening to Texans

00:54:35.700 is whenever they get

00:54:36.620 their property appraisal bill.

00:54:38.440 Their property appraisal

00:54:39.420 just skyrockets

00:54:40.360 year after year after year,

00:54:42.700 and they fear even opening up

00:54:44.300 that bill in the first place.

00:54:45.940 And the way that it works in Texas

00:54:47.680 is the property appraisal

00:54:50.480 that you get is done frequently,

00:54:52.200 and it is allowed

00:54:54.420 to increase 10% a year.

00:54:57.340 And that means that the valuation

00:55:00.060 on which your property

00:55:01.340 is going to be taxed

00:55:02.220 goes through the roof.

00:55:04.060 And that is one of the key drivers

00:55:05.740 that makes having a home

00:55:08.080 and owning a home

00:55:09.000 less affordable in Texas.

00:55:11.040 I want to change that

00:55:12.020 to have the appraisal done

00:55:14.420 only once every five years

00:55:16.120 and to put an annual cap on that,

00:55:19.080 reduce it from a 10% increase

00:55:21.640 to no more than a 3% increase per year.

00:55:24.800 And then the last thing...

00:55:26.220 Go ahead.

00:55:27.340 Go ahead.

00:55:28.360 No, the last thing.

00:55:30.140 The last thing is

00:55:31.380 every year that I've been governor,

00:55:34.040 we have had the public vote

00:55:37.060 on constitutional amendments

00:55:38.440 concerning property taxes.

00:55:40.760 But never before have we offered up

00:55:42.920 what I'm about to tell you,

00:55:44.280 which would be the one

00:55:45.540 that would really curtail it.

00:55:47.200 In Texas, the largest part

00:55:48.680 of your property tax

00:55:49.700 is the school district property tax.

00:55:52.340 And what we want to do

00:55:53.360 for homeowners who have a homestead

00:55:56.060 in the state of Texas

00:55:56.880 is to allow them to vote

00:55:58.840 on a constitutional amendment

00:56:00.360 that would ban

00:56:01.880 a school district property tax

00:56:04.260 for homesteads in Texas.

00:56:08.220 Meaning what exactly?

00:56:10.640 That if you're...

00:56:11.940 Meaning that the largest part

00:56:13.940 of your property tax bill,

00:56:14.900 which is about two-thirds of it,

00:56:17.260 is school districts.

00:56:18.320 people have a homestead in Texas

00:56:21.300 would never again pay

00:56:22.760 a property tax

00:56:23.580 on the school district

00:56:25.120 property tax bill.

00:56:27.320 Who's paying the bill then

00:56:28.620 for the school?

00:56:29.140 The state?

00:56:30.300 The state.

00:56:30.800 Yeah, the state would pick up

00:56:31.620 that cost.

00:56:33.540 So we went to...

00:56:34.480 In the state?

00:56:34.820 Yeah, we would have to fund education

00:56:37.960 that the state of Texas

00:56:39.060 would fully pay for that cost.

00:56:42.300 Wow.

00:56:44.700 Can I ask you something?

00:56:45.780 Do you find, in principle,

00:56:47.740 I think property tax

00:56:50.320 is the most immoral tax we have.

00:56:55.240 I...

00:56:55.720 With a property tax,

00:56:57.360 one never truly owns their land.

00:57:00.960 And that's...

00:57:02.160 I mean, that is the American dream

00:57:03.660 to be able to own your own

00:57:04.980 piece of land.

00:57:06.000 With a property tax,

00:57:07.460 you don't own it.

00:57:08.740 You're renting it

00:57:09.660 from the local government

00:57:11.040 or the state

00:57:11.720 or whoever is imposing that tax.

00:57:13.720 And it's just not right.

00:57:16.700 Do you agree with that or not?

00:57:18.900 Well, of course.

00:57:20.140 And what this...

00:57:21.900 These solutions do,

00:57:23.560 it returns the power

00:57:25.300 to the homeowner

00:57:26.220 to be able to control

00:57:28.220 their own property tax

00:57:29.360 and to slash it left and right.

00:57:32.220 And to feel like,

00:57:32.900 for once,

00:57:34.180 they're finally able

00:57:35.120 to live within their own home

00:57:36.900 and own it without being burdened

00:57:39.060 by the state

00:57:39.960 or local government.

00:57:42.800 Are you going to be able

00:57:43.920 to get this through

00:57:44.800 the House and the Senate?

00:57:47.240 So, you know,

00:57:48.860 this is such common sense, Glenn.

00:57:51.480 You would think that we would.

00:57:53.460 I will tell you,

00:57:54.780 there's opposition

00:57:55.940 to some of these elements

00:57:58.100 in both the House and Senate.

00:57:59.640 But I'll tell you something else.

00:58:01.500 I don't know if you follow

00:58:02.520 what I'm about to tell you.

00:58:03.920 And that is,

00:58:04.940 this last session,

00:58:06.520 I was able to finally push

00:58:08.260 and get across the finish line

00:58:09.600 to school choice

00:58:10.620 in the state of Texas.

00:58:12.140 I want you to know

00:58:12.720 that every year

00:58:13.500 that I've been governor,

00:58:15.540 I sought to get

00:58:16.320 school choice passed.

00:58:17.900 And then session two years ago,

00:58:20.600 I tried to get it passed.

00:58:22.420 And we didn't get it done

00:58:23.620 in a regular session.

00:58:24.360 I called four special sessions

00:58:27.060 to get school choice passed.

00:58:28.780 And it never passed.

00:58:29.840 But the last one,

00:58:30.460 I said, listen,

00:58:31.300 we can do this the easy way

00:58:32.500 or the hard way.

00:58:34.120 The easy way,

00:58:34.840 you guys just go ahead

00:58:35.720 and vote on school choice.

00:58:36.840 If you don't vote

00:58:37.920 on school choice,

00:58:38.960 I'm going to go

00:58:39.960 to the campaign trail

00:58:41.180 and I'm going to win this issue

00:58:43.060 at the ballot box

00:58:44.040 and we will defeat anybody

00:58:45.400 who does not support school choice.

00:58:47.760 I'm using that same methodology

00:58:49.700 to make sure

00:58:51.040 that we get this

00:58:51.760 property tax reform passed.

00:58:53.100 There are people

00:58:54.060 who are both Republicans

00:58:55.100 and Democrats

00:58:55.760 who are going to push back

00:58:57.240 about some of these elements

00:58:58.520 I just told you about.

00:58:59.720 All of these elements

00:59:00.680 are needed

00:59:01.160 if we're going to have

00:59:02.120 lasting property tax relief.

00:59:04.300 And hence,

00:59:04.920 I'm on the campaign trail already.

00:59:06.560 I was in Tyler, Texas yesterday.

00:59:07.880 I'm going to be

00:59:08.200 in Temple, Texas today.

00:59:09.600 I'm going to be

00:59:10.120 crisscrossing the state

00:59:11.120 to make sure

00:59:11.740 that we are getting

00:59:13.180 the buy-in support

00:59:14.260 that's going to be needed

00:59:15.080 when we get into

00:59:16.420 the next session

00:59:17.080 that we're finally going

00:59:18.420 to enact the measures

00:59:20.040 that are necessary

00:59:20.860 to ensure homeowners

00:59:22.260 can genuinely

00:59:23.180 live in their own home

00:59:25.140 without being taxed

00:59:26.540 out of their own property.

00:59:28.840 I think that's fabulous.

00:59:30.200 Governor,

00:59:30.600 thank you very much.

00:59:31.720 Good luck to you.

00:59:32.780 We'll talk again.

00:59:34.240 Governor Greg Abbott

00:59:35.080 from the great state of Texas.

00:59:37.720 All right.

00:59:38.000 More in just a second.

00:59:38.980 Let me tell you

00:59:39.300 about real estate agents.

00:59:40.300 I trust.com.

00:59:41.540 I have to tell you,

00:59:42.420 you know,

00:59:43.440 Ron DeSantis is pushing now

00:59:45.080 no property tax

00:59:46.600 here in Florida.

00:59:47.420 but I've not seen

00:59:48.180 his plan yet.

00:59:49.440 That seems like

00:59:50.220 a workable plan.

00:59:51.400 But the property taxes

00:59:53.360 in Texas

00:59:54.200 are just outrageous.

00:59:55.760 Just outrageous.

00:59:58.080 And kind of just

01:00:00.180 kind of holds you hostage

01:00:01.440 all the time.

01:00:02.960 I want to talk to you

01:00:03.840 about buying and selling homes

01:00:05.000 because I just sold

01:00:06.020 my home in Texas.

01:00:07.180 Just bought a home

01:00:08.100 here in Florida.

01:00:09.840 And I will tell you,

01:00:12.740 the right real estate agent

01:00:14.400 makes all the difference

01:00:15.480 in the world.

01:00:15.920 I tried to sell my house,

01:00:17.760 I don't know,

01:00:18.700 four or five years ago

01:00:19.920 and just couldn't do it.

01:00:23.020 This time,

01:00:23.740 I didn't have a real estate agent

01:00:25.120 from realestateagentsitrust.com.

01:00:26.860 This time,

01:00:27.220 before I put my house

01:00:27.940 up on the market,

01:00:28.600 I said to the guy

01:00:29.520 who's running real estate agents,

01:00:30.800 I said,

01:00:31.000 could you find a guy,

01:00:32.200 you know,

01:00:33.180 that would represent my house

01:00:34.720 in this area

01:00:35.540 because we didn't have anybody.

01:00:37.000 And he's like,

01:00:37.760 well, I'll try.

01:00:38.760 So we found somebody.

01:00:40.020 His name is Brad Cook

01:00:41.000 and we vetted him.

01:00:43.440 He's part of the network now.

01:00:44.780 I said to him in August,

01:00:47.520 I said,

01:00:47.940 look,

01:00:48.180 here's my goal.

01:00:50.100 Have it done by November 1st.

01:00:52.220 I just like to have it closed

01:00:53.500 and done by November 1st.

01:00:54.600 He's like,

01:00:55.020 okay,

01:00:55.540 we'll do everything we can.

01:00:57.000 He was on us

01:00:58.380 every single day.

01:00:59.660 We never had to question

01:01:00.920 where we were

01:01:01.580 and we closed October 31st.

01:01:05.420 realestateagentsitrust.com.

01:01:06.320 When you're looking for somebody

01:01:07.780 that will do

01:01:09.380 what you're asking them to do

01:01:11.240 and they know the market,

01:01:12.520 they know how to sell your home,

01:01:14.660 find that real estate agent

01:01:16.080 at realestateagentsitrust.com.

01:01:18.200 It is a free service to you.

01:01:19.360 This is my company,

01:01:20.420 realestateagentsitrust.com.

01:01:22.780 10 seconds,

01:01:23.340 back to the show.

01:01:23.880 What do you think of those

01:01:36.980 five points,

01:01:38.240 Stu,

01:01:38.460 for property tax?

01:01:39.820 As someone who has to pay

01:01:41.140 property tax in Texas,

01:01:42.740 I like them quite a bit.

01:01:43.980 That would be great.

01:01:45.460 Especially as a person

01:01:46.820 who's also paying

01:01:47.680 for a separate school,

01:01:50.000 the idea of not paying

01:01:51.040 the school tax.

01:01:51.940 And I know he was

01:01:54.460 on a tight window there.

01:01:56.360 Gregabbott.com

01:01:57.140 if you want more information

01:01:58.040 about the campaign.

01:01:59.720 But I'm curious

01:02:01.540 as to how the state pays

01:02:03.080 if we get rid of

01:02:04.120 all those local taxes

01:02:05.280 for the schools.

01:02:06.120 He mentioned the state

01:02:06.840 would pick up the cost.

01:02:08.080 And I know he's not

01:02:09.080 talking about an income tax.

01:02:10.780 There's no income tax here,

01:02:12.100 which is why

01:02:13.200 the property taxes

01:02:15.240 are on the higher side.

01:02:16.660 But I would make that trade.

01:02:18.400 I'm fine with that trade.

01:02:19.180 But I'd love to get them lower

01:02:21.520 to non-existent.

01:02:23.200 I'd say that.

01:02:24.260 The problem is

01:02:25.100 when, you know,

01:02:26.460 it's your neighbors,

01:02:27.980 honestly,

01:02:28.460 that go to the ballot box

01:02:29.960 and they'll vote.

01:02:30.740 In Texas,

01:02:31.340 I'm not kidding you,

01:02:32.800 for a high school stadium,

01:02:35.940 $80 million.

01:02:38.720 Okay?

01:02:39.920 In fact,

01:02:40.780 so nice,

01:02:41.440 the Dallas Cowboys

01:02:42.400 will practice there.

01:02:44.740 Okay?

01:02:45.040 And I mean,

01:02:47.400 it just never ends.

01:02:48.500 And you're like,

01:02:49.840 to everybody in your neighborhood,

01:02:51.340 you're like,

01:02:51.620 what are you doing?

01:02:52.860 Oh, man,

01:02:53.440 it's going to be great

01:02:54.080 to have this.

01:02:54.500 You know you're paying for it,

01:02:56.280 right?

01:02:57.240 They just,

01:02:57.740 I don't know why

01:02:58.340 they don't connect that

01:02:59.620 with their property tax

01:03:00.820 because then they immediately

01:03:01.760 bitch about their property tax 1.00

01:03:03.420 and you're like,

01:03:03.820 yeah,

01:03:04.100 you're the one who voted

01:03:05.120 for the $80 million

01:03:06.540 high school stadium.

01:03:08.800 What's wrong with you?

01:03:10.640 But I think he solves that

01:03:12.420 by the debt issue

01:03:13.620 because it always happens.

01:03:15.480 People will always vote for,

01:03:17.380 do you want,

01:03:17.940 do you want this

01:03:18.560 in the neighborhood?

01:03:19.380 Yeah,

01:03:19.940 I like that idea.

01:03:21.920 Yeah.

01:03:22.200 And they never tie it.

01:03:23.920 It's such a tough one

01:03:24.900 because everyone likes new things.

01:03:27.540 You know,

01:03:27.660 people like it

01:03:28.320 when you build new fancy buildings

01:03:29.960 and facilities in the town

01:03:31.320 and they almost always pass.

01:03:34.880 Always.

01:03:35.840 It's fascinating.

01:03:36.940 And then,

01:03:37.160 of course,

01:03:37.440 you're right.

01:03:37.800 They just complain about the taxes

01:03:39.760 and this doesn't even go into

01:03:40.860 the fact that,

01:03:41.960 you know,

01:03:42.220 stadium's different,

01:03:43.280 but a lot of times

01:03:43.920 these are building businesses,

01:03:46.760 essentially,

01:03:47.700 that are competitors

01:03:48.480 to actual businesses

01:03:49.700 in the community.

01:03:51.180 You know,

01:03:51.380 the example-

01:03:52.240 Is that happening all over the country

01:03:52.940 or is that just a Texas thing?

01:03:54.580 Oh,

01:03:54.780 I think that's happening

01:03:55.500 all over the country.

01:03:56.280 I mean,

01:03:56.380 if you have a,

01:03:56.940 if you have a rec center,

01:03:59.560 right,

01:03:59.920 that is a,

01:04:00.740 you know,

01:04:00.920 has a gym facility

01:04:02.240 that they're offering memberships

01:04:04.000 in your town,

01:04:04.560 this is happening in your town

01:04:05.640 where,

01:04:06.400 you know,

01:04:06.620 like someone who is,

01:04:08.040 you know,

01:04:08.220 built a gym business,

01:04:10.060 you know,

01:04:10.780 they've spent the money

01:04:12.340 and they're trying to market it

01:04:13.500 and now they are competing

01:04:15.400 with a government-sponsored business

01:04:18.680 that is paying for the business

01:04:21.740 with taxpayer dollars,

01:04:25.500 even their competitors'

01:04:27.000 taxpayer dollars.

01:04:27.780 Why is it we don't see this?

01:04:30.900 I mean,

01:04:31.140 we know government grocery stores

01:04:33.780 in New York,

01:04:34.440 bad idea.

01:04:36.500 That's a great point.

01:04:37.140 Why don't we know that about this?

01:04:40.140 I mean,

01:04:40.440 I guess because,

01:04:41.800 I guess because they,

01:04:44.100 you know,

01:04:44.320 in Texas at least,

01:04:45.400 they'll make it work

01:04:46.620 and so it just doesn't spiral

01:04:48.260 out of control

01:04:49.180 and then just be a crap hole

01:04:51.120 that has to close down.

01:04:52.900 So I guess maybe it's like,

01:04:54.020 well,

01:04:54.200 this was really,

01:04:55.160 really better.

01:04:55.960 Yeah,

01:04:56.060 but the principle is wrong.

01:04:58.440 The principle is,

01:04:59.200 you're putting other people

01:05:00.260 out of work.

01:05:01.460 You're taking the entrepreneurial spirit

01:05:03.560 and just crushing it.

01:05:04.780 Yeah,

01:05:05.100 basically,

01:05:05.520 I just don't think people

01:05:06.520 think about it,

01:05:07.340 honestly.

01:05:07.840 I think people like

01:05:09.500 that their community

01:05:10.120 is maybe a little bit

01:05:11.360 of a better place

01:05:12.160 and they don't mind

01:05:13.160 dabbling into

01:05:14.340 what is essentially socialism.

01:05:16.580 I mean,

01:05:16.740 it really is a dabble

01:05:17.920 into socialism

01:05:18.640 when you do things like that

01:05:20.060 and most of the time,

01:05:23.280 I think people just,

01:05:24.420 you know,

01:05:25.540 this is an accepted part

01:05:26.820 of small town

01:05:29.040 or mid-city life,

01:05:30.720 right?

01:05:30.960 Like where you just do

01:05:31.840 these things

01:05:32.440 and the government

01:05:33.240 does provide

01:05:34.460 certain facilities

01:05:36.360 that we all,

01:05:37.980 you know,

01:05:38.780 just are okay with.

01:05:40.360 And,

01:05:40.560 you know,

01:05:40.700 like a library

01:05:41.740 is an example of this

01:05:42.980 in an extreme example

01:05:44.420 where like,

01:05:45.140 you know,

01:05:45.660 like,

01:05:46.400 hey,

01:05:46.760 your tax dollars

01:05:47.840 are going to pay

01:05:48.340 for a bookstore

01:05:49.000 where all the books

01:05:49.700 are free.

01:05:50.620 Like,

01:05:50.800 what does that mean

01:05:51.360 to someone

01:05:51.680 who wants

01:05:51.940 to open

01:05:52.280 a bookstore?

01:05:53.300 Like,

01:05:53.460 there's a difference.

01:05:55.460 I mean,

01:05:55.640 the library,

01:05:56.660 I think,

01:05:57.460 you know,

01:05:58.500 you know,

01:05:59.140 most,

01:05:59.620 a lot of our libraries

01:06:00.880 were started by,

01:06:02.380 you know,

01:06:02.640 one of the robber barons,

01:06:04.140 Carnegie.

01:06:04.880 Yeah.

01:06:05.800 And he built

01:06:07.200 these beautiful libraries

01:06:09.720 all over the country,

01:06:11.520 small towns,

01:06:12.160 big towns,

01:06:12.580 all over the country

01:06:13.720 because he said

01:06:15.320 that is the key

01:06:16.520 to getting someplace.

01:06:18.720 That's the key

01:06:19.500 to not being a slave

01:06:20.720 and I want to make sure

01:06:21.760 that every poor child

01:06:23.900 has access

01:06:24.740 to what he called

01:06:26.120 then a king's library.

01:06:27.700 Every book

01:06:28.160 that is in the king's library

01:06:29.560 should be in every hometown

01:06:31.560 and so he paid for it.

01:06:33.300 I think that's fabulous.

01:06:34.760 Fabulous.

01:06:35.140 And that is the case

01:06:35.760 in some situations

01:06:37.140 but I mean,

01:06:37.840 you know,

01:06:38.120 it's the same argument

01:06:39.500 they make with a gym.

01:06:40.580 They're like,

01:06:40.780 oh,

01:06:40.880 well,

01:06:40.960 this is healthy

01:06:41.500 for the community.

01:06:42.260 People need to have access

01:06:43.180 to be able to go exercise.

01:06:44.620 Like,

01:06:44.780 there's always a difference,

01:06:46.660 always an argument,

01:06:47.520 right?

01:06:47.760 But the principle

01:06:49.220 a lot of times

01:06:49.780 just gets left behind.

01:06:52.220 This is Glenn Beck.

01:06:56.880 There's a moment

01:06:57.880 every morning

01:06:58.600 when the light shifts

01:07:00.140 that first burst of color

01:07:01.820 through the window,

01:07:02.700 a quiet stretch

01:07:03.800 before the day begins.

01:07:05.000 The house is still

01:07:05.840 and the world

01:07:06.380 is just waking up

01:07:07.480 and then you hear it.

01:07:09.200 The thump of pause,

01:07:10.600 that tail against the wall,

01:07:11.940 the sound that says,

01:07:13.020 I'm awake,

01:07:13.580 I'm awake,

01:07:14.160 let's go,

01:07:14.660 let's go.

01:07:15.740 Sometimes that energy

01:07:16.980 drives you nuts

01:07:18.880 because you don't

01:07:19.320 have the energy.

01:07:20.080 Sometimes when that energy

01:07:21.020 fades,

01:07:21.720 age,

01:07:22.160 diet,

01:07:23.420 it starts to take the toll

01:07:25.040 and the spark dims

01:07:26.340 and the mornings

01:07:26.860 get quieter.

01:07:28.560 I still

01:07:29.180 miss that.

01:07:35.940 Still miss that

01:07:36.860 in the mornings.

01:07:41.480 Dogs are our best friends.

01:07:42.940 treat your dog right.

01:07:47.340 Make sure that you're

01:07:48.220 giving your dog

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01:08:33.620 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:08:35.520 I don't know if you saw

01:08:36.460 the number one song

01:08:37.720 on the Billboard music charts.

01:08:39.320 I want to talk about this

01:08:40.240 in depth tomorrow.

01:08:41.100 but it is

01:08:43.480 number one

01:08:45.220 on the country music

01:08:46.760 billboard charts.

01:08:48.140 I want you to listen to it.

01:08:50.100 Go ahead.

01:08:50.920 Mmm

01:08:51.680 I want you to listen to it.

01:08:52.600 Hmm

01:08:53.260 been beat down

01:08:58.660 but I don't stay low

01:09:01.660 got mud on my jeans

01:09:04.780 still ready to go

01:09:07.120 Every scar's a story

01:09:09.900 that I survived

01:09:11.300 I've been through hell

01:09:13.360 but I'm still alive

01:09:15.740 They said slow down, boy, don't go too fast

01:09:20.480 But I ain't never been one to live in the past

01:09:24.100 I keep moving forward, never looking back

01:09:27.720 With a worn-out hat and a six-string strap

01:09:30.860 You can kick rocks if you don't like how I talk

01:09:36.320 I'm gonna keep on talking and walk my walk

01:09:39.680 Ain't changing my tone, ain't changing my song

01:09:43.180 I was born this way, been loud too long

01:09:46.520 You can hate my style, you can roll your eyes

01:09:49.920 But I ain't slowing down, I was born to rise

01:09:53.180 So kick them rocks if you don't like how I talk

01:09:56.640 I'm gonna keep on talking and walk my walk

01:10:00.360 Okay, so the interesting thing about this song is

01:10:04.260 that guy who's singing that has not been talking for a long time

01:10:08.780 He has not been walking for a long time

01:10:10.800 In fact, he was not born long ago

01:10:13.420 He's not real, that's AI 0.88

01:10:15.640 The number one song on the Billboard country music chart

01:10:19.880 is AI

01:10:21.180 AI

01:10:24.540 I have to tell you, some of my favorite music

01:10:29.960 is coming from AI right now

01:10:31.460 And I don't know how to feel about it

01:10:33.900 You know, we just

01:10:35.040 It wasn't too long ago that we thought

01:10:37.840 Oh, well, it's never gonna be able to do that

01:10:39.520 It can't, you know, art is the music

01:10:41.920 Art is the window to the soul

01:10:44.640 How is AI

01:10:46.840 If you look at some of the lyrics of this song

01:10:49.060 I mean, it talks about how he's been dragged through the mud

01:10:53.720 He's, you know, had to really stand

01:10:55.480 I mean

01:10:56.540 It doesn't know any of that stuff

01:10:59.860 None of it is real

01:11:00.800 And yet, it is assembling it in a way

01:11:02.920 That is so appealing

01:11:04.380 It's number one

01:11:06.180 On the Billboard country music chart

01:11:08.500 If that, and this is where I want to focus tomorrow

01:11:13.840 I want to talk to you about college

01:11:15.720 And what are you telling your kids about college?

01:11:19.540 What are you doing?

01:11:20.780 If you're in college, what are you doing?

01:11:23.260 If you're thinking about college

01:11:24.560 What are you thinking?

01:11:26.300 Because the whole world is about to change

01:11:28.260 You know, I just heard Elon Musk say

01:11:30.960 That in five years

01:11:32.060 There's not gonna be phones or apps

01:11:34.000 I mean, think

01:11:35.100 I want you to think about this

01:11:36.280 There won't be phones or apps

01:11:39.700 It will just be some sort of a box or device

01:11:43.920 That you kind of carry around with you

01:11:45.800 And it's listening

01:11:47.840 It's anticipating

01:11:49.400 It's AI

01:11:50.640 It's an agent AI

01:11:53.180 And it will know what you want to hear

01:11:56.960 What you want

01:11:57.760 And it will create the music you want to hear

01:12:00.160 It will create the podcast you want to hear

01:12:02.600 It will do all of this stuff for you

01:12:05.180 So we will be even in our own universe

01:12:07.500 Even more than we are right now

01:12:09.700 But if

01:12:12.260 If AI can fake

01:12:16.100 Being a human

01:12:19.420 And sing soulfully

01:12:23.220 While not having a soul

01:12:25.820 What does it mean to be a human?

01:12:29.760 I have been asking this question

01:12:32.380 And been saying, Stu

01:12:33.660 Since the 90s

01:12:35.280 I have been saying

01:12:37.700 We have to have a conversation

01:12:40.260 On what does it mean to be human?

01:12:43.340 What does it mean to be alive?

01:12:46.420 Because there's gonna come a time

01:12:47.840 When you won't know what it means

01:12:50.140 Are we there yet?

01:12:53.180 Stu, are we there?

01:12:57.060 It's a good question

01:12:58.300 I mean, I think we know

01:13:00.320 What it means to be human

01:13:01.900 But I think

01:13:02.480 The ways that we have

01:13:04.720 Shorthanded that

01:13:06.420 Over the years

01:13:07.160 Are dissolving

01:13:08.260 Right?

01:13:08.880 Like, you know

01:13:09.400 When you come up with

01:13:09.980 What seems like original thought

01:13:12.140 We might all be able to acknowledge

01:13:13.980 That something that AI

01:13:14.980 Turns out

01:13:15.600 Is not an original thought

01:13:16.780 But it certainly seems like it

01:13:20.460 To most

01:13:21.080 And I think a lot of people

01:13:22.000 Won't care

01:13:22.560 Like, people won't care

01:13:23.920 If it is made by humans

01:13:26.360 Or not

01:13:26.800 If they like it

01:13:27.600 And they seem to like it

01:13:29.960 And while there will

01:13:32.040 I think be

01:13:33.020 A real pushback

01:13:34.460 By some

01:13:35.440 Against this stuff

01:13:36.680 Just like

01:13:37.420 You know

01:13:37.700 I have a bunch of friends

01:13:38.540 Who are

01:13:39.020 Into the

01:13:41.320 Horror movie

01:13:42.920 Practical effects

01:13:44.420 World

01:13:45.720 Where they are like

01:13:46.940 I like going

01:13:48.020 That's why I like to watch

01:13:49.060 Horror movies

01:13:49.500 Because

01:13:49.820 They use real fake blood

01:13:52.280 Or whatever

01:13:53.220 Yeah, I know

01:13:54.380 It's a weird dedication

01:13:55.880 It's not my thing

01:13:56.620 I don't care

01:13:57.140 You know

01:13:58.040 When I go to a movie

01:13:58.620 If it's CGI

01:13:59.280 And it looks real

01:14:00.240 I don't care

01:14:00.800 But they love the fact

01:14:02.660 That it's being made

01:14:04.020 By, you know

01:14:04.700 Practical effects

01:14:05.620 And if that's

01:14:06.360 There will always be

01:14:07.720 Some interest in that

01:14:08.820 I think

01:14:09.180 There will always be

01:14:10.280 Some interest in

01:14:11.080 Watching someone

01:14:11.760 Doing something manually

01:14:13.140 That a machine

01:14:14.100 Could do easier

01:14:14.940 In some ways better

01:14:16.580 But like

01:14:17.760 It becomes niche

01:14:19.560 After a while

01:14:20.300 Doesn't it?

01:14:21.200 Yeah

01:14:21.320 Handmade

01:14:22.640 Is going to come back

01:14:24.000 Into style

01:14:24.840 At some point

01:14:26.240 Handmade

01:14:26.980 Human made

01:14:27.760 Will come back

01:14:28.460 Into style

01:14:28.980 But we are going

01:14:30.140 We are

01:14:30.480 We're going to go

01:14:31.280 Through a period

01:14:31.820 Where it's going to

01:14:32.260 Get really scary

01:14:33.020 Because I mean

01:14:33.640 If a machine can

01:14:34.540 If a machine can

01:14:36.240 Sing soulfully

01:14:37.140 And not have a soul

01:14:38.400 What does

01:14:41.060 What does that mean?

01:14:42.040 If it can sculpt

01:14:43.460 Beauty

01:14:44.000 Generate things

01:14:45.940 That can make you cry

01:14:47.540 But it

01:14:48.160 How does it know

01:14:49.820 How

01:14:50.040 It doesn't have

01:14:51.020 Anything real

01:14:51.840 Inside of it

01:14:52.580 If it can imitate

01:14:53.360 Genius

01:14:54.000 Then what is

01:14:55.220 Our genius?

01:14:56.780 What does that mean?

01:14:59.680 Let me start

01:15:00.300 This conversation

01:15:01.240 We're going to go

01:15:01.660 Into this more

01:15:02.300 On tomorrow's program

01:15:03.120 But let me just

01:15:03.780 Start this with

01:15:04.760 When you start

01:15:07.840 To ask yourself

01:15:08.500 What does it mean

01:15:09.360 To be a human?

01:15:10.360 A machine

01:15:12.780 Can produce

01:15:13.900 And it can produce

01:15:15.360 And will produce

01:15:16.260 Better than you can

01:15:17.760 But it cannot

01:15:18.760 Care

01:15:19.660 It cannot

01:15:20.680 Actually care

01:15:22.080 It can calculate

01:15:23.560 But it cannot

01:15:24.920 Love

01:15:25.820 A machine

01:15:27.860 Can imitate

01:15:29.000 Suffering

01:15:29.860 It can relate

01:15:30.740 To suffering

01:15:31.480 It can

01:15:32.080 Sing songs

01:15:33.320 Soulfully

01:15:34.120 Like it has

01:15:35.340 Suffered

01:15:35.700 But it can

01:15:36.480 Never walk

01:15:37.320 Through the valley

01:15:38.160 Of suffering

01:15:38.900 It can analyze

01:15:41.000 Morality

01:15:41.860 But it

01:15:43.360 Can't

01:15:44.420 Instinctively

01:15:46.580 Choose

01:15:47.520 Right and wrong

01:15:48.880 Because it's

01:15:49.740 Serving a higher

01:15:50.600 Power

01:15:51.080 It has no

01:15:52.100 It has no

01:15:53.040 Conscience

01:15:53.520 It has no

01:15:54.240 Courage

01:15:54.940 It has no

01:15:56.160 Soul

01:15:56.760 It will never

01:15:58.020 Put itself

01:15:58.760 Between danger

01:16:00.180 And a child

01:16:00.880 It will never

01:16:02.100 Forgive

01:16:02.520 Because it's

01:16:03.180 Never really

01:16:03.960 Offended

01:16:04.540 It will never

01:16:06.140 Sacrifice

01:16:07.180 It will never

01:16:08.920 Bury a friend

01:16:09.940 And carry that

01:16:10.900 Little piece of

01:16:11.780 Grief with them

01:16:12.860 For the rest

01:16:13.680 Of their lives

01:16:14.400 There's something

01:16:16.880 Different about

01:16:17.960 Humans

01:16:18.420 And it is

01:16:20.140 It's not about

01:16:21.640 What we can

01:16:22.880 Do

01:16:23.260 It is

01:16:24.000 Everything about

01:16:25.060 The divine

01:16:25.720 Spark

01:16:26.440 Only humans

01:16:29.380 Can look at

01:16:30.660 Something and

01:16:31.260 Say

01:16:31.560 Damn it

01:16:33.160 I know all

01:16:33.600 The odds

01:16:33.940 Are against

01:16:34.340 Me

01:16:34.560 All reason

01:16:35.220 Goes against

01:16:35.840 This

01:16:36.160 But I'm

01:16:36.900 Going to

01:16:37.200 Build it

01:16:37.580 And said

01:16:37.960 I'm going

01:16:38.500 To rebuild

01:16:39.160 Only humans

01:16:41.400 Hear the

01:16:42.260 Call of

01:16:43.160 From deep

01:16:43.740 Within

01:16:44.140 The

01:16:44.500 The

01:16:45.840 Whispering

01:16:46.700 Of the spirit

01:16:48.100 Or the

01:16:48.840 Ancient

01:16:49.400 Whispers

01:16:50.040 The machines

01:16:51.420 Will never

01:16:52.120 Hear

01:16:52.600 Saying

01:16:53.360 Live for

01:16:54.100 Something greater

01:16:54.760 Than yourself

01:16:55.640 There is

01:16:56.440 Something more

01:16:57.420 Out there

01:16:58.400 Only humans

01:17:02.120 Can take

01:17:02.520 Suffering

01:17:02.980 And learn

01:17:04.180 Compassion

01:17:04.940 Only humans

01:17:06.240 Can take

01:17:07.100 Fear

01:17:07.520 And turn it

01:17:08.220 Into courage

01:17:08.840 And bravery

01:17:09.480 Only humans

01:17:10.560 Can take

01:17:11.060 History

01:17:11.540 And turn it

01:17:12.720 Into real

01:17:13.320 Wisdom

01:17:13.920 We are

01:17:16.840 Making

01:17:17.220 Artificial

01:17:17.880 Minds

01:17:18.500 But we

01:17:18.780 Are not

01:17:19.380 Making

01:17:19.940 Artificial

01:17:20.620 Life

01:17:21.420 But as

01:17:22.160 These

01:17:22.600 Artificial

01:17:23.720 Minds

01:17:24.800 Begin to

01:17:25.500 Get better

01:17:25.980 And better

01:17:26.580 And their

01:17:27.140 Tools become

01:17:27.900 Better and

01:17:28.380 Better

01:17:28.640 It should

01:17:29.880 Not make

01:17:30.760 Us

01:17:31.060 Smaller

01:17:31.940 It should

01:17:32.800 Make us

01:17:33.380 Ask bigger

01:17:34.440 Questions

01:17:35.100 Who am

01:17:37.160 I

01:17:37.460 Why am

01:17:39.140 I here

01:17:39.720 What is

01:17:41.160 The purpose

01:17:41.760 Of life

01:17:42.440 The questions

01:17:43.800 That man

01:17:44.180 Has been

01:17:44.440 Asking

01:17:44.780 Since the

01:17:45.760 Dawn of

01:17:46.360 Time

01:17:46.900 What am

01:17:48.380 I willing

01:17:48.920 To endure

01:17:49.720 For the

01:17:50.620 Sake of

01:17:51.060 Truth

01:17:51.500 What am

01:17:52.320 I willing

01:17:52.740 To stand

01:17:53.240 Up for

01:17:53.500 What is

01:17:54.180 Worth

01:17:54.580 Living for

01:17:55.560 What is

01:17:55.980 Worth

01:17:56.260 Dying

01:17:56.800 For

01:17:57.200 What is

01:17:58.740 The purpose

01:17:59.360 Of the

01:17:59.900 Freedom

01:18:00.320 That I

01:18:00.840 Have right

01:18:01.400 Now

01:18:01.740 Is there

01:18:02.680 A purpose

01:18:03.260 What's

01:18:06.040 The spark

01:18:06.600 Inside of

01:18:07.220 Me that

01:18:07.560 No machine

01:18:08.280 Will ever

01:18:08.860 Be able

01:18:09.240 To copy

01:18:09.760 No algorithm

01:18:10.980 Can simulate

01:18:11.860 No code

01:18:13.480 Can counterfeit

01:18:14.460 What makes

01:18:15.640 Me

01:18:16.100 Unique

01:18:16.940 That answer

01:18:20.480 Is going

01:18:20.700 To be found

01:18:21.080 In each

01:18:21.780 Of us

01:18:22.340 In each

01:18:23.020 Of our

01:18:23.300 Hearts

01:18:23.680 And it's

01:18:25.540 This weird

01:18:26.680 Mysterious

01:18:27.800 Furnace

01:18:28.560 Where reason

01:18:29.920 Meets faith

01:18:30.840 And memory

01:18:31.400 Becomes meaning

01:18:32.300 And the

01:18:32.680 Divine

01:18:33.280 Echoes

01:18:35.160 Inside of

01:18:35.940 Us

01:18:36.080 Reminded

01:18:36.700 Reminding us

01:18:37.460 That we

01:18:37.760 Are individuals

01:18:38.840 That we

01:18:39.320 Are here

01:18:39.920 For a

01:18:40.280 Purpose

01:18:40.660 That we

01:18:41.820 Can be

01:18:42.460 Forgiven

01:18:42.940 We can

01:18:43.660 Get stronger

01:18:44.460 We can

01:18:45.160 Rebuild

01:18:45.820 We can

01:18:47.140 Forget

01:18:47.700 Everything

01:18:48.360 The world

01:18:48.960 Is saying

01:18:49.580 And chart

01:18:50.100 Our own

01:18:50.740 Course

01:18:51.280 That's what

01:18:53.100 Makes us

01:18:53.560 Humans

01:18:53.860 And machines

01:18:54.400 Will not

01:18:55.200 Understand that

01:18:56.180 Being human

01:18:58.880 Isn't what

01:18:59.600 We can

01:18:59.900 Produce

01:19:00.400 Because you're

01:19:01.120 Going to

01:19:01.340 See it's

01:19:01.820 Producing

01:19:02.260 Everything

01:19:02.760 It's about

01:19:04.320 What we

01:19:04.640 Can choose

01:19:05.340 We can

01:19:06.420 Choose to

01:19:07.000 Love

01:19:07.320 We can

01:19:07.720 Choose to

01:19:08.100 Sacrifice

01:19:08.700 We can

01:19:09.060 Choose to

01:19:09.740 Tell the

01:19:10.220 Truth

01:19:10.560 We can

01:19:11.000 Choose to

01:19:11.860 Stand when

01:19:12.620 The world

01:19:13.060 Bows

01:19:13.660 We can

01:19:18.020 Choose to

01:19:18.440 Create not

01:19:19.040 Because we're

01:19:20.500 Told to

01:19:20.940 Create not

01:19:22.420 Because we

01:19:22.840 Make money

01:19:23.380 To create

01:19:24.040 But because

01:19:24.760 There's something

01:19:25.440 Inside us

01:19:26.500 That is so

01:19:27.080 Restless until

01:19:28.220 We do

01:19:28.760 Create

01:19:29.360 A lot of

01:19:33.560 People don't

01:19:33.940 Know that I

01:19:34.360 Paint I'm

01:19:34.900 An artist

01:19:35.380 I don't

01:19:36.580 Paint for

01:19:37.620 Anybody else

01:19:38.320 I don't

01:19:38.960 Paint to

01:19:39.420 Sell my

01:19:40.020 Paintings

01:19:40.480 I paint

01:19:42.760 Because there's

01:19:43.560 Something inside

01:19:44.320 Of me that

01:19:44.820 Compels me to

01:19:45.840 Do it

01:19:46.140 That is

01:19:46.980 Human

01:19:47.540 It can

01:19:48.380 Reproduce my

01:19:49.300 Brush strokes

01:19:50.020 And make

01:19:50.520 Them better

01:19:51.140 It can

01:19:52.100 Borrow our

01:19:52.820 Melodies

01:19:53.380 It can

01:19:53.940 Echo our

01:19:54.540 Stories but

01:19:55.260 It cannot

01:19:56.820 Replace the 1.00

01:19:57.600 Things that

01:19:58.060 Make us

01:19:58.500 Human

01:19:58.940 The ability

01:19:59.820 To forge

01:20:00.400 Meaning

01:20:00.940 Out of

01:20:02.240 All of the

01:20:02.800 Things that

01:20:03.360 We have

01:20:03.680 Suffered

01:20:04.100 Through

01:20:04.460 The age

01:20:07.280 Of machines

01:20:07.800 Is rising

01:20:08.580 And it is

01:20:09.360 Going to

01:20:09.800 Diminish

01:20:10.380 Us

01:20:10.820 If we

01:20:14.040 Don't

01:20:14.460 Figure out

01:20:15.120 Who we

01:20:15.780 Are and

01:20:16.540 What our

01:20:16.920 Purpose is

01:20:17.540 What is

01:20:18.420 That stirring

01:20:19.400 Inside of

01:20:20.320 Me you

01:20:20.600 May not

01:20:21.060 Find it

01:20:21.680 But recognize

01:20:22.980 That stirring

01:20:23.860 Inside of

01:20:24.460 You and

01:20:24.700 If it's

01:20:24.960 Not you're 0.92

01:20:25.660 Already

01:20:25.960 Starting to

01:20:26.480 Lose your

01:20:26.840 Humanity

01:20:27.460 It doesn't

01:20:29.640 Have to

01:20:29.960 Diminish us 0.98

01:20:30.520 It can

01:20:30.860 Refine us

01:20:31.860 It can

01:20:34.600 Remind us

01:20:35.360 Who we

01:20:36.680 Truly are

01:20:37.400 It can

01:20:38.040 Urge us

01:20:38.720 Find that

01:20:40.140 Because i'm

01:20:41.120 Coming to

01:20:41.660 Replace

01:20:42.120 Everything

01:20:42.580 Else

01:20:43.000 What makes

01:20:44.760 Us us

01:20:45.400 We're human

01:20:47.640 And that

01:20:50.680 Itself

01:20:51.480 Is a

01:20:52.640 Miracle

01:20:53.080 That a

01:20:53.560 Machine

01:20:54.120 Cannot

01:20:55.560 Recreate

01:20:56.480 Let me

01:20:59.420 Tell you

01:20:59.640 About our

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01:22:35.120 May you squeeze a call in with Jeff in Texas

01:22:58.540 Hello Jeff

01:22:59.200 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program

01:23:00.620 Hey Glenn

01:23:01.920 Yeah I was calling in

01:23:03.460 I heard you talking earlier about

01:23:04.680 You know the

01:23:05.600 Outrageous taxes

01:23:06.900 In Texas

01:23:07.520 And I'm over here in El Paso

01:23:09.980 In the El Paso Independent School District

01:23:12.300 And I

01:23:12.660 They

01:23:13.720 About

01:23:14.680 You want to talk about taxes

01:23:15.900 And corruption

01:23:16.640 They take 43%

01:23:18.500 Of our taxes

01:23:19.200 20

01:23:19.640 42 to 43%

01:23:22.160 And they

01:23:24.740 Spend it

01:23:26.340 Like

01:23:26.700 Crazy

01:23:27.700 I mean

01:23:28.540 You're talking about

01:23:29.660 What

01:23:29.840 80 million

01:23:30.380 On a

01:23:30.760 On a school stadium

01:23:31.700 Yeah

01:23:33.140 Is that right

01:23:33.720 Okay

01:23:34.640 Yeah

01:23:34.940 They got a

01:23:36.060 They got a bond

01:23:36.820 Passed

01:23:37.380 A few years

01:23:38.000 Back

01:23:38.440 In that district

01:23:40.280 Three quarters

01:23:41.260 Of a billion dollars

01:23:42.280 To primarily

01:23:43.220 Rebuild

01:23:43.800 One school

01:23:44.620 They

01:23:46.040 And

01:23:47.840 They

01:23:48.340 Are

01:23:49.480 They're

01:23:49.980 They're

01:23:50.300 Over budget

01:23:50.960 They're still not done

01:23:52.080 Last I checked

01:23:53.040 And

01:23:54.040 In the meantime

01:23:55.100 They're also

01:23:56.240 No longer

01:23:59.020 They

01:23:59.680 They're behind

01:24:01.040 They're

01:24:01.320 They're in deficit

01:24:02.140 I guess you'd say

01:24:02.980 And then

01:24:03.380 And they

01:24:04.460 Are starting to sell off

01:24:05.980 Other schools in the district

01:24:07.160 And closing them down

01:24:08.320 Because

01:24:08.660 Because

01:24:09.980 They're

01:24:10.440 They're in debt

01:24:11.240 They

01:24:12.240 They

01:24:12.760 They don't have any money

01:24:14.380 But yet

01:24:15.120 They keep raising

01:24:15.920 And as soon as

01:24:16.560 As soon as

01:24:17.460 Well you know

01:24:18.120 Yeah

01:24:20.080 As soon as

01:24:20.860 As soon as it came out

01:24:21.820 That you know

01:24:22.300 The Abbott was going to start

01:24:23.360 Cutting our

01:24:23.940 You know

01:24:24.480 Cutting back on taxes

01:24:25.620 And trying to get

01:24:26.520 You know

01:24:26.800 Help us out

01:24:27.340 Tax wise

01:24:28.060 Basically the county

01:24:29.720 And the school districts

01:24:30.920 All went

01:24:31.520 Went

01:24:32.200 Oh wait a minute

01:24:33.160 They're used to paying

01:24:33.960 This amount anyway

01:24:34.720 So we're just going to

01:24:35.540 Raise the rates

01:24:36.220 So that way

01:24:36.940 They still pay the same

01:24:37.800 Amount or more

01:24:38.480 Yeah

01:24:41.520 I gotta tell you

01:24:42.500 These

01:24:43.120 These towns

01:24:44.040 You know

01:24:44.900 Are really out of control

01:24:46.440 A lot of them

01:24:47.080 In Texas

01:24:47.600 However

01:24:48.180 Remember that it is

01:24:49.720 Your neighbors

01:24:50.220 It's not the politicians

01:24:51.500 Your neighbors

01:24:53.160 Voted for that

01:24:54.320 Bond bill

01:24:54.920 And I don't know

01:24:56.920 I don't know how

01:24:57.660 They don't

01:24:58.720 My neighbors

01:24:59.400 They voted to build

01:25:00.620 A 13 million dollar

01:25:03.320 Firehouse

01:25:04.140 13 million dollars

01:25:07.020 For a firehouse

01:25:08.160 The thing has like

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01:25:10.420 For the fire

01:25:10.960 I mean it is

01:25:11.780 I mean it is

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01:25:13.480 And they open it up

01:25:15.040 For people in the

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01:25:16.760 And I'm standing there

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01:25:18.820 And I said

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01:25:19.680 This is nicer

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01:25:21.800 This is nicer

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01:25:24.900 And the reason why

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01:25:28.720 The last firehouse

01:25:30.460 By leaving the stove on

01:25:32.520 While they left

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01:28:36.640 My favorite, favorite, most entertaining senator, John Kennedy, joins me to talk about the shutdown.

01:28:46.300 If we have time, I want to talk to him about the getting rid of the, how shoot, Stu, Mr. Smith goes to Washington.

01:28:58.820 Filibuster? 0.86

01:29:00.200 Filibuster, getting rid of the filibuster. 1.00

01:29:02.100 And he has a new book, How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will.

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01:30:29.540 Senator John Kennedy, how good to have you on, sir.

01:30:33.620 Glenn, it's good to be with you, man.

01:30:35.440 Thanks for having me.

01:30:36.300 I want to talk to you about your new book, which I can't wait.

01:30:42.460 But let's start with the reopening of the government.

01:30:49.020 I think this is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

01:30:51.440 We're only reopening until January.

01:30:53.600 They're going to do this again.

01:30:55.120 Are they not?

01:30:57.280 Yeah, maybe.

01:30:58.320 Maybe they learned a lesson.

01:31:01.160 I mean, here's what happened, Glenn.

01:31:04.100 What, seven weeks ago, the country was just rocking along, minding its own business.

01:31:11.460 Our budget was about to run out, but we were talking with the Democrats about negotiating a new one.

01:31:17.720 And all of a sudden, at the last minute, Senator Schumer came to us and said, I'm going to stop negotiating.

01:31:25.720 I'm going to tell my people to vote to shut government down unless you give me $1.5 trillion.

01:31:33.100 You gut the one big, beautiful bill like a fish, and you extend the Obamacare subsidies.

01:31:38.700 Well, I mean, you know, I'd rather have a back-alley colonoscopy than vote for something like that.

01:31:49.540 And my colleagues felt the same way.

01:31:52.420 So we told Chuck, said, Chuck, the short answer is no.

01:31:56.480 The long answer is hell no.

01:31:57.820 Well, and Chuck just, I mean, his demands, Glenn, you had to have an Excel spreadsheet to track them.

01:32:09.300 It was so unserious.

01:32:11.280 And so we just sat there, and we didn't give up anything, and eventually he had to go to five or six of his colleagues to get them to bail him out.

01:32:19.620 And that's why we are where we are.

01:32:22.080 Was this just about election?

01:32:25.640 Was this just about the election?

01:32:26.900 What was this for?

01:32:29.000 Oh, it was politics.

01:32:30.220 It has to do with Senator Schumer's politics.

01:32:33.640 The Bolshevik wing, the loon wing of his party, he's scared of them. 0.54

01:32:42.280 He should be.

01:32:43.520 Instead of standing up to them, I think his testicles are on back order from China, 0.89

01:32:53.100 because he just wanted them to love him.

01:32:58.120 They don't love him.

01:32:59.420 They're never going to love him.

01:33:02.460 Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is either going to, if the Democrats take over the House, 0.99

01:33:08.560 she's either going to be the new speaker, or she's going to run against Schumer, or she's going to run for president. 0.99

01:33:14.140 And her wing of the party, the Bolshevik wing, is in control. 0.81

01:33:20.020 That's what's going on.

01:33:20.920 What do you think of John Fetterman?

01:33:24.960 I really like John.

01:33:27.980 His health has gotten a lot better.

01:33:31.920 A lot better.

01:33:32.480 He, I sort of, he's a little bit like me.

01:33:37.500 We don't agree on politics, but he plays outside the pocket.

01:33:41.960 He says what he thinks.

01:33:44.340 He's very popular in Pennsylvania.

01:33:46.920 Now, he's not popular among the loon wing of his party.

01:33:51.660 And so he could have problems in a primary, but statewide, people find him, as I do, refreshing.

01:33:59.680 Let me just tick off a couple of other things here real quick.

01:34:04.820 Filibuster.

01:34:06.260 I just talked to the White House this week, and they're dead serious about getting rid of the filibuster.

01:34:14.020 And I said, you know, maybe reform it, maybe go back to the way it was.

01:34:19.520 But please, let's not get rid of the speed bump of the filibuster.

01:34:24.940 And they're convinced that we'll never get anything passed.

01:34:28.920 And the comment was, these people that we're working against are completely unserious.

01:34:34.220 They don't want the same kind of America.

01:34:38.100 How do we get anything passed when they are roadblocking absolutely everything?

01:34:42.920 How do you respond to that?

01:34:43.880 Well, I talked to the president, I don't know, last week.

01:34:48.760 I mean, he's dug in like a tick.

01:34:50.700 He's, I like the filibuster.

01:34:53.400 When I got to the Senate, Glenn, I didn't.

01:34:56.000 But I finally learned that the role of a senator is really twofold.

01:35:00.780 Of course, it's to advance good ideas, but it's also to kill bad ideas.

01:35:05.260 And we killed a lot of bad ideas with the filibuster when Joe Biden was president.

01:35:13.920 My preference, and I've been encouraging Senator Foon, who I don't think he agrees with me,

01:35:23.160 but we passed one big, beautiful bill without a single Democratic vote.

01:35:29.160 And it's a marvelous bill.

01:35:30.440 And we did it through reconciliation, about which you know.

01:35:36.200 And we can do two more reconciliation bills.

01:35:39.800 And for seven weeks, eight weeks, a couple months, we've done nothing in the Senate.

01:35:46.920 We need to get up off our ice-cold lazy butts and go pass another reconciliation bill

01:35:52.580 that addresses the cost of housing and the cost of health insurance and the cost of living,

01:35:59.400 the things that moms and dads are worried about when they lie down to sleep at night and can't.

01:36:05.680 But I don't sense that the president's going to give up on it.

01:36:09.440 Right now, I can tell you, if Foon brought it up for a vote among the Republicans, it wouldn't pass.

01:36:16.080 It would not pass.

01:36:17.540 How do you feel about the Supreme Court?

01:36:20.920 Where are they going to come down on these tariffs and the role of the Senate? 0.98

01:36:28.560 Well, I don't know how they're going to come down.

01:36:31.120 I listened to the oral argument.

01:36:32.480 I didn't go over there, but I could get it by audio.

01:36:37.680 And they asked the questions.

01:36:39.860 I thought they would.

01:36:40.680 The president is arguing that he's construing the statute.

01:36:45.960 IEPA is saying this is a foreign policy decision.

01:36:49.680 And traditionally, the U.S. Supreme Court does not interfere with the executive branch

01:36:54.000 when it is addressing foreign policy.

01:36:56.780 The questions from the justices, with the exception of a couple, seem to be long lines of,

01:37:04.320 well, is it really foreign policy?

01:37:06.180 And the statute is plain, and it doesn't mention tariffs.

01:37:12.960 But I learned long ago, you never predict what the court's going to do based on oral argument.

01:37:19.340 They'll fool you.

01:37:20.200 What do you think the right thing is?

01:37:27.720 You know, I've got real, I don't know.

01:37:31.320 I've got really mixed feelings about tariffs.

01:37:34.060 There's no question the president is right, that for years and years and years,

01:37:41.340 other countries have taken advantage of America, particularly China.

01:37:45.920 We admitted China to the World Trade Organization, I think it was December 9th, 2001.

01:37:55.260 China started cheating December 10th.

01:37:58.060 And I like the idea of reining them in through tariffs.

01:38:06.160 If I had my druthers, here's what I would propose.

01:38:09.960 I don't think the president would agree with me.

01:38:12.660 But I would go to every one of these countries and say, here's the deal.

01:38:16.580 If you reduce your tariffs to zero, America will reduce its tariffs to zero.

01:38:25.960 And then we'll let our companies compete on a level playing field and may the best product at the best price win.

01:38:35.600 And I think America will win that fight.

01:38:37.480 Now, the president, I can tell you, I've talked to him.

01:38:41.240 He doesn't shit that way.

01:38:43.120 No, he doesn't.

01:38:44.140 We're talking to Senator John Kennedy.

01:38:47.340 He is one of my favorite senators.

01:38:51.560 And I think you've been if you've been listening the last couple of minutes, you know why.

01:38:55.200 Graduated Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia and Oxford.

01:38:58.780 Oxford, that I would have paid money to see you at Oxford.

01:39:05.160 That had to be entertaining for all involved.

01:39:08.280 We're going to come back and take one minute break.

01:39:10.600 And then we're going to talk to him about his new book, How to Test Negative for Stupid.

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01:40:30.020 Ten seconds and back to John Kennedy.

01:40:43.080 He's just written a new book called How to Test Negative for Stupid and Why Washington Never Will.

01:40:48.580 Senator, tell me about the book.

01:40:52.160 Well, thanks for asking, Glenn.

01:40:54.600 It's a it's not a policy book per se.

01:40:57.040 It's a storybook.

01:40:58.220 I use stories to make my points about policy.

01:41:02.400 Some of the stories are funny.

01:41:03.960 Some are bizarre.

01:41:05.460 They're all true.

01:41:07.100 I talk about.

01:41:08.320 Wait, what do you mean?

01:41:09.120 What do you mean?

01:41:09.720 Some of them are bizarre.

01:41:10.960 What does that mean?

01:41:12.380 Well, they're just strange to see the Senate, what it's like on the inside.

01:41:19.760 And I don't just talk about the Senate.

01:41:21.740 I talk about my meeting with the one and only meeting.

01:41:25.820 I was one of the few senators who met for any length of time with Senator Joe Biden.

01:41:32.500 That was bizarre.

01:41:34.260 And it was early in his term.

01:41:37.220 He showed me around the office.

01:41:40.560 Well, he I remember we talked for a while.

01:41:44.480 The staff's trying to get rid of me.

01:41:45.920 We were there for a bill signing.

01:41:47.700 He asked me to ask me if I'd seen his cabinet room.

01:41:51.140 And I said, no, I had seen it.

01:41:52.900 But I said, no, sir.

01:41:54.260 And so he said, I'm going to take you over there.

01:41:56.520 And it's maybe 20 yards away and you could have baked a Thanksgiving turkey in the time

01:42:04.480 that it took him to walk from from his oval over to the cat.

01:42:11.220 And I remember thinking at the time this this gentleman has reached the point in life where

01:42:16.540 all he wants to do is sit around and talk about the old days and tell stories.

01:42:22.200 And when he gets tired, he just wants soup in an early bedtime.

01:42:26.520 And and this was his first year.

01:42:29.380 Nice guy.

01:42:30.420 Very affable.

01:42:31.740 I wouldn't call him a policy maven.

01:42:34.900 The people around him were running, running the country.

01:42:39.220 But I thought the whole thing was bizarre.

01:42:44.680 But you don't believe you don't believe you don't believe them at all that they didn't

01:42:48.620 know.

01:42:48.960 Right.

01:42:49.260 I mean, there was no way to.

01:42:50.340 We saw it from a distance.

01:42:53.060 I mean, of course, of course, they knew.

01:42:56.520 I mean, I listened to him.

01:42:57.840 So I had no no idea, you know, and and I'm thinking to myself, you know, I'll take exquisitely

01:43:07.780 dumb for 500.

01:43:09.360 Of course, you knew.

01:43:10.360 You know, you had you had to know you could see it.

01:43:13.880 And this was in this first year.

01:43:16.900 The president clearly had the beginnings again in the first year of his presidency of neurodegenerative

01:43:26.460 disease.

01:43:27.640 I mean, we all it happens to us.

01:43:30.040 And he he wouldn't have made it to a second term.

01:43:37.700 I'm sorry.

01:43:38.700 He wouldn't have.

01:43:41.840 Can I ask you something?

01:43:42.880 Who did you grow up with?

01:43:44.620 My when I grew up, I tell stories in the way my grandfather used to tell stories.

01:43:50.140 I remember sitting at his feet and he would just tell stories.

01:43:53.780 You have such a unique way of telling stories and all of these phrases that just pop into

01:44:00.680 your head.

01:44:02.120 Who did you where did you get that?

01:44:03.940 Is that what is that what life is like?

01:44:06.380 Where did you grow up?

01:44:07.140 You grew up in Zachary, Louisiana, is that yeah, little bitty is that what it's like

01:44:12.740 there?

01:44:13.880 Yeah.

01:44:14.460 Yeah.

01:44:14.720 When I grew up, it's much bigger now because of the schools are so good.

01:44:18.660 But when I grew up, it was about 3000 people.

01:44:24.240 We we didn't have a town drunk.

01:44:26.840 We were that small.

01:44:28.000 Several people had to take turns.

01:44:30.160 Everybody, everybody knew everybody.

01:44:34.360 You didn't lie.

01:44:37.140 I loved high school.

01:44:38.820 I cared about two.

01:44:39.900 I'd go back in a in a second.

01:44:41.820 I cared about two things.

01:44:43.300 Glenn, I cared about basketball and I cared about cheerleaders and I wasn't very good at

01:44:48.200 either one.

01:44:48.860 But man, it was so much fun.

01:44:50.740 But I learned a lot growing up in Zachary.

01:44:54.680 I want to wait to school for about, I don't know, 10 years as long as I could could stay

01:45:00.220 in school and then then came back home.

01:45:03.960 What was it like at Oxford?

01:45:05.340 Oxford, you had to be just this bizarre, something that nobody could figure out over there.

01:45:14.900 Well, the kid, it took him a while to learn how to learn my speech patterns.

01:45:21.140 And I realized that, you know, my voice sets off car alarms, but that's just my voice and

01:45:29.880 my accent.

01:45:31.480 But Oxford was an extraordinary experience.

01:45:34.700 It's the greatest university in the world.

01:45:36.340 I, um, it's the smartest kids in the world.

01:45:39.940 And I wanted to, to, uh, I wanted to understand what it was like to compete with the best.

01:45:45.660 And I remember my, my, the kid that lived next door to me in the dorm, actually in the college

01:45:52.000 of when I first went in to see, see him the first day, uh, I was there.

01:45:56.300 He was, uh, he had a book on his, his, uh, bed and I have asked, actually asked him to

01:46:01.980 turn down the stereo and I said, what are you doing, man?

01:46:04.640 And he was like 18 years old, big bushy red hair, uh, acne.

01:46:08.640 And he said, uh, I'm teaching myself Mandarin.

01:46:13.500 And I said, Hmm, you speak any other languages?

01:46:16.560 And he named five or six.

01:46:18.360 And I mean, I'm thinking this kid can spot me about 60 IQ points, but that's why I came

01:46:23.460 just to compete with, see what it's like, but it was, I liked it.

01:46:28.840 Um, the, uh, the name of the book is how to test negative for stupid.

01:46:33.320 Um, and why Washington never, never will.

01:46:36.660 Is there any hope that they'll ever test negative?

01:46:42.140 You're going to have just, you quoted me earlier.

01:46:45.520 You're just going to have to get the pigs out of the creek. 1.00

01:46:48.560 Uh, look, it's not complicated.

01:46:50.860 The problem is that the common sense is illegal in Washington.

01:46:54.280 I mean, really when I feel inadequate in Washington, because there are a lot of smart people there,

01:46:59.640 but when I feel inadequate, Glenn, I just look around.

01:47:02.700 I mean, you, you, you, you, some of these folks, you go, how, how did, how did these

01:47:08.380 people make it to the birth canal?

01:47:10.880 And the rest of America just, just looks at them slack jawed in astonishment.

01:47:17.160 And they don't under, they don't, that's why they all hate Trump so much is because he

01:47:23.240 sees the world in very practical, common sensical terms.

01:47:29.080 Um, I mean, is the president perfect?

01:47:31.600 No.

01:47:32.300 Does he work every day to get better?

01:47:34.680 Also, no.

01:47:35.640 The president is the president.

01:47:37.500 He's, he's, his personality is about, but, but he's not just sitting there.

01:47:42.680 He's trying to change the place.

01:47:44.860 And, and, uh, most of the time I'm supporting.

01:47:48.620 Now I'll say.

01:47:49.280 I got it.

01:47:50.820 Did he disagree with him?

01:47:52.400 He'll call me.

01:47:53.320 And, and, and, you know, every time he calls, I wonder if I'll end up with a sombrero on

01:47:58.020 my head because he's mad, but at least he knows where I stand.

01:48:03.320 John Kennedy is the Senator, uh, from, uh, the great state of Louisiana.

01:48:09.940 His new book is how to test negative for stupid.

01:48:13.380 Uh, like you said, it's not a policy book, it's stories.

01:48:16.860 And, uh, there is no greater storyteller than John Kennedy.

01:48:21.040 Grab the book now, how to test negative for stupid.

01:48:24.620 John Senator.

01:48:25.500 Thank you so much.

01:48:26.240 God bless.

01:48:27.160 Thank you, Glenn.

01:48:27.980 Love your show, man.

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01:49:54.120 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:50:12.660 Justin Haskins is joining us.

01:50:15.020 He's from the Heartland Institute, vice president and also senior fellow at Our Republic.

01:50:20.380 He's got a new book coming out.

01:50:25.120 We're going to talk about that when the book comes out.

01:50:27.400 But I want to talk to him about the AI strongman concept that he's just put a new poll together.

01:50:33.520 And we released some of it on politics and what did socialism mean and how the economy feels to people 18 to 39 years old.

01:50:43.160 And we talked about that last night on TV, but Justin's coming today because of AI and what else he found in the poll.

01:50:53.020 Hey, Justin, how are you?

01:50:54.200 I'm doing very well.

01:50:55.680 Well, I don't know.

01:50:56.460 It's pretty dark.

01:50:57.220 This is a dark poll, folks.

01:50:58.460 So buckle up. 0.96

01:51:00.580 What do I mean?

01:51:01.220 Bring it down the road.

01:51:02.320 You know what's so funny?

01:51:03.660 It's kind of my thing.

01:51:05.380 We just had this great conversation with Senator Kennedy.

01:51:09.500 It was very funny.

01:51:10.200 A very funny light makes you feel good.

01:51:12.040 And then during the break, Justin gives Stu some unbelievable gift for no just because.

01:51:21.680 You're trying to be a better Charlie Kirk person.

01:51:23.580 I'm trying to be a better person.

01:51:25.000 I am.

01:51:25.640 I'm trying.

01:51:26.220 It's a legitimate Vladimir Guerrero Jr. signed jersey.

01:51:29.940 He's literally the only person that I've ever met in my life who likes the Toronto Blue Jays.

01:51:33.960 Literally.

01:51:34.620 I saw it and I was like, I got to do it.

01:51:36.540 It's a sign.

01:51:37.460 It's incredible.

01:51:38.140 But I seriously thank you.

01:51:39.120 And then it heals a little bit of our horrific, tragic loss from a few weeks ago that I still am grieving.

01:51:45.640 So I appreciate that.

01:51:46.480 That's awesome.

01:51:47.080 Yeah.

01:51:47.280 Was that being used as a bar towel someplace?

01:51:51.280 It was incredible.

01:51:52.560 It was one of the greatest postseasons of all time, Glenn.

01:51:54.860 Come on.

01:51:55.480 Yeah.

01:51:55.820 Yeah.

01:51:56.160 Sure.

01:51:56.600 Sure.

01:51:57.600 But so I'm waiting for my gift.

01:51:59.180 Uh, uh, um, uh, oh, yeah, no, I have, I have one.

01:52:03.460 I do.

01:52:04.200 Uh, I'm not ready to give it to you yet though.

01:52:06.700 That's all.

01:52:07.280 Here is, here is Justin's gift.

01:52:09.920 He's going to bring the whole room down.

01:52:11.580 Okay.

01:52:12.120 By talking about this poll.

01:52:13.640 Here we go.

01:52:14.520 With AI.

01:52:14.980 And it's not good.

01:52:16.360 Listen to this.

01:52:17.040 No.

01:52:17.160 So we pulled, uh, it was a national survey of likely voters, 18 to 39.

01:52:23.160 So we're talking about young people.

01:52:24.460 We asked them about socialism and the housing crisis and a million other things.

01:52:28.580 Uh, and all those results were horribly depressing.

01:52:31.180 They love socialism.

01:52:32.720 They love mom, Donnie.

01:52:34.140 They love mom, Donnie's policies.

01:52:36.480 What's amazing is where they learn socialism from Stu.

01:52:40.980 Who is the biggest influence on 18, 39 year olds on socialism?

01:52:46.340 Where did they hear about it and get a good impression?

01:52:50.460 Uh, gosh, uh, universities, uh, universities, right?

01:52:55.220 Sarah, what would you say?

01:52:57.120 Same universities.

01:52:59.100 Universities.

01:53:00.020 Yeah.

01:53:00.340 Uh, not even in the top three, is it?

01:53:02.740 No, not even close.

01:53:04.080 The number one response.

01:53:05.640 Go ahead.

01:53:06.460 It was parents by far.

01:53:08.840 We asked them who influenced you the most with these socialists that made you want to

01:53:13.680 support socialism.

01:53:14.340 It was parents and grandparents were two of the top, uh, answers online videos and books

01:53:20.180 and stuff like that came in later.

01:53:22.120 Um, and teachers were like toward the very bottom teachers and college professors toward

01:53:26.680 the very bottom.

01:53:27.320 In fact, there was no correlation really between someone saying that their teachers and their

01:53:33.500 college professors were trying, were pro socialist and how these people voted.

01:53:38.660 Even people who, who said, yeah, my teachers were a bunch of socialists.

01:53:42.580 They voted for Trump kind of at the same rate as the people who voted for Kamala.

01:53:47.440 So at least according to the respondents themselves, it didn't have any sort of a, an impact.

01:53:53.200 Really interesting.

01:53:54.060 That's bizarre.

01:53:54.900 Yeah.

01:53:55.260 Okay.

01:53:55.560 So now here's, here's the question.

01:53:57.740 Here's question.

01:53:58.200 Number one, significant advancements have been made in the fields of artificial intelligence

01:54:02.640 and data collection, causing some to suggest that AI could take a more influential role

01:54:07.960 in society.

01:54:09.280 Many Americans are unhappy with the effectiveness of federal and state government officials,

01:54:13.640 agencies, and politicians.

01:54:14.720 If AI were to continue to improve, would you support a proposal to take power away from

01:54:20.500 most human lawmakers and give it to an advanced AI system with the authority to control the

01:54:26.160 majority of public policy decisions?

01:54:28.780 You have a dark brain, man, to come up with these questions.

01:54:32.040 Stuart, I talked yesterday about how I come up with these things.

01:54:35.740 So it is so dark, right?

01:54:37.640 You would hope that the, you know, you would go, oh, well, it's got to be 90% opposed.

01:54:43.080 Okay.

01:54:43.360 Otherwise it's not so dark.

01:54:45.180 If it's not 90% opposed, then it's not a dark concept.

01:54:50.140 It's possibly a dark reality.

01:54:52.880 Yeah.

01:54:53.380 Yeah.

01:54:53.680 So the results strongly support, somewhat support combined 41% of young people said, yes,

01:55:00.000 put AI in charge of policymakers.

01:55:02.820 And it was 15% somewhat opposed 34% strongly opposed.

01:55:08.220 So just 34% strongly opposed this 10% they're on the fence.

01:55:12.120 Still not sure about this one.

01:55:13.780 They're thinking about it.

01:55:14.720 So this could go either way.

01:55:16.260 That 10% could break either way.

01:55:18.680 It could be that the AI is winning this election, if you will.

01:55:23.240 Even crazier is support among Republicans was highest among all of the different political

01:55:31.580 groups.

01:55:32.400 They were most likely to say young Republicans.

01:55:35.060 That was at 46%.

01:55:37.180 Independents were, I think, least likely to do it.

01:55:41.640 So conservatives, very high.

01:55:44.020 It was over 50% with conservatives said this.

01:55:46.500 What?

01:55:46.760 And I think it's because, and this was a theme throughout this poll and other polls we've

01:55:51.940 done recently of young people.

01:55:52.860 They have so little trust in the system.

01:55:56.700 They hate it so much.

01:55:58.080 They think it's so unfair to them that they will literally do, they will put anyone in

01:56:02.940 charge.

01:56:03.240 That's why I call this theory the AI strongman.

01:56:05.700 Like they are looking for a strongman.

01:56:08.660 Young people want someone to come in and just get things done and do whatever it is that 1.00

01:56:13.360 they think is right.

01:56:14.800 That's very clear from the polling data.

01:56:17.180 And, and we've seen this now from multiple polls, not just one, multiple polls, national

01:56:22.400 surveys of likely voters of young people.

01:56:25.200 Okay.

01:56:25.700 Listen to the next question.

01:56:26.980 It just keeps getting better.

01:56:29.600 Many Americans are dissatisfied with the U S constitution and the Supreme court.

01:56:34.360 If AI continues to improve, would you support a proposal to revise the constitution?

01:56:39.140 So an advanced AI system has the authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals

01:56:45.420 and families, including the rights related to speech, religious practices, government

01:56:50.460 authority, and property.

01:56:52.160 Yep.

01:56:53.140 36% strongly support or somewhat support.

01:56:56.740 And it was 38% strongly oppose.

01:57:00.500 Somewhat oppose was 18%.

01:57:02.180 So this was clear opposition to this.

01:57:05.580 They're less likely to support this than just putting, you know, policymaking generally in

01:57:10.940 charge.

01:57:11.260 But still, we're still talking about a huge percentage of, of young people, 36% and Republicans

01:57:19.400 again, 39% of Republicans said, yes, let's do this.

01:57:24.980 And so, and honestly, if you say yes to the first one, the second one is automatic.

01:57:29.920 You would think so.

01:57:30.640 But the, but the first one was the highest of all the ones that we tested.

01:57:34.460 It was, and which, which kind of makes sense.

01:57:36.580 Cause I think people hate politicians the most.

01:57:38.620 And that was what we were talking about, right?

01:57:40.880 But what I'm saying is if you put, right, but if you put AI in charge, then it's going

01:57:47.600 to do the other ones.

01:57:48.880 You can't, I mean, all you need is the first one to be voted on and go, yeah, I want to

01:57:52.160 put them in charge.

01:57:53.200 Okay.

01:57:54.240 The next one, military conflicts continue to rage around the world, including Ukraine.

01:57:59.080 If AI continues to improve, would you support a proposal to give an advanced AI system the

01:58:03.780 authority to control all of the world's largest militaries with the express purpose of reducing

01:58:09.140 the number of people who would die from war?

01:58:11.840 This was my favorite.

01:58:12.900 One of the favorite questions I've ever written.

01:58:14.700 I love this question.

01:58:16.140 35% strongly support, somewhat support.

01:58:19.080 Very similar to the constitutional, the Supreme court question, a higher, strong opposition,

01:58:25.300 40%.

01:58:25.860 That's the highest of all the strong opposition.

01:58:27.940 But the thing that's so terrifying about all these is not just, well, it's 35%, 40%, somewhere

01:58:33.820 in that range, want AI to basically take over huge parts of our society.

01:58:38.560 It's that AI is still not all that great.

01:58:42.800 So once AI becomes even better, it's so clearly smarter than people, and it's already embedded

01:58:50.460 in a lot of systems, this is going to go up.

01:58:54.320 This isn't going to go down.

01:58:55.360 We're not, it's not like we're looking at this like, well, you know, they'll, they'll

01:58:58.920 see the light.

01:58:59.640 No, I don't think so.

01:59:00.380 I think as AI improves, people are going to be more open to this idea.

01:59:05.300 It's, it's the, and the foundation of it is trust the experts, right?

01:59:08.460 Trust the experts.

01:59:09.380 Yeah.

01:59:09.880 But also what's easy and likable.

01:59:12.740 I mean, think of this, we would have said two years ago, I'll never listen to AI music,

01:59:18.100 AI music.

01:59:18.900 I mean, it's never going to be as good.

01:59:21.800 It's not going to, you know, how can it talk about the soul?

01:59:24.600 And it won't be from the heart and everything else.

01:59:27.000 And now it, an AI artist, if you will, an AI song, all AI is the number one song on the

01:59:35.320 country music billboard charts.

01:59:36.860 Number one.

01:59:38.760 Once it's so good, you're just like, yeah, I just, yeah, that's good.

01:59:43.520 I mean, that's just the way it's going to happen.

01:59:45.600 It's just going to happen that way.

01:59:47.100 It's interesting too.

01:59:47.700 These are questions obviously based on policy and structural changes within the society and

01:59:52.460 the government, but when you look at it on an individual level where people don't have

01:59:56.940 those sort of hurdles to clear, right?

01:59:59.220 They can just do it if they want to, right?

02:00:02.260 I mean, AI is already at least partially replacing doctors, lawyers, parents, right?

02:00:12.140 Like, I mean, I can't tell you how many people I know are just like on there, oh gosh, my

02:00:14.660 kid won't do X, Y, or Z.

02:00:16.240 How can I make this happen?

02:00:17.140 And click it into chat GPT, give you recommendations and they put the, like, that's very, I would

02:00:21.760 say normalized already.

02:00:23.980 And as you point out, it's not even good.

02:00:26.080 But if you're, if you're using it though, if you're using it for advice and it's one

02:00:31.700 voice in counsel, right?

02:00:33.500 I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

02:00:35.740 This is the step.

02:00:36.820 This is the next step.

02:00:38.200 And you would just give it over.

02:00:39.380 Just give control of your kids to the AI.

02:00:41.880 Right.

02:00:42.600 Well, and should AI, you know, teach your kids everything?

02:00:45.620 Yeah, well, and think about kids.

02:00:47.680 I mean, especially as they get older and there's a generation of kids who are growing up, going

02:00:52.580 to grow up with this, who didn't have it.

02:00:54.360 Like in the same way that I didn't grow up with social media, you didn't grow up with

02:00:57.080 social media.

02:00:58.180 There's going to be kids who grow up with AI.

02:01:00.260 Yes.

02:01:00.480 And it's just going to become a thing where, of course, I go to it and I ask it the questions

02:01:05.120 I don't want to ask anybody else or talk to my parents.

02:01:08.020 It's Google.

02:01:08.900 It's, it's, it is, it is one, it's going to have one of the most negative impacts on

02:01:15.600 society, probably that we've ever seen, truly.

02:01:20.040 And, uh, and as it trusts it more, it's going to get worse.

02:01:22.960 Yeah.

02:01:23.200 There's no question.

02:01:24.080 Is that true?

02:01:24.280 That's how you feel, Glenn?

02:01:25.200 No, probably about it.

02:01:26.320 I mean, you seem to be also sort of an AI, you know, optimist at times.

02:01:30.720 I mean, there's a lot of good things.

02:01:32.420 I think there is, I think it is like everything.

02:01:35.400 It is the greatest tool ever invented by man.

02:01:38.960 It is the most empowering tool ever invented by, there is nothing even close to it.

02:01:45.160 It is also the poison pill for humanity.

02:01:48.860 And it just depends on if we say stop, you know, at some point, do we have any limits?

02:01:54.200 I don't think we do.

02:01:55.320 Yeah.

02:01:55.420 I don't think we do.

02:01:55.940 But when you have Sam Altman openly talking about trying to create Sam, Sam God or God

02:02:03.760 Sam, uh, that, that's, that's a problem.

02:02:07.560 That's a problem.

02:02:08.980 So there are people who are actually trying to create something that would be God-like.

02:02:15.340 Right.

02:02:16.360 Uh, that, that, that's not good for humanity.

02:02:18.400 No, there's a story about that in the Bible, I think one, one or two of them.

02:02:21.620 Yeah.

02:02:21.800 Um, the thing is you need to have with, with this kind of powerful technology, you need

02:02:27.580 guardrails, you need guardrails on society. 1.00

02:02:29.800 You need people to have those guardrails for reasons other than government creating them.

02:02:34.900 And the problem is as we've become less religious and we've moved more into this secular sort

02:02:40.920 of society where there really is no objective standard for anything.

02:02:44.300 We're all just, a lot of people are just kind of doing what feels right or whatever, you

02:02:50.040 know, and this is why we see one day you could have Barack Obama be the pro, uh, traditional

02:02:56.480 marriage candidate.

02:02:57.540 And then the next day, if you're not pro trans, then you're thrown out of the party and you're

02:03:02.320 the worst person ever.

02:03:03.300 And that was like within a decade that that transformation happened.

02:03:06.260 That's because there's no, there's no rules.

02:03:08.880 There's no objective standard of morality.

02:03:11.040 And so then when you add this into the equation, I mean, this is, it's the, it's, it is a, uh,

02:03:18.340 perfect storm.

02:03:19.360 That is what's developing right now.

02:03:21.760 Yeah.

02:03:22.340 I think, you know what the best thing is going to be really interesting to see how we all

02:03:26.060 work.

02:03:29.620 All right.

02:03:30.160 Thank you so much.

02:03:31.000 Appreciate it, Justin.

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