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00:03:08.020 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program i don't know if you saw the president's speech

00:03:14.900 last night i don't know if you're trying to get your news from the mainstream media

00:03:19.140 on what was said but i'm going to give you the actual documents i'm going to read from the

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00:05:03.560 Okay, so the president never said last night that the election was stolen.

00:05:15.720 He never said last night that they had stolen the election or stuffed the ballot box or anything like that.

00:05:24.280 What the president showed last night were documents that proved China ran the largest known theft of American voter data in history.

00:05:36.020 220 million files, that's your name, your address, your phone number, your party affiliation, everything, run through a dedicated exploitation unit in Beijing.

00:05:49.340 They have a whole building for this.

00:05:50.580 OK, now I want to give the fact checkers, you know, the first bonus point, because on the nose, look at you.

00:05:58.140 You can do some work. There is no evidence, none, that China reached into a voting machine and flipped a ballot or changed the outcome of 2020.

00:06:06.520 But that wasn't the charge. The media is treating this story as if that's what the claim was.

00:06:14.380 but that's not the claim the outcome was never the frightening part here there are two things

00:06:21.660 that you need to know that were discussed last night and i'm going to lay them out in the next

00:06:25.320 15 minutes okay so just hold on with me first point according to the declassified material

00:06:32.120 a hostile foreign power known as china spent years assembling a file of 220 million american voters

00:06:42.020 names addresses phone numbers party everything everything the rhythm of when you show up and

00:06:48.860 when you don't go out to vote important information and the response that the media is giving you

00:06:55.160 today is ah most of it's public anyway you can buy all of that stuff okay all right well that's

00:07:02.560 true, and it is precisely the opposite thing to find comforting. Any one fact on that list

00:07:13.860 is harmless. Your address is not a weapon. Your party registration is not a weapon. The

00:07:22.020 weapon is the assembly. The 220 million profiles in the hands of one regime, the one regime

00:07:31.920 on earth that has already shown us in broad daylight what it does with information like

00:07:39.780 that, with the algorithm.

00:07:41.900 What does it do with that data?

00:07:44.660 This is a country that tunes the recommendation engine on the phone in your kids' hands by

00:07:53.500 controlling what you or your family sees is power now nobody has proven they've used it that way

00:08:05.360 but that's their intent at least according to our own intelligence back in before 2020

00:08:13.520 you know while they were saying no it's the safest election ever you do not want to wait

00:08:19.500 for a hostile power to fire the weapon before you admit it is a weapon why do you think we're

00:08:26.760 over in iran we're over in iran because they cannot wait we're just we're just using nuclear 0.95

00:08:34.660 material for fuel no you're not this is the same argument with china what we're not using it for 0.50

00:08:42.420 this oh really okay well we'll just wait until you push that nuclear button if it's not the

00:08:50.480 here's the biggest thing for the media this is information you could buy anywhere this is no

00:08:56.360 big deal huh huh okay all right let me ask you this cbs abc nbc cnn then why at the very moment

00:09:09.020 are states all across the spectrum, red and blue alike,

00:09:15.120 and you have been beating this drum for months.

00:09:19.960 Why are they refusing to hand over the exact same voter data

00:09:25.840 to their own federal government?

00:09:29.100 Most of them told the Justice Department, no way.

00:09:32.640 The courts backed them.

00:09:34.120 You've been singing the praises of these states

00:09:37.480 on the grounds that that information is too sensitive, too personal, and too easily abused

00:09:45.200 just to put it on the loose. I'm so tired of this. I really am. I mean, I'm just so tired of this

00:09:53.520 game. You know, it's not a game to most of us. This is not a game. This is our country. This

00:10:00.120 our lives you cannot make the case that the the united states government should not have the voter

00:10:09.260 data from the states because it's too dangerous to give to our federal government and then in the

00:10:16.380 next breath be on tv and say you can buy this information just about anywhere it's really no

00:10:20.880 big deal that China has it. We're having a furious argument right now on whether Washington can be

00:10:34.120 trusted with a voter file. While we're being told that Beijing holding that voter file is no big

00:10:39.780 deal, it can't be both media. Make up your mind. Either the data is dangerous or it isn't. Half

00:10:48.020 the nation is in the court right now

00:10:50.260 arguing that it is 0.52

00:10:52.000 and it's your half

00:10:53.640 I'm sorry 1.00

00:10:55.460 I don't want to be one of these

00:10:58.140 angry guys but every day I come in with the

00:11:00.020 intent of not being one of these angry guys and then

00:11:01.980 I look at the news

00:11:02.940 you want to understand why a pile

00:11:08.360 of information

00:11:10.480 ordinary facts terrifies

00:11:12.240 people who study this

00:11:14.100 for a living don't look at

00:11:16.180 hackers forget about the hackers look at East Germany the Stasi remembered for surveillance

00:11:25.300 the files the informants one in every stairwell people would whisper in their own homes why

00:11:33.320 because because you could buy this information anywhere no it was because it was all being

00:11:39.700 compiled. Once overt arrests started drawing too much attention in East Germany, the Stasi learned

00:11:48.880 to break people quietly. How did they do it? They used intimate, aggregated knowledge in all of

00:11:56.060 those files to reach into a target's life and just rearrange things. You just, you put a rumor

00:12:02.520 with a neighbor, a marriage nudged towards collapse, a promotion that never comes for

00:12:08.380 reasons that no one could ever name. The victims used, they normally didn't even know what was

00:12:15.440 happening. They just thought, I'm losing my mind. And none of it required any dramatic secret. It

00:12:22.240 required knowing an ordinary person completely and just wanting to steer them. That's the capability

00:12:29.960 on the table. Not that they went in and they changed the numbers of the vote, but because

00:12:36.540 China is clearly amassing a file and let me give you let me let me just read it to you from a

00:12:45.660 declassified email also mid 2018 that this is our intelligence and they never told the president any

00:12:53.660 of this China was working to influence the results of the U.S. midterm elections and later results in

00:13:00.040 the 2020 U.S. presidential elections. As part of the campaign, China was analyzing the 2016

00:13:06.420 presidential elections and identifying U.S. states that voted for the U.S. president. The Chinese

00:13:13.060 would then identify sectors within these states that voted to support the U.S. president and his

00:13:20.200 political party, then would attempt to make those sectors experience negative financial consequences.

00:13:26.880 the chinese hope that these measures would induce representatives from these sectors to lobby the

00:13:34.300 president to be more kind to china but what's worse is they had all of this information where

00:13:42.080 they could take it and nudge you this is what the algorithm this is why i say you're going to lose 0.91

00:13:49.580 free will because you won't know if that was your idea or if that was a nudge and it's bad enough

00:13:55.980 when I don't know if it was Google or Microsoft,

00:13:58.960 but now you also have to worry

00:14:00.720 that it might be China doing it.

00:14:03.660 At the same time,

00:14:05.020 all of a sudden we're seeing this popularity with communists.

00:14:09.060 You'd think that China's algorithms 0.55

00:14:11.160 don't have anything to do with this?

00:14:13.120 You don't think they're running an influence campaign

00:14:16.120 in our own country?

00:14:17.380 Of course they are.

00:14:19.340 This was point number one.

00:14:22.780 But that's not even the most important point.

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00:15:49.340 okay so point number one that the media will not tell you the media will dismiss is no big deal

00:16:10.580 but i just showed you it is a big deal because they're arguing the opposite with the u.s government

00:16:15.760 one China ran the largest known theft of American data data in history okay 220 million files names

00:16:24.540 addresses phone numbers party affiliation when you vote when you don't vote all of this run through

00:16:30.400 a dedicated exploitation unit in Beijing that's problem number one I think this is the bigger

00:16:38.340 problem problem number two the people inside our own intelligence community knew this

00:16:45.420 discovered this, wrote amongst themselves about it,

00:16:49.820 and then buried it while assuring us

00:16:53.380 the elections were completely secure.

00:16:59.820 That's not a scandal.

00:17:01.740 That is a breach of trust that reaches the foundation

00:17:05.580 of the republic.

00:17:08.520 Nothing here, I want you to know, has been proven yet in a courtroom.

00:17:12.040 but the documents are clear these allegations that are drawn from the documents the white house

00:17:20.280 declassified and released the allegations this is so serious they have to be run all the way down

00:17:27.480 to the ground because if they hold up in court what they mean is terrifying they mean the people

00:17:34.020 who put their hand on the scriptures and swore to protect from all enemies foreign and domestic

00:17:39.800 the Constitution of the United States, they decided, they decided that the elected leader

00:17:47.660 of the people, of the free world, by extension you, that person didn't need to know that a

00:17:55.360 hostile power had a map of the American electorate. That's not incompetence. So you know, they know

00:18:01.660 what that meant. It says it. They knew what they were doing and what it meant. That wasn't

00:18:06.540 incompetence on the intelligence part that was that was a decision for an adversary spy we should

00:18:14.320 always accept that that's why we have a standing spy agency they always have the republic was built

00:18:19.200 to survive spies what it was never built to survive is guardians who have then said i'm no

00:18:27.780 longer a guardian i'm a gatekeeper of information i get to decide what the elected president gets

00:18:35.340 to see, what the people are allowed to see, because I don't think they can handle it.

00:18:40.860 Or they might react in a way I don't think they should.

00:18:45.540 Our Constitution does not put the power like that into your hands.

00:18:51.960 It puts it in elected hands, accountable hands, not your hands.

00:18:58.120 If they can sit on a foreign adversary's grab of voter rolls, the only honest question that

00:19:05.040 any of us should be asking is, what won't they do? What won't they do? We have example 0.86

00:19:17.780 after example, Iran-Contra, we have Vietnam, but it's exactly the same instinct. The president

00:19:25.140 doesn't need to know this. Let me ask you, Democrats, did you have a problem with Iran-Contra?

00:19:30.420 That was the intelligence community saying, we didn't tell the president about these things.

00:19:37.700 Now, you've always claimed that he did know.

00:19:40.360 So the fault was really his.

00:19:42.320 But what if he didn't know?

00:19:45.060 And the fault was the intelligence.

00:19:46.900 Would it still be such a big problem?

00:19:48.920 Of course it would be.

00:19:52.640 Of course it would be.

00:19:55.220 And that's what this is.

00:20:01.200 Here's the worst part of this.

00:20:02.880 In every case we have seen like this, never this, I don't think ever like this,

00:20:07.700 never this big, never documented trail saying we're massaging the presidential report.

00:20:13.520 We're making sure that we're holding this back.

00:20:16.860 I've never seen that before, ever, ever.

00:20:19.380 Remember, all we had was, what was her name, Fawn Hall that says, yeah, I did that.

00:20:23.740 We never had documents, but we had hearings, and it eroded our faith, and there was a conviction here or there, and later pardoned, later overturned, but there was no accountability for any of these things, ever, ever.

00:20:43.240 The machine just took the hit and then just kept running, and it's still running.

00:20:46.840 so may i suggest that maybe we look at things differently because what they've done here

00:20:53.960 is not just unethical it might be criminal obstruction of justice obstruction or impeding

00:21:02.600 an official proceeding or the president's constitutional duties obstructing the

00:21:09.580 president's constitutional

00:21:11.480 duties. You'll find that

00:21:13.460 in U.S. Code 18

00:21:15.380 1505

00:21:17.420 Making false

00:21:19.240 statements. Did they misrepresent

00:21:21.480 what they knew to the executive

00:21:23.140 or to Congress? The answer is yes

00:21:25.400 in their own writing. The

00:21:27.360 answer is yes

00:21:28.460 Mishandling of classified

00:21:31.400 material and the sworn duty to

00:21:33.300 report a threat. Yep

00:21:34.880 Coordinated

00:21:37.280 to conceal. Yes in their

00:21:39.340 own writing. We have that. Now you're into a conspiracy. This carries decades of prison

00:21:46.860 time. Why do we have these laws? Why do we have these punishments if we never enforce

00:21:53.340 them? Their entire oath is to guard the nation's secrets, brief our leaders. The betrayal here

00:22:06.580 is stunning.

00:22:12.700 And by the way,

00:22:13.720 that wouldn't be a call for vengeance.

00:22:15.640 That's a call for restoration,

00:22:18.440 to restore the republic

00:22:20.480 and what it's supposed to do.

00:22:25.120 If this can be proven,

00:22:28.260 if these documents prove to be real,

00:22:32.300 if the people who did this

00:22:34.840 don't answer for it,

00:22:36.580 Not to settle political score, but because a self-governing people cannot survive being lied to by its own protectors, then everything is on the table.

00:22:51.440 We must have prosecutions where the law demands them.

00:22:55.680 Reforms with teeth.

00:22:57.260 So no one ever again gets to decide what an existential threat to this country is.

00:23:06.580 I got news for you.

00:23:09.220 Nothing is above the pay grade

00:23:11.840 of the people who actually own this country.

00:23:13.840 And by the way, that's you.

00:23:16.060 Nothing is above your pay grade.

00:23:18.840 Nothing is above the presidential pay grade.

00:23:22.860 These people need to pay for what they have done.

00:23:26.520 Not because I'm after them,

00:23:28.840 but because it cannot happen again to any president.

00:23:33.000 I don't care which party.

00:23:35.520 No intelligence company or agency can keep information from the executive,

00:23:42.040 from the president of the United States, period.

00:23:45.460 How hard is that for the media to understand?

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00:24:59.920 there is no safe like simply safe coming up john solomon the white house's declassification

00:25:07.880 insider joins glenn to expose the media government cover-up and trump's document

00:25:11.880 release and if there's more to come stay with us on the glenn beck program

00:25:15.200 John Solomon, who I think is one of the best journalists in the country,

00:25:31.460 he is the CEO of Just the News and editor-in-chief of Just the News.

00:25:36.420 He is also an unpaid advisor to President Trump on this issue

00:25:41.040 because he has been at the forefront of exposing and getting these things declassified.

00:25:48.820 And so he knows the story better than anybody else.

00:25:51.740 Welcome to the program, John.

00:25:53.400 How are you?

00:25:54.320 I'm great, Glenn.

00:25:55.280 Great to be with you.

00:25:56.080 Thanks for having me on.

00:25:57.280 Can you quickly explain your new role at the White House?

00:25:59.940 What is it that you do?

00:26:02.340 How do you separate that from news and journalism?

00:26:04.900 That's a great question.

00:26:05.940 So really, I'm just a journalist who got the chance to go to the White House

00:26:09.280 and tell the White House which documents I've heard about that I've never been able to get

00:26:12.860 through FOIA lawsuits or through my relationship with Tulsi Gabbard. I had heard these things about

00:26:18.860 China getting 220 million voter records, and I couldn't get them out of Tulsi Gabbard before I

00:26:24.440 left. And so at some point, the White House said, well, listen, why don't you just come here,

00:26:29.340 work with a team of intelligence officers, tell them what you want when they find it,

00:26:33.340 and we'll declassify it, and you can go out and explain to the American public. So

00:26:36.900 So I have sort of the same exact role that I do every day other than I just have a shortcut to getting the documents that I think will benefit the entire country.

00:26:45.000 Has that ever happened in history in America?

00:26:47.160 I've never heard of that.

00:26:48.440 I don't think so.

00:26:49.860 I have to thank the president.

00:26:51.040 That is quite the deal.

00:26:52.000 Yeah.

00:26:52.860 Susie Wiles and the president decided this would be a good idea.

00:26:56.440 By the way, it's built on a model.

00:26:57.800 They didn't use a journalist at the time.

00:26:59.440 But Barack Obama had a transparency office in the White House in 2015 and 16.

00:27:04.280 And that's what I modeled it up as my suggestion.

00:27:06.160 and they have come back so there's seven or eight career intelligence officers i tell them what i've

00:27:11.060 learned as a reporter they go out and try to find it if they find it they say we got something can't

00:27:15.620 show you yet we'll get it to classified they take it over the white house they get it classified

00:27:19.600 they send it to the intelligence is this accurate yep anything that you want redacted that you know

00:27:24.740 sources of methods and then as a mere mortal i finally get to look at it and then i go out and

00:27:29.520 try to tell the public what we found okay april this year you guys reported on the 2020 election

00:27:35.980 meddling. We did. So what did we hear last night that was new? Anything? So yeah, a lot. So in

00:27:43.720 April, I had the benefit of something very small. I had a single document from Avril Haines's team

00:27:49.300 with two sentences saying, hey, we think China got access to voter files. What did that mean?

00:27:54.760 That sounds serious because I know we indicted Iranian hackers for getting access to just 100,000

00:28:00.740 voter files in 2020. So what's China been doing? Why don't we know about it? When those documents

00:28:06.600 came back, I was floored. I was literally floored, Glenn, because what we learned was that China 0.96

00:28:13.460 didn't have just some files, not 100,000, like Iran, 220 million. They had the holy grail of

00:28:20.060 the voter list in America. And this shocked me because, for one, we indicted Iran for just 100,000. 0.83

00:28:26.020 Two, the CIA had these documents saying if anyone ever got these voter files, here are

00:28:30.660 the nefarious things they can do.

00:28:32.460 Three, in 2024, Joe Biden got up and railed on China because China had hacked Great Britain's

00:28:40.940 voter file database.

00:28:42.300 By the way, only 40 million files there, about a fifth of what was taken from America.

00:28:47.460 And no one told the American public through this whole time, we were much larger victims.

00:28:52.120 the way, this is larger than the Equifax leak of 2017, which was about 148 million. Americans

00:28:58.420 impacted 220 million. We were kept in the dark about something that in any other time would have

00:29:05.280 been immediately alerted to the public. So, John, I just said at the same time the media and half

00:29:11.760 the states are saying we can't give the U.S. federal government access to voter data files

00:29:17.420 because it's too dangerous for the U.S. to have, the media today is on television saying it's no

00:29:25.460 big deal. You could buy this stuff anywhere. So which is it, John? Which is it? It's a little

00:29:30.740 bit of both. There are some states, though not all 50 states, but there are some states that you can

00:29:35.280 buy the commercial versions of those databases. That commercial version doesn't have the Holy

00:29:39.480 Grail stuff. It doesn't have some of the things that you need to be fully read. So you'll know

00:29:43.460 John Solomon votes in Virginia by the way I don't vote but if I did I'd be

00:29:47.000 voting in Virginia but you won't know some specific things and like 0.95

00:29:51.020 identifiers and driver's licenses when what China does is it takes the 0.55

00:29:54.800 commercial data first and then it sends a hacking unit and it's called the CNE 0.61

00:29:58.500 and then they go in and they get they hack into the databases and get the

00:30:02.280 stuff that really you can register with the stuff you buy commercially is just

00:30:06.260 surface level you know sort of that John Solomon registered in Virginia that's

00:30:09.780 all you know uh when you get the voter file its entirety by hacking either commercial government

00:30:16.020 or state voter databases you're now in a position to make a ballot request for someone in from china

00:30:23.220 so um there are six things that the u.s government uh said once china got access if they would be

00:30:28.260 able to do one they would vote in your name and you'd show up and they say sorry sir you can't

00:30:32.100 vote because you already voted and you're like wait i didn't vote but remember how some people

00:30:35.860 said that happened in 2020. I remember that coming out. The second thing that would happen is they

00:30:39.860 could change a little bit of your voter file without you knowing. You'd go in with your license

00:30:44.100 and I'm at this street and say no sir you can't vote because you're registered on this one so

00:30:48.020 you're going to have to do a provisional. We may or may not count it. The third thing they could do

00:30:51.860 is go and take your identity, move you to another state. You'll never know you're living in Virginia

00:30:56.580 but you just got registered in Michigan and China will vote there for you. You'll never know. You may 0.66

00:31:00.580 They never know you voted in another state.

00:31:03.340 And then they can do things by taking their other data hacks that they have on Americans

00:31:06.880 and start targeting you for malign influence.

00:31:09.800 Like there are very clear things in these documents we released yesterday that no one's

00:31:13.060 ever seen before. 0.81

00:31:14.500 The Chinese were telling their consulates, target people with this messaging. 0.83

00:31:20.020 Then they told their social media folks, make it look like Donald Trump is a bad person. 0.84

00:31:26.040 could try to foment racial strife on the streets. Now, I

00:31:30.060 want to compare this, what these documents say, to what Mark

00:31:33.660 Warner was saying. Nothing happened from China. If you

00:31:36.060 hacked 220 million voter files from us, if you're trying to

00:31:39.780 foment racism and division on our streets, if you're trying to

00:31:43.860 use your social media, if you're using blackmail, by the way,

00:31:46.860 they talked, China was gaining blackmail on US officials, so

00:31:50.220 that they can embarrass them just before the election. If

00:31:53.100 you're doing those things, you have intervened in our

00:31:55.500 election. I don't care what any Democrat or some knucklehead on CNN is saying. Those four things

00:32:00.160 are thresholds that amount to interference in any common American's mind. Okay, so I thought that

00:32:07.720 there were two things that came out. One, that this is really important, this voter data, and

00:32:13.420 they could just use it for algorithms to shape you on how you're going to vote, all the things

00:32:19.220 you just said and shape you as well um and two and this might have been a bigger thing the the

00:32:26.440 cover-up from our own intelligence agencies i i mean john this is this is what happened in vietnam

00:32:34.380 to some degree it's uh what that what happened with iran contra in in a way where everybody said

00:32:41.420 well no the president knew here we know the president didn't know and it was a problem

00:32:47.020 Every time something like this has happened, and I can't, I think this is the most important violation of this, them keeping information vital from the president of the United States.

00:32:59.980 I think, is there anything here that is going to be so indisputable that you'll see an actual perp walk?

00:33:10.120 Yes, I do. I think it's possible. I think you'll see terminations first, right?

00:33:13.780 And so the CIA is now reviewing everyone that was involved with a presidential daily briefing for which this information was withheld.

00:33:20.140 And you're seeing things here that you're showing up on screen so important.

00:33:23.440 They basically are talking about deliberately massaging President Trump's database so he won't see the Chinese election interference stuff.

00:33:32.060 There are people watching this that are pros in the intelligence community.

00:33:35.700 They're not trying to cover it up. And they're they're writing back to this like it boggles the mind that we're going to keep this from the president.

00:33:41.440 Another FBI person who kept pulling back China intelligence interference reports and not letting the community see them so they could be investigated, wrote in her own text messages to her colleague, I'm running a shadow government.

00:33:53.220 I'm running a shadow government to keep the president and others from learning about this.

00:33:58.620 It is remarkable when you hear that, those sort of text messages, what was going on.

00:34:03.400 Other people writing, this is clearly politics.

00:34:05.260 We should be telling the president.

00:34:06.440 An NSA guy said, I'm alarmed that we're not telling the president, but I was too weak to stand up and object in the meeting.

00:34:14.760 This was one of the widest secrets in the intelligence community, that some intelligence analysts used their power to keep the president in the dark about a 220 million voter data breach,

00:34:26.200 about the vulnerability of machines in elections, about Venezuela's successful hack of a voter machine in a controlled environment, not an election, but in a laboratory setting.

00:34:36.440 All of those things are things that are actionable, that a president and a Congress needs to know in real time.

00:34:42.140 And we had analysts in the intelligence community who thought their political purposes were more important than our national security.

00:34:49.420 They didn't want Donald Trump to have this.

00:34:51.380 They didn't want Donald Trump to make a China argument.

00:34:53.560 So they shut off the spigot of information for what they're paid to provide the president.

00:34:58.580 It's fraud.

00:34:59.560 It is deceit.

00:35:00.880 It is harmful to our national security.

00:35:04.000 Talking to John Solomon.

00:35:05.800 There seems to be some dots to connect between the investigation into the CCP billionaire Neville Singham,

00:35:15.220 then Cuba's efforts to agitate in the U.S.,

00:35:18.340 Marco Rubio and the State Department's mission to crack down on violent far-left extremism,

00:35:23.460 an amazing speech yesterday.

00:35:24.000 Did you see that conference yesterday?

00:35:25.120 Yeah, it was amazing.

00:35:25.780 Unbelievable.

00:35:26.440 Amazing.

00:35:26.940 It was.

00:35:27.920 And to disrupt their financial networks.

00:35:31.420 Is there more to come on this?

00:35:32.800 Am I seeing dots that are not disconnected?

00:35:38.720 I think you're seeing boulders coming down a hill, picking up momentum.

00:35:41.760 I think the FBI and the IRS are going to begin taking some really big actions against people that might have been conspiring with foreign powers to harm American national security.

00:35:51.540 There is evidence that I'm working on right now, by the way, as a reporter, not in my government job right now,

00:35:55.920 that there was contact going on between U.S. groups and foreign enemies specifically related

00:36:03.060 to the anti-ice and ice-out protests. Imagine that if anyone involved in that was conspiring

00:36:08.560 with a foreign power to harm our United States. That's something we're looking at right now.

00:36:13.740 Scott Bessing came on my show a couple weeks ago and said, we are going to start pulling

00:36:16.780 IRS tax exemptions and making people pay taxes for what they did, and they might be charged with

00:36:22.240 fraud if they claim they were doing public good and instead they were doing public harm under a

00:36:25.980 tax exemption. So the IRS, the FBI, the Homeland Security Investigations Unit created a task force

00:36:32.680 and they are cracking down. And I think the first fruits of that are likely to be in the next month.

00:36:36.860 We'll start to see actual activity, perp blocks, actions in court, IRS actions. And that is the

00:36:44.280 beginning of a long haul because our country has been embedded with nonprofits that are aligned

00:36:49.400 with foreign enemies and that is something that is not a good security posture when uh the president

00:36:54.620 said in a tweet um most terrifying and yet so satisfying tweets i don't know but within the

00:37:02.180 last month he said uh something along the lines of you know the communists are starting to come

00:37:07.340 out everywhere and i i've been waiting for this moment yeah wait to see what's coming it's going

00:37:13.400 to be fun to watch yeah is this the beginning of this i think that is what he's referring to that

00:37:20.380 we now are moving towards a body of evidence that americans were working with our enemies to harm

00:37:25.720 our country i don't know what charge that will be you can throw terms wrong like trees and sedition

00:37:30.580 i don't know yet but i do believe that that's what everybody's working on that is a very very

00:37:36.040 important development in our country and it's important for another reason rasmussen scott

00:37:40.540 Rasmussen has a poll out today. 31% of Americans now think socialism is good, and not even a

00:37:46.380 majority think it's bad any longer. That is the most alarming statistic I've ever seen. What it

00:37:50.940 means is the mainstream media have normalized what is the radical in America, and they're now

00:37:57.840 convincing people that socialism is good. It has never been good in world history. It has been

00:38:02.960 repressive. It is bad at this moment. The joy that Venezuelans have today versus six months ago

00:38:08.040 shows you what happens when people get a little freedom from the repression of socialism.

00:38:12.880 Every economy that ever was socialist has failed. And yet Americans, a third of Americans nearly,

00:38:18.340 think this is a good thing. We have to nip that in the bud, stop that. And the way you stop it

00:38:22.840 is by stopping the propagandists who pump that into our information system every day to the

00:38:28.180 tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. I have about 40 seconds left. Let me just ask

00:38:33.400 this last question. In one of the documents released last night, the Chinese government

00:38:37.340 sought to identify U.S. journalists

00:38:39.260 who had reported negatively on the U.S.

00:38:41.540 presidents and pay them

00:38:43.640 to write more negative articles

00:38:45.540 about him. Yep.

00:38:47.160 Are we ever going to get to a place where we will see

00:38:49.400 names? I've asked for that

00:38:51.540 now. The commission just asked for

00:38:53.440 that task force. So if there are any journalist names

00:38:55.540 that they've confirmed, I hope we'll be able to make them public

00:38:57.540 sometime soon. Wow.

00:39:00.080 John, Godspeed. Thank you

00:39:01.520 so much for all your hard work. Good to be with you, Glenn. Thank you.

00:39:03.440 You bet. John Solomon from Just the

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00:42:18.260 You know, as I was listening to the speech last night, the president came out and he talked about, you know, the state of the union.

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00:42:39.080 And the state of the union, there's a difference between perception and reality.

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00:43:26.220 The Marxists are talking a language that will go to the voters.

00:43:31.040 OK. The working class needs to feel heard.

00:43:36.680 And this is the president's biggest challenge.

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00:47:06.280 if you're just joining us and we had john solomon on guy who has been working to expose

00:47:12.960 what's been going on uh with our intelligence agencies and china uh he has special access to

00:47:20.120 the white house um he talked to suzy wiles at the white house and said i'm not getting i'm getting

00:47:25.960 stonewalled i'm getting stonewalled from the intelligence agencies and there is i i hear

00:47:32.520 rumors that they are these documents that are actually written someplace and suzy talked to

00:47:39.240 the president the president said bring john in and john went in and he said what are you looking

00:47:43.500 for and he said well i heard this and this and this and here's what they would mean if they're

00:47:46.420 true. And the president just said, okay, come on into the White House. I'll bring the intelligence

00:47:51.420 people in. We'll find those documents. And if I can declassify them, I will. And then you can look

00:47:57.520 at them. Well, that's what started all of this last night in the speech. Now, Marco Rubio is

00:48:05.900 attacking from a different direction because this is the beginning of an attack. What happened last

00:48:10.940 night is the beginning of an attack on the deep state a real attack on the deep state that john

00:48:17.940 says it's going to end in a perp walk uh and the exposing of journalists that may have been taking

00:48:24.400 money from china to make the president look bad because that's in the classified documents and it

00:48:30.000 was in the parts where where where an intelligence officer actually said quote i'm running a shadow

00:48:39.320 government by keeping this from our president. But we're going to get more information on that

00:48:46.800 in the days to come, because what he revealed last night is not what the press is telling you,

00:48:51.620 and it was very important. But Rubio is taking now another road, another line of attack. And

00:49:00.560 his opening speech at the ministerial on resurgence of political terrorism

00:49:07.240 was one of the best speeches I've heard in a long time.

00:49:11.260 I'm going to play just a little bit of it,

00:49:12.620 and then I want to show you what's happening in our own country

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00:49:18.280 We'll start with Marco Rubio in 60 seconds.

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00:50:32.620 so let me start with this speech that the president that uh i'm sorry marco rubio

00:50:39.940 was that freudian that marco rubio uh gave uh on radical leftism yesterday listen to this

00:50:47.900 this is a distinctive and unique evil it has always been driven by a hatred above all else

00:50:55.540 a hatred for civilization itself it is a revolt of the worst against the best

00:51:01.220 A revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. 0.95

00:51:07.400 It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, 0.89

00:51:13.680 and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can.

00:51:21.440 This is what radical leftism is.

00:51:24.300 It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time.

00:51:28.120 They can call themselves anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist or communist or anarchist or Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same.

00:51:38.380 It's always the same.

00:51:39.620 It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built,

00:51:49.500 to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with

00:51:55.380 ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world through violence and through terror

00:52:00.960 they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us here's what people think you know 0.56

00:52:08.660 when they think that um and i'm going to use the actual technical term communists those who are

00:52:14.480 actual, you know, DSA, from their own report, proudly state that 51% of their board are

00:52:23.040 self-acknowledged communists.

00:52:26.880 Communism is a really terrifying thing because it is, it's legalized theft and legalized 0.97

00:52:35.820 destruction.

00:52:37.560 They steal the, there are makers and there are takers in the world.

00:52:42.160 That's all there is.

00:52:42.800 Those two things, makers and takers.

00:52:44.480 Which one are you?

00:52:45.880 Now, when I say makers, most people will say, oh, well, that's like Elon Musk.

00:52:49.360 No, you're a maker.

00:52:50.820 You're a maker.

00:52:52.320 You may not be the person that says, I want to run my own business.

00:52:55.740 I got this plan.

00:52:56.500 I'm going to build this empire.

00:52:57.800 That may not be you.

00:52:59.680 But you are making something every day.

00:53:01.760 You're making something of yourself.

00:53:03.120 You're making something of your family.

00:53:05.220 If you're trying to build a family, you're a maker.

00:53:08.600 Whether you're the dad who's working two jobs or a mom that's working two jobs

00:53:12.860 or a stay-at-home mom or stay-at-home Deb, you are a maker.

00:53:16.160 You believe in your family, and you are building something big for the future.

00:53:21.620 And then there are those who want to take things from you.

00:53:25.320 You're working two jobs, so you're paying taxes.

00:53:28.680 And these takers want to increase your taxes because they don't have,

00:53:33.280 they don't know how to make.

00:53:34.660 They don't care about the family.

00:53:37.300 They don't care about making.

00:53:39.940 They care about tearing down.

00:53:42.860 This is what he's talking about when there's deep resentment for the people who do.

00:53:49.460 And the problem with all of this is, you know, people think it's all compassion.

00:53:53.420 Well, Jesus would not have been a communist.

00:53:56.160 Jesus would not have been a socialist.

00:53:58.220 He wouldn't have.

00:53:59.960 He would be for, you know what, give all of your riches away.

00:54:06.060 But you give it away, not at the barrel of a gun, not because you have to.

00:54:11.220 Nothing changes.

00:54:12.120 This is the part that people miss about Christianity. 0.88

00:54:15.340 Even Christians miss this. 0.97

00:54:17.520 It doesn't matter. 0.76

00:54:19.100 It doesn't matter if your heart doesn't change.

00:54:21.780 I'm sorry.

00:54:22.420 I know you can say with your mouth, I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

00:54:26.800 But if your heart doesn't change, I'm sorry.

00:54:31.540 You can say whatever you want, and I don't know, and I could be wrong. 0.99

00:54:34.620 But when you get up, I'd be really shocked if somebody was like, oh, yeah, before I die, I'm with a prostitute right now. 1.00

00:54:41.880 I'm actually raping that prostitute 1.00

00:54:44.800 while I'm pillaging some other people 1.00

00:54:46.560 and I accept Jesus Christ

00:54:48.500 as my Lord and Savior

00:54:49.080 I'm sorry I don't think he's going to accept that

00:54:52.940 I really don't

00:54:53.960 but maybe it's me

00:54:56.120 your heart has to change

00:55:00.540 because that's the secret

00:55:02.560 to all of it

00:55:03.500 when you have a government

00:55:06.360 set up to take

00:55:07.640 from those that make

00:55:09.500 your heart is hard

00:55:12.660 I want it

00:55:14.640 they don't deserve it, I deserve it

00:55:16.360 I'm going to take it

00:55:17.440 instead of changing the heart of the people

00:55:20.720 who have all of that money

00:55:22.060 and they go, you know what, I just want to help

00:55:24.480 I want to help

00:55:25.660 and then

00:55:27.100 the socialists or the communists

00:55:30.720 always miss that we are

00:55:32.900 the most charitable nation on earth

00:55:34.920 they always miss

00:55:37.020 that Carnegie

00:55:38.460 Oh, this bad guy.

00:55:39.660 Carnegie built libraries all over the country.

00:55:45.140 And why did he do it?

00:55:46.440 He didn't do it as a tax write-off.

00:55:47.620 He believed that everyone could be a king of their own kingdom,

00:55:53.200 that you can build something, but not without a king's library.

00:55:58.920 And so he took whatever was in the king's library at the time,

00:56:01.800 the most important books.

00:56:03.480 He said, like, I'll build the library.

00:56:07.280 I'll pay for it all.

00:56:10.800 Put all the books in it.

00:56:12.760 You just build the library.

00:56:14.500 You just build the building.

00:56:15.780 I'll put everything in it.

00:56:18.500 And so we partnered with towns, farm towns, big towns all over the country

00:56:23.140 to build all these libraries.

00:56:25.960 Well, where would we be if somebody hadn't done that?

00:56:31.480 And does that make him a good guy?

00:56:33.640 No.

00:56:33.880 Does the fact that he made money make him a bad guy? No.

00:56:39.900 But the thing is, if you don't change people's hearts,

00:56:43.860 then the whole thing depends on somebody else being absolutely right all the time.

00:56:56.040 And that can never go wrong.

00:56:59.100 So once the system starts to fail, as it always does,

00:57:02.720 then, you have to have secret

00:57:04.980 police. Because this is the way

00:57:06.960 it always ends. KGB, East Germany

00:57:09.140 called their Zastasi.

00:57:11.200 The Zastasi had one informant

00:57:13.020 for every 63 East Germans.

00:57:15.160 More surveillance per capita than

00:57:17.020 any regime in human history.

00:57:20.720 And

00:57:20.860 here's what the deal. Stop people

00:57:22.900 from saying the plan doesn't work.

00:57:25.920 That's the thing.

00:57:27.680 People notice

00:57:28.780 when bread doesn't come. And so

00:57:30.800 they start saying something.

00:57:32.720 And so I got to stop them from saying it.

00:57:36.120 That's why the left does not.

00:57:38.000 That's why they want to.

00:57:38.780 That's why they want to control the algorithm.

00:57:40.780 That's why they want you to stop saying things.

00:57:43.540 They want you to learn.

00:57:45.460 No, there's consequences when you say things that we don't want you to say, because that's essential.

00:57:52.620 And you've got to become militant about it because eventually the plan doesn't work. 0.88

00:57:56.660 And so you have to have people that come in like the Stasi and silence those people. 0.51

00:58:02.720 You know, when the wall came down in 1989, we found out what East Germany actually looked like.

00:58:09.300 We didn't know for sure.

00:58:10.700 Per person, about a third as wealthy as the West Germans they had been separated from for 40 years.

00:58:16.680 Same language, same culture, same starting point in 1945.

00:58:20.960 Only difference.

00:58:22.540 One said it was right to take from the makers.

00:58:26.600 And when the wall opened, people flowed one direction.

00:58:30.180 They didn't go to East Germany.

00:58:31.780 They all went to West Germany. 0.59

00:58:40.200 This is what we're fighting.

00:58:41.660 And this administration and Marco Rubio and last night Donald Trump,

00:58:45.460 they're getting serious about it.

00:58:46.600 I mean, I told you yesterday, I did not think that Donald Trump would come out

00:58:50.480 and be as harsh on China as he was.

00:58:53.100 I mean, he named it.

00:58:55.240 He said, there it is.

00:58:56.560 And who did it? 1.00

00:58:57.300 The Chinese. 0.99

00:58:58.680 Now, I don't know what that means.

00:59:00.900 I wonder if they've had conversations yet, him and President Xi.

00:59:04.620 But I got to tell you, it was stronger than I expected.

00:59:15.340 But I don't want you to listen to the media.

00:59:17.940 I want you to listen to the media, understanding what they're doing.

00:59:24.980 They are trying to silence actual documents.

00:59:28.500 They're trying to say those documents don't make any difference, and the people who are in with the media and the left will tell you you're a conspiracy theorist for believing them.

00:59:40.940 I want you to listen to what they're saying.

00:59:42.920 I want you to compare and contrast.

00:59:45.040 I want you to read the documents yourself that the president put out last night at WhiteHouse.gov.

00:59:51.260 Read the documents, because they make it very clear, very clear.

00:59:55.620 and then go ahead and listen to the media

00:59:57.820 and see what they say about those documents

00:59:59.340 you'll be able to decide

01:00:03.780 you're smart enough to figure this out on your own

01:00:05.720 you don't need me or anybody else to tell you

01:00:07.440 just read what it actually

01:00:09.900 says

01:00:10.500 but they want you to

01:00:13.780 shut up and let me give you a really good example

01:00:15.880 of 0.99

01:00:16.280 having to shut up what that leads to

01:00:19.380 in Maine

01:00:21.040 there is

01:00:22.960 Ashley Webb 0.99

01:00:24.760 She's an activist. She's a guy. Now, I'm not supposed to say that because there's a penalty attached to that. If I say she's actually a dude, there's a penalty because they need me to shut up. And that is just it doesn't care about Ashley. It is about control over me and people who won't toe the line. It has nothing to do with Ashley Webb. 0.95

01:00:51.060 but during the debate for candidates to replace graham plattner ashley webb is on and this is

01:01:01.160 what she said this is why she's qualified to serve in he is qualified to serve for the u.s

01:01:08.780 senate listen ashley webb what qualifications do you have to serve in the u.s senate oh i ran for

01:01:14.660 office several times didn't win but i did run and then um i'm a songwriter and then i write my own

01:01:22.280 books and then i suppose my transparency i wouldn't lie to the people and i wouldn't

01:01:29.460 deceive the people like we're being deceived right now you have to see this video it's sad

01:01:36.460 it really is truly sad it's truly sad it looks like an sl uh you know an snl sketch but they 0.73

01:01:44.400 would snl would never do this sketch you know they can't see the they can't see the the absurdity 0.97

01:01:52.480 in real life anymore but this would 20 years ago that would have been a sketch and the audience

01:01:58.960 would have been roaring laughing because it's so absurd he's wearing a dress by the way and

01:02:06.780 standing on the stage.

01:02:09.780 And you know what?

01:02:11.040 I applaud his courage.

01:02:13.620 I applaud his willingness to serve.

01:02:16.960 I applaud his courage.

01:02:21.800 His courage.

01:02:25.800 But that's how insane things have gotten. 0.98

01:02:29.320 Things are so insane that they have gone from a Nazi rapist, 0.89

01:02:34.720 alleged 0.91

01:02:36.040 to

01:02:38.580 I mean

01:02:41.020 this guy might win

01:02:42.420 I don't know who's going to win

01:02:44.420 I don't know who's going to win

01:02:45.760 it's so insane

01:02:47.560 if there were any kind of data

01:02:50.680 out that said Ashley Webb 0.67

01:02:52.420 is the most electable

01:02:54.940 anybody

01:02:56.420 and the Democrats who would say 0.92

01:02:58.240 this is ridiculous 0.93

01:02:59.400 today would be saying 0.87

01:03:01.200 that's the one I'm going to vote for

01:03:02.860 because they can win.

01:03:06.420 They can beat.

01:03:10.800 It's this horrible, twisted game,

01:03:13.020 and I think what you and I have in common

01:03:15.080 is we don't look at this as a game.

01:03:16.800 This is our country.

01:03:17.660 This is our children.

01:03:19.720 This is our children's future.

01:03:21.580 It is the future of freedom all around the world.

01:03:24.440 If we blow this, there's no other place to run.

01:03:27.920 And it's not a game,

01:03:29.060 and I think that's why you and I get so

01:03:31.460 roped in, why we are so, we get sometimes so angry about it because we actually care.

01:03:41.840 And it seems like so many people, this is my biggest problem with the left,

01:03:46.220 and not the left, people who vote Democrat who are just getting their news from one source.

01:03:51.180 If I could talk to them and they could say, oh, no, I read the documents.

01:03:54.780 Did you really read the documents? What did the documents say?

01:03:57.000 And they said, oh, I read them and here's what it said.

01:03:59.420 But here's why I disagree with you, Glenn.

01:04:00.900 I could live with that person forever.

01:04:04.540 I just can't handle people who only get their news from one source like CNN,

01:04:10.800 and then they say, that's it.

01:04:12.620 And then they defend it to the day,

01:04:14.600 and you can show them the proof that that's not what it is,

01:04:17.520 and their eyes glaze over, and they just keep arguing.

01:04:21.820 That's where it becomes a game for so many people,

01:04:25.120 and a sad game because it's hypnosis.

01:04:29.200 Either that or it's a mental illness.

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01:08:42.360 okay um

01:09:00.760 donald kendall is with me donald is a guy who has worked on two of my best-selling books

01:09:10.040 dark future and also the great reset and so he knows what is going on uh what is what the what

01:09:17.460 the elites are planning how they work etc etc and uh we have talked extensively over the last five

01:09:24.760 years about uh ai and asi and agi and uh and data centers and he is concerned as concerned as i am

01:09:34.500 on the dark side of this, but he is also coming out now.

01:09:39.880 He's the director of the Glenn Haskins Emerging Issues Center

01:09:44.000 at the Heartland Institute, and he has written many, many articles

01:09:50.180 on the dangers of these data centers, but he is now coming out,

01:09:56.660 and he is also saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

01:09:59.820 We're in trouble if we don't have these data centers.

01:10:02.320 So he just wrote, based on a report from OpenAI, suggests operatives likely based in China have been using artificial intelligence to manipulate the American debates about AI development and public policy.

01:10:18.280 And I find it interesting because Donald is not a guy that would go to OpenAI for a report, but he's using OpenAI to make this point.

01:10:28.200 So my first question, Donald, welcome to the program is why are you allowing open AI to, uh, lead this argument with you?

01:10:40.880 Well, clearly I'm being coerced by artificial intelligence.

01:10:43.500 It knows me better than I know myself, so it can push me in any direction, but, uh, I know, you know, you're a soft, you're a pushover, easy pushover.

01:10:52.020 I know you.

01:10:52.920 Yeah.

01:10:53.360 Let me just say, though, you know, I've been I've been working on AI, as you mentioned, for for years now.

01:10:59.160 And, you know, the first real AI conversation that I ever had that was kind of outside, just like science fiction movies, was with you in your office back in 2019 when we were actually working on arguing with socialists together.

01:11:13.200 So I actually kind of credit my whole kind of career path towards this this issue to you.

01:11:19.500 So there's that. We'll start off with that.

01:11:21.640 All right.

01:11:22.720 I hope you're right then.

01:11:24.640 But but yeah, so, you know, I if you were to go through my backlog of articles, you'll definitely see that, you know, most of them are a little bit more critical of artificial intelligence.

01:11:35.080 The power that's wielded by the institutions, you know, when they have this this this new tool of artificial intelligence and just like the whole host of things that are made possible now by this emerging technology.

01:11:48.540 And most of that just kind of comes with a skepticism about these powerful institutions, whether it's government, whether it's big corporations.

01:11:57.640 I mean, I had so many we've had so many conversations, the two of us of, you know, I don't want it in the hands of the government.

01:12:05.020 I don't want it hands in the big in the big tech.

01:12:08.080 But those are the two choices that we have.

01:12:10.560 And so you can't you're just you're left with a lot of bad choices.

01:12:13.820 So let me go to the data centers, because that is so critical.

01:12:18.940 I believe, Donald, and I think you do too, if we don't do electricity, if we don't get our power grid under control and really expand power and have the data centers, we will be the Mexico of the world in 25 years from now.

01:12:37.440 China will control everything.

01:12:39.980 That's exactly right. 0.94

01:12:41.080 You know, I have bought into the debate that, you know, if we're not the forefront of this industry, then somebody else is going to be.

01:12:51.380 You could have all the international agreements that you want to slow down the development of artificial intelligence to make sure that we're doing it properly and aligning it with the, you know, principles that we think are important.

01:13:02.460 And you could even have China sign on to those international agreements and they will still work behind the scenes to push to push their homage, you know, supremacy on artificial intelligence.

01:13:15.700 forward so when i started seeing these reports and the open ai one is just one of them there's

01:13:20.840 a bunch of reports out there that are showing what we know because we also worked on uh propaganda

01:13:25.940 wars together that this is a this is a common tactic of foreign governments foreign intelligence

01:13:32.940 um is to sow seeds of discontent in other uh countries in rival countries so we've seen this

01:13:39.980 with russia with the internet's research agency we've seen this with china time and time again 0.84

01:13:44.920 And dating back to like 2005, I believe, where they were just putting bot armies on the Internet to spread propaganda and make it seem like it's just a kind of a natural occurring thing. 0.83

01:13:54.660 Also, there is a reports about different environmental groups, whether it's Sierra Club or 350.org, those sorts of things that are kind of pushing the same message, this anti data center message that was very reminiscent of the anti fracking messages from just, I don't know, several years ago.

01:14:15.080 So when all of these things are kind of coming out, it's like, you know, I could be as skeptical as the next person when it comes to the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of the United States government or, you know, these big corporate, you know, whatever, these giant corporations, international corporations that we know not to necessarily trust because of our days with the big tech censorship of social media or the days of ESG, all of that sort of thing.

01:14:40.880 But then I look at it and I say, you know, I feel like we can, you know, in the same way that Elon Musk was able to kind of change the debate when it came to the objectivity of social media platforms, I feel like there is a pathway for that sort of, you know, getting that conservative voice out there and really pushing for constitutional principles when it comes to AI alignment.

01:15:01.740 And I don't think we're going to have as much luck with that when it comes to artificial intelligence in China.

01:15:06.700 And we know some of these models in China, whether it's DeepSeek or Kimmy, you know, a lot of these very specifically do not criticize the CCP.

01:15:18.640 They do not criticize Xi Jinping.

01:15:21.140 They're there.

01:15:21.880 You know, they're there is twisted and ideological bias that you could possibly imagine.

01:15:28.440 And we're seeing that companies in the United States, because those models run slightly cheaper than U.S. models, are actually starting to use those in their systems.

01:15:40.600 So this is the fear that I have.

01:15:42.960 So, Donald, let me go back again to the data centers.

01:15:48.840 I have been saying since we've since we met and before we met, but I remember talking to you about this, you know, in that meeting that I have been concerned forever about what I say is the loss of free will.

01:16:02.320 Yes. Not that you can't choose. You won't know if you have been manipulated into making that choice or if it was actually your original idea.

01:16:12.840 This was the whole point of the president's speech last night.

01:16:15.780 Not that they stole the election, that they are manipulating or can manipulate because they have so much information on the individual.

01:16:24.400 And I look at these people.

01:16:25.880 I was having this conversation with my son.

01:16:27.740 He said, Dad, I agree with a lot of these people.

01:16:29.760 We passed marchers on this against the data center.

01:16:34.520 And he said, Dad, I agree with a lot of the things they said.

01:16:36.760 And I said, son, so do I. 0.99

01:16:38.020 But how many of them understand that there's a good shot that they were manipulated into thinking these things or being used as useful idiots by the algorithm in China? 0.98

01:16:53.620 There are legitimate questions that have to be asked. 0.98

01:16:57.300 But a lot of this real deep anti data center stuff, it is coming from China.

01:17:05.420 How do you know the difference?

01:17:07.220 I mean, how should people be aware of this?

01:17:11.920 Yeah, well, it's an incredibly tough question to ask, especially in this day and age with the speed of the how information is disseminated across the Internet, social media, that sort of thing.

01:17:22.000 So it's really hard to tell who's who's even getting their talking points from where that sort of thing.

01:17:27.500 But, you know, I love, you know, the more heady conversations about artificial intelligence that that we have.

01:17:35.060 You know, the idea that like, are you really making your own choices? You know, did you decide to have, you know, Cheerios in the morning or was that just a, you know, artificial intelligence constructed psyop? Those sorts of things when it comes to what the, you know, what the implications of that are when it comes to free will, those are the conversations that I want to be writing about.

01:17:53.720 And I'll admit that when it comes to some of the data center stuff, you know, because I kind of looked at these things as kind of hand in hand, you know, I kind of bought into it a little bit, you know, whether it was the water usage or the electricity usage, driving up rates for people.

01:18:07.700 Those were, you know, pretty concerning to me.

01:18:10.420 But then we were looking into it.

01:18:12.120 We wanted to do stuff about water usage and, you know, my team and people that we that we partner with were like, yeah, you know, there's there's not really a whole lot there.

01:18:22.100 you know, there's some specific instances, but, you know, it seems to be something that they're

01:18:26.000 kind of mitigating now as they innovate. And then when it comes to the energy, when it comes to

01:18:30.280 energy, it's like, I feel like we're playing into the hands of the kind of net zero brigade that's

01:18:35.560 been pushing to offline reliable energy for a while, where it's like, oh, look, we don't have

01:18:40.360 enough energy for these data centers. It's like, well, whose fault is that? So that's, that's my

01:18:44.840 concern. And I've been saying, you know, when talking about this issue, that I'm hoping that

01:18:49.240 this ai revolution coincides with an american energy revolution because that i don't think that

01:18:54.860 we should offline powerful technology just because you know bernie sanderson crew offlined our

01:19:01.300 reliable energy for the past couple of decades and so those go ahead so those are like the

01:19:08.220 kind of the main issues that surround the data centers that i just like that aren't don't appeal

01:19:13.180 to me quite as much as those more heady subjects that you and i discuss right but i think those

01:19:18.240 those uh questions are what the average person are at right now and what you know i i think we

01:19:26.120 we have to find a way to convince people that they have all the power they literally all the

01:19:32.120 power they need if these these companies want the data centers and they do want them desperately

01:19:37.800 if they want them great that is the best place to be when you're negotiating no you want them

01:19:45.100 great you're going to offset any kind of cost that my power company has to make because now

01:19:52.740 we need new infrastructure plus you're creating all of the energy and you're going to put let's

01:19:58.400 say 10 or 20 percent of the energy you create back into the grid so my energy prices go down

01:20:03.940 you can negotiate these things right now but you have in new york you know when new york says and

01:20:10.740 there's other states and you talk about it there are other states that are saying you know we're

01:20:14.320 banning all of these data centers that's insanity isn't it donald yeah yeah absolutely and that's

01:20:20.580 another thing that kind of started pushing me into this direction was the the actions of bernie

01:20:24.680 sanders and crew whether it was the data center moratoriums that was just going to shut it down

01:20:29.540 shut down construction basically indefinitely they they kind of had a time horizon like oh

01:20:34.760 we're going to shut it down until we can figure out this unfigureoutable thing uh so that was a

01:20:39.980 concern to me. And then when Bernie Sanders came out talking about wanting to nationalize 50% of

01:20:44.680 the AI companies and basically load the boards with bureaucrats, hand-selected bureaucrats on

01:20:50.740 the board of these things, that was more concerning to me than some of the things that we talk about

01:20:55.600 when it comes to AI and data centers. So that is a big issue. I mean, there has been a sizable

01:21:02.520 impact by these activists' movements against data centers. There's been moratoriums passed

01:21:09.160 in certain states and certain localities.

01:21:11.620 There has been a delay in billions of dollars

01:21:15.340 of AI infrastructure build out

01:21:17.000 because of some of these groups

01:21:18.680 that are connected with people

01:21:20.780 that have been constantly on the wrong side

01:21:22.780 of the issues that we've talked about for decades,

01:21:25.320 whether that's Bernie Sanders that I already mentioned

01:21:27.580 or that Neville Singham,

01:21:30.480 which seems to be a Chinese allied activist group

01:21:35.560 or a person that activates

01:21:38.180 all these different groups across the country usually for environmental reasons so all of these 0.80

01:21:43.580 things just kind of like make me think hmm maybe uh maybe we're playing right into china's hands 0.54

01:21:49.640 and we actually kind of see this now there on top of all the reports that we're talking about

01:21:53.960 there are reports um that show that american companies are are increasingly using chinese

01:22:01.140 models to run their infrastructure so if that's the trend that we're that we're heading towards

01:22:06.120 We obviously know China wants to be AI supreme. They want to they want to have supremacy in the AI industry. And if we are going to stunt our development of artificial intelligence, we're just playing right into their hands.

01:22:21.600 And now we've got a society and industry that is just dependent on these AI models that are being developed in China.

01:22:31.300 So this this, you know, for all the current concerns that we have, and I will say that there are so many justified concerns when it comes to artificial intelligence.

01:22:38.940 I'm not going to back down off of that point.

01:22:41.040 Yeah. But if we're going to move towards, you know, where where China is dictating kind of the underlying infrastructure of our society, that is a recipe for absolute disaster. 0.87

01:22:52.240 Yes. Suicidal. Donald, thank you so much for being on with us. 0.99

01:22:55.920 We'll talk again and maybe we'll have a deeper conversation next time.

01:22:59.120 Heartland Institute Emergency Heartland Institute Emerging Issues Center Director Donald Kendall.

01:23:04.820 All right. Back in just a second.

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01:25:13.440 Now, they are making it impossible for me to go see The Odyssey.

01:25:17.180 I really want to see The Odyssey because I like Christopher Nolan,

01:25:19.620 but, oh, my gosh, between these stars and now this promotion rap about The Odyssey

01:25:23.860 where they have everybody, you know, Jimmy Fallon and all the people.

01:25:27.220 Have you seen this?

01:25:28.580 Here's the rap to promote Odyssey.

01:25:58.580 Penelope

01:25:59.320 We could be Homer

01:26:01.100 The way we go over

01:26:02.060 The story in six feet

01:26:03.560 Call it, examine it

01:26:05.140 Call it whatever

01:26:05.860 So long as it's this beat

01:26:07.360 Silence on fire

01:26:08.740 Oh my gosh

01:26:09.240 Okay, stop, stop, stop

01:26:10.060 I can't take any more

01:26:10.880 Honestly, it looks

01:26:15.320 All you have to say is

01:26:16.560 Odyssey

01:26:17.400 One of the greatest writers, directors of our age

01:26:20.680 Is trying it

01:26:21.640 And then

01:26:22.380 Put a clause, Hollywood

01:26:24.380 Into the contracts of all these actors

01:26:26.380 That they have to shut their pie hole

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01:28:27.720 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:28:31.640 Glenn Beck is on.

01:28:34.720 Hello, America.

01:28:37.280 It's Friday.

01:28:40.140 My name is Glenn Beck.

01:28:43.720 You know, my wife and I used to go to see a movie,

01:28:47.440 and sometimes two movies, every week.

01:28:51.820 I am a movie hound.

01:28:54.020 I'm a storyteller by nature.

01:28:55.900 I love great stories. 0.96

01:28:58.840 And then it started to slow down when we started, when movies really started to suck.

01:29:05.020 And they started to lecture us.

01:29:07.080 And then COVID changed everything.

01:29:09.440 And now my wife and I, we maybe go see a movie every couple of months, maybe, if we're lucky.

01:29:16.620 You know, when I say lucky, like there's something out that I actually want to see.

01:29:20.940 uh there's a movie out uh called the odyssey and i really want to see it if they could shut the

01:29:29.040 actors up and i i really if i give this advice to you hollywood for free put a clause in your

01:29:37.680 contract we're going to pay you all kinds of money to work for a few weeks and then we're going to

01:29:44.380 put you in you know up on a big screen and we're going to make you very very famous here's what you

01:29:49.080 have to do you have to act you have to work hard you have to show up and then you have to shut your

01:29:54.360 mouth until the movie is out and it's already played out then you can talk about any kind of 0.99

01:29:59.640 political stuff you want just shut up because i i mean just listening to these clowns and i i have 0.97

01:30:08.900 to tell you i don't think that christopher nolan is the kind of guy that's going to take one of 0.97

01:30:13.240 the greatest stories ever and wreck it he just i mean i want to see it because it's christopher

01:30:18.140 nolan he's one of the greatest storytellers and film of our day and i can't imagine that he's gone

01:30:24.420 all woke on uh the odyssey but listening to the actors oh you know what he you know uh homer really

01:30:35.700 didn't have it down with women what are you even talking about do you know the story

01:30:40.740 do you know

01:30:43.000 do you know what it's about

01:30:45.140 you know

01:30:46.880 you know the one he left behind

01:30:49.160 that was there running the kingdom

01:30:51.480 being strong

01:30:53.060 tricking all the guys all of that 1.00

01:30:54.740 that's not a strong woman 1.00

01:30:55.920 anyway 0.98

01:30:57.420 I'm not the guy to talk to on this

01:31:00.680 Spencer Clavin

01:31:01.660 is the guy to talk

01:31:05.260 to about this

01:31:06.420 he is the Claremont

01:31:08.840 review of books associate editor he is also the university of austin's classics professor uh and

01:31:16.160 can speak of the speak of the odyssey with some intelligence unlike me so uh andrew joins us here

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01:32:28.560 spencer how are you sir glad i'm doing great it's great to be with you thanks yeah it's uh

01:32:36.360 it's good to be you uh good to be with you um i have to tell you i remember reading the odyssey

01:32:42.260 when i think i was in high school and i just thought it was just a bore fest uh and couldn't

01:32:48.180 get through it uh it is it is one of the greatest stories of all i mean you know this is uh i love

01:32:55.660 this i remember i read uh wuthering heights at one point as an adult and i read it and i'm like

01:33:02.040 that is actually a boring book i have to tell you oh really that one is actually boring i don't know

01:33:06.240 did you like it oh no i did i did i liked it and i thought all right maybe i should reread it yeah

01:33:12.500 there's something about these classics you know discovery you know here i am a 30 year old guy

01:33:17.980 going you know people should read more classics there's something to this classic yeah they're

01:33:22.340 classics for a reason you don't say anyway yeah the odyssey is is like that um uh where it is

01:33:29.780 such a great story can you start with what the story is yeah i'm really happy to do that and

01:33:37.660 it's easy on one level it's a story about a guy going home odysseus is a warrior and a king he's

01:33:44.380 the king of ithaca he's been fighting in troy for 10 years that's the prequel the iliad if you like

01:33:50.660 And this is the sequel to the Iliad where he tries to make his way home, but for a whole bunch of reasons, including the wrath of the gods and all sorts of other mythological mishaps along the way, he can't get back.

01:34:04.380 And when he arrives back, finally, he discovers that a pack of weasels and snakes, a bunch of suitors have taken over his palace and he has to wreak vengeance upon them to gain his queen back Penelope, who's been waiting for him all that time, all those 20 years that he's been gone.

01:34:25.240 and uh he one of the reasons he doesn't come back is because uh because everybody died uh that he

01:34:32.940 was that was under his command and so he's kind of feeling bad about that or do i have that right

01:34:38.940 or wrong something close so people all of his men die along the way as part of this tormented

01:34:47.260 journey but you're getting at another layer of the story which is once you tell the kind of

01:34:53.620 beginning middle end plot of it you get to dig deeper into these incredible layers including

01:35:00.940 yeah why is it that this guy can't make it home and what does it mean to come home after 10 years

01:35:06.280 of war what does it take to rediscover yourself and reflect on the experience of being a soldier

01:35:13.580 having to do savage brutal deeds and then go back and become a husband and a family guy and a dad

01:35:19.000 out back in the yard with a beer so there's definitely that going on as well and these

01:35:24.380 big questions of leadership that you were being raised i don't i don't remember the hammock with

01:35:28.440 the beer in the story but maybe i missed something sorry wine why they're greeks so it's wine but

01:35:32.500 yeah close enough um the okay so the the other thing and and please uh correct me if i'm i'm

01:35:38.760 wrong because i most likely am um but his son is angry with him right and uh and and his wife

01:35:47.840 Well, everyone's got a lot of feelings.

01:35:50.220 Right, right.

01:35:50.900 I would say, Clint, everyone's got a lot of feelings.

01:35:52.960 His son, Telemachus, he's one of the first ever coming-of-age stories that we have in Western literature.

01:36:01.900 And this is how the poem starts, which may be why you were bored by it.

01:36:05.300 It's possible that you got to this poem and you were like, ah, there's dragons and monsters and witches and gods.

01:36:11.500 And then the first thing that happens is we sit around in Ithaca with this kid who's kind of not sure about what he wants to do with his life.

01:36:21.500 And he's fatherless.

01:36:22.400 So he's trying to gain a certain amount of manhood and maturity.

01:36:27.540 Penelope, meanwhile, yeah, is waiting for Odysseus.

01:36:31.280 She's a famous model of devotion, but she's also human.

01:36:34.780 And everyone in this poem is beautifully human.

01:36:37.360 So she is trying to stave off the suitors with this famous trick of weaving and unweaving a burial shroud.

01:36:46.620 And then she's also, yeah, this very beautiful symbol of how she's a match for him because he's famous for his matis, his cunning, and his intelligence, basically.

01:36:57.920 She has that same amount of kind of deceitfulness, but also wiles and smarts.

01:37:05.220 And when they finally meet, he's in disguise.

01:37:09.060 She's not sure what to believe.

01:37:11.200 She's not ready even to let go of her defensiveness.

01:37:15.160 And neither is he.

01:37:16.360 And they have this gorgeous reconciliation scene where she practically melts into his arms when he finally proves that he knows the secret of their marriage, which is that their bed is carved out of a tree that she asked him to move.

01:37:29.540 And he says, no, I can't.

01:37:30.340 So there's this, there are all of these moments that are really cinematic and offer a great kind

01:37:36.100 of palette for a director like Nolan to work with. There's also a lot of wordplay and kind of the

01:37:43.460 plot, but on purpose, twists around. The word that Homer uses at the beginning for Odysseus is he's

01:37:49.460 polytropos, he's many-wayed, he has many ways and wanderings, and the plot itself loops back over

01:37:55.540 onto itself. So there's also stuff that maybe if you're coming to it for the first time, you're

01:37:59.900 Like, I thought this was about a king and a queen, and now I'm kind of wandering about in Pylos and Sparta with all these random characters.

01:38:09.160 But what I would say, if you're getting into reading it for the first time, is, like, bear with him for the first four books.

01:38:17.040 There are 24 books or chapters of the poem.

01:38:19.520 And just keep an eye on Homer's great theme, which is the man.

01:38:22.740 He begins the poem,

01:38:24.520 Amdra moi enepe musa, sing to me of a man muse.

01:38:28.200 And the whole thing is about who is this guy?

01:38:30.560 And if you think about it as a kind of identity tale and a homecoming tale,

01:38:37.680 and you keep an eye on the character of Odysseus,

01:38:39.460 you find just like endless stuff that reveals itself with more and more rereading.

01:38:43.640 It has high replay value, as they say, of video games.

01:38:46.400 Okay, so Christopher Nolan, forget everything he just said,

01:38:49.360 because I think we just made this sound really boring.

01:38:52.380 Christopher Nolan, if you're going to go see a movie,

01:38:56.800 Christopher Nolan, and I don't know if you feel this way,

01:38:59.160 I think he's one of the better storytellers of our age.

01:39:03.020 Oh, he's so good. No question.

01:39:04.260 He's so good. And you've seen the movie.

01:39:07.100 So please tell me he didn't wreck it by putting a bunch of crap and woke crap in it. 0.99

01:39:12.960 He just told a great story. 0.98

01:39:15.660 He did not wreck it.

01:39:17.040 I'm totally ready to just say this is a good movie.

01:39:20.140 Now, there's a lot of footnotes and stuff that we can get into talking about.

01:39:23.020 But just the bottom line is the thing we were afraid of, which is completely reasonable and understandable. 0.99

01:39:29.520 I was listening to you talking about how dumb actors are when they open their mouths. 0.99

01:39:35.100 And boy, I want to co-star. 0.99

01:39:36.660 Like, just I'm so in for this writer, the shut up and sing, the shut up and act writer that you want to put on contracts completely.

01:39:43.620 They've done so much damage to people who are already fed up and understandably.

01:39:49.300 right because like i always think about rachel rachel zegler in snow white this disastrous

01:39:55.220 uh disney remake and you know zegler snow white is famously very very white zegler is not all

01:40:02.340 that white so so people were kind of raising their eyebrows at that but more than that and much more

01:40:07.220 importantly she doesn't like the source material she was giving these interviews saying oh it's

01:40:11.780 it's misogynist and it doesn't like women in power and it's all about keeping women down so

01:40:16.900 So that, combined with the fact that these racial recastings only ever go in one direction, and you're kind of ashamed for noticing this, right?

01:40:30.160 I think that's driven people a little bit crazy. 0.59

01:40:33.380 And I understand that, like, now whenever somebody does this, they think, oh, no, here we go again.

01:40:38.440 And with The Odyssey, which is such an incredible work of art and such a foundational work of Western literature, it's a very tender sore spot, right? 0.94

01:40:46.780 Like, you're going to take this thing and you're just going to drag it through the muck and you're going to tell me that it's evil and you're going to give me your stupid modern take on it. 0.82

01:40:54.940 You know, so I think that's what people are worried about. 0.76

01:40:57.540 And I think that that got blown a little bit out of proportion because Nolan is not doing that at all in this movie.

01:41:04.220 He makes some changes to the source material so you can like or not like, but none of them is designed to undermine the poem or to tell you you're wrong and racist for liking it.

01:41:14.240 it's the actors who kind of mouthed off and it's the controversy that got kicked up around the

01:41:20.620 poem that stuff you know lupita nyong'o who is one of the people that talked about oh homer 0.87

01:41:25.580 doesn't like women or whatever um you know she she's a great actress and she gives a really

01:41:31.280 interesting performance in this and she's really her part is really like a vanishingly small part

01:41:37.240 of the movie as are a lot of the other things that people got um upset and mad about and nolan

01:41:42.620 really does which not a lot of directors have done he really does put the story on screen he

01:41:48.420 gives you matt damon as the smartest soldier around tormented guy making his way back home

01:41:55.100 and he gives you anne hathaway in the best performance i've ever seen her give

01:41:58.480 who is good unlike a lot of other penelopes that have been on screen she really does

01:42:03.540 want odysseus back she loves him she's of course conflicted she's confused and in pain but she

01:42:09.320 passionately loves him and is waiting for him and it's just a very moving story so

01:42:13.100 i i don't know i think nolan does a really great job the book is better because the book's always

01:42:19.200 better than the movie but it's that's something that you know you can kind of talk about when you

01:42:24.120 see the movie the the woke takeover stuff is what everyone was really afraid of and that just

01:42:29.380 doesn't happen it's just not in this movie which is great yeah you know one of my favorite poets

01:42:33.940 you're gonna lose a lot of respect for me it's dr seuss no one of my favorite one of my favorite

01:42:39.140 favorite uh uh poets is edgar allen poe and and his you like him because i just read something that

01:42:46.880 said uh most people you know especially in that era all of the critics all of the other poets

01:42:55.180 except for a few over in england they all thought he was trash oh poo this is snobbery this is just

01:43:02.460 sheer people like edgar allen poe and that's why critics look down on him i think i mean they think 0.82

01:43:08.860 of him as trash or entertainment and because it's fun you know because it's exciting and people like

01:43:13.840 it then they'd say oh he's not really a great poet he's not a sophisticated literary artist

01:43:18.920 there are sophisticated great poets who are difficult to understand but poe is incredible

01:43:23.300 and he's a beautiful wordsmith so is dr seuss by the way a genius yeah no i know it's impossible

01:43:28.640 to do what dr seuss does anyway yeah yes okay so okay um can you tell me there is um while we're

01:43:35.400 here on ancient culture except for the poe thing ai is now helping us unroll ancient scrolls that

01:43:42.280 we haven't had access to can do you know anything about this can you talk to me about this and

01:43:47.400 what's happening and what we're finding i love this story so this is like i'm not used to um

01:43:55.260 people being interested in things that i'm passionate about because i'm a classicist

01:43:59.260 so the fact that there's this big movie about the uh odyssey and this major ai story about

01:44:05.300 classics oh no you're nerding out this is your weekend i'm just this is my like this is my

01:44:10.040 moment i am just like put me in coach um right so but this is a genuinely awesome story and it's

01:44:16.520 awesome for about a zillion different reasons um these scrolls that you're talking about were

01:44:21.820 buried under the ash of vesuvius you remember mount vesuvius it exploded erupted and buried

01:44:28.760 Pompeii and there was another city Herculaneum and so obviously there's like incredible stuff

01:44:34.340 preserved there a lot of dead bodies for one thing but in addition in the 18th century they 0.95

01:44:40.420 found this villa with a library and it's not like today where you can just be a schmuck like me and 0.94

01:44:46.440 have a big shelf of books behind you it's like very few people had were wealthy enough to have 0.74

01:44:51.540 large collections of books and so there's a lot of stuff in there that might be lost that is lost

01:44:57.220 from the ancient world that we could recover and it's tantalizing because they're baked into these

01:45:02.880 carbonized chunks basically they're like they're like charcoal basically and so for centuries people

01:45:08.200 have been trying to figure out how to read them how to read what's inside them without destroying

01:45:12.200 them or just making them crumble to a million pieces it's like an indiana jones type thing you

01:45:17.880 know if you touch it it falls apart and there have been all sorts of different mechanical efforts to

01:45:22.560 do this um including most recently and this was when i was in grad school people were shooting

01:45:26.660 them with x-rays, very highly powerful x-rays that can see inside the layers without touching

01:45:34.040 the scrolls or doing damage to them. But it's really, really hard to figure out once you have

01:45:38.540 the x-ray images, how you're supposed to basically arrange them, virtually unroll them, they say,

01:45:45.540 to make them lie flat so you can read them and see what's on them. And that's what AI has now

01:45:52.540 helped people to do there's this project called vesuvius project which is funded by a tech

01:45:57.540 investor where you get a prize if you can do this with one of the scrolls and they just recently

01:46:02.660 figured out how to do it with a complete scroll so you can just look inside into the past into

01:46:08.420 these priceless treasures using the help of ai but not and this is really important i know we've

01:46:12.840 talked about this before the ai is not reading the scrolls so it's not guessing what letters

01:46:18.120 are there it's it doesn't even know any greek if that makes sense there's no there's no language

01:46:23.620 built into the it's just showing us what it is exactly yeah and then the people come along and

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01:47:26.480 Ten seconds.

01:47:36.600 Gosh, I am already out of time.

01:47:39.340 I only have a minute left with you.

01:47:40.580 So go ahead and finish.

01:47:41.500 So what have they found?

01:47:43.080 Oh, well, right now, sorry to say, a bunch of philosophy. The hope, there's all these scrolls left to unroll. We could find stuff by Aristotle. We could find poems that were missing, like Ennius, the great Roman, the great Latin poet.

01:47:59.720 But we have a tiny sliver of literature from this period.

01:48:06.300 We've got, you know, seven plays by Aeschylus, which is just a miniature portion of what he wrote.

01:48:13.160 There could be anything in there.

01:48:14.440 And I just love that, you know, the tech is actually working to help the humans rather than the other way around.

01:48:21.600 Thank you so much, Spencer.

01:48:23.300 I'm glad to hear this review that the Odyssey is good.

01:48:27.260 uh and uh you know because that's what i would expect from christopher it rocks so thank you

01:48:32.000 appreciate it god bless you man thank you great to be uh spencer clavin yep that's uh

01:48:38.840 wouldn't it be interesting if if we open up the scrolls and we found like the words to beyonce

01:48:44.600 and we realize no no that's why those words are so good they're ancient uh right

01:48:53.140 Yeah. Maybe words from Lizzo's songs, but certainly not Beyonce.

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01:50:46.740 This is the Glenn Beck Program,

01:50:55.020 live from Los Angeles, California this week.

01:50:58.180 I've been doing some work on a Christmas album

01:51:02.060 that is coming out soon.

01:51:05.120 And, you know, I just...

01:51:08.220 It's my daughter, and she's grown so much, it's amazing.

01:51:12.540 And I'm watching her work with Roger Love,

01:51:15.200 who is he's worked with everybody he was saying my daughter lost some confidence and he said you

01:51:20.400 know i get a call probably twice a year from and i won't say the name but one of the biggest names

01:51:26.680 you could imagine uh and i get a call from her manager and says you got to come over she doesn't

01:51:32.320 think she can sing anymore and he's like what she's lost confidence she doesn't think she can

01:51:38.500 sing anymore uh and he said have you tried just bringing her a mirror and reminding her who she

01:51:45.200 is uh but i've learned so much from him and uh it is really all about and i and next week i want

01:51:55.340 to talk about this in a non-musical way but i've learned so much that it really is most of life is

01:52:02.480 about confidence it's hard work being prepared and then having the confidence to do it um

01:52:10.180 because once you have the confidence to do it your whole life will change just based on how you feel

01:52:17.660 about yourself uh and he was working with people uh that we we had sing for uh ellis island they

01:52:26.600 they never saw i wanted to give some people's chance to sing for the first time they've always

01:52:31.020 wanted to sing but never really had the chance to do it and so i wanted to give them really

01:52:35.860 difficult songs uh that they could sing and then you know at least they would be able to say i sang

01:52:42.700 on ellis island staring in the eyes of the statue of liberty for the 250th birthday

01:52:49.500 uh and ricky you've been chomping at the bit to tell me something about an update on this

01:52:55.640 Oh, yes. One of those difficult songs, and it was the most difficult, was Oh Lady Liberty. The range in that was insane.

01:53:04.500 And it was in French.

01:53:05.240 Some of you guys may remember that Chrissy Owens was the mom who auditioned for Ellis Island singing contest, and she won.

01:53:12.640 And if you weren't at the event, here's a clip of her singing Oh Lady Liberty in her first big public debut. Can we play that?

01:53:25.640 On se voit dans la poussière

01:53:35.640 On voit la vérité par n'importe quoi il faut

01:53:41.640 On change la conscience contre les rêves qui dorment

01:53:48.640 Okay. So this is where you're going to need your tissues. Because the message I got from her is

01:54:08.280 exactly the reason why Glenn added empowerment to the mission of Torch. Listen to this from Chrissy.

01:54:14.300 I just wanted to let y'all know that the Atlanta Braves asked me to sing at the stadium next week.

01:54:19.840 Pretty sure it's because someone from their office saw me on Ellis Island.

01:54:23.080 They don't hold auditions for regular vocalists.

01:54:25.760 It is pretty much invite only.

01:54:27.180 So you have to be a celeb or a school group to even have a shot at it.

01:54:30.340 And they invited me.

01:54:32.120 This stadium holds 41,000 people.

01:54:34.700 And this game will be on ESPN during primetime.

01:54:37.600 It's all possible because you guys gave me a shot. 0.99

01:54:41.040 Oh, crap. 0.94

01:54:41.840 Sorry, Clint. 0.99

01:54:42.480 I'm turning into you.

01:54:43.280 she just wanted to let you know how much yours and glenn's and the whole team's kindness and

01:54:47.560 support is meant to me thank you uh that's july 22nd at 7 15 p.m eastern go watch christy owens

01:54:53.560 chrissy owens and cheer on live that is fabulous chrissy i'm so happy for you so you know when

01:55:01.460 and i knew i knew our audience so well i knew they would pick her because it came down to you

01:55:08.120 the audience voting and I knew they would pick her because for a different reason but exactly

01:55:13.740 the same reason I saw her when she auditioned she sent in a video she's a mom and her kids she had

01:55:21.940 no time to herself so she learned she doesn't speak French she learned this song she's not a

01:55:27.600 professional singer never done it ever before she learned the song in French and then she auditions

01:55:33.760 and she was like out of the park but the whole time one of her children was constantly tugging

01:55:40.840 mom mom mom mom and she would read she just grabbed their head and redirect them over to

01:55:47.160 like their sandwich uh and she auditioned like that while she was navigating all of the and i 0.99

01:55:52.800 i thought if that woman can sing that song that well in an audition while navigating her children 1.00

01:56:00.620 into sandwiches. This woman 1.00

01:56:02.740 can, she can do anything. 0.98

01:56:05.520 And she 1.00

01:56:06.460 knocked it out of the park.

01:56:08.320 And now, literally,

01:56:11.000 she's going to knock it out of the park.

01:56:14.920 Ricky is

01:56:15.600 exactly right.

01:56:18.500 For over 20 years,

01:56:20.940 I have

01:56:21.860 started every hour

01:56:23.800 with

01:56:25.720 the fusion of entertainment

01:56:28.000 and enlightenment.

01:56:30.620 And when I started The Blaze, I told my staff a year before as we were getting ready to,

01:56:37.160 as I was explaining what Torch, I'm sorry, when I started The Torch,

01:56:41.160 as I was explaining what I was going to do with Torch and why I was making this move in my career,

01:56:48.520 I said, and we're changing the entertainment and enlightenment.

01:56:53.220 And I know a few people who have been on my staff forever went, oh, what is he doing? He's gone insane.

01:56:58.760 And I said, we're adding one word, empowerment, because that's what the next phase, which I'm in now, the last phase of my career has to be about.

01:57:09.560 I can't just entertain you.

01:57:11.200 I can't just bring you some enlightenment or some information.

01:57:14.340 I want to empower you to use that information, to use the things that you hear on this program, to empower you by.

01:57:23.180 let me tell you a quick story

01:57:30.020 god you know what it's like to live

01:57:33.620 riddled with ADD like this

01:57:35.240 I

01:57:38.240 I was

01:57:40.360 I've been watching Roger work

01:57:43.880 with my daughter for the last week

01:57:45.260 and she's been in the studio and she's just

01:57:47.460 pounding her head against the wall she's doing stuff she could have

01:57:49.740 never done before

01:57:50.720 two years ago

01:57:52.500 and I'm watching him.

01:57:55.920 I'm sitting right next to him

01:57:56.960 the whole time at the control board

01:57:58.760 and he's directing her.

01:58:00.900 And he'll open up his mic into her studio

01:58:03.100 and he'll say,

01:58:04.700 that was great.

01:58:07.120 And I want you to blah, blah, blah.

01:58:11.200 Well, after the first two days

01:58:13.340 of really listening to him,

01:58:15.060 I realized the man has never used the word but.

01:58:20.500 That was really good.

01:58:22.500 But this time I want you to, never.

01:58:26.200 So we're having lunch on day three.

01:58:28.900 And I said, Roger, you don't use the word but, do you?

01:58:34.540 And he said, oh, no, I swore that off long ago.

01:58:37.040 This guy was teaching at UCLA.

01:58:38.680 I found this out yesterday.

01:58:39.360 He was teaching music at UCLA at 16.

01:58:43.180 Teaching music at UCLA at 16.

01:58:48.540 He said, no, but just shuts everybody down.

01:58:52.500 I want to start living by that rule alone.

01:58:58.840 I think that will change my life.

01:59:00.560 I think that could change your life.

01:59:01.780 I think that will empower not only you,

01:59:04.240 but empower everyone around you.

01:59:07.900 Because I've always believed there's no such thing as no.

01:59:12.300 There is no but, as I used to say, there's no but.

01:59:19.360 Meaning, you can say, no, not that way.

01:59:22.500 But if we do this and this and this, I think we can accomplish that.

01:59:26.960 So you don't ever just say, no.

01:59:30.440 But I think even more empowering is, okay, that's a really good idea.

01:59:42.920 And if we do this and this and this, I think we can accomplish it.

01:59:47.300 And if we start thinking that way, even just for ourselves, not just for the people that we're trying to motivate around us, and if you're a manager or you're a leader of people, thinking that way, it's so subtle. I'm not even sure my daughter noticed it.

02:00:01.780 it's so subtle and so empowering

02:00:04.900 but I'm wondering

02:00:06.440 how empowering it is

02:00:09.080 if you lived your life

02:00:10.560 yourself and never said the word

02:00:12.740 but to yourself

02:00:14.060 I really like that but

02:00:16.420 I really want to go but

02:00:18.420 I am

02:00:24.500 now at the age of my life

02:00:26.460 where I can look back and I can see things

02:00:28.420 that just didn't work in my life

02:00:30.580 things that I tried, the things that I thought were true

02:00:34.160 and turns out they're not true.

02:00:37.200 And I think it was my grandfather

02:00:40.320 who used to say, youth is wasted on the young. 1.00

02:00:43.780 And it's so true because you get to a point

02:00:45.620 to where you can see things more clearly

02:00:47.620 and you can see these things that just empower you

02:00:52.420 and just empower others,

02:00:56.240 whether they're just watching, listening,

02:00:58.140 or standing next to you, doing it with you.

02:01:03.180 And that's what I want to bring to you.

02:01:06.440 That's my goal for the next.

02:01:07.860 That's why I started Torch.

02:01:10.320 That's why we just finished our first two episodes,

02:01:14.300 and I'm going to let it sit for a while.

02:01:16.560 We're going to work on another audio series,

02:01:19.540 but I'm going to let it sit for a while.

02:01:20.560 Maybe next year we'll work on episode three and four

02:01:24.840 of The American Story.

02:01:28.140 Um, but the American story, I'm telling you, it will empower you.

02:01:31.940 I was sitting during lunch.

02:01:33.500 I happened to have, I happened to have my copy of the, uh, first draft of the declaration

02:01:41.360 of independence.

02:01:41.880 Cause I had to go give a speech the other day in Las Vegas.

02:01:45.780 I think it was, uh, I had to give a speech.

02:01:47.860 And so I brought it with me and it happened to be in the, in the car.

02:01:51.980 Uh, and I was talking during lunch and this guy who is just running the control board

02:01:57.600 of the studios we were talking at lunch one day and uh he brought up something about our founders

02:02:04.640 or something and i said you know i have something let me get in the car and show you something

02:02:07.980 uh and i brought it out and he was blown away and he said how do i not know this how were we not

02:02:15.180 taught that this guy in los angeles and i said i know right he's like glenn that changes everything

02:02:21.600 that changes my complete understanding he's like i want to go back and read about it now and i'm

02:02:26.280 I'm like, I didn't say this, but I'm like, yes, that was the point.

02:02:33.580 Go and listen to some of the things that we have on Torch.

02:02:36.860 Listen to the first two episodes.

02:02:38.380 If you want a commercial free, you can get all 20 episodes right now.

02:02:41.020 And I think we're up to 16 is the death of Abraham Lincoln

02:02:46.300 and the assassination attempts of Abraham Lincoln

02:02:48.700 and then what happens after he dies and then reconstruction.

02:02:51.740 Boy, you weirdly want to understand.

02:02:53.200 You want to understand that nothing has changed?

02:02:56.280 just the names

02:02:59.220 It's uh, it's the American story

02:03:03.040 You will find it empowering

02:03:05.760 information knowledge and

02:03:09.300 Age give you wisdom. I

02:03:12.400 Can help you with information and I can help you with knowledge

02:03:18.080 You're the one that has to put it into practice and gain wisdom to teach all of it to others

02:03:23.940 but

02:03:25.400 You're smart enough to do it.

02:03:28.000 See, I just did it, bud.

02:03:29.960 And you're smart enough to do it.

02:03:33.840 You're smart enough to figure it out.

02:03:36.100 You're smart enough to find the truth because it's everywhere.

02:03:41.320 Let me encourage you to do that this weekend.

02:03:44.220 All right.

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02:06:02.320 You know, I want to share with you, speaking of empowerment,

02:06:06.620 a Gen Z writer that I talked about earlier this week,

02:06:09.420 She wrote something on capitalism, and she has gone viral now.

02:06:14.560 Listen.

02:06:15.680 I recently saw a viral video about a fridge from 1958, and the comments drove me crazy.

02:06:22.360 Everyone seemed to agree that the reason why they didn't have a fridge as cool as that one is because of capitalism.

02:06:28.360 This could not be more wrong.

02:06:29.940 So while I couldn't find that exact model, I did track down an ad for a similar fridge from 1958.

02:06:35.960 it costs $400, so about $4,600 today.

02:06:40.000 Most modern fridges are way less expensive than that.

02:06:43.040 In fact, $4,600 these days will get you

02:06:45.600 just about the nicest fridge that money can buy.

02:06:47.900 This smart fridge is 50% larger than the 1958 one.

02:06:51.460 It has a built-in ice maker, a water dispenser,

02:06:54.120 and some very fancy beverage storage.

02:06:56.760 Not only are fridges cheaper today,

02:06:58.680 but modern American families are much richer

02:07:01.100 than they were in the 1950s.

02:07:02.720 In fact, in 1950, around 20% of American homes didn't even have fridges.

02:07:07.660 Why did appliances become less expensive?

02:07:09.720 It comes down to technological innovation and competition from foreign models.

02:07:13.240 So no, capitalism is not the reason why you don't have that vintage fridge.

02:07:18.320 It's why you, normal person watching this video, can afford a fridge in the first place.

02:07:23.800 It's amazing, amazing.

02:07:26.260 Average people are making a difference.

02:07:28.520 Now, one more video that's been going around, making the rounds, and I haven't had time to talk about it.

02:07:33.220 Some people are saying she's like a baseball coach from the Great Depression.

02:07:35.900 No, she's Chris Farley.

02:07:38.060 She's a Democratic representative and Senate candidate, Haley Stevens.

02:07:43.640 I want you to listen to this.

02:07:44.820 Tell me she's not Chris Farley.

02:07:46.320 I am going to be working on our behalf.

02:07:48.640 I am going to be telling the stories on our behalf.

02:07:52.340 And you better believe I'm going to be doing it with a little bit of joy, a little bit of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy and a little bit of stick it to them.

02:08:02.120 Because that's the Michigan way.

02:08:06.860 I mean, I have no idea what her policy. 1.00

02:08:09.600 She might be an absolute communist.

02:08:11.860 I have no idea. 0.99

02:08:12.480 But I kind of want her to be in because I want her just to be on the Senate floor and just go, you're going to live down in a van by the river. 1.00

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