The Glenn Beck Program - Trump’s Removal from Ballots Is Destroying Democracy

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00:00:57.040 Well, hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:01:06.100 We're two weeks away from Iowa.

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00:01:14.180 The poll numbers for Donald Trump look really, really good.

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00:02:29.860 Well, welcome, Stu.

00:02:30.920 How are you?

00:02:31.840 Glenn, very well.

00:02:32.580 Well, yeah, it's I think you're amazingly accurate here when you point out that we are in that situation where we are hitting the ground running here.

00:02:44.540 Oh, yeah.

00:02:45.000 We jump in.

00:02:46.140 You come back from holiday break and you're less than two weeks away from Iowa.

00:02:51.000 You we launch into basically full out election mode immediately.

00:02:55.040 Yo, yo, yo.

00:02:56.680 Thank you.

00:02:57.560 We got lots of technical.

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00:03:02.840 Yeah.

00:03:03.240 So you go right into this, right?

00:03:05.220 Like, I think so many people were you spend the the previous year kind of like figuring out what the field looks like.

00:03:12.360 What's the what's this race?

00:03:14.220 What is this?

00:03:14.980 Right.

00:03:15.140 And it's got to be one of the strangest races anyone's ever looked at before.

00:03:18.620 Right.

00:03:18.960 You have one.

00:03:19.960 We have one side saying all they care about is democracy is they're trying to get the other guy removed from the ballot.

00:03:25.060 I have to tell you.

00:03:26.060 I mean, I have to tell you.

00:03:27.580 I, I, I cannot believe that this is their strategy.

00:03:33.540 First of all, I don't know if you heard about Rudy Giuliani.

00:03:37.320 He's broke now.

00:03:38.620 They've they've wiped his savings out.

00:03:41.020 He is absolutely broke.

00:03:42.420 There was a ruling against him for nine figures.

00:03:45.380 Yeah.

00:03:45.900 And so he is he's broke.

00:03:48.620 And that is that's the lesson.

00:03:51.560 The lesson is we'll bankrupt you.

00:03:54.220 We'll destroy you.

00:03:55.260 We'll smear you.

00:03:56.260 You will not survive.

00:03:58.860 And the process really is also the punishment.

00:04:02.540 It doesn't matter if they win or not.

00:04:04.680 It really doesn't.

00:04:05.680 They'll just keep going with Donald Trump.

00:04:08.880 The way these states.

00:04:10.740 I mean, I could not believe that they're invoking the 14th Amendment and saying, well, you know, part of an insurrection.

00:04:19.280 He's not even been charged with an insurrection, not even been charged.

00:04:24.660 So they're taking him off because of an insurrection, something he was never even charged with in any of 91 charges against him.

00:04:34.980 None of them are insurrection.

00:04:36.500 None of them are.

00:04:37.520 And so now you have two states taking him off the ballot and there's 30 lining up.

00:04:44.560 Yeah.

00:04:44.720 Plenty of them are going to try to do it.

00:04:46.340 Let me tell you something.

00:04:49.000 This should tell you everything you need to know about the Democrats.

00:04:53.840 It should tell you how radical they actually are.

00:04:59.060 They're saying that they want to preserve democracy, but this isn't true.

00:05:03.780 Let me tell you what I think is going to happen.

00:05:06.500 If this goes through and it's going to make Donald Trump more and more popular,

00:05:14.520 I have no idea how they're going to arrange these things.

00:05:19.420 It's going to throw everything into chaos.

00:05:22.680 Joe Biden's numbers are going to continue to go down.

00:05:25.980 And the Democrats have something that the Republicans don't thank God.

00:05:30.960 And that is the superdelegate.

00:05:34.720 The superdelegate is something that the Democrats came up with after they saw Ronald Reagan elected.

00:05:42.920 Here's this guy who was out of step with the party, was not playing ball with the party,

00:05:48.320 but his grassroots effect just took off and they couldn't control him.

00:05:54.620 And the Democrats saw that and they said, we can't have that happen to our party.

00:05:58.540 We can never have that.

00:06:00.220 Well, for many, many years, there's never been anybody.

00:06:04.100 You know, it's like Al Gore or Bill Clinton.

00:06:06.580 Oh, geez, which one, which one?

00:06:08.740 It's not that big of a choice.

00:06:11.380 They didn't have a Bernie Sanders that could stand up and actually do grassroots.

00:06:19.320 Well, Bernie Sanders did.

00:06:22.940 Bernie Sanders was not in their camp.

00:06:26.080 That's why you saw all of the horse trading and everything else that was going on during the 2016 election.

00:06:34.540 They took him out.

00:06:36.760 Now, that was still not the full superdelegate thing.

00:06:42.640 You're going to see it this year.

00:06:45.520 I really believe the Democrats are going to do their superdelegate, which can vote differently than the public.

00:06:55.040 So, it's a hand-selected group of people that the party elites select.

00:07:04.740 And if they feel for the party or for democracy's sake, the people have been duped.

00:07:12.260 They can override their vote.

00:07:15.100 And I think you're going to see the poll numbers going down so horribly that you're going to have to have somebody else besides Biden.

00:07:26.720 And you can't have his vice president.

00:07:29.940 And there's no way you can start a campaign now.

00:07:32.400 It's too late.

00:07:33.600 It's too late.

00:07:34.240 You can't even get people on the ballot.

00:07:35.660 Although, they're strangely trying to get somebody else off the ballot.

00:07:40.500 But you can't even get anybody on the ballot at this point.

00:07:44.560 Superdelegates stand in and they say, you know what?

00:07:47.360 For the good of the country, we need somebody that can unite us all.

00:07:50.400 And that would be Michelle Obama.

00:07:53.420 Wow.

00:07:55.320 Wow.

00:07:55.960 You're starting off the year with this.

00:07:57.540 Because I just, it just makes sense to me.

00:08:01.520 It may not happen, but it just makes sense to me.

00:08:05.980 It's amazing because it shows the state of where Biden is, right?

00:08:11.200 I mean, there's a new poll out today showing that, you know, Trump is winning.

00:08:16.460 Clobbering him.

00:08:17.220 And even with like Hispanic voters and young voters and black voters.

00:08:21.980 Black voters.

00:08:22.520 He's making massive inroads in these groups that are supposed to be just Democratic votes.

00:08:26.500 Groups.

00:08:26.980 We've talked about this forever.

00:08:28.180 They just take them completely for granted, right?

00:08:29.840 They show up every single time.

00:08:31.020 They vote 80, 70, 80, 90 percent for Democrats.

00:08:33.700 And they never really think about them again.

00:08:35.620 That is not, at least in the polls, is changing in a big way.

00:08:40.640 And at some point, you wonder, are they just, are they really going to go down with the ship with Joe Biden?

00:08:48.480 Are they really, are they that dedicated to this man?

00:08:50.540 Honestly, what is your choice at this point?

00:08:53.180 And then you get to where you are with Michelle Obama or someone similar.

00:08:56.720 You, you, you don't have a, do, am I wrong?

00:08:59.980 Do they have another choice at this point?

00:09:02.420 I think Gavin Newsom wants it to be Gavin Newsom.

00:09:04.820 Yeah, but how do you get him onto the ballots everywhere?

00:09:08.260 How do you, how does that happen?

00:09:09.280 It would have to be something within the party.

00:09:10.760 And by the way, that's, that's an important thing to understand with the Trump part of this as well.

00:09:14.160 If these states tell the Republicans they're not going to put him on the ballot, they can, the Republican Party can still make this happen for Donald Trump as the nominee.

00:09:24.200 The question is, in the general election where it becomes a problem, because they can change their own rules and tell people, like, you know, they can do all sorts of stuff to make sure Donald Trump gets this election.

00:09:34.520 If what people believe is that he's way ahead and they're just taking them off, trying to get him off the ballots.

00:09:39.240 It's a different process when it comes to the Republican Party.

00:09:41.740 But when it comes to the actual final ballot, that's a big, big, big deal.

00:09:46.600 This is, this is Soviet Union stuff.

00:09:49.420 I mean, the next step, honestly, the next step is to put your opponent in jail.

00:09:57.140 They would never try that, Glenn.

00:09:59.140 Right.

00:09:59.420 Right.

00:09:59.720 And then here they are trying that.

00:10:01.200 Here they are.

00:10:01.840 It's fascinating.

00:10:02.720 I mean, and it's all under the context of an argument for democracy.

00:10:08.800 Correct.

00:10:09.060 It's all in this context that the media completely accepts with no sense of irony at all about it, that this is all about an effort to preserve democracy.

00:10:21.040 Look, if you trust democracy, then just beat Donald Trump.

00:10:25.860 Just beat him.

00:10:27.480 Convince the American people he's the worst option.

00:10:30.320 They can't.

00:10:30.980 Your 90-year-old guy who can't get through a sentence is going to be much better.

00:10:34.400 Just convince them of that.

00:10:35.800 They can't.

00:10:36.520 But they obviously believe that they can't.

00:10:39.760 I mean, even if they could, they don't believe that they can.

00:10:43.280 Because if you believe actually in democracy, which I don't think that they do, at least the elements of democracy that exist in our constitutional republic,

00:10:52.500 if they actually believed in those things, they would just come out and win.

00:10:56.640 Yes.

00:10:57.360 You know, I mean, look, I went through a weekend this weekend, Glenn, where the Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Arizona Cardinals.

00:11:03.760 And the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Detroit Lions, basically blowing up what started as a promising season for the Eagles.

00:11:11.240 And watching that, the end of that Cowboys game was horrible for Eagles fans because it really looked, and Detroit Lions fans, it looked like the Lions should have won.

00:11:21.400 There was a controversial call, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:11:23.740 And people, my Eagles friends are like, hey, can you believe that call?

00:11:27.440 Beat the Arizona Cardinals and you don't have to worry about it.

00:11:30.620 Right?

00:11:30.860 Go out and win the games on your schedule and you don't have to worry about the calls and the other games.

00:11:37.200 This is what the freaking Democratic Party should be able to understand.

00:11:40.680 Come out and win.

00:11:42.100 Beat the guy you say is Hitler and you don't have to worry about throwing him in prison.

00:11:46.500 Just beat him.

00:11:47.320 They're just moving too fast.

00:11:50.820 Look it, you have a situation now.

00:11:52.900 Did you see the poll numbers with youth on Osama bin Laden now?

00:11:57.840 Yes.

00:11:58.040 It is crazy.

00:11:59.620 It is crazy.

00:12:01.880 It is 26% believe that he not only had good ideas, but what he did was right.

00:12:12.600 Hey, it's astonishing what's happening.

00:12:16.280 Now, why is that happening?

00:12:18.240 Because of lack of education.

00:12:21.140 We lived through it and we did not show it all the time.

00:12:27.040 We don't even teach it anymore.

00:12:29.820 So all we're teaching is anti-American stuff.

00:12:32.880 They don't know who Osama bin Laden really is.

00:12:36.900 And what do you get?

00:12:39.740 You get this.

00:12:41.900 Their agenda in schools is working.

00:12:45.000 We've already lost one generation.

00:12:46.680 We may lose two.

00:12:47.580 If that happens and we don't turn it around, America as we know it is gone for a while on earth.

00:12:56.440 It will be found again.

00:12:58.520 God will not be thwarted.

00:13:00.240 It may not happen in this country, but God will not be thwarted.

00:13:04.240 These freedoms belong to him.

00:13:06.840 You sit here and you look at what they're doing.

00:13:12.220 They know they can't get all of the things that they need past past.

00:13:18.760 So at the end of progressivism is either a peaceful transition or revolution.

00:13:25.780 They're now choosing, I think, revolution if possible, if needed.

00:13:33.580 They will not give this up.

00:13:36.700 But they think they had all of the tools.

00:13:40.120 The thing that they didn't count on was the American people.

00:13:43.740 They didn't count on the middle of the country actually believing in something that they don't even understand.

00:13:52.240 They didn't count on a Donald Trump or a Ron DeSantis or a Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:13:58.960 They didn't expect the Tea Party.

00:14:01.960 And for the people who invented the Internet, they had absolutely no idea the monster that they unleashed

00:14:10.680 when they put people and said, you can't talk on these media outlets when the Internet was ready.

00:14:21.440 So now what are they going to do?

00:14:24.520 They have to affect the election.

00:14:27.100 And they're also trying to take Donald Trump off of the ballot everywhere because they want turmoil in the streets.

00:14:36.760 They have to have it.

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00:15:59.840 I'm sorry, but, you know, I'm not usually a guy who says fight fire with fire.

00:16:05.760 But I don't know why you are not taking in states like Texas, why we are allowing this to happen in 30 states without any threat of any movement by a state.

00:16:26.380 What does that mean?

00:16:27.200 I don't know legally what you can do, and I don't want to become everything I despise.

00:16:32.960 But I want them to know, oh, you moved a chess piece.

00:16:36.820 You think you have me in check.

00:16:40.560 Well, let me put you in check.

00:16:42.800 There's got to be a check and balance.

00:16:46.260 And it doesn't seem like that's happening.

00:16:49.060 For instance, gosh, who is the person?

00:16:51.940 Oh, what's his name?

00:16:54.820 The big donor to the Democratic Party that was...

00:16:59.960 Sam Bankman-Fried?

00:17:00.580 Yeah, Fried.

00:17:00.980 So Sam Bankman-Fried, they decided, the feds decided, oh, we're not going to look into any corruption charges, any bribery or anything else.

00:17:11.660 He gave more money to the Democrats than I think anyone ever in the history of the Democratic Party, okay?

00:17:18.980 And we know what that bought.

00:17:21.660 But the federal government decides, oh, we don't want to look into that at all.

00:17:29.180 I don't know why there isn't an attorney general somewhere that knows that your congressman or your senator got money from Bankman-Fried and you're not pursuing it.

00:17:45.060 Our attorney generals have been really, really good.

00:17:50.540 But it's time to take it to the next level.

00:17:53.780 If you believe that he was influencing government, the attorney general has a right, if I'm not mistaken, to go in and look at that and prosecute him and anyone else that was involved in bribery.

00:18:10.320 It's got to take it to the state level.

00:18:14.580 Have to.

00:18:15.220 I mean, you have to at least look at all this stuff, right?

00:18:17.880 I don't know what...

00:18:19.420 Yeah, I don't know.

00:18:20.120 I'm not an attorney, so I don't know.

00:18:21.440 I can't imagine you're the first person who's thinking, hey, like something, because there needs to be some sort of pushback.

00:18:28.820 It can't just be defense, right?

00:18:30.420 Yeah.

00:18:30.540 Because, I mean, I, look, I am currently operating under the belief that this will, this stuff about getting Donald Trump tossed off these ballots will be eliminated by the Supreme Court.

00:18:41.960 I think the Supreme Court will hold the line on this.

00:18:44.340 And I do think they have no argument in reality.

00:18:47.620 No.

00:18:47.740 I don't think this will work, and that's one of the reasons why I'm not as panicked about it as perhaps I should be.

00:18:55.360 But if all you do is just win these cases that they throw against the wall, you're in a position that eventually you're going to become victim of something sticking.

00:19:03.100 Yes.

00:19:03.400 Like, eventually one of these things works, so you have to be disincentivizing them to try these things throughout the process.

00:19:12.820 Because if you just let them keep trying and trying and trying with no consequence, then they'll just keep trying until it works.

00:19:18.060 Did you see Mitch McConnell's ratings?

00:19:21.680 No.

00:19:23.000 Eight.

00:19:23.920 Out of ten?

00:19:24.680 Like, in hotness?

00:19:25.820 Yeah.

00:19:26.160 Eight.

00:19:26.520 Oh, 8% approval?

00:19:27.700 Or is it 6.8?

00:19:28.380 I think it was 6 or 8.

00:19:31.860 Approval rating?

00:19:32.760 Approval rating.

00:19:33.820 Okay.

00:19:34.160 It's not good, Glenn.

00:19:34.840 Not good.

00:19:35.460 No.

00:19:35.880 Not good.

00:19:37.100 And especially when you look at the poll and you realize it has a 4.8 margin of error.

00:19:45.300 Sub-optimal, Glenn, is what I would say.

00:19:48.060 And why is that?

00:19:49.320 I think that is the exact same reason why Donald Trump is doing well.

00:19:54.860 Who's watching out for you?

00:19:59.800 Who's actually doing anything bold?

00:20:04.360 Mm-hmm.

00:20:04.960 Okay?

00:20:05.600 Mitch McConnell is going the opposite direction.

00:20:09.140 But it's not just that.

00:20:12.080 Because there's lots of people, trust me, there's lots of people in Washington that are going the opposite direction.

00:20:18.480 He's made the stand to not only go the opposite direction, he's also ignoring all of the blatant things that would help America constitutionally.

00:20:32.700 So he's actually not just working in the other direction, he's actually barricading people off that feel disenfranchised.

00:20:42.360 You're not part of us.

00:20:43.960 We don't want anything to do with you.

00:20:45.540 And unfortunately, as the economy goes worse and worse and worse, there's got to be a champion someplace.

00:20:53.980 And Donald Trump seems to be the only one that is connected with the American people to be their champion.

00:21:01.760 Now, I don't know if that can change with Ron DeSantis.

00:21:04.620 And, you know, it's interesting because at the beginning everybody said, Ron DeSantis, he's in with the party.

00:21:10.140 No, there seems to be one that is in with the party.

00:21:13.980 And I don't think it's Ron DeSantis.

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00:22:54.000 Well, right now, DeSantis and Haley sit over 50 points behind.

00:23:24.000 Behind the president with support of 11.2%.

00:23:31.120 That is remarkable.

00:23:35.460 Remarkable.

00:23:36.840 Going into the Iowa caucus?

00:23:39.140 I've never seen that.

00:23:41.620 In what is supposed to be a competitive primary, you really haven't.

00:23:45.420 I mean, you can see that with someone who's running for re-election.

00:23:49.460 Which, again, maybe that's the way that this should have been looked at the whole time, right?

00:23:53.040 Like, where Donald Trump is essentially seen as, you know, an incumbent.

00:23:58.520 I mean, he's obviously not in office right now, but he's running for a second term.

00:24:02.660 Maybe that's how he should have been seen.

00:24:03.840 Now, that's a national poll.

00:24:05.140 Some of the state poll stuff looks a little closer.

00:24:08.260 So, that would be interesting.

00:24:09.660 Like, if a Haley or a DeSantis were to keep one of these first states close, then what happens, right?

00:24:16.900 We have seen races turn on stuff like that.

00:24:20.120 But this lead is very large.

00:24:22.880 And it's not the same stuff that's fueling Donald Trump to a 50-point lead, which is him being attacked by the legal system and the media and democracy.

00:24:33.380 All that's going to continue and ramp up in the middle of all this voting.

00:24:38.900 So, it's hard to imagine how these guys can turn it around.

00:24:41.940 If you happen to be on the opposition side, how do you do it?

00:24:45.540 I have to tell you, though, I think this, as always, whenever you try to obstruct.

00:24:53.000 My father used to say, you know, water falls straight down from the sky.

00:24:59.840 It's only when it hits a mountain or a man-made object that it starts to divert its course.

00:25:06.460 Okay?

00:25:06.940 And it's true.

00:25:08.560 And I think what he was trying to teach me so many years ago was, don't be that man-made object.

00:25:16.100 Let it flow.

00:25:17.980 Just let it all flow.

00:25:19.740 And every time, and we learned this years ago, every time you try to insert yourself and say, well, I'm going to make a difference here because I'm going to shape this or I'm going to do this so then that happens later.

00:25:36.960 It never works out.

00:25:38.200 No.

00:25:38.400 It never works out.

00:25:39.180 You don't get to control the universe, unfortunately.

00:25:41.140 I know.

00:25:41.480 And I think that's what the Democrats are trying to do.

00:25:46.400 And it's actually going against them.

00:25:49.000 By tying him up in court, he's not on television all the time.

00:25:54.580 By them saying, we're not going to give him any TV time is also helping them.

00:26:00.740 Because Donald Trump, one of the things that people, even who like him, have a hard time with is, okay, can we, why, why would you say that?

00:26:10.580 You know what I mean?

00:26:11.160 It's what those people, especially the independent voters, are touching on.

00:26:17.460 By them not covering him, by them keeping him in the courtroom, they're taking away one of his biggest negatives.

00:26:28.200 Yeah.

00:26:28.700 And this is what, this is what they're holding, they're hanging their hat on right now, right?

00:26:31.920 Like they are looking at this and saying, well, we haven't started doing that stuff yet.

00:26:36.140 We haven't implemented the anti-Trump strategy as a, when it comes to going to the American people about who this guy is, because he hasn't won the nomination yet.

00:26:45.020 And look, that's a big risk if you're a Democrat, right?

00:26:49.500 Like if you're waiting an awful long time.

00:26:51.940 Yeah.

00:26:52.160 But they want him, I mean, the theory is they want him to win this, this primary.

00:26:57.260 And look, when you're doing this to somebody, it's going to be hard for him not to win.

00:27:02.760 The argument, of course, for the other side has been, and this would be a competitive primary if this were the truth, which is Donald Trump.

00:27:10.900 Yeah, he can win this primary, but he's going to lose the general election.

00:27:15.420 If Ron DeSantis was able to present poll after poll after poll after poll with him up eight points over Joe Biden and Donald Trump down five, this would be a totally different situation.

00:27:25.020 Because the American, the Republican voters would look at that and say, geez, I love Donald Trump, but I don't want to risk Joe Biden.

00:27:32.460 What do we do?

00:27:33.660 The polls aren't showing that though.

00:27:35.440 The polls are showing the opposite in many cases.

00:27:37.800 In fact, some of the polls are showing, and again, you could throw polls away if you want.

00:27:42.200 I know everyone says every time I bring up the word polls, but it's like there is something that is, people make decisions based on them.

00:27:49.580 I think too often.

00:27:50.660 I would say, who do you think is going to be the best president and vote for that person?

00:27:54.080 That would be my recommendation.

00:27:55.820 But people don't vote that way.

00:27:57.620 Here's why I think the people are voting that way when it comes to Donald Trump.

00:28:01.980 They look at him as a guy who's not a politician.

00:28:09.880 Ron DeSantis is a very good politician.

00:28:12.960 Very good.

00:28:13.960 He's holding the line against the establishment and everything else.

00:28:17.500 So he's very good.

00:28:18.680 But he is seen as a politician.

00:28:21.020 That has such a bad rap to it that even the good politicians are getting pounded for it.

00:28:29.600 Yeah.

00:28:29.840 Okay.

00:28:30.780 Donald Trump is not seen.

00:28:32.380 He is seen still as the guy who was at the end of the bar.

00:28:37.180 Remember this in 2016?

00:28:38.640 There's a guy at the end of the bar who just says crazy things.

00:28:42.220 But you know what?

00:28:44.000 Everybody cheers.

00:28:44.980 He's right.

00:28:46.000 Okay.

00:28:46.320 He still is that guy.

00:28:48.520 He's not a politician.

00:28:49.720 It's very true.

00:28:50.680 But the argument to unseat him would be, well, he can't win and we can't.

00:28:56.800 I mean, DeSantis has made this argument.

00:28:58.400 Haley's made this argument.

00:29:00.800 And it might be true.

00:29:02.260 I don't know.

00:29:02.680 It may very well be true.

00:29:04.100 But because, again, as we pointed out, the left really hasn't turned their focus on Trump

00:29:09.680 outside of these legal efforts.

00:29:11.840 I mean, you haven't seen him.

00:29:13.360 Every word of his gets covered.

00:29:15.720 We know this whole story.

00:29:17.720 So it may turn around.

00:29:19.480 But right now, that's not even what the polls are showing.

00:29:21.320 The polls are showing that Trump's doing great.

00:29:23.360 Like, I mean.

00:29:23.880 Like, great.

00:29:24.820 He's doing really well.

00:29:25.660 Yeah.

00:29:25.840 Like, Reagan great.

00:29:27.220 He's leading in against among Hispanic voters, among younger voters.

00:29:33.300 These are not numbers.

00:29:34.580 These are not things that I think will hold up until the actual election.

00:29:38.120 Again, a big part of the reason why he's winning younger voters in particular is because the

00:29:43.460 left younger voters, they don't like Biden's stance on Israel, which I don't know if you

00:29:48.540 notice Biden's noticing and is changing his stance on Israel by the day.

00:29:53.700 By the time this election comes around, he's going to sound like, you know, AOC probably

00:29:59.440 on Israel or Ilhan Omar on Israel.

00:30:02.020 And probably that all goes away.

00:30:03.980 They're probably not going to run from the Democratic Party when it comes to voting in

00:30:07.820 these numbers.

00:30:08.320 But still, it sets the tone for this primary and makes it a very uphill battle for anyone

00:30:16.100 trying to beat him.

00:30:17.060 Because the argument to go to people to say change paths is we're going to lose in the

00:30:22.340 general.

00:30:23.080 And the polling doesn't show that right now.

00:30:25.260 So it's hard to convince people of that.

00:30:27.560 You know, there's you look at the polls recently.

00:30:29.920 There's not enough in these early states.

00:30:31.900 So we really don't know what's going on.

00:30:33.940 Maybe Ron DeSantis has made a run over the past few weeks.

00:30:35.880 I mean, there is one poll that shows Haley very close to Donald to Donald Trump in New

00:30:40.540 Hampshire, you know, a few points.

00:30:43.000 So is that real?

00:30:44.460 I don't know.

00:30:45.160 But she seems to be around nearing 30 percent in a lot of these polls in New Hampshire.

00:30:50.480 That's within striking distance, you could argue.

00:30:52.780 Maybe something like this will change.

00:30:54.180 But it is a real uphill battle, real uphill battle for anyone trying to take him on in

00:30:58.600 this environment.

00:30:59.560 I don't understand that.

00:31:01.000 I mean, you know, if you're a Nikki Haley supporter, I would love to hear.

00:31:05.880 Because it just goes, it's to me, it seems like an anti-Trump vote.

00:31:12.580 And maybe that's what it is.

00:31:14.140 Haley does.

00:31:15.160 You know, I'm going to be more along the lines of, you know, the traditional RNC, which is

00:31:23.720 if that's what America wants, that's what America wants.

00:31:26.000 But I don't understand it if it's anything more than that, because she doesn't seem like

00:31:33.340 somebody who's going to go in and really change things.

00:31:37.560 Does she?

00:31:38.660 No, I think she's definitely more of a traditional Republican.

00:31:42.520 Correct.

00:31:42.720 Right.

00:31:42.940 Then I mean, it's crazy because she's a Tea Party person.

00:31:45.620 Yeah.

00:31:45.800 But I think at least that's the impression that I have.

00:31:49.220 She's more of the, let's, let's be calm.

00:31:52.820 Let's take care of some things.

00:31:54.260 But, you know, I'm going to go more the traditional RNC way.

00:31:58.140 And the youth is not going that way at all.

00:32:01.420 I don't know if you saw this from AmFest, Charlie Kirk's event, but the Donald Trump won

00:32:07.700 by a landslide in their straw poll.

00:32:11.580 And did you see who they wanted as vice president?

00:32:13.920 No.

00:32:15.160 Two non-politicians.

00:32:19.080 Vivek or Tucker.

00:32:22.860 Hmm.

00:32:23.700 Tucker Carlson.

00:32:24.380 Wow.

00:32:24.680 Hmm.

00:32:25.240 Interesting.

00:32:26.620 I mean, that is, it does seem like where a lot of the energy of the movement is, at least

00:32:30.840 that wing of it.

00:32:32.300 Look at Malay.

00:32:33.040 Look at the guy down in Argentina.

00:32:35.620 Yeah.

00:32:35.740 Well, you know, everybody's like, why, why, how are these guys and why do they always look

00:32:40.200 so weird?

00:32:41.400 Because you're used to a politician combing his hair.

00:32:45.840 You're used to a politician looking a certain way and behaving a certain way.

00:32:50.740 And when they get on television, go, you know what?

00:32:52.980 You're just nuts.

00:32:54.660 And their hair is out of whack.

00:32:57.620 You've been programmed to think this guy is unstable.

00:33:01.260 He looks like Einstein.

00:33:03.060 I've had this argument with my wife.

00:33:06.180 She's like, can you just run a comb through your hair occasionally?

00:33:09.060 And I'm like, it worked for Einstein.

00:33:11.140 How come it doesn't work for me?

00:33:12.700 Why?

00:33:13.340 And she's like, you're not Einstein.

00:33:14.880 I said, but Einstein wasn't Einstein before.

00:33:19.020 And I think it's just that you have to start.

00:33:22.940 You can't end that way because then you just look like you went mad.

00:33:26.400 You have to start with crazy hair.

00:33:29.980 Well, maybe uncovering some of the secrets of the universe is also a part of the equation

00:33:36.180 for Einstein.

00:33:36.820 Maybe it's not all about the hair.

00:33:38.820 No, I think it's the hair.

00:33:40.120 I think it's the hair.

00:33:41.020 I think it's the hair.

00:33:41.860 Yeah, it worked for him.

00:33:43.020 No, I mean, you just got to pass.

00:33:44.520 I mean, it's not like, oh, I want Einstein here.

00:33:47.240 Although, I wouldn't mind getting out of bed and just having my hair stand straight up like

00:33:51.520 that and just walk out and be like, hey, it's me.

00:33:54.640 Love that.

00:33:55.520 Live with it.

00:33:56.060 Live with it.

00:33:56.800 Deal with it.

00:33:57.940 Einstein just got the world to live with it.

00:34:01.920 I mean, look, that's true.

00:34:03.080 I just feel like maybe his accomplishments had something to do with the fact that they

00:34:06.140 put up with the hair.

00:34:07.260 I'm in the Hall of Famer.

00:34:09.720 That's true.

00:34:10.680 I mean, he could justify it a little bit.

00:34:12.460 Yeah, just a little bit.

00:34:13.400 A little bit.

00:34:13.860 I'm just saying.

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00:35:57.100 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:35:59.960 So in the category of, huh, I don't think the churches are on fire, a High Point, North

00:36:07.660 Carolina pastor was arrested last week after assaulting a McDonald's employee.

00:36:16.160 The High Point Police Department reported that on December 28th, a woman who was training

00:36:21.020 to be a manager at the South Main Street McDonald's location said that her employees were disrespecting

00:36:28.480 her.

00:36:29.300 And as a result, the woman called her husband, who is a pastor, to help her deal with it.

00:36:36.260 He walked in, apparently.

00:36:39.060 This is what witnesses say.

00:36:40.820 He walked into the McDonald's, then went right behind the counter, grabbed the neck of one

00:36:46.440 of the employees, and then pushed the victim's head towards the deep fryer, which I think

00:36:55.980 that is in the, is that in the Gospel of John?

00:37:00.820 We're in Bible country.

00:37:02.160 We're in Bible country.

00:37:03.240 It might be the Gospel of Jack.

00:37:04.700 I'm not, I'm not sure.

00:37:06.460 It's a different kind of baptism.

00:37:07.820 Yeah, it is.

00:37:08.580 That's what he was going for.

00:37:11.040 How did I know it was 475 degrees?

00:37:15.020 He also punched the victim several times in the face and did not strike, stop striking

00:37:21.320 the victim until multiple employees were able to pull the pastor off the victim.

00:37:26.780 Now, I don't know what it would take to make you look for a new church, but I think the

00:37:37.400 deep fryer incident of 2023 would be on my list.

00:37:43.280 Right.

00:37:43.880 Has your pastor tried to force a McDonald's employee's head into a deep fryer?

00:37:50.660 No?

00:37:51.440 Okay.

00:37:51.900 All right.

00:37:52.320 Let's continue to talk.

00:37:53.380 Right.

00:37:53.860 You know?

00:37:54.080 I'm still open.

00:37:54.820 That doesn't mean I'm staying.

00:37:55.740 It just means I'm open to stay.

00:37:57.060 I mean, they might have done other things, but that one, I just want to check that one

00:38:00.200 off the list.

00:38:00.740 Yeah.

00:38:01.360 Wonder if this guy has any parishioners left.

00:38:06.840 Oh, 100%.

00:38:07.560 In this country, absolutely.

00:38:08.880 Yeah, absolutely.

00:38:09.820 There's going to be people.

00:38:10.840 Absolutely.

00:38:11.460 What was the disrespect?

00:38:12.640 What level are we talking about here?

00:38:14.520 She didn't say they were just disrespecting her.

00:38:17.660 Yeah.

00:38:18.060 That's an important part of it.

00:38:19.600 Like what kind of disrespect would it be?

00:38:22.680 He didn't, first of all, let's be clear here.

00:38:25.940 He didn't actually put anyone's head in the deep fryer.

00:38:28.940 No, uh-uh.

00:38:29.440 No.

00:38:29.720 He was just trying to.

00:38:30.320 It was a threat, and that's not a good idea.

00:38:31.640 Yeah.

00:38:32.040 I'll throw that out there.

00:38:33.160 Don't pull the deep fryer unless you plan on using it.

00:38:35.560 I mean, there is a level of disrespect that could happen to your wife that would cause

00:38:40.100 you to be very angry.

00:38:41.280 That might be true, although I don't think it would get me to force somebody's head into

00:38:51.560 a deep fryer.

00:38:51.700 He didn't do that.

00:38:52.940 He just threatened it.

00:38:54.520 I know.

00:38:55.300 I know.

00:38:55.580 I know.

00:38:55.880 And then he punched a person a bunch of times.

00:38:58.020 Repeatedly and wouldn't stop.

00:39:00.240 I mean, you keep focusing on these details.

00:39:02.440 Right.

00:39:02.600 There is a, I mean, there's a level of, look, if you're being, if your wife is being verbally

00:39:10.060 assaulted in some way or being really disrespected, there's a level of anger that rises in a husband.

00:39:16.140 Sure.

00:39:16.780 That could cause all sorts of things.

00:39:18.040 I would defend my wife.

00:39:19.420 Right.

00:39:20.000 So.

00:39:20.600 That would not include a deep fryer.

00:39:23.160 I thought I had you there.

00:39:23.940 No.

00:39:25.640 No matter how you try to sell it.

00:39:27.280 You'll still draw this line.

00:39:28.160 No matter how you try.

00:39:29.360 I am going by the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

00:39:34.320 No.

00:39:34.800 And there's almost no deep fryer action at all in either, in any of those books.

00:39:38.560 No.

00:39:38.880 But it.

00:39:39.580 Pluck out your own eye.

00:39:40.700 Sure.

00:39:41.600 Put somebody's eyes in the deep fryer.

00:39:43.660 Never said it.

00:39:44.420 No.

00:39:44.740 Never said it.

00:39:45.180 They had almost no fried foods back then.

00:39:46.900 Which is sad.

00:39:48.160 But that, no wonder it was, there's so many angry people.

00:39:51.800 That's exactly right.

00:39:52.560 There's no fried foods to cure it.

00:39:54.320 Right.

00:39:54.920 But I do think, though, there is, there's an anger.

00:39:57.180 I mean, like a, a fight.

00:40:00.540 I mean, this is.

00:40:00.920 I cannot believe you are.

00:40:03.900 No, I'm just saying.

00:40:05.220 I can't.

00:40:06.240 I mean, this story is, wow.

00:40:08.960 That's the response.

00:40:10.220 Well, but I mean.

00:40:10.700 Well, now, wait a minute.

00:40:12.100 You said that they have any parishioners left.

00:40:13.940 I feel like there's a few that are like, all right, come on.

00:40:17.140 They said all sorts of mean things about the guy's wife.

00:40:19.740 So it would be you.

00:40:20.360 It would be you sitting in the pew.

00:40:22.780 Come on.

00:40:23.220 Tell me about it.

00:40:24.180 I respect you, pastor.

00:40:25.620 I respect you.

00:40:27.760 I mean, if you put the head in the deep fryer, I think we'd all be gone.

00:40:30.660 But come on.

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00:43:29.480 Hello, Stu.

00:43:30.660 Glenn, how are you?

00:43:31.920 Happy New Year.

00:43:32.600 Oh, my goodness.

00:43:33.720 My goodness.

00:43:34.600 I'm just great.

00:43:35.520 You know what's going to be really great is when we can just all stay in our homes and

00:43:39.700 not go anywhere, you know, because we won't have to, you know, because it's so dangerous

00:43:45.200 out there.

00:43:46.140 So dangerous outside.

00:43:48.820 Have you noticed that?

00:43:50.920 Everybody in my house over the holidays was sick.

00:43:53.840 Where do you think they got that?

00:43:55.400 Outside.

00:43:56.020 Outside.

00:43:56.660 Outside.

00:43:57.240 Other people.

00:43:58.440 Exactly right.

00:43:59.520 Eliminate the whole other people thing from our lives.

00:44:02.640 Everything will be so much better.

00:44:03.800 And, you know, in Davos, there's probably somebody saying that in just the next couple

00:44:08.660 of weeks.

00:44:09.040 If we just get rid of all the people, we wouldn't have problems with people.

00:44:13.880 Anyway, there's a couple of things the governors around our country are doing to make your life

00:44:20.540 just that much better.

00:44:23.300 Let's start in California because Gavin Newsom isn't done yet.

00:44:27.140 He just signed a bill into law and it goes into effect in April.

00:44:35.420 It is fast food chains, national fast food chains that operate in California have to pay

00:44:42.500 their employees a minimum of $20 per hour.

00:44:46.380 Now that the minimum wage in California is $16, but they're moving it up to $20 an hour.

00:44:52.440 Glenn, did you, I thought about this reading some of these stories about the minimum wage

00:44:56.180 increases because they're all over the country.

00:44:57.760 Yeah.

00:44:58.020 In 2024.

00:44:59.040 Sure.

00:44:59.640 Don't you remember when we had the conversation about a $15 minimum wage?

00:45:03.580 Yes.

00:45:04.100 And it was treated as a Bernie Sanders fever dream, right?

00:45:09.240 Like it was like, okay, Bernie Sanders, Democrats were saying, okay, Bernie Sanders is saying that,

00:45:14.660 but no one's really considering $15 an hour.

00:45:17.360 Then like Seattle did it and like Portland did it.

00:45:20.040 And everyone's like, gosh, that was crazy.

00:45:21.420 Can you believe that?

00:45:22.020 And then they watched those restaurants move.

00:45:27.600 Now, $20 is...

00:45:30.980 $20?

00:45:31.580 We said at the time, why not make it $20, $25, $30?

00:45:36.540 Hell, why not make it $100 an hour?

00:45:38.640 What is your limiting principle here?

00:45:39.960 Correct.

00:45:40.620 Correct.

00:45:40.980 Uh, and we said that they're not going to, you're going to get the increase passed to you as a best case scenario.

00:45:49.080 And all of those people, and I know this is a small business person.

00:45:52.800 When my dad couldn't afford to, uh, have help because egg prices, he was a baker, egg prices went up or whatever happened.

00:46:02.560 He had to let go the staff that was doing all of the work on cleaning and everything else.

00:46:09.800 And he hired me for a quarter.

00:46:13.040 Okay.

00:46:13.940 That's what they do.

00:46:15.600 They can't, they just can't print money like the United States of America.

00:46:19.240 Uh, of course, they said, uh, that it would protect the fast food workers.

00:46:25.580 Uh, unfortunately, there's been a little announcement from major, uh, a major corporation, uh, Pizza Hut.

00:46:33.880 Uh, they've decided that they're going to lay off all of their delivery drivers.

00:46:39.440 And they say, well, I mean, why should we pay for that?

00:46:42.480 Because you can just go through DoorDash or GrubHub or Uber Eats, which leads you to two things.

00:46:48.000 Okay, great.

00:46:49.380 But now I pay for that delivery where I didn't pay for it before.

00:46:53.660 So you're getting it in the end.

00:46:56.260 You now have to pay for delivery instead of Pizza Hut bringing it to you.

00:47:00.360 Uh, and it opens up the door for, well, now, wait a minute.

00:47:04.900 All of these drivers have been left off.

00:47:07.760 Maybe we should regulate DoorDash and GrubHub and Uber Eats.

00:47:11.700 That's a fascinating plan, right?

00:47:14.120 And, you know, the, from a consumer perspective, who do you blame when you're annoyed with the delivery fees?

00:47:19.240 You blame GrubHub or DoorDash, not Pizza Hut.

00:47:21.780 Correct.

00:47:22.280 So.

00:47:22.980 And why would you blame Pizza Hut?

00:47:25.780 You should blame Gavin Newsom.

00:47:28.400 You should.

00:47:29.540 Though, it's interesting, and this is a, a hack to our system that Democrats have not actually exploited as much as you'd think over the years.

00:47:37.580 And they are learning that they should exploit it, and that the minimum wage is one of the most popular policy proposals in our discourse.

00:47:45.120 I mean, usually, I mean, there's a poll from last year in May, 74% of voters support raising the federal minimum wage, as much to $20 an hour.

00:47:56.180 Again, people generally look at the minimum wage as, we should be nice to poor people.

00:48:02.140 That's how, that's how people translate that.

00:48:04.260 Right.

00:48:04.360 Now, you can bring up all the economic arguments in the world, and they don't care.

00:48:08.160 You mean the actual math?

00:48:08.920 The actual math, what actually happens to people, how it hurts the exact same people you're trying to help.

00:48:13.980 All that is true, but when you ask people about it, they don't process it that way.

00:48:19.400 So, what happens when you raise the minimum wage?

00:48:21.400 Think about this brilliance from the Democratic perspective.

00:48:25.080 You raise it to $20 an hour.

00:48:26.340 Well, what happens?

00:48:27.080 First of all, you get a bunch of people who are maybe making $14, $15, $16 an hour to get more money,

00:48:33.840 and supposedly that works with what you believe.

00:48:38.400 I don't know if the Democrat Party really cares.

00:48:41.680 But set that aside for a second.

00:48:43.200 What you do is you force a bunch of people who are on the verge of needing you into definitely needing you as a government, right?

00:48:51.960 You're translating these people.

00:48:53.680 You're taking them from people who are making it on $15 an hour, maybe not with lavish vacations and wonderful new cars,

00:49:00.780 but getting by, and you turn them into people who can't get by without your help.

00:49:05.860 Then, you get to regulate DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber, all these other things, places where people go to work.

00:49:14.220 You get to regulate them because now they're just part of the economy.

00:49:17.420 And you can increase the benefits that go from the government to these people because, look,

00:49:23.280 there's all these new people that are unemployed because they're these evil corporations.

00:49:26.940 And you do that by implementing a policy that is overwhelmingly popular not only with Democrats but also Republicans.

00:49:31.900 That is something that people really need to wake up to because they're going to start doing this to ridiculous extents across the country.

00:49:40.480 Yeah.

00:49:40.920 They're not going to, so let's move on.

00:49:43.000 California also initiating a new law today.

00:49:47.460 Now, imagine you have a toy store or a toy center in your house or in your business, okay?

00:49:56.900 You're in the business at all of selling toys.

00:50:00.720 I mean, it could be marginal, but that's part of your product line.

00:50:06.240 Today, it begins, they will fine any retailers if they don't sell gender-neutral children toys in their store.

00:50:15.540 They have to be clearly marked and sectioned, and stores that refuse to comply will face a $250 penalty for the first violation

00:50:25.640 and $500 penalty for every subsequent offense.

00:50:30.720 Oh, and the law also pertains to, quote,

00:50:34.000 any product designed or intended by the manufacturer to facilitate sleep, relaxation, or the feeding of children,

00:50:44.620 or to help children with sucking or teething.

00:50:48.240 So, it has to, because it's not clothing, right?

00:50:54.420 They don't have to have a special clothing or anything.

00:50:56.240 No, it's toys, but then the sleep, relaxation, feeding of children, and help children with sucking or teething,

00:51:04.040 that is disturbing.

00:51:05.540 That's a disturbing line.

00:51:06.620 Yeah, I'm disturbingly specific.

00:51:09.640 I like how they put a lot of thought into that.

00:51:11.620 But, like, what does that mean?

00:51:13.180 So, like, you have a section currently, right, where you have a bunch of toys that are together from boys and girls.

00:51:19.800 Then you have to have a separate section.

00:51:22.540 Section, right?

00:51:23.100 Like, so, you're not like you're giving options to kids who are supposedly transgendered or non-binary

00:51:29.160 or whatever the hell they're promoting this week, but they can't even be in the same section with other kids?

00:51:34.500 Because it's not the point.

00:51:37.460 The children, not the point.

00:51:39.540 It is to make a statement, this store will comply.

00:51:43.940 There were many, many stores back in the 1930s over in a little foreign land that a lot of people were not with the Nazi party.

00:51:57.500 They weren't with it.

00:51:58.800 But they put the Nazi flag up in their store window because they didn't want trouble.

00:52:06.080 Right.

00:52:06.480 Okay?

00:52:06.840 That's all this is.

00:52:08.360 We have a special, what, non-binary, what the hell is this calling?

00:52:13.940 For gender-neutral children toys.

00:52:17.620 Imagine seeing that.

00:52:19.360 What do you think?

00:52:20.700 You immediately know this store caved.

00:52:24.980 That's all this is.

00:52:26.520 This is muscle.

00:52:28.980 Wow.

00:52:29.980 It seems so, like, what, again, this isn't about the customers.

00:52:35.180 You have to remind yourself it's not about the customers because customers will be like, where, what am I doing?

00:52:39.540 Where am I going?

00:52:40.180 Like, when you go into a store, let's say you have a daughter who really likes sports, right?

00:52:45.960 Maybe isn't consistent with the typical gender stereotypes, right?

00:52:51.480 You just go buy the things they like, right?

00:52:56.300 As a parent, you say, okay, well, they like basketball, so I'm going to buy her a basketball.

00:53:02.140 You don't necessarily need to go to a girls' sports section to find the basketball.

00:53:07.360 They have different sizes for girls, but using this as an example.

00:53:10.900 They're going to be right next to the other basketballs, and you're going to say, this is girls' basketball.

00:53:14.880 You're going to go buy that.

00:53:15.720 Now, these people are going to go to these sections and then, in theory, go to another separate section where there is a—

00:53:23.220 Well, a well-marked section.

00:53:24.620 A well-marked section.

00:53:25.880 Yeah, have to be clearly marked and sectioned.

00:53:28.840 And how long until they say this is essentially segregation?

00:53:32.400 You're taking these poor non-binary kids and making them have their own section?

00:53:36.360 They're going to just—none of this stuff makes any sense.

00:53:39.140 What was segregation really all about?

00:53:41.680 What was segregation really, truly all about?

00:53:45.960 I mean, it was about a lot of things, but it was about certainly racism, skin color, power, right?

00:53:54.880 A sign of power.

00:53:55.960 I would say mainly power.

00:53:57.920 I mean, racism, obviously, but that is a function of, I want to be powerful over somebody else.

00:54:03.260 Sure.

00:54:03.600 Okay?

00:54:04.000 So, what was segregation?

00:54:06.860 It was teaching people, you are not good enough to walk through this door.

00:54:13.800 These people are.

00:54:15.700 Okay?

00:54:16.160 So, whenever you saw whites only, you were reinforcing.

00:54:20.180 You were teaching the public, without ever saying blacks are inferior, I'm only saying whites only.

00:54:27.020 Right.

00:54:27.120 Okay, that's all I'm saying.

00:54:28.740 This wasn't a good argument, but this is what they were trying to—

00:54:32.460 No, but this is—

00:54:33.000 This was the—it was only about power and reinforcing the doctrine of the people in power.

00:54:39.600 Mm-hmm.

00:54:39.780 That's all it is.

00:54:40.840 And that's all this is.

00:54:43.080 Little section toy store, if these are non-gender, you know, or gender-neutral toys.

00:54:49.340 Why?

00:54:49.860 I go to Walmart.

00:54:52.500 I go down, I see the—

00:54:53.400 What's preventing you from buying a toy for the other gender?

00:54:56.060 Right.

00:54:56.460 Like, you make the decision.

00:54:58.480 When it comes to toys, you're making—this is not life-changing surgery.

00:55:02.220 When it comes to toys, you're making the decision you want to make for your kids.

00:55:05.220 Wow.

00:55:05.480 Can you stop bringing up gender surgery?

00:55:07.620 Okay?

00:55:08.560 I mean, gender is fluid, but the discussion is not.

00:55:12.440 Wait, what?

00:55:13.280 Hmm?

00:55:14.480 What?

00:55:15.000 Gender is fluid, but the discussion is not.

00:55:18.240 So we're not allowed to have this?

00:55:19.320 We're not allowed to have this.

00:55:20.220 I thought we needed a national conversation.

00:55:22.280 No, we don't.

00:55:22.740 Gender is the only thing that is fluid.

00:55:26.200 Conversation about it is not.

00:55:28.100 All right, back in just a second.

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00:56:53.220 Okay.

00:56:53.660 You point out, Glenn, the way things are turning right now with all of this.

00:56:58.000 There was one situation in Ohio that we should hit and not let pass by where the governor, Republican governor of Ohio, vetoed a law that basically would have done what a bunch of other states have done on the Republican side.

00:57:14.580 Say, hey, you can't have gender surgeries.

00:57:17.120 You can't have all these crazy gender treatments.

00:57:18.780 Wait a minute.

00:57:19.020 You can't have boys playing girls' sports.

00:57:21.340 Hold it.

00:57:22.260 Just a second.

00:57:23.860 If I'm not mistaken, there is a difference here.

00:57:26.600 Okay.

00:57:26.860 Isn't DeWine the one that took the money from the gender hospital?

00:57:33.020 Yeah.

00:57:34.180 Yes, there was.

00:57:34.980 Okay.

00:57:35.240 So, there were special interests involved in this one.

00:57:37.560 That's what makes this so different.

00:57:39.320 It's special.

00:57:39.920 It makes it special.

00:57:40.420 Yeah, it's special.

00:57:40.980 That special interest.

00:57:43.000 Yes.

00:57:43.260 Now, I don't know.

00:57:44.040 What did he take?

00:57:44.900 $40,000, I think.

00:57:46.620 Yeah, I don't know if that's enough.

00:57:47.540 I don't know.

00:57:47.940 I mean, it was enough for Martha Stewart to go to prison.

00:57:50.360 Let's just remember that.

00:57:51.560 That's true.

00:57:52.300 Wow.

00:57:52.600 Yeah.

00:57:53.060 Which is bizarre.

00:57:54.160 Bizarre.

00:57:54.600 But, I don't, sometimes I find that explanation lacking because, you know, people get a lot

00:58:03.180 of money from a lot of different places and that might be, it might be the reason.

00:58:06.600 It might be.

00:58:06.740 But, I mean, I think more than that, it's, it's, it's, it's this very, it's squishiness

00:58:11.560 over this topic.

00:58:13.140 Yeah.

00:58:13.280 I mean, look, here's the deal.

00:58:14.540 DeWine, it's clear you're a whore.

00:58:17.280 We just don't know what the price is.

00:58:20.180 It could be money, though.

00:58:21.920 I think, I think money's a more innocent explanation, frankly.

00:58:26.320 I think the fact that he just wants to enrich himself personally would make me feel a little

00:58:30.840 warmer about the situation.

00:58:32.620 Like, okay, he's just, he's trying to get a new vacation house.

00:58:35.620 All right, we all understand that.

00:58:36.600 He's just a poor working girl.

00:58:38.380 He can decide what he wants to do.

00:58:40.300 And, you know, if you have to mangle a couple of kids to get it, you know, it's a third bedroom.

00:58:44.820 We need the extra, we need the pool.

00:58:47.180 Yeah, I agree.

00:58:48.200 And so if it was just that, I, I, I find it to be worse than that.

00:58:52.480 I mean, like, you know, here's a guy who is really, you know, against the freedom movement

00:58:57.620 when it came to COVID, for example.

00:58:59.040 This is one of the things he's well known for.

00:59:01.220 He was very bad on COVID for a Republican governor.

00:59:04.660 And he, so obviously he, this idea that he just wants to keep you alone with your health

00:59:12.100 care decisions is absurd.

00:59:14.140 Absurd.

00:59:14.420 It's the exact opposite of everything he's known for, right?

00:59:17.000 But in this one case, he's just like, I just feel like parents should be able to say kids

00:59:21.960 can be, you know, mangled and mutilated at the whim of the nutty parents.

00:59:26.900 I don't know.

00:59:27.300 Of course that's okay.

00:59:28.580 I don't know.

00:59:29.160 If you want to chain your kids to the basement and the radiator, that's fine.

00:59:32.780 Parental choice.

00:59:33.720 We're all super libertarians here.

00:59:36.600 Come on.

00:59:37.920 Okay.

00:59:38.160 Another new law out of California.

00:59:40.840 It starts today.

00:59:42.520 If you're an employer in California, you cannot ask your employees about their marijuana consumption

00:59:48.020 outside of the workplace.

00:59:50.820 So you can't necessarily smoke pot on the job.

00:59:53.700 No.

00:59:54.020 And you cannot penalize employees if they test positive for marijuana unless they're actively

01:00:01.340 high at work.

01:00:02.780 At work.

01:00:04.920 So I, you know, and I don't know.

01:00:07.200 How do you?

01:00:07.720 How do you?

01:00:08.540 How do you know?

01:00:09.840 You're actively high.

01:00:13.240 No.

01:00:15.460 Wow.

01:00:17.940 No.

01:00:18.860 I mean, what do you?

01:00:20.100 We work in the entertainment field.

01:00:21.640 Everyone around here is high.

01:00:22.580 Everybody.

01:00:23.720 Okay.

01:00:23.960 So here's the problem.

01:00:25.140 Here's the problem with this.

01:00:26.020 It seems kind of reasonable.

01:00:29.840 It seems kind of reasonable now.

01:00:31.760 You know, you're kind of like, well, yeah, as long as they're not high at work.

01:00:35.800 You know what I mean?

01:00:36.980 And that's the way most people are going to look at it.

01:00:38.900 Well, yeah.

01:00:39.380 I mean, if they want to smoke dope, you know, but I mean, there's a part of me that, that

01:00:44.160 it has some sympathy for this.

01:00:46.620 I know.

01:00:47.220 I know.

01:00:47.640 You know, again, I don't.

01:00:48.580 I know.

01:00:48.860 I don't.

01:00:49.760 I don't.

01:00:50.520 It's still federally illegal.

01:00:52.340 We do realize this, right?

01:00:53.660 Like, everyone's like, oh, it's legal now.

01:00:55.520 Not really.

01:00:56.640 Like, it's actually still against federal law.

01:00:58.840 Yeah.

01:00:59.860 But, but again, like, I, you know, I kind of feel the same way of like, well, you know,

01:01:04.060 if you're tweeting something, should you be fired from your job?

01:01:07.160 Pretty much no.

01:01:08.740 I mean, there are exceptions to that maybe, but.

01:01:10.780 I shouldn't have been fired from my job.

01:01:12.340 I was never drunk at work, but I was drunk for 21 hours out of the day.

01:01:17.840 But like, we start firing people who are drunk 21 hours a day.

01:01:21.040 There's nobody left.

01:01:21.960 There's no one left in the workforce.

01:01:22.740 This is California.

01:01:23.860 If you start firing people who are smoking pot, there's nothing left.

01:01:27.420 But like, I don't think that, and this is a strange thing to say, but I don't think

01:01:32.160 that like a functioning alcoholic, if you were drinking at home and coming in and doing

01:01:36.100 a good show every day, you shouldn't be fired for your drinking at home.

01:01:38.680 I mean, that's your.

01:01:39.100 No, shouldn't be.

01:01:39.420 It's your own bad personal choice.

01:01:40.940 Correct.

01:01:41.440 Now, if you're doing something illegal at home, which marijuana is, there's a different

01:01:44.880 maybe argument, but still, like, generally speaking, I think that's, you should keep

01:01:49.180 yourself.

01:01:49.360 Like I said, this one kind of, it just is like, we're lowering the state.

01:01:53.860 The standards, you know, we're having to pass a law that says, hey, there's a really big

01:01:59.660 problem with people being fired because they're smoking pot.

01:02:03.820 You know, maybe we should look at it that way just a bit, because I don't necessarily have

01:02:08.760 a problem with the law.

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01:03:33.440 So just going into, you know, some of the goings on in, in, in blue states where the governors are just going to make it better for you all around.

01:04:02.260 And safer, I mean, you're not going to, you're not going to run around the house with a knife or a stick.

01:04:06.880 You can put an eye out with that.

01:04:08.840 And the state knows, and they want to take care of you on this.

01:04:11.960 And now Whitmer, another just safety first kind of governor, she signed in the Clean Energy and Climate Action Package, which will make the state 100% carbon neutral by 2040.

01:04:29.220 Which I think is great.

01:04:30.900 There won't be any employment there or any, any real homes that are not, you know, covered with people who are either wildly rich and comfortable or extremely poor and cold.

01:04:47.080 But she signed that in.

01:04:50.120 It's going to require all of the state's utilities to increasingly source from green energy.

01:04:55.640 The bill says that you can use solar and wind power.

01:04:58.920 Now, I built a house off the grid and, uh, I use solar and wind power and I have spent enormous sums of money trying to make it work.

01:05:16.300 No, no, no, it won't work.

01:05:20.780 It won't.

01:05:21.200 It's just unreliable.

01:05:22.660 It's unreliable.

01:05:23.560 It is absolutely unreliable.

01:05:27.220 You can, I mean, you, if I were trying to, uh, put this company on solar or wind, there's no way we'd be off the air three times a week.

01:05:39.340 It's absolutely unreliable.

01:05:41.900 And it is so I bleed expensive.

01:05:46.000 If you're doing a big project, there's no way if you want to offset some, you know, put some solar panels on your roof.

01:05:53.320 And, you know, I don't know, be able to make a cup of tea.

01:05:57.260 Great.

01:05:58.060 Some of the solar panels, you can actually sell it back to the grid.

01:06:01.700 Good.

01:06:02.220 Good for you.

01:06:03.160 But this is not, this is, this is one of those things that you're like, oh, good for you.

01:06:09.040 This is not like you're going to do this or else it, cause it doesn't work.

01:06:13.720 And wind power is an absolute joke.

01:06:16.780 An absolute joke.

01:06:18.560 This is, I had a wind turbine at the house.

01:06:22.760 Uh, it was, uh, attacked by some cattle and, uh, it was, wait, it was, how, what happened to the, well, wind turbine?

01:06:33.440 I, I don't know.

01:06:35.120 Uh, maybe, maybe one of them was trying to mate with, I don't know exactly, but it came down.

01:06:41.360 You know how long it took us to, uh, recognize that we lost all of our wind power?

01:06:47.100 No.

01:06:47.500 How long?

01:06:48.020 I have no idea.

01:06:48.840 Don't know when that thing came down.

01:06:50.440 I have absolutely no idea.

01:06:52.460 Makes that big of a difference.

01:06:53.420 It makes that big of a difference.

01:06:55.120 Now, in, why were your cattle mating with a, I'm not a farm guy.

01:07:00.720 It's, uh, so maybe I don't understand a lot of cows, you know, where my cows were kept in, you know, they were like, I kind of, you know, they don't seem to be real choosy.

01:07:12.840 Okay.

01:07:13.480 You know, and the female cow doesn't, I mean, just, just eats during it, you know, he's on me again.

01:07:25.020 I mean, it's romantic lifestyle, the farmer's life, romance all the way, all the way, uh, in Illinois, new law going into effect on January one will allow non-citizens to become police officers and sheriffs.

01:07:42.100 So Illinois, you got that going for you.

01:07:44.380 Now I'm noticing a trend here on some of these laws.

01:07:48.140 Let's see the California, Michigan, Illinois.

01:07:53.480 Okay.

01:07:54.680 Okay.

01:07:55.560 Well, uh, landlords also in Illinois going to be required under state law to rent or sell property to non-citizens and illegal aliens beginning today.

01:08:07.260 Uh, and by the way, if you're an illegal alien, you're also going to be able to obtain a standard driver's license, uh, starting, you know, wow.

01:08:15.580 Just around election, uh, time and mid 2024.

01:08:19.560 So now you won't need that to vote.

01:08:21.780 Of course.

01:08:22.260 No.

01:08:23.480 Like, you know, you'll have a, you could go in and vote and they just have to bring anything, but we don't have to stop you for anything at the border.

01:08:30.260 No.

01:08:30.820 And we don't even have to verify that.

01:08:32.660 Yes.

01:08:32.900 Those crying children are your children.

01:08:35.400 We're not going to ask you for no, nothing much, too much, too much.

01:08:39.960 Uh, beginning January 1st, Illinois also is shutting off state funding for public and school libraries that, uh, ban books for political reasons, including books that promote LGBTQ plus ideology, making the first state to enact, uh, the law.

01:08:56.480 Um, so it's, they are promoting this as a ban on book bans.

01:09:00.760 Yes.

01:09:01.300 But of course, these book bans aren't actually occurring.

01:09:03.780 Correct.

01:09:04.260 So it's a ban on something that has not really been banned.

01:09:09.720 Yes.

01:09:10.300 But we've got the bonfire burning.

01:09:12.740 All I'm asking you to do is just keep throwing stuff in.

01:09:16.780 Okay.

01:09:17.160 In Colorado, a new law will go into effect beginning January 1st.

01:09:22.120 Wow.

01:09:22.440 Colorado, another state.

01:09:23.660 What do these states have in common?

01:09:25.940 A new law go into effect beginning today, banning certain single use plastics like bags and styrofoam cups and takeout containers.

01:09:37.580 So they say that, uh, these are typically less expensive than paper or biodegradable alternatives.

01:09:46.780 Yeah.

01:09:47.300 They're also better.

01:09:48.320 They're also better.

01:09:49.420 Uh, they do the job, you know, as much as I like taking, uh, you know, uh, and using my paper towel holder, you know, the inside of the after I save those now for straws.

01:10:03.600 Don't we get any, any liquid up?

01:10:05.700 They have to be that wide.

01:10:06.740 Yeah.

01:10:07.400 And, and they, they, and it lasts for, oh, seconds before it just starts to degrade into whatever it is you're ingesting.

01:10:16.840 I was at a restaurant this weekend that had, uh, paper straws.

01:10:20.680 Oh, I.

01:10:21.300 And I was drinking out of one of them.

01:10:23.040 First, it's a terrible experience.

01:10:24.860 Like it's there, it feels awful on your lips.

01:10:26.680 It feels awful on your tongue.

01:10:28.080 Is it, the, the soda doesn't come up and I was drinking this and I, I just started taking them out and asking for new ones.

01:10:35.440 Every time it got the slightest bit difficult because screw these people.

01:10:39.700 I want to use 50 paper straws just to show them that they shouldn't be doing this.

01:10:44.440 These stupid restaurants.

01:10:45.400 No, they won't learn because they don't care.

01:10:47.120 It's not, of course, it's not about the climate.

01:10:48.620 No, it's about, again, marking all of the toys and the toy section.

01:10:54.340 We're, we've given up.

01:10:56.140 We're not going to cause any problems, even though most of our customers hate this.

01:11:03.100 There's a few vocal people that want us to stop with plastic and we might even ourselves want to stop with plastic, but that's not why we're doing it.

01:11:14.120 We're doing it now.

01:11:15.540 We're doing it now so we can tell everybody we've surrendered.

01:11:19.800 It's true.

01:11:20.860 And it doesn't make any sense either.

01:11:22.440 I was reading this interview in the, it was a New York Times interview they did with some person who was talking about how to talk about climate.

01:11:28.220 She has a new book out and she is concerned about the climate.

01:11:31.660 But her point is basically like, hey, like we should, you know, talk about the positive things that we could do, but not necessarily freak everybody out.

01:11:42.240 And in the book, the interviewer asked, in the book, you have this category of things that we shouldn't stress about so much, like using plastic straws or single use plastic bags.

01:11:50.560 But isn't the person who says I'm going to care about those things more likely to display the political will that is needed than a person who says I don't care?

01:11:57.980 Her response.

01:11:58.520 Because I'm clear in the book that I don't think we should use all sorts of plastic bottles and plastic straws, but people stress too much about it.

01:12:04.780 It's an absolute disaster if they turn up to the supermarket and they don't have a recyclable bag.

01:12:09.700 They feel awful for the entire day because they're not doing their bit for the environment.

01:12:15.060 It's just trying to take a little stress out of it so it feels less overwhelming.

01:12:18.360 The other lens to it is based on this concept of moral licensing where we feel like, oh, yes, I avoided the plastic straw.

01:12:25.100 I've got my bag.

01:12:26.340 I can drive my gas-powered car and eat lots of meat.

01:12:28.780 The risk is that people focus entirely on the small and miss the big stuff.

01:12:32.640 It's fascinating, first of all, that people really are like this.

01:12:35.960 Like, people will go to a grocery store, forget their recyclable bag, and feel bad all day?

01:12:42.260 What sort of psychosis is this?

01:12:45.700 No, it's not.

01:12:46.980 It's a religion.

01:12:48.660 It is, yeah.

01:12:49.080 It's a religion.

01:12:51.140 You have sinned against the God of the planet, and so you should atone for that.

01:12:58.920 The planet will never forgive me.

01:13:01.640 This is a religion, and it is a state-controlled religion.

01:13:08.560 And the second part of it is 100%, right?

01:13:10.720 This moral licensing idea where you can sit there and say, well, I got my recyclable bag,

01:13:17.220 and I'm using these straws that don't work.

01:13:19.580 Therefore, I'm a good boy, and you're a bad boy because you're driving your gas-powered car

01:13:24.800 when everyone knows none of that makes a difference.

01:13:30.700 The plastic straw one we've talked about was initially started by, like, a fourth grader

01:13:36.500 who had a school report who tried to come up with some number of how many straws we use,

01:13:41.800 and the media picked it up as if it was real.

01:13:44.780 It literally came from a student in, like, elementary school.

01:13:49.020 Still quoted as the source.

01:13:50.760 Still quoted as real.

01:13:51.420 Yeah.

01:13:52.540 All right.

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01:15:12.020 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:15:14.060 You know why we can't have reasonable discussions anymore on things?

01:15:38.160 is because some stories that you might go, well, I don't know exactly how I feel on that.

01:15:45.080 You can't have a discussion on that one alone because that one story is not in a vacuum.

01:15:53.120 It's all of the stories that come out every single day that show we are being dismantled.

01:16:00.440 And remember this, millions of people will die from starvation, from cold.

01:16:10.040 They will die if the people who have the radical climate agenda win.

01:16:16.440 Millions will die.

01:16:19.940 So you can't look at things in a vacuum.

01:16:23.520 Here's a story.

01:16:24.540 A new animal welfare law goes into effect today in California.

01:16:29.520 California, and it has mandates for space requirements for pigs, cows, and chickens.

01:16:37.160 And this includes the price of your eggs.

01:16:40.820 So any meat and eggs going to go through the roof.

01:16:45.480 Why?

01:16:47.040 Because they want the pens to be larger for each animal.

01:16:52.760 Now, I don't eat veal because I don't like the idea that they're sometimes hung or they're just kept in a box so they don't move so it'd be more flavorful or more tender for me.

01:17:05.580 No, thank you.

01:17:06.960 So I do care about the animal.

01:17:09.560 I raise animals to be eaten, and I love my animals, and I treat them well.

01:17:16.980 However, what this is going to do, and California knows this, California did Proposition 12.

01:17:26.360 It goes into effect today, and it sets the standards for sale of certain animal products in California.

01:17:33.360 If you don't comply to California law, you can no longer sell any meat, chicken, eggs, beef, pork to California.

01:17:46.600 And this puts an enormous burden on the farmer.

01:17:51.060 They say, if you want to live up to this, if you're a hog farmer, it will cost you $3,500 per head.

01:18:00.680 Okay?

01:18:01.360 $3,500.

01:18:02.960 I don't know what my cows actually sell for, but I don't think they make that much, and I fed them all year.

01:18:13.240 Okay?

01:18:14.240 This is insane.

01:18:16.340 This is insane.

01:18:17.800 And here's what the problem is.

01:18:21.060 Farmers around the country, because California has such a big population, they buy so much meat,

01:18:28.820 the farmers are going, well, I could either go out of business by trying to comply and hope that I gain the business in California

01:18:38.060 and other states that will probably follow this, or I'm just going to stand my ground.

01:18:44.260 And they don't know what to do.

01:18:45.900 And I'm telling you now, and I know farmers, and I know the situation you're in, so I don't say this lightly,

01:18:55.840 but if somebody doesn't take a stand, we're toast.

01:19:01.940 Because this is only trying to get it.

01:19:04.480 This bill is heralded by the Humane Society.

01:19:09.880 They don't want you to even have a dog.

01:19:13.060 Okay?

01:19:14.060 You can't say you're an owner of a dog.

01:19:16.920 You think they're going to stop with this?

01:19:19.620 And I, quite frankly, am tired of California dictating what I have to do.

01:19:27.180 Yeah, because I mean, I always assume if you're a farmer, you're thinking to yourself,

01:19:30.060 well, I could lose my business if I can't sell to California, but if I have to make these changes,

01:19:35.100 I could lose my business anyway, because other states aren't going to want to buy.

01:19:40.820 You know what?

01:19:41.320 Take a stand in your own area.

01:19:42.840 You might as well just take a stand in your own area.

01:19:45.380 I refuse to sell to California, because I'm not going to have California dictate to my farm.

01:19:53.360 And if you start standing together, you know the only thing that's going to teach California?

01:19:58.540 Well, I don't even know if it will ever teach.

01:20:00.140 I mean, it's just a slide into the ocean.

01:20:02.720 I don't know anything that will actually turn California into a common sense place,

01:20:07.860 because everything's on fire, and they still go down this road.

01:20:12.840 But when they can't get any meat, God bless you, California.

01:20:17.840 Gee, no eggs, no chicken, no meat, no pork.

01:20:22.160 Huh.

01:20:22.880 Sucks to be you.

01:20:24.480 That's why I don't live in California.

01:20:27.280 Don't take your nonsense and your insanity and shovel it into my backyard.

01:20:34.360 I don't live in California for a reason.

01:20:36.820 And now they're going to give, what, free health insurance to all illegal immigrants?

01:20:40.860 It's lying.

01:20:41.900 It's a lie.

01:20:43.840 Liar.

01:20:44.320 Is it?

01:20:45.700 They're going to do that, and then we know what's going to happen.

01:20:47.920 It's when they are on the verge of bankruptcy.

01:20:51.080 Guess who bails them out?

01:20:52.240 You do.

01:20:52.740 You do.

01:20:53.240 You do.

01:20:54.200 No.

01:20:55.740 My star is going to start pet.

01:20:57.860 My flag is going to have 49 stars.

01:21:01.620 I am seam ripping one of them off.

01:21:04.180 And it might be two.

01:21:05.540 I may go back to the 48-star flag.

01:21:07.340 The Glenn Beck Program.

01:21:08.480 We'll be right back.

01:21:38.480 We'll be right back.

01:22:08.480 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:22:10.160 Hello, America.

01:22:13.520 As we start a new year, new day, new attitude, we begin in 60 seconds.

01:22:19.100 First, if you're buying or selling a home, you've discovered how much of a hassle it can be, or you're about to.

01:22:25.420 I feel you.

01:22:26.080 I bought and sold quite a few houses as I've been on this radio train all across the country.

01:22:31.580 Sometimes even knowing where to begin is half the battle.

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01:22:52.200 How do I even begin to interview a real estate agent?

01:22:55.680 How do I vet them?

01:22:57.360 How do I know?

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01:23:37.980 So I talked to Tony Robbins over the holiday.

01:23:45.360 He's an amazing guy.

01:23:47.040 Amazing guy.

01:23:47.740 And the reason why I said I couldn't start the new year without thanking you for giving me my son back.

01:23:57.920 If you are a longtime listener of this program, you know that, you know, all of our kids are struggling.

01:24:04.740 And we have had real gut-wrenching and terrifying moments in my son's growth.

01:24:15.140 And it's nothing, unfortunately, out of the usual.

01:24:21.460 And he went to college.

01:24:23.800 He was, you know, I thought he was on a great path.

01:24:27.780 And all of a sudden, he was suicidal, and it was horrible, and didn't know what to do.

01:24:32.620 And I called Tony Robbins.

01:24:38.000 And I said, Tony, I don't know what to do.

01:24:40.480 He said, send him to me.

01:24:42.960 And he didn't mean send him to my house, personally.

01:24:45.240 He said, just, I'm going to tell you which events your son should go to.

01:24:50.840 And he talked to me about depression.

01:24:52.420 And he said, we have the highest rebound from depression.

01:25:00.140 It's like 93%.

01:25:01.920 Even drugs and counseling, it's like 47% that hold it.

01:25:07.960 And he said, it's unlike anything.

01:25:11.640 He said, all we're doing is just teaching the correct principles, showing them that their life does have meaning, that they're in control of their own life.

01:25:22.760 They don't have to wait around for somebody else's permission.

01:25:25.560 And they don't have to wait around because they can't do it.

01:25:30.620 Yes, you can.

01:25:32.580 And I said, okay.

01:25:34.880 So I went for a weekend with my son.

01:25:37.520 Then my wife went for a week at another Tony Robbins event with our son.

01:25:45.160 He is a different man.

01:25:47.920 I sent a broken boy.

01:25:50.680 I got a man back.

01:25:53.300 It is amazing.

01:25:54.380 I said to him, Tony, no way I'm spending money, another dime on college that is doing everything to dismantle my children where you actually, I did my best, but I couldn't somehow or another break through on this young man.

01:26:15.940 And you did.

01:26:18.260 I'm going to send him to Tony Robbins University.

01:26:20.620 And it's expensive, but it is game-changing.

01:26:29.760 It is game-changing.

01:26:31.620 If your child wants to change, that's the biggest thing.

01:26:37.860 If you don't want to change, you're not going to change.

01:26:40.120 But if my son was just tired of being like that, he says, Dad, I don't know what to do.

01:26:47.300 I can't break the cycle.

01:26:49.120 I don't know.

01:26:51.260 And we tried and tried and tried.

01:26:53.100 And he got to a point to where he didn't want to be that way.

01:26:56.280 And he is totally, totally different.

01:27:04.740 It's crazy.

01:27:05.920 And, like, holding it.

01:27:07.980 I mean, I know it's only been about, what, four weeks, but still, holding it this long?

01:27:13.620 Like, getting up in the morning was a problem for him.

01:27:16.860 I went, I think it was day after Christmas, I said, hey, son, I need, and I know he was up till three o'clock in the morning with his sisters watching movies.

01:27:26.400 And it was like eight o'clock in the morning, and I needed some help.

01:27:29.080 And I said, hey, son, wake up.

01:27:31.260 Can you help me with something?

01:27:32.640 He popped, popped out of bed, sat on the edge of his bed and said, sure, Dad, what do you need?

01:27:38.780 And I'm like, who are you?

01:27:41.720 Who are you?

01:27:43.140 It's incredible.

01:27:43.900 How much of this is, you, to make a real change, you have to be able to come to that decision yourself, right?

01:27:52.140 Oh, 100%.

01:27:53.040 I mean, you know, you can, he had come to that decision that he didn't want to continue the life he was doing.

01:28:02.020 He saw there is only dead ends in front of me.

01:28:05.520 You know, remember, we went, we've gone through some dark places with him, and we had one psychiatrist say, and I think it was the right thing, but don't do this without consulting somebody.

01:28:20.500 But we brought him, and he said, you need to tell your son you're not afraid of him killing himself.

01:28:28.580 And I'm like, what?

01:28:31.240 You need to tell your son, you need to tell your son you're not afraid.

01:28:35.220 You'll be sad.

01:28:36.440 It'll be horrible.

01:28:37.700 But you'll get over it.

01:28:39.820 And probably, I mean, what would happen if that happened?

01:28:42.740 And he took me through it, and I was like, we would probably go on tour, and we devote our life to suicide prevention.

01:28:49.100 And he's like, so, actually, I mean, it's bad.

01:28:53.340 You'll never get over that.

01:28:54.660 But you'll do good.

01:28:57.800 And I'm like, yeah.

01:28:58.540 And he's like, you need to let your son know that.

01:29:01.080 And I'm like, are you, can I see your license?

01:29:07.220 I've never wanted a holographic sticker on those license that you have on the walls.

01:29:11.840 But this time, I think, but he was right.

01:29:14.540 He was right.

01:29:15.660 And when he stopped, when he learned he couldn't get reaction from us anymore,

01:29:23.260 which was helping him somehow or another, just making things worse, but also giving him things to blame.

01:29:32.940 You know, I don't know.

01:29:35.200 But once that went away, about a year, year, year and a half later, he's like, end of his rope.

01:29:42.500 And we're a very close family.

01:29:44.180 So we talk about everything.

01:29:46.700 You do.

01:29:47.580 We do.

01:29:48.500 And, but he got to the, he got to the end just, you know, in November.

01:29:54.900 It was like, I can't, I can't do it.

01:29:57.640 So I was out of options.

01:30:00.220 And I'm telling you, I, you know, I don't, I don't know Tony Robbins.

01:30:05.820 No, you know, I know of him probably like you do.

01:30:08.240 He's a, he's a guy who is motivational speaker and very successful.

01:30:12.780 And I think a billionaire and everything else, but I, you know, I've never studied him or anything else.

01:30:19.860 He's a lot like my father.

01:30:22.260 My father taught the same kind of philosophy.

01:30:25.900 So I can plug into Tony Robbins and go, oh, I know what you're saying.

01:30:30.280 Where some people might have a problem with it because they think he's, you know, saying one thing and, you know, he's not a guru.

01:30:36.800 He's teaching you how things work, the mind mechanically and the body, how they work, and they never change.

01:30:46.240 The mind is the mind, and it works the same with everybody.

01:30:50.620 The mind is an engine.

01:30:52.760 You can put whatever body of car you want on it, but it's still an engine, okay?

01:30:57.220 Um, and, and that's what he teaches.

01:31:01.380 And if you go into it thinking, this is all about me, this is, this is, I've got to find out what the things are that are stopping me.

01:31:13.580 When I, when I heard my son next to me, he, Tony asked everybody to shout out, you know, your biggest fear.

01:31:22.480 And, uh, the thing that really bothers you, and I'm shouting something out.

01:31:29.900 And my son, I hear my son, cause he says, I keep shouting it, keep shouting it, keep shouting it.

01:31:34.700 And, you know, I don't think you're supposed to be listening, but it's my son.

01:31:38.340 I wanted to, and, uh, he said, I'll never be greater than my father.

01:31:48.340 I was heartbroken, heartbroken.

01:31:51.300 I mean, what a compliment, but heartbroken.

01:31:56.880 Cause that's absolutely not true.

01:31:59.440 He is going to surpass me.

01:32:01.220 He's going to surpass me.

01:32:03.180 Um.

01:32:03.920 And that's good, right?

01:32:04.900 That's great.

01:32:05.900 What you want as a dad.

01:32:06.960 Yeah.

01:32:07.780 My dad, when I hit, I think 40, my dad came to me and he said, you, you've surpassed me as a man.

01:32:14.380 He said, I worked my whole life and he, and he started bad with his father.

01:32:20.920 And he said, I've worked my whole life.

01:32:23.080 You have now surpassed me.

01:32:25.080 He was in his seventies.

01:32:26.580 And I said, no dad, I don't.

01:32:27.980 And he said, yes, I, yes, you have.

01:32:29.760 Yes, you have.

01:32:30.360 And, uh, he said, now your job is to see if your son can do it even a year before you did.

01:32:36.900 And I think my son's going to do that.

01:32:40.220 And then some, but I just, I know people are struggling for answers and I know this is expensive.

01:32:50.400 Um, but, uh, man, I don't know why you're sending your kids to college.

01:32:55.380 I mean, I think of the, the, the fear of college right now, the uncertainty of college right now.

01:33:07.060 What is it?

01:33:07.600 Did you see Google?

01:33:09.080 You know, all, Hey, you got to learn to write code.

01:33:11.140 Really?

01:33:11.620 Do you Google just let off 30,000 people this week, 30,000 people.

01:33:20.060 You know why?

01:33:20.560 AI.

01:33:20.920 I have no idea what to take, what the future is going to look like.

01:33:26.600 I only know that the thing that we came here with, and I mean at birth and all the people,

01:33:34.300 I don't care what color they are.

01:33:36.400 I don't care how they came here or when they came here, but if they came here for a better life and

01:33:43.960 they wanted to be left alone to pursue their dreams, because some bully was standing in the way

01:33:51.760 back where they lived, they know I need some conditions that are helpful, but the biggest

01:34:00.760 thing I need is me.

01:34:02.980 I need me to be solid.

01:34:04.820 I need to know who I am first.

01:34:07.800 I need to know what my skills are, what I'm not good at, and I need to conquer those things.

01:34:15.740 You know, it's, it's amazing.

01:34:17.920 Tony divides people up into four different categories, water, fire, wood.

01:34:24.000 Wood, I can't remember, and because my son was teaching it to me just recently, but he's

01:34:33.260 saying, look, you might be wood right now.

01:34:37.240 You might be fire 20 years ago or 20 years from now.

01:34:42.140 You might be that person, but you should be all four of these elements.

01:34:47.380 You can be, you can be more than the others, and that makes sense, but you have to be all

01:34:55.400 of them, and he's right, and if you can give your kid a foundation at 20, 25, I mean, I

01:35:06.340 had a really solid foundation from my father, but I didn't, it didn't activate in me until

01:35:13.480 I was 35, okay, I think I gave my son a pretty good upbringing, my wife especially, gave a pretty

01:35:23.140 good upbringing, but we couldn't activate it, and so you as a parent usually go, well, something

01:35:30.320 will happen, they'll remember, you know, when they need it, they'll find it, well, gosh, yeah,

01:35:37.200 this is a positive way to take action, and it's, you can do it online, this is not a commercial

01:35:46.180 for him, nothing, I tell you, I wrote to him a couple of days ago to say, thank you, you

01:35:55.640 have given me a man, you have not taken from him, you've activated him, you just put all

01:36:08.920 of the correct principles in a way that made him understand and go, I want to be that.

01:36:15.280 Tony Robbins, you should check it out, he can do, he does things online too, I mean,

01:36:26.320 the seminars and stuff go online, it's not just about business, his best ones empower

01:36:33.120 you as an individual, and that is what we need, all of us, we need to realize who we are

01:36:39.260 and how much power we actually have, we have to stop letting other things in our life control us,

01:36:48.020 and I struggle with this, I told Stu when he came in, I've read 90 stories today, Stu,

01:36:54.400 and none of them good, and I haven't had a pit in my stomach in two weeks, and I was fine when I

01:37:01.280 got up this morning, and I'm sitting here an hour before the show with a giant pit in my stomach

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01:38:45.160 All right, so then. Do you buy into the New Year's resolutions thing? Do you start your year-

01:39:02.160 Can I tell you, I'm living with Yoda now. My son has become Yoda, and it's pissing me off.

01:39:07.500 He said, my daughter said, so you're, you're gonna, your resolution is to lose weight again

01:39:15.020 and get into shape. I mean, that's just rude. I know, I know. Well, we, we're pretty rude

01:39:19.340 to each other. And, uh, I said, yes. And my son, like Yoda, put his hand on her shoulder

01:39:28.340 and he said, nothing changes if nothing changes. I'm like, sit down, Yoda. Sit down. Go fly around

01:39:39.460 the room. Lift up a spacecraft or something. Leave me alone. So is that, uh, is that your

01:39:46.580 actual resolution? Are you thinking this might be the year? Yeah, well, I've gotten, I've gotten to

01:39:49.780 the place, you know, that number that you have when you're like, if I ever hit that, then I'm an

01:39:54.240 absolute cow. I hit that last year. Uh, yeah. Yeah. And I, I see you are hitting your goals.

01:40:00.260 Oh, I blew past that. Like it was nothing like it was nothing. And, uh, I just, you know, I was

01:40:09.040 looking, when you get to the point to where, when you're turning over in bed and you're kind of out

01:40:14.900 of breath, you know, you're like, Oh, that was a workout. That's a problem. That's a problem.

01:40:20.440 You know, some would say, yeah, some would say, yeah. And, uh, you know, I don't want to it. I'm in

01:40:26.380 a month. I'm 60. Is that true? Yeah. 60. That's crazy. That doesn't feel real. I know. I know. My

01:40:38.700 grandfather died at 67. That was old back then. That was old. Yeah. And, uh, it's not old. It's not

01:40:46.640 old now. And I don't want to do that. And I, my, uh, my, uh, niece gave me a picture of my

01:40:53.000 grandfather, uh, for my desk. And, uh, I looked just like him. I looked just like him, uh, weight

01:40:59.980 and all. And, uh, in fact, he might've been a little slimmer, you know? Well, he's working

01:41:04.460 outside a lot. Yeah. He was working outside. Most of it was muscle, you know? Sure. Uh, but, uh,

01:41:10.200 yeah, I don't, I don't want to end up that way. I was, I had to sell a few friends over the

01:41:13.720 holidays and, and every horrible stereotype of getting older is like every conversation

01:41:21.540 is about health. I know it's unbelievable. We used to leave, leave the table. Tanya and

01:41:26.720 I used to live because we dined with her Italian family. So all generations were there and it

01:41:32.580 was always about, Oh man, I, I got gas so bad. I can't, I had to go. I thought I was having

01:41:39.540 a heart attack and you're like, what? And we used to go and think, I, I mean, I don't

01:41:45.700 ever want to have, that's all your conversation is now. Yeah. I feel like it's getting worse

01:41:50.260 too, because there are now so many like fitness and longevity influencers that people are into.

01:41:58.560 So like you get in these conversations and everyone's got this like guru that they're

01:42:02.560 watching 900 YouTube videos from that's explaining the nine things you need to do to live to 200

01:42:09.320 years old or whatever it is. I don't want to live that long. No, no, no. Longevity is

01:42:14.060 overrated. Glenn Beck. No, no, no. I mean, do you really want to, would you want to live

01:42:17.720 to be 150? I mean, at some point, don't you, aren't you like, Oh, okay. What else can I

01:42:22.680 do here? I've seen all the shows. I've seen everything. I can't watch friends again. Okay.

01:42:31.300 I mean, it depends how you're living, right? I guess the idea is, you know, you want to live

01:42:35.920 a healthy life, being able to do these things. I 200 seems like a long time. I'll be honest.

01:42:41.700 I don't envy the Bible. Eternity. It might all be hell. The Glenn Beck program.

01:42:49.100 You know, that's what I think hell is just living like this, just living like this for all eternity.

01:42:55.260 Anyway, remember when you were a kid, you hit the ground running in the morning. You didn't stop

01:43:00.180 until evening. You would come back when the lights would come on, the street lights would come on.

01:43:04.500 And that's, you knew if that happens and I'm not home soon, I'm in trouble.

01:43:10.260 I don't have, you know, trouble sleeping all the time, but when I do, it sucks because it's

01:43:15.740 usually like, I've got four hours before I have to do it all over again. I got to sleep

01:43:20.420 and you can't take something that's going to be in your system. You know, I think come in

01:43:24.380 those days, I'll come in like, uh, something else bad happened. I'm pretty sure you got to go

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01:44:08.040 All right. Um, I want to talk to you about, I mean, I just, I think it's going to be a

01:44:38.020 I thought I'd bring up the, uh, the Sam Bankman, uh, Freed story one more time. And I, why?

01:44:45.760 Yeah. I mean, he already had a trial or something. I don't know. He had a trial.

01:44:48.880 Shouldn't we just forget about everything he did? Let's not look too closely.

01:44:52.160 So I know this came out last week, but I haven't had a chance to vent on this one. And I did vent

01:44:57.780 earlier, but there's more venting to do here. Um, just reading the story that came out New Year's Eve,

01:45:03.920 the decision to avoid a second trial, charging Sam Bankman, Freed with conspiracy to make unlawful

01:45:12.440 political donations and bribery has many conservatives up in arms. Federal prosecutors

01:45:19.300 said Friday, they do not plan to proceed with a second trial against Sam Bank, Bank, uh, Bankman

01:45:24.860 Freed citing. Go ahead. What do you think? What do I say? What do you think? Uh, cost to the

01:45:32.600 taxpayer. Ooh, really good. Really good. What do we need? No. Public interest in a speedy

01:45:40.800 resolution to the case. Oh, people, yeah. People don't want to know the truth. They just,

01:45:45.020 they want it to be over quickly. I, you know, what I've been thinking is, you know, gosh, these,

01:45:49.920 this trial has been going on and on and on. And, uh, when is it ever going to end? You know,

01:45:55.100 no, no, I haven't had that thought. No, I don't know. Anybody who was at that thought except

01:45:59.040 maybe Sam Bankman Freed. Yeah. Or at least the people around Sam Bankman Freed. Yeah. Well,

01:46:03.480 his lawyers are like, probably, can we stretch this out a little longer? Uh, so, uh, the, um,

01:46:10.140 the federal court said they do not plan to proceed with a second trial as much of the evidence that

01:46:15.620 would be offered in a second trial was already offered in the first trial and be cons and can

01:46:20.980 be considered by the court at the defendant's March, 2024 sentencing. See, the one part of that

01:46:26.960 was who was he giving his money to? Which campaigns was he, uh, apparently bribing? We

01:46:35.900 know, we don't know that part of it, but we know he gave money to politicians.

01:46:41.220 We know he promised something like a billion dollars. Now there's not a ton of evidence

01:46:45.340 that he gave that much money. He did give more than any other person on earth except George Soros,

01:46:51.360 I believe in that cycle. Yeah. And we also know that there was a lot of money that was going

01:46:57.020 through various cryptocurrencies, some of which not easily traceable, especially if you happen to own

01:47:01.600 an exchange and, uh, some of that money's not around anymore. We don't know where it went.

01:47:07.980 Don't have any idea. I think that might be important to find out. I don't have any idea

01:47:11.860 whatsoever. But now apparently not the issue. Um, well, the justice department said, given the

01:47:16.200 practical reality and the strong public interest in a prompt resolution of this matter, the government

01:47:23.020 just proceeds to, uh, just, uh, intends on proceeding to sentencing. So, I mean, you know,

01:47:29.280 we don't have to know anymore because man, I can't wait for that to get over. By the way, uh, in 2023,

01:47:36.040 uh, ice had 37,000 migrants in, uh, detention. Okay. 37,000. Uh, now they've, they've issued a,

01:47:48.040 a warrant to appear, uh, Oh good. That's taken care of to 6 million people. Uh, they're not detained.

01:47:57.600 Um, but they have final orders of removal. So, but it's only 6 million and you know,

01:48:06.320 what do you, you know, I like the speedy ending to that one. Yeah. Where's the speedy resolution

01:48:10.160 on that one? I'd like that. We're just going to sit here for decade after decade after decade

01:48:13.520 accepting millions of people. Did you hear the woman over the weekend that came across the border?

01:48:17.740 She was issued a court appearing. She has to appear in court by what was it? 2031. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

01:48:24.220 Yeah. I don't know. I'd, I'd like a little speedier work on that one.

01:48:29.260 That's an interesting thought. You know, it seems like they come right after you when you do something

01:48:33.760 wrong. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Uh, yeah. It seems like Donald Trump, Donald Trump, he's got to have

01:48:40.620 what? 172 trials. Right. But Sam Bankman freed. He look, he's already had one. That's enough.

01:48:49.160 Ah, okay. Apparently, you know, and, and what is it? Uh, free healthcare to

01:48:53.540 700,000 illegals? Yeah. In California. In California? Yeah. 700,000 illegals. Imagine

01:48:59.740 if you're in California. Maybe you are an independent contractor working your butt off

01:49:04.360 trying to make ends meet. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you don't have a health insurance. Right.

01:49:08.340 Maybe you can't afford it. Maybe you're in one of those little pockets that Obamacare just

01:49:12.460 can't find. And you find, can you imagine finding out that they're giving your tax dollars to

01:49:19.520 illegal immigrants for healthcare? I mean, I, I can't even comprehend how angry I would

01:49:24.900 be if that was happening to me. You lie.

01:49:31.240 I don't, I don't know why that keeps coming. You keep saying that. I don't know if that

01:49:34.680 jogs a memory of some sort, but I, I don't know what it is. What was it? I don't even

01:49:39.500 remember the guy's name. I don't either. South Carolina? Yeah. If you don't know what we're

01:49:43.000 talking about, it was during a state of the union with Barack Obama when he said something

01:49:47.160 the effect of, they exclaim Obamacare will give free healthcare to illegal immigrants.

01:49:51.040 That will not happen. Will not happen. And he said, you lie. And at the time it was like,

01:49:56.180 oh my gosh, how could you? I can't believe you did that. Oh my gosh. We're going to spend

01:49:59.440 years calling somebody the next president, Hitler. But how could you say you lie to this

01:50:04.760 glorious man? Right. And it was a big deal at the time. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. It was a big

01:50:10.520 deal. Joe Wilson was his name. Yeah, that's right. Joe Wilson. Representative Joe Wilson.

01:50:14.340 It was, I guess, South Carolina. And remember, of course, it is Barack Obama who's president at

01:50:21.500 this time. The next Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton had that exact thing

01:50:28.380 in her platform. That's how long it took for him to be proven right. You lie. No, I do not lie. And

01:50:34.620 now Gavin Newsom, the seemingly the next guy up in this long cavalcade of disasters on the Democratic

01:50:43.680 side, is giving it, has done it in a state. 700,000 people. You know, here's, right now,

01:50:51.560 California, I'm sorry to California. And I know there's a lot of great Californians that listen

01:50:55.920 to us every day. But you should get out of there. But let me just say this. California could burn

01:51:04.300 itself to the ground. I would weep for the natural beauty of the state. But far as any of the

01:51:11.820 infrastructure that, you know, was built out there, it's all garbage. It's all garbage. And it's going

01:51:17.920 to burn itself down. Here's what I'm not going to do. Send in tons of money to act as a firefighter

01:51:26.020 for their reckless spending. I, I'd love to live. I always wanted to live in California. Always. I

01:51:33.360 loved California. When I was growing up, it was a lot different. It was, you know, Reagan had just

01:51:40.080 left, had just left office. California was kind of a decent place. Now it's a cesspool. And I've known

01:51:48.320 forever. I can't live there. They'll tax you to death. They'll spend to death. They're destroying

01:51:54.280 the state. I am not sending a penny to California. Not, not a penny. You get, you, you made your bet.

01:52:03.820 When did our collection of states become a suicidal pact? We have states that are committing suicide.

01:52:14.080 Okay. Look, if, if this was a patient, if California was a human being and you saw their progress

01:52:24.480 to suicide, you, they came in to you 10 years ago, then five years ago. And you said, Hey,

01:52:31.840 you should stop doing those things. They come in and they're in California's condition. Do you even

01:52:38.500 spend any time with them? I mean, I would say, you know, I can't help you unless you want to

01:52:44.060 change, but they're like, no, everything I'm doing is great. Okay. Well, go find yourself

01:52:48.220 another doctor, man. That is this, that's suicide. That is absolute suicide. And we all know it.

01:52:56.440 We all know it. Why, why would, why do I have to be involved? And they'll say, well, that's never

01:53:04.400 going to happen. Really? Like 700,000 people on, uh, on, uh, Obamacare. Really? That's, that's

01:53:09.960 that, well, cause that wasn't going to happen either. Eventually you run out of other people's

01:53:14.760 money. And when that happens, you're not coming for mine. I got news for you. Yes, they are.

01:53:22.080 They are coming for yours. Well, I hope to be living. I hope to be living in a state that

01:53:27.800 says, no, no, nope, you're not. Nope. You're not. You mean a nation state? Because you may need to go

01:53:34.600 to a different nation state for that. I don't think, I think there comes a time when I don't

01:53:42.640 know what the line is and I don't, I hope I never see it, but there is a line that I think many will

01:53:51.500 know when they see it. I don't know what it is. It's way down on my priority list of ever finding

01:53:58.820 that line. But there is a time when people, when you take, when you've taken everything that some

01:54:04.900 people are going to stand up and go, no, nope, I don't, I'm not going there with you. Now, usually

01:54:12.860 that ends in gulags. And say it, how does it really end? Usually it ends with a bullet to the

01:54:22.700 head at the gulag. Right. Usually. But I didn't take you there. I just took you to the gates of

01:54:27.280 the gulag. Right, right. That's all. Yeah, that's it. That's a new optimistic 2024. Thank you. Thank

01:54:32.580 you. Now, one thing that we did talk about before we went on election, I, or on vacation, I said,

01:54:39.340 you know, who has Jeffrey Epstein's book? Hmm. Uh-huh. And we revealed that on one of my

01:54:47.460 Wednesday night television shows. Hmm. Not the person I would put the book into the hands of. But

01:54:53.920 now, apparently, right before the new year, a judge ruled that this has to be released.

01:55:03.680 So, John Doe 36 is President Bill Clinton. And this is going to come out tomorrow, John Doe 36.

01:55:16.540 Now, he is mentioned more than 50 times. Now, of course, they redacted all of this because,

01:55:25.140 you know, you don't, I mean, you know the name, but you don't want to know exactly what he was doing.

01:55:28.940 Right. I mean, I mean, he's already been tried for indiscretions. I want a speedy resolution.

01:55:35.180 I want a speedy resolution. That's why I don't want to know any other information. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

01:55:39.360 Apparently, they say this will be released, I think, tomorrow. So, if it is, we will gleefully

01:55:48.520 cover that. But he's mentioned more than 50 times, apparently, because one of the accusers

01:55:56.620 kept coming to him and saying, come on, testify against him, you know. Well, 50 times is a little

01:56:05.640 excessive. And if somebody's coming to me 50 times and saying, hey, come on, you know, and other

01:56:11.640 people are, come on, you know, you've got to stand up and testify against him. At some point,

01:56:17.620 I say maybe to Jeff, hey, Jeff, these people won't leave me alone. Is there something you're

01:56:24.760 doing to cause this? You know what I mean? Or if I know Jeff is kind of, you know, ha, ha, ha,

01:56:32.060 let's have some cigars and some four-year-olds, you know, that kind of guy, I might, after maybe

01:56:40.020 the 10th time, go, you know, I'm going to look into that. I'm going to look into that.

01:56:46.180 And I'll get back to you.

01:56:47.840 Again, that's going to add length to this process. And all we want is a speedy resolution.

01:56:51.680 Yes, you're right. Why do we want to know the truth?

01:56:55.000 Amen.

01:56:55.640 That's amazing. So is the accusation that he was involved in this, or is it that he is,

01:57:02.880 he just turned the other cheek because he didn't...

01:57:05.660 Don't say that. Not in this.

01:57:09.900 Don't say he didn't, he wasn't willing to open his mouth.

01:57:12.580 No.

01:57:12.860 Don't say anything.

01:57:14.140 You can't say anything.

01:57:15.800 No.

01:57:16.180 That's why we need a speedy resolution. Because whatever we say is going to be a problem.

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01:58:50.800 You see that Joe Biden is in his administration is now thinking about suing the state of Texas

01:59:16.840 for shipping minors out of Texas. I'm not minors. I'm sorry. Illegals. Well, minors too,

01:59:24.620 probably. I don't know. We don't check anymore. It's not important. But I say bring it on. I say

01:59:31.380 bring it on. I thought the word illegal in illegal immigrants had some relevance, but apparently no.

01:59:38.020 Yeah, no. We had to pass a new law to make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant.

01:59:42.400 Yeah. So, um, we're shipping them elsewhere and, uh, Chicago, uh, Denver and New York.

01:59:49.380 They're full up. They just like, Oh, I've eaten too much. And I just, I can't loosen the belt

01:59:55.380 anymore. Uh, so they, I think we've sent 25,000 to New York and they are, it's a point of like

02:00:01.360 collapse. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. At least that's what the mayor is saying. Texas. But we

02:00:05.880 get what? 300,000 in one month? In one month. In one month. So the entire time we've sent 25,000

02:00:12.300 up there, but we're getting 300,000 a month. Well, just this year we've added the population

02:00:16.880 of, um, I believe it's Alabama. So we just created a, uh, just one Alabama in the last year, but

02:00:25.600 Texas has got to take it. Texas, you sit down and shut up. Um, but no, they're full up. They

02:00:31.620 can't take another, I can't have another bite. It's weird because I heard over and over again,

02:00:37.700 it was, it was a human, right? Yeah. No, a sanctuary city. Yeah. Let them come there. You

02:00:42.540 know what? So yeah, I don't know what happened. I don't know what, uh, tomorrow we're going

02:00:47.980 to show you who's involved though. Uh, doctors without borders, the red cross, the, uh, United

02:00:54.540 Nations and, uh, friends of the train, you know, I love that one. I wonder if Joe Biden is in,

02:01:01.400 involved in that NGO friends of the train. Cause he's a friend of the train, you know,

02:01:06.620 he was riding one time and this old train conductor who he'd seen, uh, there over and

02:01:12.640 over who never really worked there when Joe was alive. Um, but he told him some great little

02:01:17.680 story and anecdote and, uh, none of it happened, but, uh, he's definitely a friend of the train.

02:01:23.460 So we'll show you tomorrow, uh, how planned and coordinated by the left. This is now, this

02:01:32.600 is something we told you would happen in, uh, in an episode of my Wednesday night television

02:01:39.160 show in 2018. But here's the evidence of that conspiracy theory tomorrow.

02:01:45.800 So we'll see you tomorrow.

02:01:46.020 So we'll see you tomorrow.

The Glenn Beck Program - January 02, 2024

Trump’s Removal from Ballots Is Destroying Democracy — Not ‘Saving’ It ｜ 1⧸2⧸24

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