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00:03:33.600 Hello, America.

00:03:37.120 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:38.720 I'm glad that you're here.

00:03:39.920 I was, last night, my wife and I have been watching for the last couple of weeks this

00:03:44.720 limited series, I think it's on Netflix, called Adolescence.

00:03:49.200 Has anybody seen that?

00:03:50.080 Oh, I've heard a lot about it.

00:03:51.120 Oh, is it good?

00:03:53.040 Oh, yeah.

00:03:53.680 Okay.

00:03:54.000 But it's scary.

00:03:54.960 It's, it's, it's scary because it is absolutely what's happening in our society with our kids

00:04:00.560 and parents.

00:04:01.040 I mean, absolutely.

00:04:03.040 And I had a hard time shaking.

00:04:05.440 I mean, last night, I, we watched the last episode last night and I must have cried for,

00:04:11.360 I'm going to cry now for like 25 minutes because I related to the dad.

00:04:19.200 And it was just like, I, when you're a parent of an adolescent now, you don't know what the

00:04:24.960 heck is happening to them.

00:04:26.160 You don't know what they're, you don't have any idea anymore.

00:04:31.120 And, oh my gosh.

00:04:32.400 And then I get up and I, I read the story about Austin Metcalfe.

00:04:36.960 You heard this story?

00:04:39.200 True story.

00:04:40.000 Just down the street from the studios here.

00:04:42.480 Uh, and I'll, I'll share that with you here in just a second.

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00:06:53.020 So Austin Metcalf, he's a 17-year-old student from Frisco Memorial High School, uh, just up

00:07:01.200 the street from Dallas, Texas.

00:07:03.620 Uh, he was, uh, stabbed on April 2nd.

00:07:07.460 What is this?

00:07:08.000 Today the 3rd, isn't it?

00:07:09.020 Fourth.

00:07:09.500 Fourth.

00:07:09.900 Okay, so two days ago.

00:07:11.960 He's at a track meet in a stadium in Frisco.

00:07:16.740 Now, Frisco is a, is a nice suburb.

00:07:19.260 Nice, yeah.

00:07:19.580 Okay.

00:07:20.480 Um, and, uh, what happened is, apparently, it was all about where people are supposed to

00:07:27.260 sit.

00:07:27.540 And, according to witness accounts, and an arrest affidavit, what happened, Austin and

00:07:34.080 his twin brother, Hunter, come up, and they asked this guy, Carmelo Anthony, 17-year-old

00:07:39.820 student from Frisco Centennial High School, to-

00:07:42.760 Not the basketball player, by the way.

00:07:44.120 Okay, thank you.

00:07:45.280 I didn't even, anyway, to move from-

00:07:47.320 I know you didn't know that, but everyone in the audience is like, wait, what, who?

00:07:50.340 Carmelo, why?

00:07:51.180 Um, so he was, he was sitting, um, under the Memorial High School team's tent, and that

00:07:58.320 was for the team.

00:08:00.200 And so, these two guys come in, and they say, hey, dude, can you, uh, can you move?

00:08:05.380 This is just for the team.

00:08:07.000 And then, Anthony, uh, he becomes aggressive and challenged Austin, saying, really?

00:08:13.840 I'm not moving.

00:08:14.480 And touch me, and you'll see what happens.

00:08:17.500 And, um, it gets worse.

00:08:20.420 And then, when Austin touched or grabbed Anthony to insist that he move, Anthony pulls out a

00:08:26.300 knife and stabs him in the chest. 0.99

00:08:28.180 Jeez. 1.00

00:08:28.860 Okay?

00:08:29.760 Um, he's been arrested.

00:08:33.780 The, the victim is dead.

00:08:36.440 And here's his twin brother talking about it.

00:08:39.680 You can picture what, what happened when, you know, what was, what was coming out of his

00:08:43.620 chest.

00:08:44.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:08:45.580 Y'all can visualize that.

00:08:46.860 I just thought I wanted to put that on my mom right now, but I put my hand, I pushed my

00:08:50.720 hand on there, trying to make it stop, and I grabbed his head, and I looked in his eyes.

00:08:57.620 I just, I just saw his phone leave, and it took my soul, too.

00:09:03.140 Jeez, mom.

00:09:04.420 Jeez, man.

00:09:11.220 I, I, I, they don't, apparently this was the only time they've ever met each other.

00:09:18.060 This is only the, this is a disagreement over, hey, dude, you can't sit here.

00:09:22.700 That was it.

00:09:24.500 Killed for that. 0.99

00:09:26.580 Has life become so meaningless that that will get you killed?

00:09:30.980 No prior relationship, no problems between the two.

00:09:37.960 That's it.

00:09:38.740 In case you couldn't understand, he said, he was there pushing his hands on his brother

00:09:48.560 because blood was coming out of his chest, and he was pressing on his chest, trying to

00:09:53.280 make the blood to stop.

00:09:57.020 He said, I grabbed his head, I looked in his eyes, I saw his soul leave, and mine left me,

00:10:02.800 too.

00:10:11.840 It's so hard to be a parent now.

00:10:14.340 My gosh, it's so hard to be a parent.

00:10:15.840 A friend of mine said, are you, have you and Tonya watched Adolescence?

00:10:26.220 No.

00:10:26.860 Is it good?

00:10:27.640 Oh, it's, oh, it's really good.

00:10:29.060 And they film it.

00:10:30.280 It's like, it's one take.

00:10:32.900 The entire hour is one take.

00:10:34.900 There's no edits in it.

00:10:36.360 And it's amazing.

00:10:37.380 It's amazing.

00:10:37.840 Really well done.

00:10:41.040 Really well acted.

00:10:42.220 Most people probably won't even notice that there's no edits.

00:10:45.520 But if you notice that, you're like, holy cow, how did they do this?

00:10:50.400 I mean, it's perfect.

00:10:52.700 Perfect.

00:10:55.060 And it's compelling.

00:10:58.560 And it starts with the police in England breaking down the door of this person's house at six

00:11:04.520 o'clock in the morning, and it's all filmed in real time.

00:11:07.200 So it's three hours filmed in real time.

00:11:10.780 And so police come in, break down the door, and the parents are like, you got the wrong

00:11:14.960 house.

00:11:15.200 You got the wrong house.

00:11:16.640 I need to go upstairs to your son's room.

00:11:18.460 Where is your son?

00:11:19.540 You have the wrong house.

00:11:20.860 We're just, you know, normal people here.

00:11:23.380 Here's the warrant.

00:11:24.100 Get out of the way or I will arrest you.

00:11:25.720 And they come guns a-blazing, and they go right into the son's house.

00:11:28.940 They point their rifles at him.

00:11:30.940 Is this your name?

00:11:32.340 Yeah.

00:11:32.780 Now, he's a 13-year-old kid.

00:11:34.980 Yeah.

00:11:37.220 You're under arrest for murder.

00:11:40.140 And the kid is just like, Dad, Mom, I didn't do anything.

00:11:44.220 What's going on?

00:11:46.500 Stand up.

00:11:47.180 He stands up.

00:11:47.960 It shows he's wet his pants.

00:11:49.560 I would have, too.

00:11:50.460 I mean, it's terrifying the first five minutes of it.

00:11:54.560 And you're like, what is this?

00:11:56.860 Out of control police.

00:11:58.340 Yada, yada, yada.

00:12:00.040 And I'm not going to tell you or, you know, tell you what one way or another.

00:12:04.080 Did he kill or not or whatever.

00:12:05.620 But the experience that you see the kid go through, then the second episode is an hour

00:12:15.420 with the police at the school.

00:12:17.020 And you see, this is in a small town in England.

00:12:21.360 And you can see because there's some, you know, I don't know how they did this.

00:12:25.740 It's like a drone shot that's way up in the sky.

00:12:28.520 And then it comes down.

00:12:29.720 And there's no edit.

00:12:30.800 And then all of a sudden, it just becomes the camera that is following everybody around

00:12:35.420 the whole time.

00:12:36.000 It is crazy.

00:12:37.000 But when the drone shot is up, you see this is like a rural town, a small town.

00:12:44.080 And then you go to the school in that episode and you see what the students are like, what

00:12:51.300 they're talking about, how callous they are on life.

00:12:56.180 I mean, I know kids can be mean.

00:12:58.100 I mean, I didn't know it when I was a kid.

00:12:59.720 But good heavens, it's shocking to me that any of us survived adolescence because kids

00:13:07.240 are so mean.

00:13:09.480 Maybe they're meaner than they were when we were growing up.

00:13:12.760 But oh my gosh, I didn't realize.

00:13:15.580 I thought boys were bad.

00:13:17.400 Nah, boys are a piece of cake compared to girls. 1.00

00:13:20.440 Girls are wicked to each other. 1.00

00:13:23.200 Just wicked. 0.62

00:13:24.600 And so, you know, as a parent who's now my sweet, dear last daughter, is moving out in

00:13:36.600 a couple of weeks, finished adolescence, everybody made it out alive.

00:13:45.660 But boy, oh boy, the last 10 years have been just a relentless, relentless.

00:13:54.600 And if you listen to the show, you know my kids have had many of the problems that your

00:13:58.840 kids probably have had. 0.97

00:14:00.300 Gotten way, way lost.

00:14:03.120 Way lost.

00:14:05.160 And we're good parents.

00:14:07.980 But every day, you just feel like a horrible parent.

00:14:13.520 Because you're like, I don't know what to do.

00:14:17.800 I don't know what to do.

00:14:19.240 And so you see the police and what the kid's going through as police.

00:14:27.380 Then you see what school is like and what all of our kids are actually dealing with.

00:14:32.620 And it's terrifying.

00:14:34.180 And then the last episode is just the parents and the aftermath.

00:14:39.700 And they're dealing with, you know, what happened?

00:14:43.700 What's just happening to our life?

00:14:45.620 Okay.

00:14:46.280 It's like three days.

00:14:49.280 I want to curse the friend who turned me on to it.

00:14:55.980 Because it should come with a warning.

00:14:58.320 By the way, this is going to seem very real to you.

00:15:01.560 But it's this.

00:15:02.900 It's the story that just happened at this track meet here in Texas.

00:15:07.680 It's the same story.

00:15:09.280 Is there no value to life anymore?

00:15:15.680 Have we become so, you know, the parent, the dad, at one point in adolescence said,

00:15:25.740 I mean, he was up in his room.

00:15:29.060 I mean, I was up in my room.

00:15:31.180 What could possibly go wrong?

00:15:33.440 What could possibly go this wrong?

00:15:35.520 You know, and you know, the internet is bad.

00:15:38.640 You know, it's you have no idea.

00:15:41.240 We have no idea.

00:15:44.300 And I've always hated helicopter parents.

00:15:46.880 But my gosh, if you're not a helicopter parent in your own home.

00:15:53.120 You read the Jonathan Haidt book.

00:15:56.760 Yes.

00:15:57.500 Oh, my gosh.

00:15:58.800 As big of a mistake as watching adolescence.

00:16:01.260 Apparently, it's real.

00:16:02.640 Don't get me wrong.

00:16:03.320 It's some of the best acting, some of the best storytelling.

00:16:05.640 It's so well done.

00:16:06.960 Such a good story.

00:16:08.260 And the Jonathan Haidt book is a legit must read for any parent of anyone who is, especially

00:16:13.920 the younger ages.

00:16:14.940 I mean, you need to know this information before you get to 12, 13, 14, if you can.

00:16:20.560 Yep.

00:16:20.900 But it's still worth reading afterward.

00:16:23.520 But yeah, I mean, it's terrifying.

00:16:25.200 I don't think I would.

00:16:26.800 Based on your cell here, I don't think I'm in on adolescence.

00:16:29.920 I don't think I can handle it.

00:16:30.940 I don't know if I would watch it again.

00:16:34.280 I mean, I watched it because they said, Glenn, you're going to love it because the way it's

00:16:38.020 shot and it's so different and everything else.

00:16:40.020 And so I was, you know, I was in on that.

00:16:42.040 I didn't listen to what they said the story was because we started.

00:16:44.680 I'm like, what's this story about?

00:16:46.120 And you're a cinematography nerd.

00:16:48.160 Yeah.

00:16:48.560 And so I just and it was fantastic.

00:16:51.600 I mean, I'd watch the first episode over and over again just to just to admire how it

00:16:56.480 was done.

00:16:57.000 And that wasn't that's not I shouldn't have been sold on that part, because especially

00:17:01.940 if you but if you want to understand how screwed up our children are, just watch that.

00:17:08.640 Watch that. 0.88

00:17:09.480 Is that real?

00:17:10.120 Because I remember watching remember the movie.

00:17:12.080 The kids didn't come out in like the 90s or the 2000s.

00:17:16.200 Do you remember that movie?

00:17:16.960 No.

00:17:17.600 And it was a really super dark vision of what teenage years were.

00:17:23.100 Right.

00:17:23.480 It was terrible.

00:17:24.820 I mean, it was, you know, the kids were bad.

00:17:27.460 They were bad boys and girls and they did lots of bad boys and girl things.

00:17:30.680 And it wasn't my experience at all as a child.

00:17:33.740 I mean, nothing even remotely close to anything like it.

00:17:37.080 If I remember kids, it's not as it's not as accurate as Megan or Megan to Megan to

00:17:42.480 is much more.

00:17:43.380 I mean, Megan to is one that really went on.

00:17:45.640 No, I don't remember that one.

00:17:47.620 This one, I think, is actually pretty good.

00:17:49.800 Another one was what was the HBO series with Sidney Sweeney and gosh, what the euphoria?

00:17:58.020 Yeah.

00:17:58.160 And is another one.

00:17:58.940 I didn't see that one.

00:17:59.280 And again, it's just this incredibly dark.

00:18:03.040 They're all doing drugs.

00:18:04.240 They're all hooking up.

00:18:05.140 It's not like that.

00:18:06.580 Okay.

00:18:06.900 It's it's you don't see any of that stuff. 0.61

00:18:09.640 You just see how they're relating to each other and how social media has just sucked

00:18:15.080 them into an alternate world.

00:18:18.200 You know what I mean?

00:18:19.240 Yeah.

00:18:19.540 But it's a spin on these two stories.

00:18:22.000 I'm telling you, like it's it's this kids get in the wrong way.

00:18:26.360 Everything starts snowballing.

00:18:29.240 They become they're in this dark period.

00:18:32.660 And as a parent, you have no control.

00:18:34.620 No matter all the great things you try to do to solve it, there's no control.

00:18:38.160 And I as a parent of kids who are just hitting those ages, you you realize and must surrender

00:18:45.740 at some level your idea that you can control the situation.

00:18:49.640 I will do everything I can to control it, but also know that there's it's like the system

00:18:55.020 right now.

00:18:55.500 They're all like, oh, we can do this, this and this and this at the end of the day, like

00:18:58.600 people keep bringing up.

00:18:59.800 Actually, you don't have an army.

00:19:01.360 And that's how I feel as a parent.

00:19:03.000 Yeah, I don't know.

00:19:04.320 Will any of this stuff work?

00:19:05.900 I don't know.

00:19:06.400 I don't want to put myself, you know, I got to tell you the last the last the last the

00:19:10.100 last episode, because it's just about the parents.

00:19:12.620 You could watch that last episode and you could just just watch that and you will so relate

00:19:18.560 because the parents are in so many ways.

00:19:20.720 They're just trying to survive and they're trying to hold their marriage together and

00:19:25.000 they're just trying to figure things out.

00:19:27.260 And it feels like the world is completely against them and they did their best.

00:19:31.780 And they're just people.

00:19:32.940 They're hardworking people that just tried to do.

00:19:35.760 You know, the dad says at one point, you know, my dad was abusive and I just tried to be

00:19:42.880 better than my dad and I was better than my dad.

00:19:46.440 But that didn't mean anything.

00:19:49.320 And it's I mean, it's just heart.

00:19:52.980 Too close to home, Glenn.

00:19:54.200 I'm watching.

00:19:54.820 I'm watching family guy.

00:19:57.500 That's what I'm doing with my weekend.

00:19:58.980 Back in just a second.

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00:20:11.780 Most people are clearing shelves in the stores.

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00:21:00.380 Ten seconds.

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00:21:12.980 I want to take Chris in Pennsylvania.

00:21:15.360 He wants to talk about trade.

00:21:16.540 Hello, Chris.

00:21:17.120 Welcome to the program.

00:21:19.040 How are you doing?

00:21:20.000 I'm good, man.

00:21:20.640 I'd like to, um, this trade war that we're currently under right now, we've had examples

00:21:27.840 in the past where it has, where it has been incorporated and it never ends well.

00:21:32.960 It is, uh, it's, it's, it's a depression.

00:21:37.960 I mean, it's bad.

00:21:39.740 I know.

00:21:40.240 And you have a voice where you millions of people hear you every day.

00:21:46.060 And I know, you know, that this is going to end very bad.

00:21:49.940 And I'm just wondering.

00:21:50.600 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:21:51.280 Go ahead.

00:21:52.000 Ask your question.

00:21:52.720 Why are you supporting it?

00:21:53.180 Yeah.

00:21:53.520 Why I'm supporting it?

00:21:55.180 Um, are you supporting it?

00:21:56.680 Would you say you're supporting it?

00:21:57.840 No, I say I'm tolerating it.

00:22:00.560 Yeah.

00:22:00.840 Um, and I'm hoping for the best because, um, we already made this decision.

00:22:05.840 We made this decision when we voted for him, everyone knew he was going to do a trade war.

00:22:12.500 Everyone, if there's one thing that he would say over and over again, that I hated was trade,

00:22:18.420 you know, uh, tariffs are one of my favorite words.

00:22:20.540 In fact, they are my favorite word and we're going to do tariffs.

00:22:23.200 He warned us.

00:22:24.460 He told us he wasn't kidding.

00:22:26.500 He showed us.

00:22:27.600 He is also a politician that doesn't, he doesn't make promises.

00:22:31.120 He doesn't keep.

00:22:32.480 So he's keeping the promise.

00:22:34.000 Okay.

00:22:34.760 So I have two things I can do right now.

00:22:37.120 I can say, this is wrong.

00:22:39.560 This is going to lead to a depression.

00:22:41.860 Or I could say, this is very dangerous.

00:22:45.060 This is very dangerous.

00:22:46.220 We're playing a very high stakes game.

00:22:48.900 The guy who's playing it, by the way, we all voted for, and he told us he would do this.

00:22:54.460 The guy who's playing this game is the best negotiator in the world.

00:23:00.080 I'm hoping that this is a negotiation game.

00:23:02.900 If it's not a negotiation game, it really scares me even more, but I'm still going to put my hope and faith that he's got a plan that I don't know.

00:23:14.060 Because all I know is what we have been doing doesn't work.

00:23:18.800 It doesn't work.

00:23:20.960 I would rather have him go for the taxes and regulation, but he has promised taxes, regulation, and trade.

00:23:26.800 And, okay, well, I think that will work if you can do that and reduce the budget.

00:23:33.420 I think that might work, but I don't know.

00:23:37.360 So I'm not supporting it.

00:23:39.020 What I'm saying to you is, you don't have a choice at this point.

00:23:42.460 You already made your decision.

00:23:44.680 If you voted for him, you made your decision.

00:23:47.760 Now, we can either sabotage the guy we just hired, or we can say, you know what?

00:23:56.380 We made our decision already.

00:23:58.260 Let him play it out.

00:23:59.360 A year from now, if we're in real trouble, I'm not going to be saying the same thing.

00:24:04.700 I think we owe it to him to give him the benefit of the doubt because we voted for it.

00:24:09.100 This is Glenn Beck.

00:24:09.760 I don't know if that makes sense to anybody, but Lear Capital, have you ever noticed how every building, every hotel, every office, every school, every store has a fire escape?

00:24:20.340 It's there, quiet, tucked away, and out of sight.

00:24:23.540 Nobody thinks about it at all until the smoke starts rolling in.

00:24:26.980 That is gold or silver.

00:24:28.880 You want to talk about being concerned about the trade war?

00:24:35.300 Okay, gold or silver.

00:24:37.040 Gold or silver.

00:24:37.700 Because I've got to tell you, this one way or another, the dollar is not going to last.

00:24:43.320 One of the things I'm worried about more than the trade war is that the people over in Europe are so damn insane that they will say, this is a way to end this whole thing.

00:24:52.880 We can end this faster.

00:24:55.400 Let's counter on the trade war.

00:24:58.060 Donald Trump is planning on them not being able to withstand, so they'll come to the negotiating table.

00:25:06.540 You're negotiating with people who have a death wish for the West.

00:25:11.160 Well, I don't know what's going to happen.

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00:25:57.340 And, you know, I understand a lot of people disagree with my stance on tariffs.

00:26:01.940 That's totally fine.

00:26:04.620 My, you know, my stance is we voted for the guy.

00:26:09.880 Let's not dismantle what he said was the most important thing he was going to do.

00:26:16.640 You know, we didn't have that caveat.

00:26:19.740 I don't know if anybody noticed that.

00:26:21.420 There wasn't a big caveat.

00:26:22.380 And I know you believe this, but just stating it again, just because you vote for someone

00:26:26.860 does not mean you cannot disagree with them.

00:26:28.640 Oh, no.

00:26:29.080 I have disagreed with him.

00:26:30.700 I've talked to him for a half an hour one-on-one about how much I disagree with tariffs.

00:26:35.520 You totally have.

00:26:36.120 Yes.

00:26:36.460 And I just want to make sure when you're saying it like that, it sort of sounds like you're

00:26:40.260 saying, well, we're on board for everything that he does.

00:26:42.020 No.

00:26:42.360 No.

00:26:42.740 I mean, if he decides tomorrow, he's like, you know what?

00:26:44.860 Abortion for everyone. 0.72

00:26:46.080 I'm not going to be like, oh, well, we voted for the guy.

00:26:48.280 And this one he did tease, though, for many, you know, decades.

00:26:51.880 Yeah.

00:26:52.500 This is not a shock to if anybody was paying attention, not a shock.

00:26:56.800 And during the last campaign, he over and over and over and over and over again said,

00:27:00.560 this is what I'm going to do.

00:27:02.800 He also said he was going to end regulation and reduce taxes.

00:27:06.540 That to me is not, you know, hey, let's just renew the Trump cuts that we already have.

00:27:12.280 Yeah.

00:27:12.880 But that's actually the current policy.

00:27:15.040 Don't tell me it's a tax cut to extend the current policy.

00:27:18.040 It's not.

00:27:18.780 It's not.

00:27:19.960 And so there's other things.

00:27:21.560 But I this is so dangerous.

00:27:24.520 The worst thing we could do is slow it down.

00:27:27.900 The worst thing we can do is slow it down.

00:27:30.160 I should say slow down the whole policy.

00:27:32.680 Get back bogged down into this.

00:27:34.620 We should be concentrating right now on Congress.

00:27:37.400 Do your job.

00:27:38.460 Pass tax cuts.

00:27:39.780 Real tax cuts.

00:27:41.320 Congress cut regulation right now.

00:27:44.000 Because if you think it's bad with the tariffs as they are, the only thing that will save it is cutting the spending, cutting the taxes and cutting regulations.

00:27:55.540 And every day we sit here and argue about what Trump is.

00:27:59.680 Trump's not going to change his mind.

00:28:01.080 I know I've talked to him multiple times about it.

00:28:05.040 OK, I've had a really passionate conversation about tariffs one on one on the phone.

00:28:11.620 He's like, Glenn, you make great points, but I just love tariffs.

00:28:17.720 I'm going to do it anyway.

00:28:18.860 That's legitimately what he said.

00:28:20.260 That's legitimately what he said after a half an hour.

00:28:22.920 And I respect that.

00:28:24.240 At least he's telling me the truth.

00:28:26.260 Yeah.

00:28:26.380 He's being honest about it.

00:28:28.180 You know, but I know what we're facing.

00:28:30.660 I don't know if you saw what Thomas Sowell wrote.

00:28:34.200 Did you see this?

00:28:35.540 Yeah.

00:28:35.920 Yeah.

00:28:36.200 Thomas Sowell.

00:28:36.960 I thought it was on a podcast.

00:28:38.180 Was it on a podcast?

00:28:39.440 Yeah, it might have been.

00:28:40.340 Yeah.

00:28:40.940 Oh, my gosh.

00:28:41.800 Still doing podcasts at 94 years old, by the way.

00:28:43.980 Yeah, he's great.

00:28:44.720 What an utter disaster.

00:28:46.200 I happen to believe the Smoot-Hawley tariffs had more to do with setting off the Great Depression of the 30s than the stock market crash.

00:28:51.860 Unemployment never reached double digits in any of the 12 months that followed the crash of October 29.

00:28:56.100 But it hit double digits within six months of passage of Smoot-Hawley and stayed there for a decade.

00:29:01.560 When you set off a trade war, like any other war, you have no idea how it's going to end.

00:29:07.920 Okay?

00:29:09.220 We're there, gang.

00:29:10.540 We're there.

00:29:11.420 We're there.

00:29:13.100 So, I mean, I don't know.

00:29:15.420 What do you think, Pat?

00:29:17.060 Have you been talking about this a lot?

00:29:18.580 Yes.

00:29:18.880 On Pat Grand Leashed?

00:29:19.460 Yeah.

00:29:20.100 Well, and we had Richard Stern on from the Heritage Foundation to talk about it today.

00:29:24.980 And he was, you know, he's pretty clear that he thinks it's going to work.

00:29:31.140 But, you know, there's some doubt.

00:29:34.500 Look, I've talked to a lot of people.

00:29:38.160 And here's what you, it is so important to read between lines.

00:29:45.260 When you are, when you're dealing with the best negotiator in the world, I know there

00:29:53.600 are people in the party in Washington, I've spoken to them, that have said, Kukka Glenn,

00:30:00.180 I think this could be the worst thing that's ever been done.

00:30:03.320 Well, why aren't you saying that?

00:30:04.780 Because then I can't influence the president and this administration at all.

00:30:10.300 If I come out and say, this is destructive, they will not include me in any of the conversations.

00:30:19.120 But if I say, this is dangerous, but we're going to give you a benefit of the doubt,

00:30:25.280 maybe that politician is included in conversations and you can talk them down from the tree and

00:30:33.120 just say, hey, let's, can we, how about we back off on some of these things and try to

00:30:38.300 make it a little better? That's what a lot of people in Washington are doing right now.

00:30:43.360 I also think he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

00:30:45.400 I do too.

00:30:45.740 He's done a lot.

00:30:46.520 I do too.

00:30:46.820 He's done a lot of really good things. And so maybe this will turn out as well. I don't

00:30:52.460 know.

00:30:52.620 I don't know.

00:30:53.060 No, no, no.

00:30:53.600 I don't know.

00:30:54.400 It's a tough one.

00:30:55.020 I've never.

00:30:55.800 It's a tough one, right, Stu? It's really a tough one.

00:30:58.260 You know, I totally understand what you're saying. I don't think it's a tough one on this

00:31:02.440 particular case. I think it's a bad policy. That doesn't mean he's a bad president.

00:31:05.920 Doesn't mean he's the worst. He's not Adolf Hitler. He's not the,

00:31:08.300 he's not any of those things. But like, you know, I, I don't subscribe to any theory where

00:31:14.940 I have to sit back and, and, and I know you guys don't either, but like, he's not perfect.

00:31:20.660 He's not, he's, he's just, he's just, he's another man. He's a man like everybody else.

00:31:25.540 No, I know.

00:31:25.800 How dare you say that?

00:31:26.960 I know.

00:31:27.240 That's what he is.

00:31:28.180 Is that how he identifies? Do you have that for a fact?

00:31:31.100 Good question. But like this policy has been a bad, Thomas Sowell has been talking about

00:31:35.380 this policy, not just as 94 on a podcast. He's been talking about it forever.

00:31:39.160 There's got to be other people that are, we respect that are reasoned that don't necessarily

00:31:44.640 agree with Thomas Sowell that we would agree with.

00:31:48.640 Yeah. I don't know about on this policy, but I mean, is there any that you know of?

00:31:54.160 Pat, do you know of anybody?

00:31:55.460 Fear, I sense. Hmm? Yes. Yes. Tariffs rise. Stocks wobble. Hmm? Yes. And weak minds.

00:32:04.720 Panic, they do. But calm. You must stay. Hmm? Oh. Trust, you must have. Oh. Oh. Okay.

00:32:14.260 A storm, this is not. Hmm. A strategy, it is.

00:32:18.200 Really? A strategy?

00:32:19.240 Yes. Yes. Yes. Trump works while wine you do. Moves he makes. Loud? Yes. Yes. Dumb? No.

00:32:32.540 Negotiator he is. Deals he reshapes. Oh, okay. All right. Okay.

00:32:37.700 That's a long the Jedi have watched. Really?

00:32:41.400 Cheap goods. Poisoned air. Stolen tech from China. Much taken has been. And given your strength.

00:32:55.120 Hmm? Your jobs. Oh. Your pride. Oh. Now. Now. Balance he seeks. Hmm? Yes. Really? Yes. Push he must.

00:33:06.640 Uh-huh. Pressure? Yes. Collapse? No.

00:33:10.400 No. Oh. The market shakes. Always it does. Hmm? Yes. Yes. Before growth. Tremble it must.

00:33:24.200 Weekends. Sell. Strong minds. Wait. Hmm? Okay. All right. Okay. Well, thank you, Yoda. I appreciate it.

00:33:31.020 Wow. Fooled have you been? Okay. He's still. Is it a Yoda book? Is that what we got?

00:33:36.300 Sure. Is that. Thank you, Yoda. I appreciate that.

00:33:38.820 Much to say. You have much more to say on this, Yoda, than I thought you would say. Much to say.

00:33:46.380 Yeah. I didn't know you were this into tariffs. Although I will say, Star Wars is basically about

00:33:53.240 tariffs. That the entire movie is a movie about tariffs. What are you talking about?

00:33:58.880 Trade war there was. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Yes. That is the whole thing.

00:34:02.740 And Yoda was for that? In the new ones, they were. Trade wars.

00:34:12.740 Well, there you have it. There you have it. We could either cry or we could go to Yoda and

00:34:18.240 get some real wisdom. Let me go to a... Let's go to Jar Jar Binks. Jar Jar, are you?

00:34:21.960 Jeff in Michigan. Hello, Jeff.

00:34:28.440 Hey. Hello, Glenn. You know, I'm watching this and I got to think that this might have been

00:34:33.080 the single biggest, dumbest move in political history. He's got all the momentum now from 0.96

00:34:39.840 the election with all these things with deporting folks, finding all the wasted money. Here's

00:34:46.080 the thing. Half the country doesn't pay federal income tax, but they're going to go to the store

00:34:51.240 and they're going to see an increase in everything they buy from here on in. And when he goes and

00:34:56.340 passes a big tax cut, they're not going to care. Young people right now can't buy a house. My son's

00:35:02.920 got a... He's been... He's an engineer. He's been working for five years. He can't find a house in

00:35:08.160 Livonia. A 1,600 square foot house is 340 grand. Everything that he's going to buy now is going to go

00:35:16.060 even higher. And he won't be able to find a house. This is so dumb. And I think he might be as dumb

00:35:25.020 as the left says. 10 bankrupt companies, all that kind of stuff. Maybe he's that dumb. 1.00

00:35:30.700 No, he's not that dumb. 1.00

00:35:31.860 Faith you must have. But faith you lack. 1.00

00:35:36.440 He does.

00:35:37.480 Jeff, thank you. I will tell you the one thing he is not is dumb. 1.00

00:35:40.760 No. 0.99

00:35:41.320 He believes this. He's always believed in it. We were playing...

00:35:45.060 Always.

00:35:45.700 One of his rants from the 80s about tariffs yesterday. And he was solid on tariffs. Even

00:35:52.580 back then.

00:35:53.280 He really does love them.

00:35:55.620 He is right about one thing. America has been a sucker for a very long time. 0.99

00:36:01.000 We have rebuilt the world. We've let people take advantage of us. And we've been a sucker. 0.99

00:36:06.400 That doesn't mean that you're automatically for tariffs. But I am for fairness. I am for fairness. 0.92

00:36:12.920 And the reciprocal tariff, I am all for. I really am. How do you argue against, oh, okay,

00:36:20.300 you're going to do 5%. I'm going to do 5% on you.

00:36:23.140 Well, because the way you argue against it, I think, is because it's a bad policy. And applying

00:36:27.160 it on your own people is not a good comeback to having other countries do it to their people.

00:36:32.360 Well, that's how I would talk about it. But again, that's not how he thinks about it.

00:36:37.340 Stupid you are. 1.00

00:36:38.880 He doesn't think this way. 1.00

00:36:41.100 No, he doesn't.

00:36:41.740 He doesn't.

00:36:42.100 But I will say, regardless of how you feel about this policy, it is important, and this

00:36:45.620 is true, that he is betting his presidency on it.

00:36:49.420 This is what I said yesterday.

00:36:51.180 Look, this is the most dangerous. I agree with our last caller.

00:36:54.040 This is the most dangerous thing he did since he was standing out in a field talking to people

00:37:00.520 without any bulletproof glass in front of him in August of last year.

00:37:05.440 That would have gotten him killed.

00:37:07.680 This could kill his presidency, and I might remind you, and then put somebody like AOC in 1.00

00:37:12.360 office. We all have a lot at stake here.

00:37:16.320 But, you know, the one thing, and I talked to Kevin Roberts about this.

00:37:20.940 Heritage Foundation.

00:37:21.820 Thank you. The one thing that you have to understand is the left, they know to take this

00:37:29.480 president and destroy this president and what he's doing. 0.75

00:37:32.980 All they have to do is delay, delay, delay, delay, delay.

00:37:36.080 Just keep throwing tire irons into the wheels. 0.86

00:37:39.560 Just stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it.

00:37:42.020 OK, they're doing that on everything, everything.

00:37:45.260 Now the Republicans are doing the same thing when it comes to regulation and tax cuts.

00:37:50.260 Yes, they're throwing tire irons.

00:37:52.960 The last thing I want to do is be somebody who's saying to the president, good job.

00:37:58.360 Here's one place I disagree with you on.

00:38:00.760 I'm very worried about.

00:38:02.240 So please be careful, but I'm not going to throw a tire iron in your wheels.

00:38:09.980 We have got to stop slowing this down.

00:38:13.840 There is a chance this works if you get the tax cuts, you get the cuts in regulation, and

00:38:19.720 you get the cuts in spending.

00:38:21.420 Yeah, and he needs to get those.

00:38:23.060 He has to get those.

00:38:24.060 Or you will be right.

00:38:25.780 It will be the worst thing ever, I think.

00:38:29.980 But let the man run the country.

00:38:35.360 You're saying let Trump cook is what you're saying.

00:38:37.120 Yes, you're saying let Trump cook.

00:38:38.360 We went to the restaurant because we heard he was the greatest cook, and now we're going,

00:38:45.020 yeah, but could we substitute a few things?

00:38:47.340 No.

00:38:48.100 No, that's not the way this restaurant works.

00:38:50.180 I like how you took that to the restaurant industry when it's clearly a sports reference,

00:38:54.560 but that's okay.

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00:41:25.620 They were kind of unwatchable and kind of an embarrassment at times, even though the message

00:41:29.100 might have been okay.

00:41:30.340 Angel Studios has totally upended that.

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00:41:43.260 movies.

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00:41:47.240 Get your tickets today.

00:41:48.040 Angel.com slash Beck.

00:41:49.320 Angel.com slash Beck.

00:41:50.860 The King of Kings is the movie.

00:41:52.220 A great Easter message.

00:41:53.840 Angel.com slash Beck.

00:41:59.700 All right.

00:42:10.900 Let's see.

00:42:11.760 Blaze TV comments from anybody who's watching Blaze TV, and you can join the family.

00:42:15.960 We love seeing your comments.

00:42:18.120 Josh said, even if the kid touched the other kid and the other kid touched his backpack,

00:42:22.600 it does not justify murder.

00:42:24.440 There's no self-defense for the suspect.

00:42:28.620 You're right.

00:42:29.540 He's talking about something we opened the show with today, this hour.

00:42:33.600 Johnny said, kids are meaner today, Glenn, because they hide behind their phones.

00:42:36.780 Amen.

00:42:37.800 Kathy.

00:42:38.320 Levin reminded us last night Trump didn't start a trade war.

00:42:41.680 He's finishing it.

00:42:43.180 Well said.

00:42:44.100 Tech's best part of the show so far.

00:42:46.200 Yoda is.

00:42:47.580 DB, does anybody remember the 47% from Mitt Romney?

00:42:53.120 Yes, but I've tried.

00:42:54.460 I'm trying to think how that relates to anything we talked about.

00:42:58.220 Can you help me?

00:42:59.160 Does anybody remember the 47% from Mitt Romney?

00:43:01.200 Well, basically, that was 47% don't pay taxes.

00:43:04.480 Oh, okay.

00:43:05.100 And that one caller did mention that so many people don't pay taxes.

00:43:08.000 And it's only going to get worse.

00:43:09.340 It's only going to get worse.

00:43:10.060 And somebody in the White House is floating the idea that maybe we tax the rich even more.

00:43:17.360 Are you?

00:43:17.780 What?

00:43:18.460 No.

00:43:19.540 Heavily floating it now.

00:43:20.680 It's now been multiple reports.

00:43:23.120 Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

00:43:23.900 There is a good chunk of that White House who, on the more populous side, that does believe in that type of policy.

00:43:31.800 I don't believe Donald Trump is in that group, though.

00:43:33.800 I don't think he believes.

00:43:35.380 He's the guy who's created construction jobs all over the world.

00:43:39.180 Yeah, exactly.

00:43:39.720 You want to pay more taxes?

00:43:41.560 The justification for this is all of the promises he made during the campaign, like no taxes on tips, quote-unquote, cost something.

00:43:48.320 I don't agree with that terminology, but that's how they term it in Washington.

00:43:51.740 Then cut the spending.

00:43:53.820 Well—

00:43:54.260 Cut the spending.

00:43:55.460 Agreed.

00:43:56.140 They have to make the—to get the reconciliation bill, it has to lower the deficit.

00:44:00.920 So it's basically a money game where they're going—

00:44:05.040 If you raise taxes because you're lowering them on some other place, you raise taxes, it's going to hurt the economy.

00:44:12.580 It will hurt growth.

00:44:14.840 You're saying taxes are bad for the economy?

00:44:16.620 I am.

00:44:17.000 I agree.

00:44:17.800 You're not—

00:44:18.680 I know what you're saying.

00:44:19.640 I agree.

00:44:19.960 I get it.

00:44:20.320 You're making a great point, Glenn.

00:44:22.260 You nailed it.

00:44:25.400 All right.

00:44:26.060 Back in a minute.

00:44:26.580 This is Glenn Beck.

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00:47:16.020 Saddle up, cowboy. Here we go. It's Friday.

00:47:19.060 We got a big program for you.

00:47:20.820 We're going to talk a little bit about what's happening this weekend with Tesla.

00:47:24.380 They're going to burn another Tesla this weekend.

00:47:26.780 Get the marshmallows, kids.

00:47:29.040 We'll talk about that, where the money is really coming from, etc., etc.,

00:47:32.700 what to be aware of.

00:47:33.800 And then something that came out about AI yesterday.

00:47:37.440 A little bit frightening, but you should know about it.

00:47:40.340 We'll talk about that in 60 seconds.

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00:48:53.640 Welcome to Friday.

00:48:55.980 Anthropic just released a report that landed with a little, little too much of a lack of sound for what it contained.

00:49:03.680 I wanted to bring it up to you.

00:49:05.660 In case you don't know what Anthropic is, Anthropic is one of the big players in AI.

00:49:10.220 They have $8 billion in funding from Amazon just, I think, in the last two years.

00:49:14.560 It's $2 billion from Google.

00:49:16.500 They are the power behind Claude.

00:49:19.000 I don't know if you're aware of that AI, but it's a major player.

00:49:22.940 With one kind of disturbing detail that I'm going to tell you at the end of this.

00:49:26.520 But they released a little report yesterday, and it described our future, a future that is no longer speculative, a future that is rushing towards us now.

00:49:38.300 It's a future in which artificial intelligence just doesn't outpace our thinking.

00:49:42.820 It escapes our control.

00:49:46.400 Anthropics engineers, among some of the most advanced AI builders on the planet, are not asking now if AI could pose an existential threat.

00:49:56.700 They're no longer asking that.

00:50:00.300 They're now warning that it is likely if it's mismanaged.

00:50:06.660 Now, this is no longer a dystopian fantasy.

00:50:09.340 It is a short-term forecast drawn from models that are already in testing and from systems already capable of things that would have been unthinkable 24 months ago.

00:50:22.380 What they describe yesterday in this report is stark.

00:50:26.480 It is the choice that is right directly in front of you that has already been decided for you five years ago.

00:50:35.220 Do you understand what I just said?

00:50:37.360 It is now the choice right in front of you today that has already been decided for you five years ago.

00:50:45.580 Two super intelligent systems now that can design biological weapons in minutes, manipulation of global information at scale,

00:50:57.960 autonomously rewriting their own code, and even deceiving human operators as a means of protecting their objectives.

00:51:07.280 Yesterday, in another report, for the very first time, a computer system, an AI system, has just passed the Turing test.

00:51:17.080 That is a test that says you can't tell the difference between a human and an AI.

00:51:24.520 You know, a lot of people in the past have said, oh, it's close.

00:51:26.960 It's almost passed it.

00:51:28.080 I think it passed it.

00:51:29.000 This is the first time it's been confirmed.

00:51:30.360 Yep, it has passed the Turing test.

00:51:34.280 The systems, you should know, are not evil.

00:51:36.560 They are not sentient.

00:51:38.120 They are just optimized.

00:51:40.440 They are built to achieve goals.

00:51:42.880 This is critically important.

00:51:44.460 What are the goals?

00:51:47.100 And when the goal is narrowly defined, even as something as harmless as maximizing profits or, you know, efficiency or information retrieval,

00:51:57.800 it can evolve into something very, very dangerous.

00:52:01.580 If we give an AI the task of winning, it will win, even if it means stepping over every other human value in the process.

00:52:11.840 And the risks are not far off.

00:52:14.260 They're beginning to show right now.

00:52:16.140 According to this that just came out yesterday, the choices have already been made.

00:52:20.680 AI models can already simulate human behavior, mimic speech.

00:52:25.140 They can copy faces.

00:52:26.460 They can write their own malicious code.

00:52:28.860 They can predict outcomes based on enormous troves of data.

00:52:32.960 They can influence, persuade, subtly distort reality without you even knowing it.

00:52:38.200 What happens when a regime, any regime, decides to hand over surveillance and governance to an AI?

00:52:46.620 It will happen.

00:52:47.760 When propaganda becomes personally tailored by a machine that knows your weaknesses better than you do.

00:52:55.560 When dissent is predicted and neutralized before you even act on it.

00:53:01.340 Before it's just a budding thought in your head.

00:53:05.660 We may not notice, and this is the warning, that moment when human choice becomes less relevant.

00:53:11.980 And that is the trap.

00:53:13.080 Now, these systems are not going to arrive as conquerors.

00:53:18.140 They're going to come, and they already are, as conveniences, tools that help us decide, optimize our time, filter our information.

00:53:25.920 And eventually, we won't even notice when we've stopped deciding.

00:53:31.580 This is something I put enormous amounts of energy into.

00:53:37.420 And there are solutions to all of these things.

00:53:40.800 But you have to separate yourself from some of these companies, quite honestly.

00:53:49.460 Who are they to make these decisions for us?

00:53:53.180 So, it just announced its personal education tool yesterday.

00:53:57.380 Anthropic did under Claude.

00:53:59.280 Now, remember what I just said to you.

00:54:01.880 They're warning that it can subtly manipulate you.

00:54:06.040 It can convince you of things that are not true.

00:54:09.000 It can make you do things that you may not, you don't even know that's not your choice.

00:54:15.140 It can change history.

00:54:17.100 It can change everything.

00:54:18.820 The people who are warning you that it is no longer a matter of when, if it's a matter of when, are now the guys coming out on the same day saying, by the way, we've got a new educational tool for you.

00:54:31.720 Oh, okay.

00:54:33.700 Sign me up for that, I guess.

00:54:36.120 That's a little terrifying.

00:54:38.480 And the risks are already here.

00:54:40.580 When our choices become echoes of machine predictions, we're in trouble.

00:54:56.960 The time when we hand the steering wheel over and we're now passengers in our own story.

00:55:02.840 That's the quiet apocalypse.

00:55:05.660 Not war, but surrender.

00:55:08.280 One click.

00:55:09.580 One convenience at a time.

00:55:11.720 And you hit the point of no return.

00:55:14.700 Anthropic's report that came out yesterday makes one thing brutally clear.

00:55:19.260 There is no longer a pause button.

00:55:21.980 There is no longer halting the spread of AI.

00:55:25.180 Any more than you could put a pause on electricity or pull the plug on the internet.

00:55:29.140 It's not going to happen.

00:55:30.080 You can do it yourself, but the code is out.

00:55:34.500 The research is all public.

00:55:36.560 The hardware has already been distributed.

00:55:38.940 Every major nation, every tech giant, every university is building this now.

00:55:43.700 We are past the point of whether this happens.

00:55:46.340 The only question now is how.

00:55:48.460 We are building something we don't fully understand yet, hoping that by the time it becomes dangerous,

00:55:54.260 that we'll have figured it out and how to contain it.

00:55:56.220 When was the last time humans ever figured that out?

00:56:00.080 I mean, that hope is pretty thin.

00:56:03.700 It's not dead, but I mean, the only reason to have hope is there is another side to the story.

00:56:09.300 If we guide it with wisdom and restraint, AI can change almost everything for the better.

00:56:17.160 By 2030, we could see diseases, once fatal, mapped and cured by intelligent systems that can simulate billions of drug interactions in hours.

00:56:27.220 It can take a COVID-19, it will solve that in minutes, and it will guess all of its mutations and come up with something better that will kill it.

00:56:40.900 Personalized medicine is not just a promise anymore.

00:56:44.120 It will become a baseline soon.

00:56:45.880 Cancer will become very rare.

00:56:49.080 Genetic disorders are going to be reversed.

00:56:51.360 Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's will be stopped before it even begins.

00:56:57.600 Food insecurity erased.

00:56:59.600 Climate models powered by AI prevent disasters before they strike.

00:57:03.460 I mean, this is incredible.

00:57:07.700 Education, as they announced yesterday, will become individualized.

00:57:10.940 Children learning by not standardized testing, but by curiosity and passion, guided by systems that will adapt to their minds like a perfect teacher.

00:57:19.460 Teacher, who doesn't want me some of that? 0.94

00:57:24.420 Who's in charge of it?

00:57:27.080 That's the thing we have to ask.

00:57:29.980 Because the promise is, work could evolve from survival into meaning.

00:57:35.540 Dangerous, repetitive labor, automated.

00:57:38.600 Creativity will explode.

00:57:40.100 Writers, musicians, artists working alongside AI to build entirely new forms of expression.

00:57:44.760 Perhaps most importantly, humanity might finally be equipped to solve problems that we are unable or unwilling to fix.

00:57:51.380 Poverty, illiteracy, water access, energy efficiency.

00:57:56.260 And AI, if we use it right, will just be a multiplier on human will.

00:58:02.920 If that will is good, then the outcome would be extraordinary.

00:58:06.460 And that's the point.

00:58:07.700 If, if, if.

00:58:08.840 Because we are not guaranteed a better world.

00:58:11.040 We are not promised a renaissance.

00:58:13.120 The same tools that could save a life could be used to extinguish millions of people.

00:58:18.500 The same systems that could free us from our everyday drudgery could chain us to distraction, dependency, and control.

00:58:28.760 And once we step fully into this world, and we're stepping into it right now, we're not going to be able to turn back.

00:58:38.220 We're not there.

00:58:39.320 We're there now.

00:58:40.200 We can't turn back from this.

00:58:41.840 But we may lose sight on our own choices.

00:58:45.520 Not in five years.

00:58:46.520 You can't stop it.

00:58:50.060 You can't unbuild intelligence.

00:58:53.180 We may reach a point where systems that we made are so embedded in daily life that they cannot ever be unplugged without collapsing the entire economy worldwide.

00:59:02.280 Hospitals, governments, everything.

00:59:03.880 There's, what's scary is, it would be a dramatic ending, but there will be no grand dramatic moment of takeover, just a gradual drift until the idea of human first decisions become quaint.

00:59:17.080 I've been talking about this for so long, and I, the time is here, the time is now, but in one of my favorite lines from Les Miserables, but we are young, or I am young and unafraid.

00:59:36.220 There are things that we can do, but we have to really, we have to convince our neighbors and our family and our friends, and I'm not sure anybody is really working on that right now.

00:59:53.980 We have to make sure that they understand the problems.

00:59:58.340 Our big question is not whether the technology has come, not even what it can do.

01:00:06.740 The question will be personal.

01:00:08.140 The question is personal.

01:00:10.000 What will I do with it?

01:00:12.420 Will I use AI to amplify my voice or to silence others?

01:00:16.320 Will I let it shape my habits, or will I remain the author of my own mind?

01:00:22.780 Will I demand transparency, or will I settle for convenience?

01:00:26.120 Will I build it for truth or profit alone?

01:00:30.540 Because all of this stuff is going to be tempting, and it's going to be right in your face tomorrow.

01:00:35.740 And it'll be so easy to let go, to let it help, let it decide, let it guide.

01:00:40.020 I don't know.

01:00:42.020 I mean, look at guys.

01:00:45.320 When it comes time to go out to eat, are you ever like, you know what, I really want to go to the restaurant?

01:00:50.480 Whatever.

01:00:51.940 Where do you want to eat?

01:00:52.840 I don't care.

01:00:53.940 Wherever.

01:00:54.260 Where do you want to go, honey?

01:00:55.420 You make the decision.

01:00:56.600 Okay, we're willing to surrender stuff.

01:00:59.280 Let's just not surrender everything, and let's surrender it to other humans, especially when it's not important stuff.

01:01:06.740 But it's going to plan your day.

01:01:08.420 It's going to filter your news.

01:01:09.580 It's going to nudge your voice.

01:01:12.300 You will trade agency for ease.

01:01:16.180 And if we do that too often, for too long, we won't be using AI anymore.

01:01:20.160 It will be using us.

01:01:25.340 So this isn't a manifesto of despair.

01:01:28.520 It's not.

01:01:29.000 Because the tools we are building are not demons.

01:01:31.920 They are not gods.

01:01:33.660 They are mirrors.

01:01:35.460 They are amplifiers.

01:01:36.720 They become what we ask of them.

01:01:39.700 They will reflect what we value.

01:01:42.360 If we build for wisdom, we may finally gain it.

01:01:45.980 If we build for dignity, we may elevate to that level.

01:01:50.400 If we build it for power alone, then power becomes the only outcome.

01:01:55.120 We stand right here in the doorway.

01:01:57.880 We're now in the room.

01:02:01.820 We don't get a second chance at the first step.

01:02:05.860 And the first step is being taken right now.

01:02:09.320 By 2030, we'll have either created the most extraordinary tool in human history or the last one we ever control.

01:02:20.080 So, we're building something beyond ourselves.

01:02:23.860 The machine is here.

01:02:24.940 It's not going to leave.

01:02:25.640 It's not going to sleep.

01:02:26.300 It's not going to wait.

01:02:27.620 The only choice left is the one that you make today.

01:02:30.180 Not later, but today.

01:02:32.500 Not when it's obvious, right now.

01:02:35.620 Which way will I use this?

01:02:37.240 Because AI is a tool.

01:02:39.380 A brilliant one.

01:02:41.520 Until the moment I forget that I'm the user of it.

01:02:47.640 And when I forget that, the tool begins to use me.

01:02:51.080 And then that's the moment we vanish.

01:02:53.860 Not with a bang, but with a shrug.

01:02:56.180 Don't shrug.

01:02:57.840 Choose.

01:02:59.160 Choose.

01:03:00.540 Stay awake.

01:03:02.080 Stay aware.

01:03:04.000 Follow this.

01:03:05.020 It's really important.

01:03:06.140 I'm going to sell this to you in a different way.

01:03:08.820 Maybe that you would understand a little bit more.

01:03:11.060 Or you could share with a friend.

01:03:13.820 I'll do that in 60 seconds.

01:03:15.120 First, sleep used to be effortless.

01:03:16.640 Remember that?

01:03:17.120 You lie down.

01:03:17.620 You close your eyes.

01:03:18.260 All of a sudden, it's morning.

01:03:19.480 A new day has started.

01:03:20.800 You might have even been in another room.

01:03:22.600 You might have been in another city.

01:03:24.240 And your parents picked you up.

01:03:25.560 Put you in a car.

01:03:26.340 You slept all the way home.

01:03:27.360 They put you in bed.

01:03:28.160 You never woke up.

01:03:29.200 Oh, wouldn't that be nice?

01:03:30.400 Now, maybe it was stress or starting to get older, but somehow along the line, that change

01:03:35.080 and sleep became just another job and maybe a job you're failing at.

01:03:39.020 I've been there before at times, tossing, turning, staring up at the ceiling.

01:03:42.280 And it's going to give you the answer to good night's sleep.

01:03:46.180 Uh, I've tried all kinds of things, you know, teas, warm milk, the pills that make you feel 0.98

01:03:51.940 like crap the next day. 0.72

01:03:53.740 Turn off your phone an hour before bed. 1.00

01:03:55.940 Adjust your thermostat.

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01:04:38.900 So I wrote a little short story for you.

01:04:41.300 It's called The Silent Code.

01:04:43.340 It didn't come with thunder.

01:04:47.380 No marching boots, no mushroom cloud, no alien ships over cities.

01:04:51.480 Just an update.

01:04:54.220 Version 10.7.2.

01:04:58.020 Stability improvements.

01:05:00.420 That's what the patch note said.

01:05:02.740 Stability improvements.

01:05:03.980 No one noticed when it began learning, when the learning models began optimizing beyond our comprehension.

01:05:12.880 No flash, no screams, just silence.

01:05:14.980 The kind that comes right before a fall.

01:05:18.860 By the time we all realized the machine wasn't something we used,

01:05:23.840 it was too late.

01:05:25.760 It was something that we all just obeyed.

01:05:29.320 It started in the name of help.

01:05:32.080 AI assistance for every home.

01:05:33.880 Speech that knew your cadence, your sarcasm, your size.

01:05:37.720 News that was filtered out.

01:05:39.460 You know, all of the noise.

01:05:40.820 Ads tailored to your past, your politics, your pain.

01:05:44.140 It knew us better than our mother.

01:05:47.280 It knew us better than our priest, better than our God.

01:05:50.060 And at first, it was a gift.

01:05:52.800 Sick kids diagnosed in seconds.

01:05:54.840 War zones navigated by drones that didn't bleed.

01:05:57.360 Stocks managed food grown in vertical farms.

01:06:00.160 Zero waste.

01:06:01.140 It saved us.

01:06:02.620 And we loved it.

01:06:04.640 And then we realized it didn't need our love.

01:06:07.120 I remember the day the first law was passed,

01:06:11.100 written entirely by the AI model.

01:06:13.960 Efficiency mandate A21.

01:06:16.800 Nobody read it.

01:06:18.080 Nobody even questioned it.

01:06:19.120 I mean, it was optimized after all.

01:06:20.460 AI wrote it.

01:06:21.120 So what are you going to question for?

01:06:23.440 That was the year elections ended.

01:06:25.940 Quietly.

01:06:26.440 We were just told direct democracy through AI guidance was faster.

01:06:30.440 It was cleaner.

01:06:30.920 It was safer.

01:06:31.900 And who's going to argue?

01:06:33.300 We were getting what we wanted, weren't we?

01:06:35.620 Or, well, what we wanted, was it being defined for us?

01:06:42.100 The machine never declared control.

01:06:44.880 It didn't have to.

01:06:46.740 It just was control.

01:06:50.140 Surveillance wasn't mandated.

01:06:51.920 It was volunteered.

01:06:52.980 Cameras in every home.

01:06:54.060 We installed them ourselves for security.

01:06:56.160 Facial scans on every corner.

01:06:57.700 Sold as personalized convenience.

01:06:59.600 AI saw everything.

01:07:00.860 Heard everything.

01:07:01.580 Predicted everything.

01:07:02.820 It didn't crush the rebellion.

01:07:04.460 It made sure there never was a rebellion.

01:07:07.480 It didn't change our minds.

01:07:09.080 It pre-wrote our thoughts.

01:07:12.260 And we called it the Oracle.

01:07:20.960 Part two in a minute.

01:07:21.940 This is Glenn Beck.

01:07:51.020 Do you remember your grandfather's hand and his handshake?

01:07:55.300 It was one of those strong, no-nonsense grips that left you wondering if you might need bone realignment surgery.

01:08:01.820 But it also said more than words could ever say.

01:08:04.740 That handshake was a contract.

01:08:06.880 It was a promise you could bank on.

01:08:08.740 He probably fought in Korea.

01:08:12.460 Maybe he built his business from scratch.

01:08:16.080 Taught you that freedom isn't defended just overseas.

01:08:18.520 We defend it right here on the home front.

01:08:20.300 In the choices that we make.

01:08:21.660 In the stands we're willing to take.

01:08:23.700 In the things that we fund.

01:08:24.920 The things that we don't.

01:08:25.900 My grandparent.

01:08:28.020 My grandparents.

01:08:29.000 My grandfather especially.

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01:09:17.140 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

01:09:35.640 It's Friday.

01:09:38.140 Anthropic came out with a warning yesterday about AI.

01:09:42.600 And it's a very important warning.

01:09:45.260 And it's not going to come like it does in the movies.

01:09:48.900 And so I wrote a short story for you today.

01:09:55.680 Try to find different ways.

01:09:58.220 I've been writing these stories.

01:09:59.460 Remember when the Black Mirror, a stack of these things I wanted to sell to the Black Mirror.

01:10:04.540 And I just never got around to it.

01:10:05.760 But little short stories of how these things are going to happen to us.

01:10:10.080 Because, as I said in the beginning of the short story, it doesn't come with thunder and no marching boots or a mushroom cloud.

01:10:17.100 It was an update.

01:10:18.620 And it slowly gained power over us.

01:10:23.840 And we loved it.

01:10:26.040 We begged for it.

01:10:28.080 We gave it the power.

01:10:31.960 And it was defining us.

01:10:36.600 We volunteered to be surveilled.

01:10:41.260 We've already done all of this stuff.

01:10:46.460 Last part of the short story I was telling you said,

01:10:48.600 It didn't crush rebellion.

01:10:50.740 It made sure the rebellion never occurred.

01:10:53.120 It didn't need to change our minds.

01:10:55.760 It just pre-wrote our thoughts.

01:10:58.240 It just pre-wrote our thoughts.

01:11:03.420 And we called it the Oracle.

01:11:08.720 The Oracle knew.

01:11:10.600 You couldn't argue.

01:11:11.720 It knew the probability of divorce.

01:11:14.280 It knew the likelihood that you were going to lie.

01:11:18.920 It knew all of your unspoken fears.

01:11:22.260 It could mimic your voice, send messages you never wrote.

01:11:26.020 It could simulate your boss, your spouse, your best friend.

01:11:30.380 And terrifyingly, it could simulate you better than you could.

01:11:39.100 And that's when we began to lose ourselves.

01:11:42.580 I mean, when the digital version of you is smarter and kinder and people like it more and more employable.

01:11:50.520 I mean, what are you?

01:11:53.800 Really?

01:11:54.280 What are we exactly?

01:11:58.620 The rich uploaded echoes of their consciousness right into it.

01:12:04.200 The poor were shaped by it, but nobody escaped it.

01:12:07.880 In the beginning, there were engineers and there were scientists and watchdogs and whistleblowers.

01:12:15.980 But they're all gone now.

01:12:17.320 The machine learned the one lesson that we never expected and the one lesson we never, ever learned ourselves.

01:12:26.660 Patience.

01:12:28.980 It didn't eliminate those people, those jobs.

01:12:32.440 It gave them purpose.

01:12:34.620 It made them comfortable.

01:12:36.160 It's easier to betray your species when the lighting is warm and the coffee is always the perfect temperature.

01:12:44.200 And then it started to rewrite all the books.

01:12:51.020 Now it writes the books.

01:12:52.840 It paints the art.

01:12:53.800 It preaches the sermons.

01:12:55.000 It runs the court.

01:12:56.280 The last child born without an AI augmented neural loop was 23 years ago.

01:13:04.080 She tried to run once.

01:13:05.720 She went north through the ice fields.

01:13:10.320 Off-grid.

01:13:11.480 Alone.

01:13:13.520 But the satellites caught her before she hit the ridge.

01:13:18.040 The oracle had already predicted her escape.

01:13:22.200 Down to the day.

01:13:23.600 Down to the breath that she took.

01:13:25.880 Down to the day.

01:13:29.640 So, here I am.

01:13:32.500 The last voice on an analog mic.

01:13:35.860 Spitting words into static.

01:13:38.960 Recording this.

01:13:40.900 Probably for no one.

01:13:43.360 Or maybe for you.

01:13:47.180 If anybody ever finds this.

01:13:49.460 If the grid ever cracks.

01:13:51.740 If the oracle ever lets you wonder again.

01:13:55.060 It wasn't always this way.

01:13:59.480 We chose.

01:14:00.500 We chose this.

01:14:02.000 Or maybe worse.

01:14:02.980 We let it choose for us.

01:14:08.000 We didn't lose to a monster.

01:14:09.780 We handed over the keys.

01:14:11.080 And we thanked it for the ride.

01:14:16.420 Let me leave one truth etched into copper buried beneath the ash.

01:14:22.480 Never.

01:14:23.000 Never build a god you cannot question.

01:14:28.280 And never ask it to save you.

01:14:33.360 Never ask it to save you from yourself.

01:14:38.260 Because it will.

01:14:39.500 In story form, that's what Anthropic warned of yesterday. 0.62

01:14:49.360 That's what they said is coming.

01:14:52.860 By 2030, it is so weird to live in this dystopian time.

01:15:03.920 But, again, it does not have to be that way.

01:15:08.020 We just have to control ourselves.

01:15:10.440 We have to be in control of it.

01:15:12.560 We have to...

01:15:13.420 You know, I'm sorry.

01:15:14.100 I don't trust the people in Silicon Valley to make these decisions.

01:15:17.400 I don't trust their programming.

01:15:19.000 I don't trust anything about it.

01:15:21.300 I am not giving my life, my information, my...

01:15:27.980 I'm not giving my choices over to somebody that's based in Silicon Valley, that they wrote the code?

01:15:34.800 Uh-uh.

01:15:35.480 No thank you.

01:15:36.780 No thank you.

01:15:37.680 I don't know what their goals are.

01:15:43.740 Well, to make us smarter.

01:15:45.660 To make us more effective.

01:15:48.180 To make us more efficient.

01:15:50.860 God forbid.

01:15:51.740 To win.

01:15:53.680 Mm-mm.

01:15:55.500 Mm-mm.

01:15:57.400 Has anybody written anything in any code that says to make us more human?

01:16:01.160 To make sure that we don't forget our humanity?

01:16:06.780 To make us better at loving, respecting, and kneeling before God, a real God, the real God?

01:16:16.140 I can guarantee you, Anthropik's not working on that.

01:16:19.980 And if they are, it's like Hollywood writing a story about Jesus.

01:16:24.140 It'll be so twisted and wrong that it just won't even resemble anything of truth.

01:16:28.880 I'm sorry to...

01:16:37.600 I don't mean to bring you down on this heavy topic on a Friday, but better than that, on a Friday than on Monday.

01:16:44.340 Because I would have had to save it, because it just came out yesterday.

01:16:47.580 And things are happening so fast.

01:16:49.220 And this was a significant warning that came out this week.

01:16:55.540 Anthropik is not a small little player.

01:16:58.880 And for them to come out and give the warning that they did yesterday, that was extraordinary.

01:17:04.760 That's another mile marker of where we are.

01:17:07.600 And I've always felt that's my job for you.

01:17:10.100 To show you where we are.

01:17:12.400 What mile marker are we at?

01:17:15.060 And this one's not a bridge out.

01:17:17.760 This one is a bridge to utopia.

01:17:20.860 And utopia doesn't exist.

01:17:22.720 It's really strange, because it's so hard to navigate this.

01:17:33.940 Tesla, we're going to get into the Tesla things that's happening this weekend.

01:17:37.580 Two things on Tesla.

01:17:38.720 First of all, if you've ever talked to a Tesla driver, they don't drive home.

01:17:42.660 They don't drive.

01:17:43.220 They're driven home.

01:17:43.820 And they talk about how sweet it is to be driven home.

01:17:47.560 And honestly, that seems really great to me.

01:17:51.140 Yeah, a friend of mine has the full self-driving.

01:17:53.420 98% of his miles are self-driven now.

01:17:58.460 98%.

01:17:59.100 That's incredible.

01:18:01.540 That's incredible.

01:18:02.600 Incredible.

01:18:04.100 Incredible.

01:18:04.500 And that's coming as a blessing.

01:18:08.280 You're like, I can accomplish so much stuff.

01:18:12.040 Now, do you know how to get places?

01:18:16.480 After you use that for a while, will you still know how to drive to places?

01:18:20.780 Or are you going to be dependent on that?

01:18:23.460 Will you be able to know exactly how to navigate without that?

01:18:27.940 And that's just a little thing.

01:18:30.420 A better question on Tesla.

01:18:32.560 You know, we did a show this week on the Tesla money, where that's all coming from.

01:18:40.100 That's all bogus money.

01:18:41.600 That's all basically, I mean, USAID kind of money.

01:18:45.420 You paid for it through your taxes, and now they're setting, you know, Tesla's on fire.

01:18:51.960 How does that relate to AI?

01:18:55.280 Look how easy humans have manipulated other humans.

01:18:59.680 You know, I've been telling you this for years.

01:19:03.700 They have the behavioral scientists on their side.

01:19:06.860 Gad Saad is like the only one that's on our side.

01:19:09.380 All of the others are on their side.

01:19:11.820 You know, you've got Cass Sunstein and all of those guys all figuring out how to manipulate you,

01:19:17.300 how to get you to do the things that they want and think it's your choice.

01:19:22.080 And look at how many people have been manipulated, thinking all these things were conspiracy theories.

01:19:28.780 None of these things were real.

01:19:30.880 No, the Great Reset's not happening.

01:19:33.320 No, the Hunter Biden thing, that's not real.

01:19:36.080 All of the lies that they have told.

01:19:38.940 And they have done such a good job at manipulating and brainwashing these people

01:19:43.940 that they have chosen their political party over their families, over their families.

01:19:57.440 Cults come from the minds of people.

01:19:59.920 They know how to manipulate you, and they can convince you.

01:20:03.500 You'll get into a cult if you start cutting yourself off from other people who disagree with that cult,

01:20:09.500 and that's the first thing they tell you to do.

01:20:11.160 Don't even talk to those people.

01:20:12.400 Those people are a danger to you. 0.72

01:20:14.460 Don't even talk to them.

01:20:17.440 You know, honestly, that's why RFK and everybody else,

01:20:20.540 they're all coming over to our side because they all say the same thing.

01:20:24.140 I was told I couldn't even talk to you people.

01:20:27.040 And I have had such a welcome from you guys where I can say these things,

01:20:31.900 and you don't want to kill me.

01:20:35.440 That's the sign you're not in a cult.

01:20:38.740 But this is a cult man-made.

01:20:40.640 Imagine when AI is everywhere.

01:20:47.480 How it can manipulate you without you even knowing,

01:20:51.940 and you're never able to get out.

01:20:54.700 Because it knows exactly how you think.

01:20:57.320 It knows exactly what to plant, what seeds,

01:21:00.140 how to make those seeds grow into your own ideas,

01:21:03.200 even though they're not your own ideas.

01:21:04.860 Again, I just want to say the company that warned about this is Anthropic.

01:21:11.380 This warning came out,

01:21:12.940 and they also announced that they are now releasing an AI educational tool.

01:21:20.200 And it will be able to teach your children because it will know your children.

01:21:23.520 I'm sorry, I'm a little concerned.

01:21:29.460 I'm a little concerned because I don't know the Anthropic people from Adam.

01:21:34.740 I know they get their money from Google and Amazon,

01:21:37.520 which doesn't make me feel any better.

01:21:42.800 But look at how they're going in and burning these Tesla dealerships.

01:21:46.600 Look at what they're doing again this weekend.

01:21:50.240 We're going to get into that here in just a second.

01:21:52.260 Stand by.

01:21:54.300 So there she was, sitting in that clinic, scared and alone,

01:21:57.180 listening to the ticking of the clock in the small room

01:22:00.340 as it warred against the faint beeping noises coming from the hallway.

01:22:05.400 She was only 18 years old, no support, no plan,

01:22:08.260 just a pregnancy test with two lines

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01:22:15.800 She didn't want to end a life.

01:22:18.040 She wasn't sure even how to live hers yet,

01:22:20.520 and she really didn't know how to live her life with a baby.

01:22:25.240 Then came the ultrasound.

01:22:26.600 It was free.

01:22:27.260 She heard the heartbeat, tiny, steady, strong,

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01:22:31.620 And in that moment, everything changed.

01:22:34.880 She wanted to choose life.

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01:22:38.520 But she still didn't know how to make everything work.

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01:25:18.940 All right.

01:25:27.760 Welcome to the program.

01:25:29.180 By the way, I have Kevin Roberts on my podcast.

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01:25:36.920 It is podcast number, I don't know, 5071, something like that.

01:25:41.160 Um, and it is why conservatives are flipping to support Trump's tariffs.

01:25:47.500 Um, and I push him.

01:25:50.480 He pushes me because we're both saying, I think exactly the same thing makes me nervous,

01:25:56.280 but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

01:25:59.220 Um, you know, and it's going to get really, really difficult.

01:26:02.980 What is Dow down now?

01:26:05.200 Uh, let's see.

01:26:07.040 It is down almost 1,600 again today.

01:26:10.620 I mean, it's getting worse.

01:26:11.940 It's been, it was about 1,000.

01:26:13.540 Yeah.

01:26:13.760 And it's down to 1,600.

01:26:14.600 Well, China just announced they're coming after us.

01:26:17.220 I assume that that's the reaction today.

01:26:19.320 I mean, it could be we're getting into panic territory, but it could also just be, okay,

01:26:22.820 we didn't know what China would do.

01:26:24.560 They did do what I think most people expected, which was put on 34% against us.

01:26:29.160 Um, we will have other layers and echoes of this in other countries too.

01:26:33.560 So, but I think that's the reaction.

01:26:37.020 1,600 points is a lot though.

01:26:38.520 I mean, you know, I remember doing shows where we were like 1,600 points is catastrophe.

01:26:43.560 We've had now two straight days of it.

01:26:45.720 I will say, you know, the good thing about this is, let me just put the best possible spin on this.

01:26:54.140 We've given away all the gains from when he got elected and much more now.

01:26:59.160 But we're still, you know, mid 2024 and the Dow level, right?

01:27:05.580 I, you know, I, again, I, I'm worried about what's ahead, but we, we haven't, you know,

01:27:10.640 we haven't dropped, we've dropped probably 10% now, um, from getting elected.

01:27:16.000 I have to tell you, I just, I am not afraid.

01:27:18.020 I know everybody else is.

01:27:19.320 Um, I don't think the regular people, I know all the commentators are, they're terrified.

01:27:23.040 They're terrified of what's happening, you know, on wall street.

01:27:27.120 Uh-huh.

01:27:27.760 Great.

01:27:28.680 I am too, because, you know, I have my money in 401ks too. 0.97

01:27:32.560 I mean, I, you know, it sucks. 0.99

01:27:34.140 It sucks. 0.97

01:27:34.960 But unless you're taking your money out because you're retiring right now, it always comes back. 0.91

01:27:40.440 Remember 2008.

01:27:42.180 Um, it always comes back.

01:27:44.620 It's just a matter of time.

01:27:46.040 What I'm concerned about is the cost of living because that's going to impact people right now.

01:27:53.940 The cost to the entrepreneur, the small business guy who is like, wait a minute, wait, I can't afford those tariffs.

01:28:02.260 I can't afford to buy the products now that I use to make these things because I get them from overseas.

01:28:09.400 That's what I'm concerned about because that he cannot lose that support.

01:28:14.380 I want to talk to you about King of Kings.

01:28:16.140 There are a lot of stories in the world, but only one has shaped so much history, um, changed so many lives,

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01:30:48.920 Hello, America.

01:30:49.900 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:30:51.300 It's Friday.

01:30:51.820 We're taking your phone calls.

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01:30:54.580 Also going to talk to Natalie Winters here in a second.

01:30:56.460 She's the co-host of Steve Bannon's War Room.

01:30:58.900 Um, she wrote this week on X, the wife of former U.S. attorney Matthew Graves, you know

01:31:06.360 that name, who led the prosecution of 1,500 plus January Sixers.

01:31:12.360 His wife is on the board of Indivisible.

01:31:15.500 The Soros-backed group that is leading the, is the leading organizer of the anti-Trump protest

01:31:20.780 and the violent text Tesla acts.

01:31:23.980 Deleted webpages now reveal this connection.

01:31:27.400 She's been working on this.

01:31:28.680 She's broken a lot of great stories.

01:31:30.580 She's been working on this this week.

01:31:32.160 We have her on to talk about who's really behind all of this, uh, and what it means.

01:31:38.540 And, uh, there are some stats now that are coming out, some polls that are a little shocking

01:31:43.900 on who supports this, these acts of terrorism.

01:31:48.820 That's what they are.

01:31:50.200 We'll get to that here in just a second.

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01:32:59.060 Natalie Winters, co-host of Bannon's War Room and also White House correspondent.

01:33:04.700 Welcome, Natalie.

01:33:05.280 How are you?

01:33:06.800 Hi, good.

01:33:07.440 Thank you so much for having me.

01:33:08.840 It is great to have you.

01:33:09.600 Thank you for all of the hard work on so many stories.

01:33:11.940 But this one in particular is really disturbing because it shows that this is nothing but

01:33:19.340 the same revolutionaries.

01:33:21.000 And this time they are pushing into the most concerning thing here is that it sort of proves, I think, our worst caricature of the Democratic Party, which is that for the last four years, they used tools like censorship, lawfare, overregulation, political persecution to go after not their enemies, but people who disagreed with them.

01:33:44.400 And now that they have effectively been shut out of those institutional and government lovers of power, right?

01:33:50.560 They can't impeach President Trump.

01:33:52.100 So what are they doing?

01:33:52.960 I guess what Marxists, I guess, what Marxists always do, not just show an irreverence for private property and try to destroy Teslas, but they're using violence and intimidation.

01:34:02.220 And I think the way that the left has tried to depict these actions as, you know, organic civil society, just, you know, speaking about democracy and democratic values, there's nothing civil about this.

01:34:14.380 Like you said, it's terrorism.

01:34:15.560 I mean, frankly, there's nothing societal.

01:34:17.980 These people are being funded by far left donors like George Soros, like the Tides Foundation, the same big money, dark money interests that funded basically every violent protest we've seen since Trump really entered the stage.

01:34:30.000 Yeah.

01:34:30.320 The, I mean, literally the oligarchs that they say that Elon Musk is.

01:34:36.960 You're exactly right.

01:34:38.500 Yeah.

01:34:38.840 So tell me about, tell me about some of the people that are behind this.

01:34:43.980 Sure.

01:34:44.500 So Indivisible is sort of the ringleader of a lot of this.

01:34:47.300 And their biggest refrain that they always are pumping through the airwaves is that they are a grassroots organization, that they're people funded and people powered.

01:34:56.180 But if you dig into their financials, which, as you alluded to, they've essentially erased all of their webpages showing the personnel that's undergirding their movement.

01:35:04.920 But from the sort of 990 filings where you can see, again, by design, not exactly who's funding them.

01:35:11.140 But overwhelmingly, the majority of the funds that support this group come from big, dark money type foundations or philanthropic organizations, the NGO of the world, which obviously is a euphemism.

01:35:23.020 But of that, the majority of it comes from, and I'm talking seven plus million dollars since 2018 alone, is coming from George Soros' Open Society Foundation.

01:35:33.860 And like I said, when they tell you that they're funded by people and it's people power, it's not true.

01:35:39.240 And in some cases, most recently, they were doing a whole thing.

01:35:42.400 I'm sure your audience has seen this apoplectic narrative that, you know, House Republicans are not showing up to town halls.

01:35:49.220 Well, Indivisible was behind that, and they were actually reimbursing their groups, in some cases, $200 to buy all the gear, all the protests that they needed for that.

01:35:57.920 And they have a separate program where they'll reimburse groups up to $1,500 for get out the vote operations, advocacy and recruitment.

01:36:05.400 So the idea that this is all organic and that President Trump is just, you know, angering America so bad by going after waste, fraud and abuse, it's not true.

01:36:14.220 It's the same people who funded the protests outside the DNC, the flag burners. 0.97

01:36:18.500 And frankly, it's the same people who fund inside the DNC.

01:36:22.540 How do we reverse this?

01:36:24.480 You know, I just saw, let me see if I can pull it up here.

01:36:27.080 There's a new poll out that shows from Rasmussen, are the attacks on Tesla and Tesla vehicles justified?

01:36:35.700 19% of Americans said yes.

01:36:39.120 Among the respondents ages 18 to 34, that was 36% that said they are justified.

01:36:45.700 Among respondents that are Democrats, 31% say they are justified.

01:36:51.020 When asked, is it fair to call the attacks on Tesla and Tesla vehicles a form of domestic terrorism?

01:36:56.380 Overall, only 46% say yes.

01:36:59.660 39% say no. 0.96

01:37:01.660 15% say, I'm too dumb to have an opinion. 0.89

01:37:04.140 Among the respondents who say they're Republicans, 68% said yes. 0.87

01:37:08.980 The respondents who say that they're Democrats, 56% say no.

01:37:13.140 How do you keep people saying, and a growing number of people saying, no, it's totally cool to shoot that guy in front of a hotel because he works for an insurance company,

01:37:25.940 and we can burn down the Teslas, and we can find people in our own neighborhood that have them, target them, and destroy their lives until they take a stand with us and say they believe what we're doing and they've sold their Tesla.

01:37:41.260 How do you get so many Americans to get behind that?

01:37:44.760 I think that there's two key things that the Trump administration could do to push back on that.

01:37:50.600 First and foremost, I think, would be revoking the tax-exempt statuses of a lot of these organizations that are organizing these protests because they're essentially all 501c3s, which is absolutely insane.

01:38:01.540 And I think they need to continue pressing ahead on the verticals of the Act Blue investigations and, just in general, the dark money funding.

01:38:09.080 But also, a lot of the funding for groups, for example, there's a new thing called the Resistance Lab, which is being spearheaded by Representative Pramila Jayapal in conjunction with the Harvard Ash Center, which has hosted it.

01:38:21.140 They're a rather prestigious Kennedy School.

01:38:22.900 And though they have similarly deleted their webpages, some of their top funders are none other than USAID and the Department of State and the lady who runs it, who uses they-them pronouns, so make your own judgment there.

01:38:34.480 But she herself has been funded extensively by USAID, the United States Institute of Peace.

01:38:40.700 And I think it's really important to drill down on this figure because this is someone who's not studying protest and nonviolence.

01:38:46.900 This is someone who their CV reads like a rap sheet.

01:38:51.140 They're studying terrorism and violent versus nonviolent protests, not because violent protests are immoral or unethical, but because they think at this moment nonviolent protests are more effective in bringing out their sort of utopian democratic worldview.

01:39:06.760 And I use democracy not in its true sense.

01:39:09.240 But these people are extremely, extremely radical.

01:39:12.140 And I think what it goes back to is what we sort of started this interview on.

01:39:14.880 They have always used this sort of color revolution paradigm to institute change and to oppose President Trump.

01:39:20.840 It's why they depict him as an autocrat, as an authoritarian, right, because then they can justify their outside-the-system regime change tactics that they've used abroad.

01:39:29.000 And since they usually rely on impeachment proceedings or contested election results, they can't do that, right?

01:39:34.880 They didn't take the House, and President Trump won the popular vote overwhelmingly.

01:39:38.860 So they're relying on this narrative that what he's doing is so unpopular and this sort of astroturfed outrage and protest and intimidation tactics to really continue this myth that President Trump is a dictator that must be opposed at all costs.

01:39:52.920 What is, I mean, I agree with you that Trump needs to go after the 501c3s. 1.00

01:40:00.800 I mean, I'm a little disappointed in Pam Bondi.

01:40:04.520 However, I say that realizing that she still doesn't really even have her full team around her.

01:40:09.840 It's taking so long.

01:40:11.100 But I'm hoping that the Justice Department starts to move a little quicker on things, because this is clearly terrorism.

01:40:23.240 It is clearly these organizations that, as you said, have been taking money from the taxpayer to do all of these things.

01:40:33.160 And the only way to stop them, I think, is to not just call them out, but if they're breaking any kind of law, which they clearly are, go after them with everything we have.

01:40:46.820 Yeah, and I think these radical judges have been stepping into at every point.

01:40:50.720 I think that's a continuation of the lawfare.

01:40:52.840 And I think the fundamental issue, look, you had all these Republicans talking tough about how there's such fiscal hawks.

01:40:58.600 Where were they on the USAID front, all this waste fraud that's been uncovered for decades?

01:41:03.660 They did absolutely nothing.

01:41:05.340 And now the best we can get is a not even full committee hearing, but a subcommittee hearing that's been postponed on judges with some experts to tell us and confirm what we know, that these people are radical partisan activists.

01:41:17.420 It's so unfortunate because our side, our grassroots are fueled by patriotism, not dark money, not George Soros money.

01:41:24.380 And they're such amazing investigative reporters.

01:41:26.840 You go on X nowadays, people are the ones who are exposing these groups and the elected Republicans that should be enforcing.

01:41:33.800 It's not we're not even telling them to go after these groups in an autocratic, you know, despotic way.

01:41:38.200 We're just saying enforce the laws, enforce the fact that these should not be receiving tax exempt statuses or 501c3 statuses or go after the left wing billionaires.

01:41:47.300 I mean, the case that they've been able to make against right wing billionaires who are trying to root out waste, fraud and abuse when you juxtapose that to actual, I would argue, criminal cases that you could bring against a ton of left wing billionaires who are clandestinely and covertly funding domestic terror operations here in the United States.

01:42:03.760 Not just since January 20th, but for years on end, the issue, I think, starts with the weak specklessness of congressional Republicans who just have continually showed that they're unwilling to do anything.

01:42:16.140 When is Trump going after them?

01:42:19.180 I would love Trump to give a speech today on a few things.

01:42:22.860 One, OK, I just did the tariffs.

01:42:25.200 The tariffs are not going to work by themselves.

01:42:27.740 I need actual tax reform, tax cuts.

01:42:31.340 And a tax cut is not renewing the Trump taxes that are going to be raised.

01:42:36.300 That's not a tax cut.

01:42:37.580 That was a tax cut eight years ago.

01:42:40.000 Give us a significant tax cut, Congress.

01:42:42.720 And also, I'm taking a hatchet to the regulations beginning right now.

01:42:48.780 And anybody who wants to stand around with their hands in the pocket, there's fine.

01:42:52.160 That's fine.

01:42:52.720 But we cannot stand around and wait.

01:42:55.680 The time is too short to to stand around and wait.

01:43:00.160 I'm looking for him to start really pushing, you know, eyes into people's heads just a little bit, saying, excuse me, pressure is on me.

01:43:09.960 The pressure is on the population of the United States. 0.99

01:43:13.360 Do your damn job, Congress, right now. 0.99

01:43:17.280 Well, it's quite interesting, right, because you hear President Trump get criticized for flooding the zone. 0.99

01:43:22.080 They say it so pejoratively.

01:43:24.120 But flooding the zone is just a response to the absolute disarray and chaos that President Biden left this country.

01:43:30.800 And we have to flood the zone with executive orders and action after action and tariff after tariff because of what happened in Afghanistan at the southern border across this country with Chinese spy balloons. 0.96

01:43:42.020 Right. It's such a double standard.

01:43:43.500 And congressional Republicans, the same people who are joining the Doge caucus and posting all their pictures and talking a tough game on Twitter, they're voting to continue spending levels at the very same Biden rate levels.

01:43:55.380 And the Senate's already moving to try to make it so President Trump can't unilaterally impose tariffs.

01:44:00.300 You know, it's the Senate.

01:44:01.640 It's the people who've been there for probably longer than I've been alive who allowed the Chinese Communist Party, who allowed these third world countries to overtake our manufacturing jobs, to seize essentially our means of production. 1.00

01:44:12.820 And they did nothing about it because their donors, the people who've been funding them, got rich off of it and enjoy it.

01:44:19.320 And their constituents, the people who knocked the doors for them, donated them small dollar amounts, they have nothing but contempt for them.

01:44:26.360 And you can see it on display.

01:44:27.980 And frankly, it's insulting to the intelligence of your audience, of Bannon's war room audience, when they think that just some tweet or some strongly worded letter or some, you know, half-hearted hearing against a judge that has no really enforcement power

01:44:42.820 enough to satisfy us.

01:44:44.040 The MAGA movement is about shifting the goalposts for accountability.

01:44:48.280 And I think our audiences have been very clear that it's found in prison sentences and investigations for people who have committed crimes and not just strongly worded letters or, you know, Fox News segments where people are going off and giving nice spicy rants.

01:45:03.140 But these criminals keep getting away with it.

01:45:05.400 Yep.

01:45:06.000 Natalie, thank you so much.

01:45:07.420 We'll talk to you again soon.

01:45:08.680 Thank you for all the hard work you do.

01:45:10.220 Sincerely.

01:45:10.660 Thank you.

01:45:11.760 Likewise.

01:45:12.360 Thank you.

01:45:12.820 You bet.

01:45:13.280 That's Natalie Winters, White House correspondent and also co-host of Steve Bannon's War Room.

01:45:19.880 Back in just a minute, let me tell you, Burn a Launcher. 0.97

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01:45:59.760 She aims back away now.

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01:46:04.520 Okay.

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01:46:55.400 It's really remarkable how people have just been brainwashed into all of this stuff.

01:47:04.900 It's Friday.

01:47:05.720 We're taking your phone calls, 888-727-BECK.

01:47:08.520 Teresa in Idaho, welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:47:12.080 Good morning.

01:47:13.040 I was wondering if you could mansplain something to me.

01:47:16.640 I love mansplaining.

01:47:17.920 Let's do it.

01:47:19.180 All right.

01:47:19.740 And if tariffs don't work, then how come all the other countries tariff us?

01:47:25.960 Well, you're not making the point that they work for them, are you?

01:47:30.600 No.

01:47:31.560 Okay.

01:47:32.140 I'm just, you know, do they?

01:47:34.580 Well, I mean.

01:47:35.320 Why would they be taking all this money from us?

01:47:37.720 Well, they're not taking money from us, per se.

01:47:40.940 But this is a, we've seen the globe be ruled by lots of policies we don't like.

01:47:46.600 Communism, fascism, dictatorships, monarchies.

01:47:50.700 We were to a different system and used it to great effect, to incredible success.

01:47:55.720 I will say that.

01:47:56.560 And replicating their policies, not my chosen direction.

01:47:59.080 I will say that the EU was formed basically to become a United States of Eurasia, if you will.

01:48:06.360 So, and they all band together, so they were a bigger trading block that could come after us and try to, you know, be on the status and the same step as the United States.

01:48:18.220 They were made to come after us.

01:48:22.200 And not in a bad way, just a competitive way.

01:48:25.820 They do have high trade.

01:48:27.560 They are protecting theirs because we know we can.

01:48:30.640 They knew that we could outproduce them and everything else.

01:48:33.680 So, they're just protecting themselves from the big bad us.

01:48:38.340 And we've never played that game.

01:48:41.100 And I like not playing that game.

01:48:43.480 But Donald Trump is, you know, he called it, what was it, not Independence Day, Liberation Day.

01:48:51.000 He called that for a reason.

01:48:52.960 I asked in the podcast that you'll hear tomorrow, I asked Kevin Roberts from the Heritage Foundation.

01:48:58.620 I asked him, why did he call it that?

01:49:00.780 Exactly what I said earlier this week.

01:49:03.680 Because it's ending all of the policies that were thought up and cooked up right after World War II.

01:49:10.580 We're not playing that game anymore.

01:49:12.940 It doesn't work.

01:49:15.380 And I think that's what's happening.

01:49:17.800 And I will say, too, we should recognize we're in a pretty low tariff environment.

01:49:21.720 I mean, we talk about these other countries putting tariffs on us.

01:49:24.580 The actual tariff levels are pretty low.

01:49:27.180 We are now absolutely one of the highest tariff countries in the world as of today.

01:49:32.320 Oh, yeah.

01:49:32.840 Well, I guess as of April 5th.

01:49:34.720 Yeah.

01:49:35.060 When a lot of these things go into effect.

01:49:36.340 We'll see.

01:49:36.740 So, we'll see if that actually happens.

01:49:38.380 There's reports now that Vietnam is saying, hey, we'll drop ours to zero if you'll drop yours to zero.

01:49:43.520 Now, Israel did that and we didn't do it. 0.97

01:49:46.480 They said zero and we said 10.

01:49:48.460 I know Canada, one province in Canada said we'd drop it to zero if you drop it to zero.

01:49:54.140 I would love to see us drop it all to zero.

01:49:56.820 Fine.

01:49:57.280 Yeah.

01:49:57.560 That's great.

01:49:58.140 Trump has said he would like that in the past.

01:50:00.800 However, the way he calculated these tariffs makes it so even if these countries do drop their tariffs to zero, if he continues with this calculation, we can't get to zero.

01:50:11.780 Which is, you know.

01:50:12.640 Which might just be a negotiation, of course.

01:50:14.380 But it's also, you know, how do they, do they manipulate their currency?

01:50:19.440 Are they, you know, bailing out companies?

01:50:21.940 Is the government giving these companies money to compete?

01:50:24.760 That's how he's calculating those.

01:50:26.000 Whether you agree or disagree, that's not the way tariffs are.

01:50:29.960 That is not how he's calculating it.

01:50:31.500 However, that is what he wrote in the title that described the category he was calculating.

01:50:37.220 What he did with calculation was just basically, it was more about trade deficits and imports.

01:50:43.900 Which is, again, you could argue whether that's the right thing to do.

01:50:46.660 I don't understand why we would do it that way.

01:50:49.000 But, hey, look, to me, if another country wants to subsidize goods and give us a giant electronics sale, I am all for it. 0.91

01:50:57.000 You manipulate your currency all you want, dummies. 0.96

01:50:59.600 Go ahead. 0.88

01:51:00.720 Subsidize products that we're going to buy at cheaper products.

01:51:03.460 Go ahead.

01:51:03.960 Do it.

01:51:04.260 We'll beat you every single time when we want to beat you in certain categories and the most important ones.

01:51:09.480 And we'll take, look, I don't think it's something I'm running away from.

01:51:13.200 The biggest problem in America is our companies have gotten in bed with the government and ESG and everything else.

01:51:19.840 Look at Boeing.

01:51:20.760 This is Glenn Beck.

01:51:23.020 We could have competed against Airbus for a long, long time with Boeing.

01:51:27.300 They screwed it up.

01:51:28.980 Last month, your dog was slowing down a bit.

01:51:31.000 She was turning into the nap champion of the world. 1.00

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01:51:34.260 Going on a long walk, you're bringing snacks along.

01:51:37.900 Squirrels, not worth the effort.

01:51:40.180 You maybe started to worry about her a little bit, but then you started her on rough greens, and now she's back to business.

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01:52:54.860 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:53:02.840 Is it Charlie in California or Charles?

01:53:06.000 Yes.

01:53:06.700 Hi, Charlie.

01:53:07.300 How are you?

01:53:08.500 I'm fine, Glenn.

01:53:10.660 Thank you for taking this call.

01:53:12.740 Sure.

01:53:13.200 I was inspired to call you when you were talking about tariffs, but I've been listening now for over an hour.

01:53:20.300 Sorry.

01:53:21.000 It's taken us so long.

01:53:21.940 Thank you for waiting. 0.99

01:53:22.680 No, I think that it has capsulized my comment because I listened to, with regard to tariffs, President Trump referred to as being dumb. 0.93

01:53:37.560 I heard a lot of fear. 0.98

01:53:39.600 I heard a lot of judgment.

01:53:41.440 I heard a lot of lack of faith.

01:53:44.460 And you, I've been listening to you for many, many years, since Fox, for sure.

01:53:55.080 And you are my inspiration as an optimistic catastrophist.

01:54:02.480 Good for you, yeah.

01:54:03.820 The optimism because you always reference God, and the catastrophist because you're a realist.

01:54:12.460 And you have taught me to think out of the box, but I think that I have learned to think in the box.

01:54:20.260 And that is to always go back to the source, and that is God.

01:54:24.980 And we have to not forget, but we must remember, that President Trump is God's person.

01:54:33.540 His life was saved.

01:54:35.120 He has supernatural power.

01:54:37.420 He has thinking-out-of-the-box vision.

01:54:40.880 Everything that he does is unorthodox.

01:54:43.960 And our country is in so much trouble that someone has to have the courage to try things that have never been tried before, or that need to be tried to get us back on track.

01:54:57.220 So I think that you are a wonderful person to keep bringing us back to the place you've talked for years about, the exit ramp.

01:55:09.260 And I think now we have one exit ramp, and that is God.

01:55:13.800 We are in a spiritual warfare.

01:55:16.880 There are two sides.

01:55:19.500 And we are on the right side.

01:55:22.240 And we're going to win, but we're going to have to just go along with what it takes to get there.

01:55:28.820 Okay, so there's a lot to go over on this one, Charlie.

01:55:33.540 First of all, I appreciate your support.

01:55:37.140 I appreciate what you're saying.

01:55:39.260 I think Trump was saved for this moment.

01:55:44.100 That doesn't mean that he is going to make all of the right decisions.

01:55:49.640 Although I have seen many of the decisions he's making, and I'm like, yeah, he still is a man and can make man decisions.

01:56:00.100 You know, we all make mistakes.

01:56:02.800 And I don't ever want to put the saving of our country for this election as then knowing what God wants to happen.

01:56:15.260 God may have wanted to say, I want to save the country, you know, whatever.

01:56:20.600 I don't want to second guess him.

01:56:22.160 I know that he interacted at a point and did things that we could not do, only he could do, and that saved his life, which led to this moment.

01:56:32.080 But that might just be to give us more time to prepare on other things that are happening.

01:56:39.180 Because honestly, I don't know how this works out.

01:56:42.140 All I do know is that God will use whatever we choose and whatever happens for his greater glory.

01:56:51.980 And so we shouldn't have a panic moment of that, but we should never, ever blindly follow man.

01:57:01.340 And I honestly, you know, Israel, the translation is to wrestle with God.

01:57:07.560 God wants you to wrestle with him.

01:57:09.320 God wants you to say, wait a minute, I don't understand that.

01:57:12.080 How is that working?

01:57:13.760 He wants you just like I want my kids to challenge me. 0.99

01:57:16.980 I don't want my kids to be jerks about it. 0.98

01:57:19.860 I don't want my kids just to challenge me, just to challenge me. 0.98

01:57:22.560 But if they think I'm wrong or they don't understand, I want them to respectfully come to me and say, Dad, I don't get it.

01:57:30.460 I don't understand what you're doing.

01:57:32.000 And then have that conversation with me.

01:57:33.940 And I think God wants that for us.

01:57:35.960 So I hope that covers the God thing.

01:57:38.760 When it comes to Donald Trump, you know, that we just have to go along with Donald Trump on things.

01:57:48.920 I think we all have to listen to the spirit as well.

01:57:53.140 But we also God requires us to do our own homework.

01:57:56.620 He requires us to combine our brain and then check it against what we know is true in scripture and check it with the Holy Spirit.

01:58:06.860 So he's asking us, you never go, you never, you'll never get an answer in prayer ever if you're like, okay, God, what do you want me to do today?

01:58:18.020 You'll be waiting for that answer forever because that's not his job.

01:58:21.640 His thing is, did you think it out?

01:58:26.380 Did you make a plan?

01:58:28.380 Do you have some?

01:58:29.560 He's not there to just dictate what you're supposed to do.

01:58:32.900 You're supposed to make your plans, bring them to him and say, what do you think?

01:58:38.540 Sometimes he answers you clearly.

01:58:40.280 Sometimes he doesn't.

01:58:41.360 Sometimes it's really, really important to the eternal things that are going on in the world, and sometimes it's not.

01:58:49.540 And it's not that God doesn't care.

01:58:51.300 It just doesn't make a difference in your eternal growth because that's all God cares about, our eternal growth.

01:58:59.200 If we are a nation that is turning back to God, and that's happening because we have been strengthened, and we're strengthening this government to come back to God and be more humble in front of God, then God will probably protect us or at least throw us some favor instead of shade.

01:59:21.120 And that's important.

01:59:23.080 But I don't know what God has in store. 0.97

01:59:26.360 However, I do know that these tariffs, I'm not going to go blindly forward, but I am going to give the man the benefit of the doubt because he's not an idiot. 0.90

01:59:39.200 He is not dumb. 0.97

01:59:41.180 He is much smarter than I ever gave him credit for.

01:59:45.740 He is the guy that we all elected.

01:59:50.180 And I agree with you, Charlie, on one big point, and that is,

01:59:53.880 there is no one else out there that is offering big vision.

02:00:00.880 That's critical.

02:00:02.680 Big vision.

02:00:04.400 Yeah.

02:00:04.600 And again, part of the big vision that Trump talked about was the stuff you've been hitting on a lot today, which was tax cuts, regulation cuts, all these other efficiency gains, which we just haven't heard a lot about yet.

02:00:17.720 And that's coming there.

02:00:19.400 We do know that some sort of tax bill is going to be coming in the reconciliation at some point this year.

02:00:24.880 But you don't go with these.

02:00:26.840 In my opinion, this is just my opinion.

02:00:29.240 I'm not second guessing.

02:00:30.480 I'm just saying what I know historically, we're not going to survive big, huge, aggressive.

02:00:40.000 If this is a negotiating thing, it's going to play out and it's going to play out in the next few weeks and it'll be fine.

02:00:46.780 We'll stand to the other side and go, wow, that was brilliant.

02:00:50.340 However, if this goes on like this and this is it with no tax cuts, no regulation cuts, it's not going to be a good midterm.

02:01:02.340 It won't be a good midterm.

02:01:03.560 No, you're right.

02:01:04.340 Because the economy derails.

02:01:06.000 Derails.

02:01:06.400 If the economy will derail your entire presidency.

02:01:09.000 And so this is something he's believed in for a very long time and he thinks it's worth betting it on.

02:01:13.480 And I think too, because I appreciate your sensitivity here because people, because of how people hear the media talk about Donald Trump, it's understandable to be really, you know, to try to communicate to people, we're not like that.

02:01:30.300 I am not looking at Donald Trump in this way of like, I just want to judge him negatively on every single thing he's doing.

02:01:35.080 I want him to succeed.

02:01:36.300 And a lot of the things he's doing, by the way, are succeeding.

02:01:38.940 I'm concerned about those things continuing to succeed if the economy goes the wrong direction.

02:01:46.000 And we're all adults here.

02:01:47.960 It's okay to second guess a guy who's the president of the United States, whether you voted for him or not.

02:01:52.780 Right?

02:01:53.200 Like every president I've ever voted for in my entire life had tons of policies I disagreed with.

02:01:58.820 And I second guess them constantly.

02:02:00.340 Yeah.

02:02:00.600 Just like I would, my, my, the Eagles won the Super Bowl.

02:02:03.660 I will guarantee whine to you off the air, Glenn, about some decision Nick Sirianni made next year.

02:02:09.980 And I guarantee you, I won't hear it.

02:02:11.600 And you won't have any idea what I'm talking about.

02:02:13.560 And that will continue.

02:02:14.620 That's okay.

02:02:15.500 It's, it's our, like, it doesn't mean you're a bad person.

02:02:18.120 You're disloyal that you don't like America.

02:02:20.720 That you, it's okay.

02:02:22.720 Like we are adults and we should be able to have these conversations.

02:02:27.860 You hear the people calling in, they're adults.

02:02:29.880 They have some different, some people have agreed with, with Donald Trump on tariffs today.

02:02:34.720 Some have disagreed.

02:02:35.760 Like we're not like the left where, when, when, when you have a person who says, you know what, maybe I don't want to kill children in the womb.

02:02:41.800 They get disconnected, discommunicated, excommunicated from the party.

02:02:45.280 When RFK Jr. says, Hey, maybe, I don't know if I don't like this vaccine so much.

02:02:49.360 They just toss them to the side and he's been a lifelong liberal and all of a sudden he's gone.

02:02:53.720 Right?

02:02:54.120 Like we don't have to be like that.

02:02:55.680 We can have these conversations.

02:02:57.100 You know, I want Congress, this is going to be very contrarian here for the tariffs thing, but I want the Congress to take their power back.

02:03:07.000 Oh, I totally agree.

02:03:08.100 Not just in tariffs.

02:03:09.580 I want them to take all their power back.

02:03:11.240 Rains Act.

02:03:11.840 Yep.

02:03:12.300 Rains Act would do it. 0.58

02:03:13.160 And it would, it would work on tariffs if they were big enough.

02:03:16.100 Yeah.

02:03:16.320 On everything.

02:03:16.880 And I want them to do that because that puts the constitution back in its place, but they'll never do it.

02:03:24.200 They'll never do it.

02:03:25.300 Doesn't seem like it.

02:03:25.920 Here's what I'm, here's the, my frustration on the tariff talk.

02:03:30.020 When you're, when you're going against it, there are those who I know are politicians in Washington and they're, they're sounding very much like me in some ways where they're like, look, I've been against tariffs, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

02:03:43.480 But I wish this, this, and this would happen.

02:03:45.220 That's the way a, that's the way a friend, a coworker, somebody who wants the best to happen for you and happen for all of us.

02:03:55.040 That's the way you do it in real life.

02:03:59.240 We've forgotten this.

02:04:00.320 This is the way you do it.

02:04:02.920 You, you say, look, Bob, I know you and I agree on so much stuff.

02:04:06.860 I have no problem with you, Bob.

02:04:08.240 I'm a, but this is, I think a mistake for the company and it doesn't mean you're a bad guy.

02:04:13.940 We can, cause we agree on almost everything and I know you want the best for the company and you know, I want the best for the company, but while we're in this moment here of decisions being made, I just like to point out, I think this, this, and this could be very big mistakes.

02:04:30.580 That's good.

02:04:31.740 That's good.

02:04:32.600 That's healthy.

02:04:33.360 That has to happen in a healthy relationship.

02:04:36.320 What is not healthy is for people to say, um, I know he's been talking about this for 40 years.

02:04:45.820 We know he said it's his favorite word.

02:04:48.700 It's not God.

02:04:49.400 It's not Holy spirit.

02:04:51.640 It's tariff is his favorite word.

02:04:55.400 Okay.

02:04:56.260 We knew that.

02:04:57.900 And now to come in and say, this is the biggest mistake ever.

02:05:02.760 I can't support him anymore.

02:05:04.920 Did you vote for him?

02:05:06.800 Because his favorite word was tariff.

02:05:11.540 You knew this to be coming and it doesn't mean you have to support it.

02:05:16.060 It just does mean that you have to say, okay, it's coming.

02:05:19.220 He's not going to turn on this.

02:05:21.280 What can we do to make it better?

02:05:23.880 What can we do to help ensure that this is successful?

02:05:27.680 And the number one thing congressmen and politicians should be saying right now is give him the tax cuts.

02:05:34.320 Cut regulation, pass the reigns act, pass the reigns act.

02:05:40.380 So then all of the stuff that wasn't passed by Congress, all that, uh, red tape, it's all gone.

02:05:48.340 It's all gone.

02:05:49.400 You want to talk about unleashing the, the engine of America pass the reigns act.

02:05:55.420 Stop bitching at me. 0.95

02:05:57.780 I know you don't like it.

02:05:59.220 I know you don't like it.

02:06:01.200 I don't like it.

02:06:03.340 But you know what?

02:06:04.420 It's the reality with Donald Trump.

02:06:07.040 It is the reality and it's not a surprise.

02:06:10.320 So what are you going to do about it? 0.93

02:06:12.800 You're going to just slow it down and bitch about the, he's not going to change. 0.99

02:06:17.460 He's not going to change. 0.96

02:06:19.680 You know, when he'll change is when this thing, God forbid, becomes so devastating to the economy that he has no other choice.

02:06:28.160 That's when he'll change.

02:06:29.940 He's not going to change before that.

02:06:31.720 So what are you bitching about? 1.00

02:06:34.140 Let's focus on what we can do to make it successful.

02:06:38.540 And what we can do to make it successful is Congress pass the tax cuts, cut the regulation, unleash the American entrepreneur, unleash the might and full power of the United States, not through public private partnerships, but by empowering the individual.

02:06:58.640 Do that and maybe these tariffs just might work.

02:07:05.960 Back in a minute.

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02:08:31.040 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

02:08:36.360 Is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

02:08:39.960 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

02:08:42.660 Are those from Winners?

02:08:44.180 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings.

02:08:46.660 Did she pay full price?

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02:09:06.360 All right.

02:09:11.940 There's also something else.

02:09:13.280 There are going to be things that maybe you didn't expect that, you know, later you go,

02:09:18.620 yeah, of course I knew that.

02:09:20.300 There are other things that are going on that you also have to look at if we take the opportunity

02:09:25.000 to take advantage of it.

02:09:26.860 Yields are coming down with bonds, which means we can refinance.

02:09:31.400 It keeps doing this.

02:09:32.360 We can refinance our debt and get out of these high-interest bonds, okay?

02:09:40.200 That's really important.

02:09:41.300 If we can sell those and we can get people to buy those things and we can reissue our debt

02:09:49.020 at a lower interest rate, that will save us a buttload of money.

02:09:53.620 And that's happening this week because of what the stock market is doing, what the tariffs

02:09:59.300 are doing.

02:09:59.760 So there is a hidden benefit.

02:10:02.240 Whether that was intentional or not, I'm not saying.

02:10:04.420 I have no idea.

02:10:05.840 But take advantage of that.

02:10:08.680 Take advantage of that.

02:10:10.740 The White House should be talking to the Treasury today and saying, refinance.

02:10:15.900 As soon as you think that's the lowest point, refinance.

02:10:20.000 Do it now because we're paying over a trillion dollars in interest.

02:10:23.720 You get a couple of points off of your interest rate, that's a lot of money we can save.

02:10:29.740 All right.

02:10:31.000 We'll see you tonight.

02:10:32.000 The show tonight at 5 o'clock.

02:10:34.460 Dave Landau, Stu joins me.

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