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00:02:37.000 hello america it's friday and we've got a lot going on yesterday while most americans were

00:02:45.820 you know living their life you know driving the kids to school filling up the tank paying bills

00:02:50.240 that you don't remember agreeing to wait i signed up for that way what lee zeldin announced something

00:02:56.360 pretty big the largest deregulation in modern epa history i'm going to tell you what it means

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00:04:27.300 massive way for years federal regulators uh have you know the epa they just they weren't protecting

00:04:35.580 the air and the water they were also quietly deciding what kind of car you should buy um how companies

00:04:43.080 designed engines what technologies got rewarded which technologies were now a thing of the past

00:04:48.420 what gas stove you could have how much paperwork stood between an idea and you buying it at the

00:04:56.460 marketplace okay yesterday's move tears down the legal foundation that let washington just

00:05:03.660 just engineer entire industries through greenhouse gas rules this is the framework of fascism i don't

00:05:13.280 think people really even understand you ask any of the protesters what is a fascist what is fascism

00:05:17.840 and they'll suddenly become stupid donald trump that what they're doing in washington okay dummy 0.85

00:05:23.120 can you define fascism fascism is the public private partnership between government and corporations

00:05:32.020 and government tells the corporations exactly how to make their products and everything they have to do

00:05:38.960 and if they comply they're fine if not they're out of business they'll find somebody else to partner

00:05:43.540 with them okay that's exact that is the framework the great reset was building you know and anybody who was

00:05:49.920 part of the green new deal and everything else okay so what changes for you because you will notice

00:05:56.940 this in real life maybe not right away but cars are going to get cheaper they say twenty five hundred

00:06:03.000 dollars cheaper because they no longer have to chase compliance credits for features that people hate

00:06:09.320 like you know the start stop system that shuts your engine off every time you're at a light oh my gosh i hate that

00:06:15.540 thing so you don't have to do all of these things that were mandated by the government you don't have

00:06:21.380 to have all of the paperwork energy producers are going to face fewer hurdles now which means lower

00:06:27.680 pressure on gas and electricity costs that will bring those things down because when supply rises prices

00:06:34.860 usually go down trucking this one is a hidden tax inside absolutely everything you buy trucking and rail and

00:06:44.040 air i mean everything is delivered that way when trucking gets cheaper groceries furniture your clothes

00:06:52.060 whatever everything that you use every day doesn't have to carry so much regulatory weight and the energy

00:06:58.860 cost to get it from one place to another is also down so everything is cheaper here's one that i

00:07:05.960 absolutely love shower pressure this if you know the only thing that could be worse is if you stop

00:07:16.480 moving in the shower the start stop button would go off and your water would just stop going off

00:07:21.340 you're not moving enough they've destroyed water pressure you feel like honestly does anybody else feel

00:07:30.200 like we were being conditioned to live in a second world country does i do i do get used to it that's

00:07:38.760 just the way it is no but that's not the right way that's not the best way that's not like nobody likes

00:07:43.660 that okay yes but that's the way it is who is making those choices not you your lighting choices your

00:07:51.800 appliance the gas stove thing that they said we're not doing anything and then they came out and said okay

00:07:56.960 we are doing something that's all done okay this moves us back closer to an actual consumer free

00:08:06.780 market where you have choices rather than the choices that the bureaucracy put in front of you

00:08:13.640 you can have actual choices now none of this is going to mean as paradise tomorrow because the democrats

00:08:20.340 are going to fight it uh bureaucracy is going to resist the democrats are going to say you can't do that

00:08:25.660 they're going to take him to court all of this stuff it's going to take time but the big move here is that

00:08:32.800 the government is is realizing again or re uh populating the the position that they should be in

00:08:43.560 and that is to protect you from uh harm that the government has something to do with okay take care of our

00:08:54.580 borders take care of our uh take care of our military you know let everything else go back to the local

00:09:02.000 the the the thing the government should never do is be able to design your life ever once regulators

00:09:10.660 start deciding you need to drive this you need to buy this you need to use this they're not referees

00:09:16.760 and that's the government's role you protect us from harm by making sure you get the bad guys

00:09:22.820 that you break up monopolies that you make sure that um that business is fair that nobody's cheating

00:09:30.680 one another nobody's getting an unfair advantage that's how you protect us with business okay

00:09:35.620 but they've become the engineers of your daily life yesterday a decision was made whether you agree

00:09:43.180 with it or not i do pull that power back so let me explain the philosophy that i think many in today's

00:09:51.580 america no longer really even understand because we don't even know we don't know what fascism is

00:09:55.600 we don't know what capitalism is we we think we live this is the craziest thing these protesters

00:10:03.540 think they're against capitalism because look at what's happening in washington this isn't capitalism

00:10:08.180 this is not a free market we haven't been a free market in a very long time a really free market

00:10:16.640 looks very messy it's loud it's chaotic it changes on a dime because there are millions of people

00:10:23.680 trying millions of ideas some fail some succeed but you decide who wins okay the market decides

00:10:33.680 by what you buy you find something better you start using it you tell a friend they start using it

00:10:40.300 all of a sudden that's the deal but over the last 100 120 years now actually it's yeah it's been

00:10:49.780 about 100 years um america has drifted into this progressivism remember what is the progress the

00:10:57.580 original american progressives wanted they wanted a communist or authoritarian rule they were fine

00:11:06.500 with communism then they thought fascism was neat then they stopped talking about them and just came

00:11:12.060 at them from a different angle no this is just to protect you but they wanted it without the revolution

00:11:17.940 they didn't want the blood in the streets so they said we'll move towards communism or fascism

00:11:23.280 just a little bit at a time so we avoid the the blood in the streets okay

00:11:29.460 and they just started piling these rules up thousands and thousands and thousands of pages

00:11:35.940 every year compliance departments have to grow lobbyists learn how to write regulations and they

00:11:42.640 write them in a way because who can afford a lobby do you have a lobbyist because i talked to my

00:11:46.620 lobbyist bill oh no wait i don't have a lobbyist i don't know anybody that has a lobbyist you know who

00:11:52.780 has the lobbyist the big ngos and the big corporations and they're the ones that are writing the lie the laws

00:12:00.840 and that changed the game so instead of saying what do customers want business started asking the

00:12:09.400 question what's washington going to allow that that's not capitalism that's cronyism

00:12:15.560 because of that fewer players can actually stay in the game the small innovators they disappear well

00:12:26.240 you know when bill gates i can't believe i'm gonna quote this guy but bill gates said something

00:12:32.720 absolutely true i'm a menace to society no he didn't say that but he would have been true if he

00:12:37.900 said it um he said something true i i could not start microsoft in my garage today if i tried to

00:12:46.280 start it under all of this regulation what does that tell you and probably who was part of writing

00:12:54.520 through their lobbyists all of these extra regulations to block competition probably microsoft

00:13:01.660 big corporations uh just grow and grow and grow they block everybody out risk declines creativity declines

00:13:12.640 and here's the part that people miss heavy regulation often sells itself as fairness but it's not fairness

00:13:20.520 it is it is it is a lie to the american people you've been lied to for so long heavy regulation who is for

00:13:31.040 that the giant corporations that are trying to protect their piece of the puzzle okay complex rules they

00:13:38.980 don't scare the big giants because i mean look regulation means less agency innovation becomes permission

00:13:46.700 based deregulation increases responsibility innovation local ideas local control regulations help large

00:13:56.580 corporations because they can afford the lawyers the paperwork the lobbyists i put this up on a

00:14:01.920 chalkboard if you happen to be watching i'm quoting the chalkboard deregulation allows the small guy

00:14:07.420 to compete with the new ideas or innovation breaking the hold on monopolies or on products and ideas

00:14:14.640 okay that's what it is more competition means lower prices more innovation means more job more freedom

00:14:22.780 less regulation means people get to keep more of what they earn not just money but choice this goes much

00:14:30.580 deeper than your wallet what they did yesterday a society where government designs every single outcome

00:14:37.260 trains its citizens to not innovate to not think to not do it themselves wait for permission

00:14:46.740 a society where people are trusted to choose builds responsibility and resilience and independence

00:14:55.180 you know look at canada canada is toast it's toast nobody's even talking about really the free market up in

00:15:05.040 canada especially when it comes to health care it is collapsing but their understanding of the government

00:15:11.420 does not lend them to why don't we just let people figure this out why don't we just free this system up from

00:15:18.460 government regulation the government is the problem they will just design a bigger government

00:15:23.700 regulatory system around medicine instead of freeing it up does anybody remember how good

00:15:32.340 medicine was in 2008 when we were all bitching about it we were bitching about it in 2008 everybody's like oh this

00:15:39.780 is horrible that's horrible compare it to what you have now and remember that was done to make it better

00:15:47.780 more regulation to make it better to save you $2,500 every single year you're paying like five grand more now

00:15:56.240 and it's worse this is not a question of just what kind of car you drive the question is what kind of

00:16:05.320 citizen your children will become if every generation grows up believing experts must engineer life from

00:16:13.020 above freedom feels dangerous they need protection from freedom but if people are free to build and to

00:16:20.320 fail and then try again they learn ownership of their future but only if cronyism isn't happening

00:16:27.200 when the big guy fails the big guy must be allowed to fail

00:16:32.040 this is you know this is not about emissions or regulatory language it's not about you know i just love

00:16:42.360 how the press is like oh john trump is rejecting science but we know what science is really

00:16:48.700 you're gonna lecture us about science and listening to science dr covid please

00:16:58.000 what this is really about is whether america remains a place where citizens

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00:18:53.100 hey uh i just got a chance last night just to watch a little bit of the um eminiscence podcast

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00:20:03.880 we had a conversation and she played her music and it's it's a great conversation and i want to be

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00:20:46.160 if you're a subscriber at glenbeck.com came out yesterday it's there again today tomorrow it will

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00:26:26.220 okay

00:26:26.760 let me tell you a history story here

00:26:28.780 lee zeldin's coming up in just a minute

00:26:30.680 we're gonna talk to him about deregulation

00:26:32.480 i may

00:26:33.360 well

00:26:34.540 he's not in person

00:26:35.500 so i i can't kiss him

00:26:36.740 but i might have kissed him on the mouth

00:26:38.720 for what happened yesterday

00:26:39.940 um

00:26:41.300 i just i just love what happened

00:26:43.900 um

00:26:45.120 we think

00:26:47.860 most americans think they live in a free market

00:26:50.420 that this is capitalism

00:26:51.860 and that is the lie

00:26:53.740 you must dispel

00:26:55.120 okay

00:26:55.620 you don't

00:26:57.340 you don't know how much you've been manipulated

00:27:00.200 um

00:27:01.800 and how the government has been involved in the manipulation

00:27:05.020 in these big corporations

00:27:06.440 let me ask you this

00:27:07.640 let me

00:27:08.220 let me

00:27:08.780 if i took you back to any american city

00:27:12.420 in city in the 1920s

00:27:14.140 what would it look and sound like

00:27:16.600 most people would think you'd hear the

00:27:19.680 oh god horns an awful lot 0.99

00:27:21.580 okay

00:27:22.020 you don't hear engines for the most part

00:27:24.560 you hear a hum

00:27:26.540 you hear steel will wheels on steel rails

00:27:31.280 okay

00:27:31.880 the whisper of electricity overhead spark

00:27:34.580 children

00:27:36.740 stepping off of street corners

00:27:39.200 they don't have fear of getting hit by cars

00:27:41.340 workers

00:27:42.420 getting onto street cars

00:27:44.380 without owning anything

00:27:45.660 and just going downtown to work

00:27:47.120 shops

00:27:48.740 rise

00:27:49.660 close together

00:27:51.180 because

00:27:52.000 distance doesn't matter

00:27:53.440 because the trolley is coming

00:27:54.880 every few minutes

00:27:55.760 and so you just grab a trolley

00:27:57.180 and you get there

00:27:57.760 city is one

00:27:59.480 kind of living machine

00:28:00.900 it's efficient

00:28:01.640 it's

00:28:02.120 it's

00:28:02.780 rhythmic

00:28:03.480 it's almost

00:28:04.100 elegant

00:28:04.700 okay

00:28:05.240 that was america

00:28:06.960 in the 1920s

00:28:08.220 by the 1930s

00:28:10.540 in america

00:28:11.260 nearly every major city

00:28:13.260 from los angeles

00:28:14.220 to detroit

00:28:14.900 to cleveland

00:28:15.540 had an electric street car

00:28:17.580 network

00:28:18.380 now

00:28:19.180 i want you to remember this

00:28:20.620 as where

00:28:21.520 every city is trying to

00:28:23.080 to build those stupid

00:28:25.480 rail systems

00:28:27.060 that nobody wants

00:28:29.120 i just want you to remember that

00:28:30.840 the united states

00:28:32.900 in the 1930s

00:28:34.320 had

00:28:35.320 had more urban rail mileage

00:28:38.340 than anywhere else

00:28:40.000 on earth

00:28:40.940 we were the leader

00:28:43.080 in street cars

00:28:44.200 and then all of a sudden

00:28:45.400 overnight

00:28:45.860 vanished

00:28:47.060 how

00:28:50.140 i mean all we want to do

00:28:52.040 now is build light rail systems

00:28:53.600 because they're the best

00:28:54.620 they're the best

00:28:55.200 when we build them

00:28:56.680 nobody rides them

00:28:57.880 what

00:28:58.760 happened

00:28:59.760 you look at

00:29:00.980 paris

00:29:01.500 tokyo

00:29:02.540 zurich

00:29:03.280 anywhere else

00:29:04.360 in the world

00:29:04.880 their trains

00:29:05.760 and their trams

00:29:06.480 they never died

00:29:07.740 what

00:29:09.280 killed that

00:29:10.480 here in america

00:29:11.600 i was a free market

00:29:13.400 was it

00:29:14.940 was it

00:29:16.380 let me tell you

00:29:19.060 the real story

00:29:20.080 on what happened

00:29:21.100 america chose

00:29:23.460 differently

00:29:24.220 but i don't think

00:29:25.700 we actually chose

00:29:26.940 here

00:29:28.820 transportation

00:29:29.500 became a

00:29:30.960 private

00:29:31.680 battlefield

00:29:32.420 private

00:29:33.340 public

00:29:33.860 private

00:29:34.480 battlefield

00:29:35.020 this is where the story turns dark

00:29:36.640 in the 1930s

00:29:38.600 there were three giants

00:29:39.900 that were rising

00:29:40.700 that were changing

00:29:41.580 and they had

00:29:42.520 money

00:29:43.140 like

00:29:43.840 nobody else

00:29:45.120 you had general motors

00:29:46.820 selling automobiles

00:29:48.180 to everybody

00:29:48.700 you had standard oil

00:29:50.360 of california

00:29:51.240 selling fuel

00:29:52.100 to all of those

00:29:52.960 automobiles

00:29:53.580 that people now needed

00:29:54.520 you had

00:29:55.340 goodyear tire and rubber

00:29:56.680 supplying the rubber

00:29:57.900 touching every single road

00:29:59.800 these companies

00:30:01.900 were the up-and-comers

00:30:04.080 these were the ones

00:30:04.900 who had all the money

00:30:05.840 all the power

00:30:06.500 streetcars

00:30:07.620 didn't pay anything

00:30:08.940 to those guys

00:30:09.860 okay

00:30:10.380 they were competition

00:30:11.520 to those guys

00:30:12.440 every electric trolley

00:30:15.000 meant

00:30:15.600 passengers

00:30:17.220 that didn't have to buy cars

00:30:19.140 wouldn't burn gasoline

00:30:20.460 and didn't have to buy tires

00:30:22.420 the streetcar

00:30:24.020 car wasn't a vehicle

00:30:24.940 it was a rival

00:30:26.480 business model

00:30:27.440 to those three companies

00:30:28.720 so

00:30:29.120 late 1930s

00:30:31.000 a new holding company

00:30:32.840 comes up

00:30:33.420 and quietly starts

00:30:34.760 buying up

00:30:35.840 all of the electric

00:30:36.780 streetcar systems

00:30:37.740 across American cities

00:30:38.840 it was called

00:30:39.760 the National City Lines

00:30:41.460 okay

00:30:42.100 National City Lines

00:30:43.880 they're just

00:30:44.400 we're a streetcar company

00:30:45.480 we're just buying up

00:30:46.200 streetcar companies

00:30:47.100 what America didn't know

00:30:51.680 at the time

00:30:52.320 behind the

00:30:54.100 National City Lines

00:30:56.180 where were they

00:30:57.320 getting their money

00:30:57.920 to buy up

00:30:58.680 all of the streetcar

00:30:59.540 companies

00:31:00.180 GM

00:31:03.120 Standard Oil

00:31:04.480 and Goodyear

00:31:05.700 they would buy

00:31:07.900 the local streetcar

00:31:08.820 company

00:31:09.220 they'd stop

00:31:10.680 investing

00:31:11.220 in the maintenance

00:31:12.300 then things

00:31:13.800 would start

00:31:14.220 to break down

00:31:15.100 there'd be problems

00:31:16.040 and they would then say

00:31:17.400 we can't fix this system

00:31:18.640 it's just outdated

00:31:19.400 and they'd rip out

00:31:20.680 the tracks

00:31:21.340 meanwhile

00:31:22.280 as the train systems

00:31:24.360 that they owned

00:31:25.720 were having these problems

00:31:28.220 GM

00:31:29.220 Standard Oil

00:31:30.620 and Goodyear

00:31:31.560 would come to the cities

00:31:32.660 and say

00:31:33.060 you know what you need

00:31:33.840 you need buses

00:31:34.700 buses are absolutely

00:31:36.800 going to change the world

00:31:38.020 you have a city bus lines

00:31:39.980 they're not going to break down

00:31:40.780 like these old

00:31:41.540 outdated rail lines

00:31:42.960 you need buses

00:31:44.180 and so

00:31:45.440 they replaced

00:31:46.760 all the rail lines

00:31:47.620 with buses

00:31:48.400 and some cities

00:31:49.600 pushed back

00:31:50.280 but then

00:31:51.040 suddenly

00:31:51.860 you know

00:31:53.280 who's to say

00:31:54.940 that it was bribery

00:31:56.200 who's to say

00:31:57.520 it was lobbyists

00:31:59.020 I am

00:31:59.720 I am

00:32:00.640 I'm one to say that

00:32:01.860 all of a sudden

00:32:03.520 every city

00:32:04.740 got rid of them

00:32:05.460 okay

00:32:05.980 the permanence

00:32:07.320 of the rail

00:32:08.240 disappear

00:32:08.920 rails

00:32:10.420 that signals

00:32:12.720 stability

00:32:13.400 buses can be

00:32:14.780 rerouted tomorrow

00:32:15.880 what happened

00:32:17.520 developers stopped

00:32:18.940 building

00:32:19.560 dense neighborhoods

00:32:20.960 around the transit

00:32:21.920 so cities

00:32:23.080 sprawled out

00:32:23.840 you know

00:32:24.560 everywhere

00:32:25.140 and that's

00:32:26.020 problem

00:32:26.760 not a problem

00:32:27.420 up to you

00:32:28.400 but the automobile

00:32:29.860 became a necessity

00:32:31.560 it was no longer

00:32:32.420 a choice

00:32:32.900 you live in any city

00:32:34.060 live in

00:32:34.600 live in Los Angeles

00:32:35.780 used to have

00:32:36.820 the leading

00:32:37.900 street car system

00:32:38.980 in America

00:32:40.320 Los Angeles

00:32:41.320 it was great

00:32:42.280 try getting

00:32:44.180 anywhere without

00:32:44.760 a car

00:32:45.180 in Los Angeles

00:32:45.960 you can't

00:32:47.060 you can't

00:32:48.460 you can take

00:32:50.020 the bus

00:32:50.560 good luck

00:32:51.560 with that

00:32:51.940 so this

00:32:53.480 changed the

00:32:54.120 design of

00:32:54.860 American life

00:32:55.640 entirely

00:32:56.180 this didn't

00:32:57.200 just change

00:32:57.860 the street car

00:32:58.560 industry

00:32:58.940 this changed

00:33:00.140 our architecture

00:33:01.060 our city

00:33:01.740 designs

00:33:02.420 the way we

00:33:03.480 live

00:33:03.880 the way we

00:33:04.400 commute

00:33:04.780 this changed

00:33:05.860 lives

00:33:06.600 and then

00:33:08.160 they put

00:33:08.920 a sticker

00:33:09.300 on it

00:33:09.620 that said

00:33:10.000 Americans

00:33:10.520 just love

00:33:11.260 their cars

00:33:11.820 so you know

00:33:15.240 that I'm not

00:33:15.780 just making

00:33:16.240 this up

00:33:16.580 1949

00:33:17.220 federal

00:33:17.800 prosecutors

00:33:18.400 brought an

00:33:18.920 antitrust

00:33:19.600 case

00:33:20.020 okay

00:33:20.540 and the jury

00:33:21.660 came back

00:33:22.260 and found

00:33:22.700 yeah

00:33:23.120 the companies

00:33:23.860 were conspiring

00:33:24.980 they were

00:33:28.180 a monopoly

00:33:28.920 on the buses

00:33:30.520 and the supplies

00:33:31.560 to the transit

00:33:32.340 systems

00:33:32.920 they had lied

00:33:33.760 they had used

00:33:34.320 lobbyists

00:33:34.880 and all of this

00:33:35.480 thing

00:33:35.760 and they came

00:33:36.800 down hard

00:33:37.820 on them

00:33:38.220 and the judge

00:33:39.000 gave them

00:33:39.560 the penalty

00:33:40.080 you know

00:33:40.660 what the penalty

00:33:41.160 was for GM

00:33:42.540 standard oil

00:33:44.320 and Goodyear

00:33:45.840 tire

00:33:46.220 five thousand

00:33:48.920 dollars

00:33:49.360 five thousand

00:33:52.440 that's that's

00:33:53.180 like a parking

00:33:53.940 ticket

00:33:54.480 no one went

00:33:56.460 to prison

00:33:56.920 the tracks

00:33:58.380 kept disappearing

00:33:59.380 this wasn't

00:34:01.060 about transportation

00:34:01.940 okay

00:34:02.780 street cars

00:34:03.700 created

00:34:04.220 neighborhoods

00:34:04.960 downtowns

00:34:06.380 built for

00:34:06.840 people

00:34:07.200 instead of

00:34:07.820 parking

00:34:08.160 lots

00:34:08.400 cities

00:34:08.780 connected

00:34:09.220 by shared

00:34:09.780 movement

00:34:10.120 everything

00:34:11.000 the left

00:34:11.660 says they

00:34:12.280 want today

00:34:13.240 was pushed

00:34:16.080 by these

00:34:16.960 giant corporations

00:34:18.020 and pushed

00:34:18.880 out

00:34:19.280 and now

00:34:21.340 they're using

00:34:22.580 the same

00:34:23.220 tactics

00:34:23.920 to get

00:34:24.860 those cities

00:34:25.460 back

00:34:25.940 it's not

00:34:26.680 going to

00:34:27.020 end well

00:34:27.540 because whenever

00:34:29.480 you're doing

00:34:29.980 things undercover

00:34:31.020 whenever you're

00:34:31.740 trying to be

00:34:32.320 sneaky

00:34:32.780 whenever you're

00:34:33.480 not being

00:34:34.400 up front

00:34:34.980 with the

00:34:35.280 American people

00:34:35.940 and you're

00:34:36.300 letting the

00:34:36.780 elites decide

00:34:37.920 you've got

00:34:39.840 problems

00:34:40.340 it doesn't

00:34:41.700 work out

00:34:42.340 well

00:34:42.560 so the

00:34:43.020 distances

00:34:43.460 grew

00:34:43.920 dependence

00:34:44.600 on cars

00:34:45.300 exploded

00:34:45.940 highways

00:34:46.780 carved through

00:34:47.600 urban

00:34:47.960 neighborhoods

00:34:48.480 the American

00:34:49.540 dream was

00:34:50.120 located

00:34:50.660 relocated to

00:34:51.640 the suburbs

00:34:52.120 which is

00:34:52.520 fine

00:34:52.960 it's fine

00:34:53.840 but you

00:34:54.760 didn't choose

00:34:55.480 it

00:34:55.760 three companies

00:34:57.220 through

00:34:58.360 collusion

00:34:59.320 bribery

00:35:00.160 everything else

00:35:01.380 public private

00:35:02.420 partnerships

00:35:03.000 with governments

00:35:04.080 they chose

00:35:05.480 that

00:35:05.880 because now

00:35:09.660 you need a

00:35:10.060 car to

00:35:10.320 participate

00:35:10.760 in society

00:35:11.800 at all

00:35:12.940 okay

00:35:14.640 America

00:35:16.860 was paving

00:35:18.180 over the

00:35:18.560 rails

00:35:18.840 while we

00:35:20.060 were doing

00:35:20.380 that Berlin

00:35:21.000 monetized

00:35:21.800 the trams

00:35:22.340 Amsterdam

00:35:22.860 expanded

00:35:23.740 their street

00:35:24.220 cars

00:35:24.440 Hong Kong

00:35:24.940 kept its

00:35:25.600 electric

00:35:25.940 trams

00:35:26.260 running

00:35:26.540 continuously

00:35:27.240 for over

00:35:27.780 a century

00:35:28.500 those cities

00:35:30.180 enjoy

00:35:30.760 options

00:35:31.480 that we

00:35:31.980 don't

00:35:32.380 have

00:35:32.960 they have

00:35:34.440 the light

00:35:34.820 rail

00:35:35.140 they have

00:35:35.480 walkable

00:35:35.960 districts

00:35:36.460 mixed transit

00:35:37.240 systems

00:35:37.800 it just

00:35:38.340 works

00:35:38.740 because they

00:35:39.260 didn't rip

00:35:40.020 the foundation

00:35:41.000 out

00:35:41.380 they just

00:35:42.700 kept

00:35:43.120 building

00:35:43.660 as the

00:35:44.460 cities

00:35:44.760 transformed

00:35:45.460 okay

00:35:46.240 we dismantled

00:35:47.860 our own

00:35:48.460 advantage

00:35:49.120 and I want

00:35:51.940 you to

00:35:52.140 understand

00:35:52.520 this is not

00:35:55.300 smoke-filled

00:35:56.180 rooms

00:35:56.640 plotting

00:35:57.100 evil

00:35:57.760 this is

00:35:59.120 more

00:35:59.380 dangerous

00:35:59.860 I think

00:36:00.380 this was

00:36:01.860 incentives

00:36:02.900 and human

00:36:04.780 frailty

00:36:05.700 the companies

00:36:07.620 followed profit

00:36:08.560 that's what

00:36:09.040 companies are

00:36:09.600 supposed to

00:36:09.980 do

00:36:10.240 cities

00:36:11.220 wanted

00:36:11.800 short-term

00:36:12.480 savings

00:36:13.200 the company

00:36:15.160 the national

00:36:16.220 city lines

00:36:16.960 was creating

00:36:17.900 a problem

00:36:18.540 so then

00:36:19.540 the people

00:36:20.060 funding the

00:36:20.800 national city

00:36:21.360 lines could

00:36:21.840 come in

00:36:22.460 and fix

00:36:23.740 the problem

00:36:24.380 and have

00:36:24.960 the answer

00:36:25.420 does any

00:36:25.820 of this

00:36:26.080 sound

00:36:26.260 familiar

00:36:26.660 consumers

00:36:28.180 wanted

00:36:29.040 freedom

00:36:29.540 but bribes

00:36:31.000 were given

00:36:31.400 and taken

00:36:31.900 collusion

00:36:32.460 between giant

00:36:33.180 corporations

00:36:33.820 happened

00:36:34.700 they had

00:36:35.600 the money

00:36:36.020 to lobby

00:36:36.620 to buy

00:36:37.220 and to bribe

00:36:37.960 and the legal

00:36:38.520 system when it

00:36:39.120 finally kicked

00:36:39.700 in it did

00:36:40.500 virtually nothing

00:36:41.800 and let me

00:36:43.300 ask you this

00:36:43.860 see if this

00:36:44.360 sounds familiar

00:36:44.920 if you had

00:36:46.700 bribed

00:36:47.200 politicians

00:36:47.960 colluded

00:36:48.820 lied

00:36:49.680 misrepresented

00:36:50.660 everything

00:36:51.360 and you

00:36:53.160 destroyed

00:36:53.640 an entire

00:36:54.200 way of

00:36:54.600 life

00:36:54.960 all for

00:36:55.820 profit

00:36:56.340 do you

00:36:56.760 think you

00:36:57.180 would have

00:36:57.420 faced a

00:36:57.800 five thousand

00:36:58.240 dollar fine

00:36:58.800 or do you

00:37:00.000 think you

00:37:00.280 would have

00:37:00.460 gone to

00:37:00.760 jail

00:37:01.060 does any

00:37:03.420 of this

00:37:03.800 sound familiar

00:37:04.520 because that's

00:37:05.820 what has to

00:37:06.560 change and

00:37:07.120 the only way

00:37:07.720 to change

00:37:08.180 that is to

00:37:09.120 reduce the

00:37:10.040 size of

00:37:10.940 government

00:37:11.420 they were

00:37:15.780 all selling

00:37:16.420 the same

00:37:16.860 thing

00:37:17.200 a promise

00:37:18.220 that the

00:37:19.160 future would

00:37:19.680 be easier

00:37:20.260 if we

00:37:20.700 tore up

00:37:21.160 the past

00:37:21.780 is that

00:37:23.000 not the

00:37:23.580 promise of

00:37:24.200 corporations

00:37:24.800 and NGOs

00:37:25.660 and lobbyists

00:37:26.600 and big

00:37:27.020 government

00:37:27.340 advocates

00:37:27.840 today

00:37:28.220 forget the

00:37:29.340 past

00:37:29.680 tear the

00:37:30.280 past

00:37:30.480 take the

00:37:31.380 statues

00:37:32.000 down

00:37:32.480 and we'll

00:37:34.760 have a

00:37:35.000 brighter

00:37:35.200 future

00:37:35.720 would it

00:37:37.700 not have

00:37:38.200 served our

00:37:38.860 generation

00:37:39.420 and our

00:37:39.900 children's

00:37:40.480 generation

00:37:41.000 better

00:37:41.760 had the

00:37:43.040 system

00:37:43.360 worked the

00:37:43.860 way it

00:37:44.100 was supposed

00:37:44.580 to and

00:37:45.120 let people

00:37:45.820 actually decide

00:37:46.880 they may

00:37:47.560 have chosen

00:37:48.040 the same

00:37:48.560 thing

00:37:48.980 but it

00:37:49.660 would have

00:37:49.840 been their

00:37:50.300 choice

00:37:50.780 not a

00:37:51.720 manipulation

00:37:52.380 the streetcar

00:37:54.360 wasn't just

00:37:54.820 transportation

00:37:55.300 it was a

00:37:56.120 vision on

00:37:56.880 how society

00:37:57.660 could move

00:37:58.320 together

00:37:58.840 did you even

00:38:00.960 know about

00:38:01.920 streetcar dominance

00:38:02.860 in America

00:38:03.280 did you even

00:38:03.880 know we led

00:38:04.760 the world in

00:38:05.440 this did you

00:38:06.380 know we were

00:38:06.820 the envy of

00:38:07.720 the world

00:38:08.140 did you know

00:38:10.920 how we went

00:38:11.560 from the

00:38:11.900 trolley

00:38:12.420 and American

00:38:14.140 elites

00:38:14.700 choosing

00:38:15.720 buses

00:38:16.680 over

00:38:17.080 trolleys

00:38:17.680 I didn't

00:38:22.240 for the

00:38:22.540 longest time

00:38:23.280 when I

00:38:23.700 found out

00:38:24.100 I was

00:38:24.360 outraged

00:38:25.200 by it

00:38:25.740 once those

00:38:27.860 rails were

00:38:28.360 gone this

00:38:28.780 is the

00:38:29.120 secret also

00:38:29.780 that you

00:38:30.020 have to pay

00:38:30.340 attention to

00:38:30.760 because it's

00:38:31.100 repeating

00:38:31.420 itself

00:38:31.800 what did

00:38:33.360 they do

00:38:33.980 the the

00:38:35.360 national city

00:38:36.320 lines

00:38:36.800 GM said

00:38:38.980 you know

00:38:40.240 it's going to

00:38:40.580 be a lot

00:38:40.960 better for

00:38:41.660 the tires

00:38:42.220 you're going

00:38:42.440 to save

00:38:42.720 more money

00:38:43.120 just rip 0.99

00:38:43.780 those

00:38:44.060 rip those

00:38:44.800 rails out

00:38:45.420 you couldn't

00:38:46.260 go back

00:38:46.940 okay

00:38:48.080 one day the

00:38:49.380 trolley came

00:38:49.840 down your

00:38:50.120 street the

00:38:50.560 next day it

00:38:51.280 was a giant

00:38:51.860 bus and

00:38:53.440 everybody

00:38:54.020 adapted and

00:38:55.360 today we

00:38:56.180 don't even

00:38:56.560 know what

00:38:57.000 was lost

00:38:57.820 and I think

00:38:59.380 that's the

00:38:59.820 biggest trick

00:39:00.640 of it all

00:39:01.100 when something

00:39:02.380 slowly disappears

00:39:03.700 slow enough

00:39:04.580 people stop

00:39:06.000 remembering it

00:39:06.760 ever existed

00:39:07.560 that's what

00:39:09.780 you're witnessing

00:39:10.420 in real time

00:39:11.440 now with

00:39:11.880 health care

00:39:12.460 and energy

00:39:13.600 over the

00:39:14.320 last 20

00:39:14.860 years

00:39:15.220 health care

00:39:16.080 has it

00:39:16.400 gotten better

00:39:16.920 since Obamacare

00:39:17.920 or worse

00:39:18.480 did Obamacare

00:39:19.640 fix the

00:39:20.140 problem or

00:39:20.500 make it

00:39:20.760 worse

00:39:21.060 did it

00:39:21.420 live up

00:39:21.760 to its

00:39:22.040 promise

00:39:22.480 no

00:39:22.980 because that

00:39:24.100 wasn't the

00:39:24.480 real goal

00:39:25.080 look at

00:39:26.660 energy

00:39:27.040 during the

00:39:27.560 Biden

00:39:27.780 administration

00:39:28.300 what did

00:39:28.740 the socialist

00:39:29.320 Marxist

00:39:29.940 and climate

00:39:30.600 radical

00:39:31.140 politicians

00:39:31.840 lobbyists

00:39:32.420 and NGOs

00:39:32.940 put into

00:39:34.220 the legislation

00:39:35.100 that you

00:39:35.640 couldn't even

00:39:36.060 see until it

00:39:36.660 was passed

00:39:37.120 the Green

00:39:37.500 New Deal

00:39:37.960 not just

00:39:40.020 to close

00:39:40.720 all of the

00:39:41.380 coal-fired

00:39:41.940 electrical

00:39:42.480 plants

00:39:43.040 but they

00:39:44.360 would receive

00:39:44.980 federal money

00:39:45.800 if they

00:39:46.320 also tore

00:39:47.280 those plants

00:39:48.140 down

00:39:48.880 bring up

00:39:52.180 the rails

00:39:52.840 bring the

00:39:54.420 coal-fired

00:39:54.920 plants down

00:39:55.920 I share this

00:39:57.800 with you today

00:39:58.280 because we are

00:39:58.840 destined to

00:39:59.760 repeat history

00:40:00.600 if we don't

00:40:02.900 know our

00:40:03.700 own history

00:40:04.580 all right

00:40:08.140 let me tell

00:40:08.460 you about

00:40:08.680 z-factor

00:40:09.120 some people

00:40:09.560 brag about

00:40:10.040 how little

00:40:10.420 they sleep

00:40:11.020 Donald Trump

00:40:12.000 I mean I

00:40:13.060 wish I could

00:40:13.660 do that

00:40:13.900 I would

00:40:14.200 you know

00:40:14.880 what I

00:40:15.260 would wear

00:40:15.680 that as

00:40:16.140 a medal

00:40:16.540 if I were

00:40:16.940 if I could

00:40:17.400 sleep like

00:40:17.920 this guy

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00:40:18.720 I don't

00:40:19.220 I can't

00:40:20.400 okay

00:40:20.720 here's what

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00:40:23.620 make bad

00:40:24.540 decisions

00:40:25.160 except in

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00:40:27.220 they can

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00:40:28.540 tired body

00:40:29.740 loses

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00:40:30.760 tired spirit

00:40:31.600 starts

00:40:31.920 negotiating

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00:40:34.160 it shouldn't

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00:40:47.360 recover

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00:40:48.680 and actually

00:40:49.260 rest

00:40:49.660 it's not

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00:40:51.280 know

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00:40:51.840 about being

00:40:52.200 knocked out

00:40:52.860 it's about

00:40:53.260 drifting into

00:40:53.840 real restful

00:40:54.700 sleep and

00:40:55.240 waking up

00:40:55.740 clear-headed

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00:41:23.440 raising good

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00:41:27.480 love

00:41:27.860 more Glenn

00:41:30.860 Beck

00:41:31.260 next

00:41:32.360 I've only got

00:41:56.160 25 seconds left

00:41:57.420 and I was just

00:41:58.400 talking about

00:41:58.780 street cars

00:41:59.320 which led the

00:41:59.980 insiders to talk

00:42:00.740 about cool cars

00:42:01.680 let me talk to you

00:42:03.240 about cool cars

00:42:04.040 I'm going to go

00:42:04.440 on the insider

00:42:04.940 stream here

00:42:05.860 because we have

00:42:06.280 Lee Zeldin coming 0.50

00:42:07.200 up in a few

00:42:07.620 minutes

00:42:07.820 but I got to

00:42:08.560 tell you

00:42:08.880 why does

00:42:09.720 every car

00:42:10.200 look exactly

00:42:11.120 alike

00:42:11.620 oh you need to

00:42:13.680 hear this story

00:42:14.620 I'll share it

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00:42:16.300 here

00:42:16.680 just become an

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00:42:21.260 you know a lot

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00:42:24.120 discomfort

00:42:24.600 comes from

00:42:25.400 one big

00:42:26.160 movement

00:42:26.540 and it

00:42:27.340 comes from

00:42:27.720 repetition

00:42:28.140 sitting too

00:42:29.400 long

00:42:29.660 standing too

00:42:30.360 long

00:42:30.600 moving the

00:42:31.260 same way

00:42:31.580 every day

00:42:32.200 and over

00:42:32.600 time

00:42:32.960 that tension

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00:42:34.440 in and starts

00:42:35.000 to feel

00:42:35.340 normal

00:42:35.800 even though

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00:42:36.880 what chirp

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00:42:39.540 of that

00:42:39.960 tension

00:42:40.360 their wheel

00:42:41.380 style back

00:42:42.140 rollers are

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00:42:43.880 muscles that

00:42:44.460 run along

00:42:45.080 your spine

00:42:45.620 the ones

00:42:46.080 that really

00:42:46.620 get tight

00:42:47.060 and overworked

00:42:47.760 and become

00:42:48.640 stiff from

00:42:49.180 daily life

00:42:49.820 you lie

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00:42:50.940 you roll

00:42:51.320 slowly

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00:42:52.100 let those

00:42:52.500 muscles

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00:42:53.620 to release

00:42:54.200 it's so

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00:42:55.500 the design

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00:44:08.440 is on

00:44:09.380 na na na

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00:44:25.140 this is

00:44:27.760 the glenn beck

00:44:29.640 program

00:44:30.300 hello america

00:44:33.960 uh i have the

00:44:36.560 man of the hour

00:44:37.140 on i mean i have

00:44:38.200 the man maybe of

00:44:39.160 the decade on

00:44:39.960 uh maybe of the

00:44:42.840 last 100 years

00:44:44.020 this guy has just

00:44:45.820 announced yesterday

00:44:46.960 uh the

00:44:48.260 environmental

00:44:48.680 protection agency

00:44:49.800 is deregulating

00:44:52.140 the largest

00:44:53.240 single largest

00:44:54.180 deregulation

00:44:55.120 action in

00:44:55.880 u.s history

00:44:56.860 it changes

00:44:58.420 everything

00:44:59.620 oh yeah

00:45:00.920 i might have to

00:45:02.140 play some sexy

00:45:02.800 music behind it

00:45:03.580 when he's talking

00:45:04.400 because this is

00:45:05.100 just this is

00:45:05.700 this is

00:45:06.200 conservative

00:45:06.880 and constitutional

00:45:08.440 porn that is

00:45:09.400 about to happen

00:45:10.120 lee zeldin joins

00:45:11.420 me in a second

00:45:12.040 first let me tell

00:45:12.780 you about rapid

00:45:13.220 radios we assume

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00:45:14.740 will always be

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00:45:16.820 uh you know we

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00:45:18.460 about it we just

00:45:19.020 expect when we call

00:45:19.840 it rings and we

00:45:20.800 text it sends and

00:45:21.860 then you know if

00:45:22.620 something goes wrong

00:45:23.300 we go reach somebody

00:45:24.120 immediately but that

00:45:24.900 assumption only holds

00:45:25.840 as long as the

00:45:26.460 system holds a major

00:45:27.800 storm a power

00:45:28.640 failure network

00:45:30.060 overloaded uh you

00:45:31.440 know a dead cell

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00:45:34.560 realize it's not as

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00:45:53.380 when things get

00:45:53.960 unpredictable the

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00:45:55.700 people you care about

00:45:56.620 the workers that you

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00:46:14.520 lee zeldon i've never

00:46:20.680 had the desire nor have

00:46:22.360 i ever made out with a

00:46:23.860 man but today i would

00:46:27.140 consider it you are you

00:46:29.580 are the greatest man

00:46:30.700 alive today uh thank you

00:46:32.840 thank you thank you for

00:46:33.900 everything that you and

00:46:34.620 donald trump have done

00:46:35.500 and announced yesterday

00:46:36.800 well listen it was uh a

00:46:39.940 big deal and we were

00:46:41.520 excited to be there in

00:46:42.560 the roosevelt room to

00:46:43.680 announce it as you

00:46:44.500 pointed out the largest

00:46:45.440 act of deregulation in

00:46:47.340 the history of the united

00:46:48.480 states 1.3 trillion

00:46:50.580 dollars and a smart guy

00:46:52.760 like you who's been

00:46:53.660 following supreme court

00:46:55.000 cases and you know the

00:46:56.660 timeline that this has

00:46:58.520 been a long time coming

00:47:00.240 the the left they created

00:47:02.800 this endangerment finding

00:47:04.180 to hoard power in a

00:47:06.740 very unique interpretation

00:47:08.360 of the clean air act that

00:47:10.080 is not allowed under any

00:47:12.360 best reading of it and

00:47:13.460 they they did trillions of

00:47:15.160 dollars of regulation on

00:47:16.340 mobile sources airplane

00:47:17.540 stationary sources oil and

00:47:19.400 gas uh there's so much

00:47:21.460 control that they hoarded

00:47:22.480 and we just went out went

00:47:23.840 right for the root the

00:47:25.380 endangerment finding the

00:47:26.840 best reading of the clean

00:47:27.860 air act uh we know that

00:47:29.540 that this is a durable

00:47:30.680 decision that i signed

00:47:32.720 yesterday after loper

00:47:34.240 bright and west virginia

00:47:35.760 versus epa and michigan

00:47:37.020 versus epa if you want

00:47:39.260 the law to say that epa

00:47:41.600 should be regulating the

00:47:42.900 heck out of greenhouse gas

00:47:44.020 emissions that is a topic

00:47:45.920 for a debate and a vote in

00:47:48.380 congress not a rogue

00:47:50.160 unelected bureaucrat at a

00:47:51.700 federal agency yes yes yes

00:47:54.900 yes i mean i was just

00:47:56.120 talking to the insiders you

00:47:57.600 know in during the break and

00:47:58.620 i said you know the one

00:48:00.220 reason why a kia uh looks 1.00

00:48:02.620 like a genesis and a

00:48:04.000 genesis looks like a

00:48:04.880 bentley and the bentley

00:48:05.720 looks like the mercedes is

00:48:07.300 that is it cars can't

00:48:09.160 design you can't design

00:48:10.820 cars to look any different

00:48:12.040 because the regulations are

00:48:13.500 so heavy you you can't add

00:48:15.800 any drag to any cars you

00:48:17.340 know so everything starts to

00:48:18.580 look meh uh and that's

00:48:20.940 just that's one of the

00:48:21.920 things that i don't think

00:48:22.620 even people even think

00:48:23.900 about let alone you know

00:48:25.720 your lighting your shower

00:48:27.280 overhead uh your water

00:48:28.960 pressure uh the money

00:48:30.900 that you're going to save

00:48:31.800 just because trucks are

00:48:33.780 not going to have to spend

00:48:35.000 as much money so trucking

00:48:36.240 goes down any idea how

00:48:38.260 much money we're looking at

00:48:40.060 possible savings for the

00:48:41.440 american people yes a new

00:48:43.880 vehicle is going to cost

00:48:45.820 over twenty four hundred

00:48:47.160 dollars less on average now

00:48:49.940 that this decision has been

00:48:51.820 signed and on top of it all

00:48:54.660 as an added bonus we got

00:48:56.200 rid of the obama switch the

00:48:57.800 climate participation

00:48:58.740 trophy for manufacturers of

00:49:01.060 adding that annoying start

00:49:02.460 stop feature in vehicles that

00:49:04.100 make your car die a red light

00:49:05.880 and stop sign uh that off

00:49:07.800 cycle all off cycle credits are

00:49:09.880 gone

00:49:10.220 you're talking sexy talk with

00:49:14.600 when you're talking about

00:49:15.460 getting that thing out of my

00:49:16.840 car you you had me at

00:49:19.080 hello um amen uh the how long

00:49:22.940 before we start to see those

00:49:24.780 savings

00:49:25.460 immediately i mean everything

00:49:28.360 takes time the yeah the

00:49:30.400 president came in uh january of

00:49:32.800 2025 this was a day one

00:49:34.580 executive order so as far as

00:49:36.220 you know signaling to auto

00:49:38.400 manufacturers that the

00:49:40.420 president was focused on it

00:49:41.800 that was a day one message that

00:49:43.660 was sent uh we announced on

00:49:45.680 march 12th uh that we were

00:49:47.600 going to be pursuing this effort

00:49:50.220 we did the public comment we

00:49:52.060 followed all of the rules of

00:49:53.460 the administrator procedures act

00:49:55.040 i read the the final uh decision

00:49:58.620 before signing it uh yesterday

00:50:00.540 and this thing is airtight you

00:50:03.180 know i referenced loper bright a

00:50:05.260 second ago is the supreme court

00:50:07.040 case overturning the chevron

00:50:08.480 doctrine when the 2009 endangerment

00:50:11.340 finding was done the obama

00:50:13.800 administration the epa

00:50:15.320 administrator was was creatively

00:50:17.560 interpreting the clean air act to

00:50:19.740 say well if it doesn't say i can't

00:50:21.480 i guess that means we can

00:50:22.840 well the supreme court said in

00:50:25.240 loper bright that's not how it

00:50:26.580 works you have to follow the best

00:50:27.960 reading of the law and then i also

00:50:30.160 referenced west virginia versus epa

00:50:31.960 as an example the major policies

00:50:34.120 doctrine if you're going to do

00:50:36.180 trillions of dollars of regulation

00:50:38.280 that is something that is for

00:50:41.260 congress and as far as this decision

00:50:43.740 itself it was loaded with so many

00:50:47.300 mental leaps uh they said that when

00:50:49.480 carbon dioxide was mixed with five

00:50:52.140 other well-mixed gases some of them

00:50:53.860 not even emitted from vehicles that it

00:50:56.680 contributes not causes contributes to

00:50:59.460 global climate change that you won't

00:51:01.580 find that in section 202 the clean air

00:51:03.560 act and they say global climate change

00:51:05.980 endangers public health and welfare

00:51:08.260 without analyzing the local and

00:51:10.100 regional impacts which is the way that

00:51:12.120 it was always done for decades um you

00:51:15.220 know when you actually dig into what

00:51:16.980 the law says the obama administration

00:51:20.300 decided well i guess we have to change

00:51:22.560 the law they tried to get the votes in

00:51:24.120 congress and then when they couldn't get

00:51:25.520 the votes they said well i guess we're

00:51:27.380 just going to have to do it anyway well

00:51:29.400 fast forward to 2026 game over

00:51:31.720 endangerment finding is gone

00:51:33.580 so um with a lot of the stuff that

00:51:38.200 trump has done because we can't seem to

00:51:39.860 get congress to really do anything um

00:51:42.580 he's had to do it through executive

00:51:44.300 order etc etc and then i worry about

00:51:46.980 codifying things but this one is

00:51:48.920 different because this one's all based

00:51:51.100 on the supreme court wins right

00:51:52.760 right and it's also based off of what the

00:51:56.560 law doesn't allow you know this is this

00:52:00.520 is a best reading of the clean air act

00:52:03.400 which does not say that we should be

00:52:07.340 regulating uh in a mission to combat

00:52:11.020 global climate change and you know you

00:52:14.720 could ignore all of all of the the the bad

00:52:17.580 guesses of al gore and john kerry and and

00:52:20.740 others um you can replace all of the the

00:52:24.500 bad flawed assumptions on science that were

00:52:27.420 made in 2009 with the most pessimistic

00:52:30.260 predictions that didn't bear out as we look

00:52:32.540 at facts in 2026 regardless of of where

00:52:36.980 anyone is on their opinion or the fact on

00:52:40.460 the science debate the reality is the

00:52:43.020 clean air act it does not authorize this

00:52:45.900 that congress would have to pass a new law

00:52:48.260 in order to have uh the trillions of 0.79

00:52:52.260 dollars of regulation so yeah no it doesn't

00:52:54.480 have to be codified and quite frankly

00:52:57.300 because of the supreme court precedent uh

00:52:59.980 you know if the pendulum swung one day

00:53:02.800 down the road that some far left democrat

00:53:05.460 gets a lot elected president and they have

00:53:08.300 uh you know somebody running the epa and

00:53:12.240 they're trying to go back to it the

00:53:13.440 problem is is that the clean air act is

00:53:15.320 still going to give them the same problem

00:53:16.660 and loper bright is on the books and it

00:53:19.600 says you can't just make it up and now

00:53:23.060 manufacturers can make vehicles that

00:53:25.700 consumers actually want rather than what

00:53:27.580 politicians demand and when you combine

00:53:30.000 this decision with the uh the resetting of

00:53:34.000 the cafe standards with secretary duffy and

00:53:37.080 dot and the president when you combine it

00:53:39.720 with getting rid of the electric vehicle

00:53:41.560 mandate with the three congressional review

00:53:43.740 act bills that congress passed and

00:53:46.000 president trump signed you add the the new

00:53:48.440 investments that have been announced billions

00:53:50.480 of these different manufacturers and the

00:53:53.240 jobs that come with it it all adds up for a

00:53:55.860 very positive one year for the u.s auto

00:53:57.940 industry

00:53:58.420 so is it going to make the u.s auto um

00:54:03.740 harder to sell in places like the eu because

00:54:08.380 they've gone full-fledged insane uh right

00:54:11.740 now i mean ford f-150s i don't think a

00:54:13.980 single ford f-150 best-selling car in

00:54:16.420 america has been sold in europe um and

00:54:20.760 it's not just the size of it it it's all

00:54:23.780 of the regulations and the tariffs that

00:54:25.400 hopefully donald trump is is you know really

00:54:27.480 making a real dent in um but if we relax our

00:54:32.460 regulations will it be harder for us to sell

00:54:36.240 something in europe well i'm confident that

00:54:40.660 there's gonna be more f-150s that are going

00:54:42.620 to get built and less electric vehicles that

00:54:45.320 sit on dealership lots and remaining

00:54:47.420 unsold now i i was a couple months ago i was

00:54:50.800 at the the g7 energy and environment ministers

00:54:53.940 meeting that was uh in toronto canada and i

00:54:57.900 could tell that these european countries are

00:55:00.980 really feeling the strain of how they have

00:55:05.840 chosen to protect the environment over

00:55:09.380 growing the economy so that the trump

00:55:11.480 administration believes that you could

00:55:13.120 protect the environment and grow the economy

00:55:15.280 the economic cost of the climate goals that

00:55:20.000 they were set are you know it's coming home

00:55:22.900 to to roost right now and these european

00:55:26.500 countries are facing a reality where you know

00:55:28.960 they'll make their decisions uh in the months

00:55:31.340 in the years to come but they clearly are in a

00:55:34.020 really bad place right now and they're and

00:55:36.000 they're rethinking certain policies now how

00:55:38.760 much of that they say publicly versus

00:55:40.680 privately i i don't know we'll see but

00:55:43.160 when i was in that meeting and we were having

00:55:45.300 these conversations clearly they are feeling the

00:55:48.400 economic pressure of their environmental policies

00:55:50.540 i have to tell you i think when america

00:55:53.200 becomes more than competitive i mean when

00:55:56.660 we're going in a different direction and it's

00:55:59.020 cheaper and it's better i i just think the

00:56:02.060 you know the the world needed leadership and

00:56:05.500 the world now has leadership and i think these

00:56:08.280 countries are going to they're just going to

00:56:10.240 collapse on their own weight on things like this

00:56:12.420 um one last thing lee and you kind of addressed

00:56:15.080 it but i want to make sure because i mean this is

00:56:17.000 conservative heaven right now um but for

00:56:21.340 um middle class lower class democrats this is

00:56:28.460 really good for them as well and you speak to

00:56:31.260 somebody who didn't vote for donald trump and

00:56:33.380 you know thinks that oh this is this is this is

00:56:36.680 gonna you know you're not listening to science

00:56:38.720 this is about a more consumer choice this is about

00:56:44.240 having more affordable vehicles and by the way when

00:56:46.940 you make the trucks more affordable that deliver all

00:56:51.700 of those consumer goods that you purchase in your

00:56:53.960 daily lives the cost of living across the board is

00:56:57.100 able to go down 1.3 trillion dollars now too

00:57:01.040 often when you start talking millions and billions and

00:57:04.180 trillions you know a lot of people just uh kind of

00:57:07.660 view it all as the same these are these are big numbers

00:57:10.640 1.3 trillion dollars is one massive number when you're

00:57:15.980 talking about twenty four hundred dollars

00:57:18.000 to to purchase a new vehicle twenty four hundred dollars less

00:57:21.900 it's more mobility more economic mobility it's the ability to be able to

00:57:26.120 get to work to get to church it's the uh it's the ability to have more money

00:57:30.740 available for health care uh for education and the other costs of life

00:57:35.340 and you know i was i was just asked about uh fossil fuels and

00:57:40.400 and and you know the question was asked in a way as if

00:57:43.640 you know we we should be getting rid of it and i mean just look back at the last

00:57:47.700 few weeks the temperatures across this entire country thank god president trump

00:57:52.620 has been unleashing energy dominance thank god we have

00:57:55.680 baseload power reliable coal and natural gas and

00:57:59.180 and oil that's kept our country warm for the person that you're talking about

00:58:03.460 that low-income that middle-income family that person who's been struggling

00:58:07.340 imagine going through the last few weeks without heat

00:58:10.060 uh the president's policies especially when you add them all up and it's only

00:58:14.240 been one year we still have three more years of this there's a lot that's been

00:58:17.980 fixed there's a lot more to fix and i'm just really honored to have a part of it

00:58:21.800 well i tell you lee um you were on the show i don't know about a year ago

00:58:26.140 and you said you were going to do this and you said that you know the president

00:58:29.060 was on it and the president had told me he was going to do this

00:58:31.220 and it is nice to see politicians and and people in government

00:58:34.940 actually do what they say they're going to do uh congratulations and please

00:58:38.980 congratulate the president on this as well

00:58:40.900 great well great news thank you you badly

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01:00:08.580 so uh insiders are asking about you know is this going to impact the light bulb situation

01:00:28.820 etc etc yes um uh it it should affect all of those things you won't have to worry about your gas stove

01:00:36.160 you won't have to worry about your shower head all of that stuff goes away

01:00:39.140 because all of that was epa that was all done through regulation

01:00:42.420 see this is this is this is the point that conservatives need to make

01:00:48.940 if you want that then it should go through congress and the senate it should go through the proper channels

01:00:57.640 what the democrats did in the early 1900s was they started building up agencies

01:01:05.120 and they said that the government should be run by experts

01:01:08.720 i don't know about you but i'm tired of hearing from the experts

01:01:11.620 because they'll tell us one thing and then try to silence everybody on you know

01:01:16.460 no i don't think that's right or i don't think we should do that

01:01:18.860 and they'll just just vilify you

01:01:21.640 until they decide oh you know what we shouldn't be doing this

01:01:25.760 and then then they're the expert again telling us now what to do

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01:01:32.200 and it just gets worse and worse and worse so i don't want our government run by experts

01:01:36.360 i i trust the american people to decide

01:01:38.880 um and if you want these things then pass them in laws

01:01:42.560 but they knew they couldn't get these things passed

01:01:45.400 and so what they did is they just put them in uh into regulation

01:01:50.860 you know how much regulation those are law those are like laws now

01:01:55.600 that are being written by administrators that should not be written by administrators

01:01:59.180 our law constitutionally needs to be written by congress

01:02:02.700 but they just write i mean a stack of papers as tall as i am

01:02:08.180 every day is or i mean every year is added to our law

01:02:12.220 because of regulations what donald trump did was get rid of all those

01:02:17.680 if you really want these regulations if you really think that that's really what's going on

01:02:23.180 then convince the american people and have the american people elect people to congress

01:02:29.040 that will pass those things that's the that's our system anything other than that

01:02:34.980 is authoritarian is fascistic okay especially when you get to a place to where

01:02:41.200 you have government colluding with private business that's the definition of fascism

01:02:48.120 uh and that's what the left has been building and that's what i i don't like uh i don't

01:02:55.120 you know i worry about uh the administration with um all of the ai stuff are they too close to these

01:03:01.960 businesses what what are what is the deal that is being made there i don't want any of that stuff

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01:03:29.120 by her soldiers during a mission in afghanistan um which killed both of her biological parents they

01:03:35.960 were terrorists and we came in and uh mom tried to blow herself up and the baby and i mean it was

01:03:43.120 horrible situation horrible and then this little baby was there and the afghani soldiers on our side

01:03:51.220 they have different codes of ethics they're like you got to kill the baby and we're like no we're not

01:03:55.740 killing the baby and they said we have to because that child will grow up because it's going to go back

01:04:00.760 into the taliban you know stuff and it'll be raised to hate us and we'll be fighting another generation 1.00

01:04:06.000 you got to kill the baby we're like no no we're not doing that so the soldiers brought her back she 1.00

01:04:11.700 went to the hospital she needed to be adopted um the mass family uh adopted two soldiers husband and

01:04:18.840 husband and wife um they adopt and uh then it becomes inconvenient for the biden administration and so

01:04:26.100 they sue because they want to get the baby back to the taliban it's crazy it's crazy yesterday we found

01:04:33.580 out that um baby sparrow legally now it's over the court has ruled it she is now part of the mass family

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01:06:39.180 welcome to the glennbeck program so glad that you're here there's uh something that you know

01:07:06.280 i've been on a rant on a few states lately one of those states is utah because you know better

01:07:12.920 shame on you you know better but everybody just thinks it's the texas is like this too

01:07:18.680 oh it'll always be this way oh no we're we're texas we're conservative you have no idea how you

01:07:24.620 are under attack and you are about to lose everything that you have had um there is a

01:07:32.120 a deadline happening this sunday to uh repeal prop four um prop four is really important because it

01:07:45.260 is giving power to the elites and it barely passed i don't think people understood what they were even

01:07:51.540 doing but everybody wants to give everything to elites i'm going to give it to an independent expert

01:07:56.140 don't give anything to an independent expert for the love of pete leave power where it has checks

01:08:03.300 and balances stop give it that's what that's what lee zellett was just talking about deregulation

01:08:08.800 get it away from the hands of people that you do not elect that you cannot control one way or another 0.59

01:08:15.040 otherwise the power grows out of control and you've lost everything and utah unless you sign

01:08:22.060 the petition to repeal proposition four by sunday you're going you're you're in a world of hurt

01:08:30.000 you're in a world of hurt because everything's going to be redistricted um we have robert axon

01:08:35.440 on with us he is the utah republican party chair um welcome to the uh program robert hey good morning

01:08:43.340 glenn thanks i appreciate being on you you bet um so did i i i'm explaining proposition four

01:08:50.720 exactly correct you are 100 correct this was a proposition that uh on the surface appears like

01:08:59.200 it it's noble this idea of an independent redistricting commission it barely passed in 2018

01:09:05.040 since then unaccountable judges have turned it into an absolute uh monstrosity that ignores

01:09:11.980 constitutional requirements representative government is the system that blesses this country

01:09:17.920 and blesses the state of utah we have to defend it and that's what we're trying to do with this

01:09:21.700 repeal of prop four i gotta tell you i am so sick and tired of these these ngos and these pop-up 0.99

01:09:29.040 organizations that uh cloak themselves as something neutral and they are so leftist just be honest just

01:09:37.400 be honest on who you are but um a lawsuit was brought by two leftist organizations mormon women for 0.99

01:09:45.840 ethical government and the league of women voters and they challenged the maps and the uh and the 0.99

01:09:52.240 process right correct so so they engaged in a lawsuit and unfortunately the courts capitulated and

01:09:59.260 they've gone to a place uh in a recent uh decision by one of our our state judges here in utah last

01:10:05.900 november to throw out any type of map that went through the legislative process even any map that went

01:10:13.200 through the the prop four process and instead this judge selected a map that came from two private

01:10:18.800 organizations never accountable to the people of utah never accountable and compliant to our state

01:10:24.560 constitution certainly uh disrespectful to the very principle of a constitutional republic a form of

01:10:30.800 government that as you know our federal constitution guarantees to every state it's an absolute uh affront to

01:10:37.760 to the entire ability for us as individuals as citizens to hold accountable and to elect our

01:10:44.320 our representatives and to have them engage on our behalf where we can then hold them accountable

01:10:49.040 through elections if this doesn't get the signatures it needs 170 000 signatures if it doesn't get those

01:10:57.540 signatures by sunday what does that mean correct i mean at that point we will we will lose the

01:11:04.200 opportunity to put this on the ballot for november and this is important we need to repeal this now

01:11:09.220 we need to engage in this process now and let utahs decide so that this is not an issue that affects us

01:11:15.280 not only this year but in the next number of years the next uh census utah is likely to pick up another

01:11:21.760 congressional seat and we'll be further in this situation of losing the state and the values that

01:11:26.700 we have that you so uh well laid out we have to stand up we can't just sit on the sidelines so

01:11:32.700 every utah needs to go and sign this in fact you can find locations where you can come to sign you

01:11:38.940 have to sign it in person it's not something you can do online and you can go to ufrg.org

01:11:45.540 to find locations to sign you can donate there to help us get this in front of as many utahns as

01:11:50.840 possible but ufrg it stands for utahns for representative government ufrg.org

01:11:57.160 you if this doesn't pass you are about to lose one of four congressional districts

01:12:05.460 uh to democrat control even though democrats represent less than 13 percent of the voters

01:12:12.560 how is that possible yeah this is the the crazy thinking of people who have law degrees and put

01:12:19.360 on robes and they think they can dictate to the people of my state and in other states across this

01:12:23.980 country what should be according to their own uh whims and fancy it's it's ridiculous it's pathetic

01:12:30.360 in a state that has like you said just about 13 percent registered voters as democrats they've put

01:12:36.220 together and she selected a map that is the most gerrymandered the most manipulated map that utah has seen

01:12:42.420 they have effectively put just about every democrat into one district turning one district into a

01:12:48.220 kamala harris plus 28 districts that doesn't exist naturally you have to you have to manipulate the

01:12:54.500 process to do that that's what's happened that's why we are repealing and attempting to repeal the

01:13:00.180 underlying law that has been used as the excuse to do this nonsense the problem is nobody likes

01:13:08.420 politicians nobody likes you know you know congress is the problem our state legislator is a problem

01:13:14.200 whatever the the real problem here is yes in many cases they have failed to do what they were supposed

01:13:21.240 to do but in failing to do that what they did was give the power over to systems administrative systems

01:13:30.460 or elites that's exactly what prop four did it gave that power to a bunch of unelected people that you 0.92

01:13:38.600 can't change you have nothing to do with it how is that representative government it is not

01:13:45.720 representative government you may not like the other way but believe me at least those people answer to

01:13:52.580 you every election they you have a chance of getting them out these other people you don't even know who

01:13:58.380 they are why would they be the ones making the decision it's it's not the american system and it's got to

01:14:06.200 stop if you want to sign this petition you have to do it by this weekend in person it's ufrg

01:14:13.240 utahns for a representative government ufrg.org ufrg.org robert thank you very much good luck

01:14:21.640 thank you glenn you bet i'll tell you these states you know we look at these states we're like oh you

01:14:28.460 know we're fine we're fine we're gonna be fine no you're not no you're not especially with the

01:14:33.820 demographic demographic shift i'm worried about i'm really worried about utah i think utah's

01:14:40.740 ripe for the picking right now um i'm very worried about texas texas texans who have lived there their

01:14:50.160 whole lives just think it will always be this way i lived there in the 80s i moved back in the early

01:14:57.620 90s um and then i moved away and i came back in 2010 or 11 it wasn't the same state it just wasn't

01:15:06.920 the same state and it's still great but now with all of these people moving in from blue states some of

01:15:15.500 them get it but the way these states are moving now they're taxing everybody and they're all collapsing

01:15:22.960 all now everybody is coming saying i can't live with that they didn't learn a lesson

01:15:28.180 they didn't learn trust me they will do the same thing to your state you've got to protect yourself

01:15:34.540 and make sure that all of the levers of control belong in the hands of the people through their

01:15:44.060 elected officials it has to be done it has to be done we've seen the games that everybody is playing

01:15:50.400 i i'm telling you mark my words this may not even be able to be proven until i'm long dead but i

01:15:56.540 guarantee you at some point they're going to find that a third of what this government does

01:16:02.980 is graft and corrupt all of our i can guarantee you if we got you want to get rid of the debt

01:16:12.520 every year you want to make sure that we're not adding to the debt with the deficit you want to get

01:16:17.600 rid of the deficit clean up the corruption that's how much corruption i think there is

01:16:23.740 and a lot of that is because lobbyists ngos everybody being cozy with everybody not enforcing

01:16:32.060 the actual law nobody actually holding their their uh oath to office as sacred that's what's happening

01:16:40.740 to our country that all has to be reversed and the first thing that has to happen is you got to get

01:16:45.820 the experts out of this that was the first that's how it started that was woodrow wilson's dream

01:16:51.840 let's make it an administrative state with a whole bunch of experts we won't need congress we won't 0.99

01:16:58.380 need the senate we'll have the experts they'll run the system we're almost there so the last thing utah

01:17:06.020 or anybody else should do is give the power to the experts that's what the left wants since woodrow

01:17:14.440 wilson that's the problem not the solution please if you're a live in utah sign this today or tomorrow

01:17:24.220 sunday's going to be tough in utah sign it today or tomorrow you got today and tomorrow that's it

01:17:29.160 utgop.org or the way to find this is ufrg uh utah's for representative government ufrg.org sign it

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01:21:21.180 you move on i know i read weathering heights i didn't remember anything about it i sober up and

01:21:27.580 i decide you know i'm a moron i should start reading so one of the books i pick up in a classics

01:21:32.920 is weathering heights and i love that book love that book it's been 30 35 years since i've read it

01:21:39.100 so i don't really remember anymore i just remember how much i loved it so when weathering heights came

01:21:44.040 out i was really excited to go see it it's an abomination it the movie it's horrible absolutely

01:21:51.980 horrible you know me you know how i cry at a dry i mean i i cry at anything not even a kleenex

01:22:00.300 commercial it doesn't have to be that good dry i mean there was nothing i didn't like any of the

01:22:07.720 characters in fact i have to go back and read the book because if that's what was in the book i

01:22:13.380 question what the hell was i thinking 30 years ago because it's awful but every every character 0.51

01:22:19.500 in it is despicable except one so i am not allowed to mock you for being a man that reads

01:22:27.600 wuthering heights it's a classic okay all right so you keep your man card now because you hated the

01:22:34.220 movie perfect you can like classics and still be a man i don't know about going to the movie if that

01:22:42.600 makes you a man but i just i i have been waiting for that movie for a year i think it came out a year

01:22:48.340 ago and i'm like oh this is my favorite this is one of my favorite classics and honestly i have to go

01:22:55.560 back and read it because it was there was no love in it i didn't see the love in there it was

01:23:01.860 it was sex and twisted and uh i was just twisted it was just twisted um don't see it oh it's garbage

01:23:13.080 just garbage and i had hopes but i get it i get it so now i know what i'm doing this weekend i'm reading

01:23:19.940 re re re re re reading wuthering heights which i don't want to read i read it once i don't want

01:23:26.560 to read it twice thanks hollywood see that's what they do they make you question yourself

01:23:32.440 um let's see there's something else here that uh oh i i gotta ask you um the senate now saying that

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01:24:57.260 can you just can you can i mean what is wrong with you it didn't work the first time at least

01:25:03.360 fetterman isn't it amazing the guy who has verifiable brain damage

01:25:08.260 is the only one that seems to get it i mean that is that's remarkable to me i i love this guy by the

01:25:18.980 way um i've got a lot of stuff to talk about and i don't know which one i'm letting the insiders on

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01:27:04.880 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:27:08.780 Glenn Beck is on.

01:27:10.120 Hello America, it's Friday.

01:27:20.340 We're glad you're here.

01:27:21.300 Thank you so much for tuning in.

01:27:23.100 I want to talk to you about Cuba and Russia.

01:27:26.180 Is it possible we are seeing a Cuban Missile Crisis redo?

01:27:32.380 Are we seeing a replay of this?

01:27:35.700 And is it possible it ends in many ways the same way it did last time?

01:27:41.140 And I'm not talking just about ships turning around or a blockade.

01:27:44.860 Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end?

01:27:48.540 I'm going to talk a little bit about history because I think there's a chance something bigger is going on here.

01:27:55.940 Especially when you look at what Russia said yesterday about the U.S. dollar.

01:28:01.480 They're sending signals and yet they're sending supplies along with Mexico.

01:28:08.080 Thank you, Mexico, to Cuba.

01:28:11.240 We're going to talk about that here in just a second.

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01:29:23.020 So, Jason, I want to check with you.

01:29:27.840 I saw the poll go up.

01:29:29.400 We just asked the Torch insiders to decide and, you know, rank what they wanted to talk about this hour, what they wanted me to start with.

01:29:39.680 And it was Cuba, was it not?

01:29:41.320 Yeah.

01:29:41.920 Well, it's gotten closer, but 55% of the audience want Cuba.

01:29:45.600 The second closest one is SAVE Act at 42%.

01:29:48.600 So, most of them Cuba. 0.62

01:29:50.180 Okay, good.

01:29:50.320 We're going to talk.

01:29:50.820 We'll talk about both of those.

01:29:53.780 Let me start with Cuba.

01:29:57.140 Let me start with something small on Cuba.

01:30:02.560 A really important statement came from the Kremlin this week.

01:30:06.320 Um, the spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, he said, Russia didn't abandon the dollar.

01:30:15.060 The dollar abandoned us.

01:30:17.640 Okay.

01:30:19.220 Now, that's an interesting phrase coming from the spokesperson from the Kremlin.

01:30:24.940 Then he said, if conditions change and the dollar became practical again, countries, including Russia, might resume using it again.

01:30:36.360 Wait a minute.

01:30:37.880 What?

01:30:39.500 For years, the message out of Russia has been de-dollarization.

01:30:44.540 Okay.

01:30:45.020 Now the message is more, well, we left because we had to, not because we wanted to.

01:30:51.520 Wait.

01:30:52.440 Hold on.

01:30:53.120 Reports based on Russian internal proposals suggest Moscow is floating a broader economic cooperation with Washington if a Ukraine settlement emerges.

01:31:05.000 Okay.

01:31:06.040 If we settle on Ukraine, what Russia is now saying is maybe we can do joint energy projects.

01:31:14.000 Maybe we can jointly invest in different things and have cooperation.

01:31:19.320 And maybe, you know, the settlement systems that, you know, uh, Joe Biden just blew up.

01:31:28.640 Maybe it would include dollar based transactions again.

01:31:33.200 Wait, what?

01:31:34.540 What?

01:31:36.120 This is huge.

01:31:38.440 Russia has been using the dollar as a weapon for a long time, a long time.

01:31:44.680 And so are we.

01:31:46.060 This is the fundamental principle of bricks, you know, and local currencies.

01:31:50.000 Russia was saying that's the future.

01:31:52.040 Um, okay.

01:31:56.760 But why are you saying you might go back to it?

01:31:59.580 All right.

01:32:01.140 So there's the first piece of the puzzle.

01:32:04.400 Something's going on and it's tied to Ukraine.

01:32:09.240 Jason.

01:32:10.800 Tell me about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

01:32:13.120 What was that about?

01:32:14.400 What happened?

01:32:15.720 Cuban Missile Crisis?

01:32:17.580 Yes.

01:32:19.040 Well, do you want to know like the, I just kind of like a, what, this is what happened or do, or what series?

01:32:25.920 Yeah, just, just, just basically what happened, basically.

01:32:28.740 And I know I'm hitting you off the, I mean, I don't know if I would recall all the details.

01:32:32.500 So go ahead and just off the top of your head, what happened?

01:32:36.420 Don't look it up.

01:32:37.580 Don't stall and look it up.

01:32:38.660 Not looking, hands off the computer.

01:32:39.860 So Cuban Missile Crisis was when they were going to start, uh, positioning, uh, nuclear missiles on Cuba, or at least missiles that could, uh, have the range to hit the United States.

01:32:51.680 And that was, uh, obviously a red flag for us.

01:32:54.080 Um, but the Soviets were responding to multiple other countries within Europe that already had nuclear capable missiles that could target them.

01:33:02.100 So for them, it was like, this is only fair for us.

01:33:05.120 This was like, oh, nobody.

01:33:06.380 And then it happened.

01:33:07.320 Oh, good, good, good.

01:33:09.140 Do you remember the country that it came down to?

01:33:12.920 Because it came down to one country.

01:33:16.880 Nobody remembers this.

01:33:18.340 Nobody remembers this.

01:33:19.220 But this is what the real argument was about.

01:33:21.540 You're right.

01:33:22.300 It was about, wait a minute, only fair is fair.

01:33:24.420 You got them all up and down our border. 1.00

01:33:27.360 Uh, you can't have that both ways.

01:33:30.260 You're, we're going to put them off your coast.

01:33:32.380 Cause you can hit us within minutes.

01:33:33.720 We're going to be able to hit you within minutes.

01:33:35.300 And we said, nope.

01:33:38.680 And we think that this all ended.

01:33:41.240 We think this all ended because, uh, JFK was so tough and he was like, I'm putting the ships and you're not going to cross the line.

01:33:48.360 And that's part of it.

01:33:49.800 But there was a deal.

01:33:51.060 We will remove our missiles from Turkey. 0.92

01:33:57.620 Oh, yes.

01:33:58.520 And we won't pursue, we won't pursue Turkey. 0.82

01:34:02.740 Okay.

01:34:03.260 And Turkey was on the border of the Soviet union at the time.

01:34:07.760 And so that was like, that was like putting missiles in Mexico.

01:34:12.080 And so we said, we'll remove these missiles.

01:34:14.940 They're old and outdated anyway.

01:34:16.840 That's what we said.

01:34:17.820 Uh, and so we'll remove those and you remove yours and we'll call it even.

01:34:23.100 And so we both walked away a winner.

01:34:26.780 My question is we gave up Turkey.

01:34:35.520 Now we're headed towards another blockade possibly because Russia just sent their ships, uh, some ships down for aid and everything else down to Cuba.

01:34:47.140 Mexico is doing it.

01:34:48.880 Uh, some other country is doing it.

01:34:50.480 And we've said, you're not going in.

01:34:52.620 You're not, you're not pulling into port, whether we do a blockade or not.

01:34:56.220 I don't know, but this field, it just felt very, very similar to me.

01:35:02.800 And I was talking to a friend of mine and he said, uh, Turkey, like what Turkey.

01:35:14.780 That was the end of the Cuban missile crisis.

01:35:16.400 Is it possible that Cuba, that this Cuban thing will be solved by what we do and solve in Ukraine, just like we resolved last time with Turkey.

01:35:28.320 Is it possible that all of this, because they know Donald Trump wants to control this hemisphere and the last time this happened, Russia gave it up.

01:35:39.460 But we had to give up something.

01:35:42.920 I'm wondering what the deal is going to be.

01:35:45.760 Because now he's talking about, okay, maybe we can use the U S dollar again.

01:35:49.300 Maybe we can use the Swift system again.

01:35:51.120 They were rebuilding.

01:35:52.240 Remember we're, we're going to rebuild some, we're going to build something brand new to compete against that.

01:35:57.020 Now he's saying, well, we might use that.

01:36:00.180 What's, what's happening.

01:36:02.280 Does that make any sense to you, Jason?

01:36:06.300 Yeah.

01:36:06.700 So are, are you thinking that this new, uh, economic, uh, weapon basically that they're considering with, uh, with Russia is part of this, uh, uh, this standoff basically.

01:36:20.620 Refresh my memory.

01:36:21.480 What are you talking about?

01:36:22.140 New economic weapon with, uh, so this is what hit with me.

01:36:27.020 With the Russia story was because they, so if you think back during the Ukraine war, when that first, you know, broke out, they had already wanted to get off the dollar, but it was even more essential after we showed them that their money did not matter in this system. 0.66

01:36:43.180 That was, you know, the, the, the, the, the post Brettonwood system.

01:36:46.540 So we could control, we could make money just go away if we wanted to.

01:36:50.460 So for Russia, they were like, we have to get off, you know, the dollar. 0.68

01:36:54.000 That was everything they've been trying to do.

01:36:55.220 Now, this is what doesn't make sense about this for me is now they're saying, wait a minute, let us back in, but we don't want you anywhere near Ukraine.

01:37:05.320 I mean, it almost seems like suicide on their end.

01:37:10.120 So they really must be desperate.

01:37:12.000 I don't know.

01:37:14.220 Uh, well, a, I think they are really desperate.

01:37:16.840 I think, I think this has exposed them to be the paper tiger that we never thought they were.

01:37:23.000 Um, but they have survived and they've survived because of the ally with the axis powers, if you will, you know, China and, and, uh, and Iran and everything else.

01:37:32.680 So they're doing that.

01:37:33.860 But now they're talking about doing trade deals with the United States, talking about oil deals with the United States and coming back on our dollar.

01:37:43.240 And it all hinges on Ukraine.

01:37:47.480 That's my point.

01:37:48.600 Yeah.

01:37:49.000 Is, I think Ukraine is the, is the chit on the table. 0.98

01:37:56.680 I, I, I think, no, no, I, I think I completely agree with you.

01:38:00.880 And wouldn't this be a crazy development, especially in the historical reference that I mean, the cold war eventually flipped and the Soviets were outnumbered.

01:38:08.720 Once China was flipped over off their side, over to the U S side, how crazy would that be?

01:38:14.580 If it was exactly opposite, Russia gets flipped because of Ukraine, Russia gets flipped and they now go against China.

01:38:23.220 Interesting.

01:38:24.020 And I could see that actually happening.

01:38:26.300 And it would be fascinating to see how, um, I mean, what the left is going to say.

01:38:33.100 I mean, you know, I, I remember in the eighties, the left used to just say Ronald Reagan, he's a monster.

01:38:38.400 He's going to get us all killed and vaporized and everything else.

01:38:40.820 And it worked out the exact opposite, but it took longer than this is taking, you know, this is recent memory.

01:38:46.680 Now, you don't have to, you didn't have to wait nine years for that thing to begin to fall apart.

01:38:51.700 Um, and, uh, this is falling apart right now.

01:38:55.300 And every single expert, which seems to be the theme of today's show, stop listening to the experts.

01:39:02.560 Every single expert has got us into this trouble.

01:39:06.140 And now the guy who's bucking all of the experts and going an opposite direction seems to be collapsing everything in our favor.

01:39:18.000 It's fascinating to me because I, I, I think you're right.

01:39:22.080 I think this could end with, uh, Russia not being a trusted ally by any stretch of the imagination, but by being somebody we can do business with.

01:39:33.360 This is, this is, this is, this, this is what Washington wanted us to do.

01:39:37.880 Um, and our founders wanted us to do.

01:39:40.440 You don't have permanent allies because things change.

01:39:45.920 People change countries change.

01:39:47.700 And so what you have are business relationships.

01:39:51.240 You do trade with people and you use that trade to strengthen or weaken relationships, but you're friends with everybody.

01:40:00.060 Okay.

01:40:00.500 You try to be, that's what Donald Trump is doing.

01:40:03.840 We're, we're not going to be, you know, Hillary Clinton's like gave her the reset button. 0.99

01:40:07.620 Remember that we're best friends.

01:40:09.340 We're never going to be friends with Putin.

01:40:10.780 And we shouldn't want to be friends with Putin, but we should want to be able to do business with Putin and have some sort of a relationship where we're not throwing the whole world into chaos.

01:40:22.240 And that's exactly what the left was doing under Biden, throwing the entire world into chaos and pitting each other against each other.

01:40:31.320 Why go back to how does, how does every great empire end?

01:40:36.340 Every great empire ends the same way with the, with its, uh, uh, in world history with all of the other countries.

01:40:47.320 There is always a rising power and a falling power, whatever the great power is that is falling because it's exhausted itself one way or another and made too many mistakes.

01:40:59.260 There's a new rising power that's coming up.

01:41:01.660 And so there's always a war right towards the end because they're like, take them, they're weak, take them out now.

01:41:09.720 But notice China's not doing that because they're weak themselves.

01:41:16.800 Everyone in the world, I've said this to you over and over again, this is unique in all of human history.

01:41:22.220 This has never happened like this before.

01:41:24.820 Let me, let me pick it up there.

01:41:26.140 I've got to stop and do a one minute break and then we'll come back.

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01:42:36.480 Station ID.

01:42:36.900 Glen Beck is on.

01:42:49.540 Okay.

01:42:50.160 So in history, this way it always happens.

01:42:54.060 Big empire starts to fall.

01:42:56.620 New empire is on the rise.

01:42:59.240 War takes the old empire out because it's weak.

01:43:02.740 And then the new one comes in.

01:43:04.280 Okay.

01:43:04.600 This time our empire is falling at the same time.

01:43:11.460 Everyone else is falling.

01:43:13.180 There is people want to believe that China is the rising power, but it's not.

01:43:17.840 It's not.

01:43:18.840 They're in more trouble economically than we are.

01:43:21.500 And that's saying something.

01:43:22.760 Okay.

01:43:23.460 There is no clean, clear rising power, except whoever gets AI.

01:43:30.440 Then that will seal the deal on who the rising power is.

01:43:34.340 Okay.

01:43:36.660 So what was the left doing?

01:43:40.100 I'm sorry.

01:43:40.360 I'm just trying to piece this together because there's something big here and I'm not sure I'm on it yet.

01:43:44.300 But, um, what was the left doing?

01:43:49.880 The left is trying to tear down our empire from the inside.

01:43:54.180 They're doing the job that another rising empire would have done in history.

01:43:59.020 There is no empire that's rising.

01:44:01.960 So there's nobody trying to challenge us that way, unless it's a whole group of countries that will try to do it.

01:44:08.700 Um, but they lose if we go down as well.

01:44:11.740 So who's trying to take us down our own left.

01:44:16.760 And when the left got in power, what did they try to do?

01:44:23.480 Weaken our military and quite honestly, drag us into war with Russia. 0.86

01:44:28.820 Uh, Joe Biden himself said, we're not going to do any of these things because that could be world war three.

01:44:36.840 I mean it, no joke, world war three.

01:44:39.300 Right.

01:44:39.780 And then he went and proceeded to do those things he said would cause world war three.

01:44:44.980 It's almost as if the left wanted world war three.

01:44:50.820 Now, if you go back to Donald Trump, who I think in many ways is following the advice of the founders on the way he deals with countries and allies.

01:45:00.960 Don't have permanent allies.

01:45:03.060 Have friends around the world and treat them as friends, as long as you can, unless they're attacking you or something, you treat them as friends and you do deals with each country.

01:45:15.400 What's best for your country.

01:45:17.020 So that's what he's doing.

01:45:19.400 And instead of having war, he's trying to make peace all over the world.

01:45:24.100 And now Russia, he's making a deal, which could end with us having this hemisphere and Russia kind of saying, okay, we'll stay out. 0.89

01:45:35.860 China will stay out. 1.00

01:45:37.080 And Russia actually saying, I want to do some deals with the United States.

01:45:40.780 Donald Trump won't do that deal if you're doing it with China as well.

01:45:44.180 So we'll do oil deals with the United States, which will strengthen Europe as much as they can be strengthened, but also strengthen us and prevent world war three.

01:45:53.560 And I think the chit on the table will be, uh, Ukraine. 0.95

01:45:58.900 Now here's an excuse on why we wouldn't do it.

01:46:02.280 We wouldn't give up Ukraine because Biden gave the farmland of Ukraine.

01:46:07.900 Look this up.

01:46:08.440 It's, it's horrifying.

01:46:10.940 You can no longer say we never got into a war and, you know, wanted stuff or took land.

01:46:16.800 Yep.

01:46:17.180 We did.

01:46:17.580 Biden gave much of the farmland, uh, and all of the rebuilding contracts to black rock and all of these, you know, big hedge funds, Goldman Sachs, all of these people own the farmland.

01:46:35.420 And all the reconstruction we took, we took, and that's the only reason why I could see he's not going to just give up Ukraine because the pressure on the inside from all of these big financial players, I think it would be too strong where he would, they would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.

01:46:52.900 We, we were supporting all of this stuff that was happening.

01:46:56.960 And the only thing he can say is you weren't supporting me.

01:46:59.040 You weren't supporting my plan.

01:47:00.180 You were supporting Joe Biden's plan.

01:47:02.780 And, you know, sorry, you don't get that.

01:47:06.040 I mean, that, that's a big enemy to call out, but Donald Trump, if anybody will do it, Donald Trump would do it.

01:47:11.440 Uh, all right.

01:47:15.460 So we, we have, uh, we have, let me mark that off.

01:47:18.720 Oh, I didn't get to Mexico, but Mexico is not a friend.

01:47:22.820 Got news for you.

01:47:23.960 Mexico is not a friend. 0.90

01:47:26.160 Canada is a friend with a bad leader.

01:47:28.500 Mexico is not a friend. 0.90

01:47:31.420 Um, because they're going to start sending all kinds of aid to Cuba, which the president is saying, no, you're not.

01:47:39.260 We have to keep our eye on that.

01:47:40.600 Now let's move to Congress and the save America act.

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01:49:40.740 Um, we're going to talk about the save act here in just a second.

01:49:44.680 Also the latest on the Epstein thing, which is just never seems to stop.

01:49:48.620 Um, but I wanted to take a minute and, uh, recognize, uh, Jeffrey Steele.

01:49:52.500 He's, he's on the phone with me and he is a songwriter.

01:49:55.120 And when I say songwriter, I don't mean like, oh, he's written some songs.

01:49:57.940 Um, 2026 songwriters hall of fame nominee, 2013 songwriter hall of fame

01:50:03.280 inductee in Nashville, uh, two-time BMI songwriter of the year, three-time

01:50:07.820 and, uh, NSAI songwriter of the year, 16, number one hits my wish.

01:50:13.380 What hurts the most cowboy and me knee deep, something to be proud of.

01:50:17.060 Raise them up seven time.

01:50:18.720 Grammy nominee, golden globe nominated songwriter.

01:50:21.860 I mean, the guys he's, uh, he's been a little busy.

01:50:25.780 He's got a, uh, a nice resume behind him.

01:50:28.720 Uh, he has come out with a, uh, a song that everybody was up in arms about.

01:50:34.180 Uh, in fact, he was going to release it.

01:50:36.680 And the industry said, no, not without taking one name out.

01:50:41.340 And that's the name, Charlie Kirk.

01:50:43.200 He said, don't think so.

01:50:45.840 The name is, um, uh, the, the, uh, the name of the song, uh, is a voice.

01:50:52.800 And I want you to hear a bit of it.

01:50:55.300 Listen.

01:50:56.460 I wish I had a voice.

01:50:59.860 I would raise it now.

01:51:03.040 For all the silent ones.

01:51:06.560 No one seems to care about.

01:51:10.140 Speak for all of us.

01:51:13.460 And crank the volume up.

01:51:15.920 And let the simple truth cut through the noise.

01:51:20.020 I wish I had a voice.

01:51:28.580 He's the trucker.

01:51:30.400 They're phasing out.

01:51:32.280 She's a housewife, but you can't say that now.

01:51:35.400 I'm a laid-off factory worker whose factory's China-bound.

01:51:41.760 We're the coal miners, the firefighters, the Charlie Kirk choir.

01:51:47.320 We're all lighting our ladders, finally waking up.

01:51:50.500 Yeah, we've had enough of the liars.

01:51:54.400 Setting the world on fire.

01:52:00.880 Great song.

01:52:01.740 Jeffrey Steele is joining us now.

01:52:03.040 Hi, Jeffrey.

01:52:03.520 How are you?

01:52:04.960 Glenn, thank you very much for having me.

01:52:06.560 That was, that was a no pressure intro you gave me there.

01:52:11.260 Quick, write a song.

01:52:12.400 Show us how you do it.

01:52:12.880 It's a pleasure to be here.

01:52:13.520 Yeah, it's great to have you.

01:52:16.160 That song is tremendous.

01:52:18.060 I find it, I find it so sad in, in ways, you know, I wish I had a voice because I think

01:52:24.800 a lot of people feel like they don't have a voice and they actually do.

01:52:29.560 Tell me about the genesis of this song.

01:52:32.060 Well, that's where it came from.

01:52:33.480 I was writing with a guy one day that had a really great voice and someone that someone

01:52:37.840 told me, hey, this guy's got a great voice.

01:52:39.540 And so my first thought was a voice, what a great idea for a song.

01:52:42.960 So I started writing the chorus and just started thinking about how I felt right now in the

01:52:47.700 world.

01:52:48.000 Like nobody does have a voice.

01:52:50.040 Nobody feels spoken for.

01:52:52.020 And I think if people did, most Americans, if they felt like they had a voice, they would

01:52:55.900 speak up for other people that they felt didn't have a voice.

01:52:58.780 So the song kind of took off from there.

01:53:01.880 And, and then, you know, after Charlie was assassinated, I was at one of those prayer

01:53:06.620 vigils in my hometown, Franklin, Tennessee, and I saw 5,000 people praying and singing.

01:53:11.620 I said, wow, it's like the Charlie Kirk choir.

01:53:14.280 And, and I said, this has to go in the song.

01:53:16.760 And I mean, everybody's talking about what, what, what Charlie was or wasn't.

01:53:20.580 And, and, and all he did was give people a voice and he was a voice.

01:53:24.580 And I said, this has to go in the song.

01:53:26.620 So the first thing the music business said, the couple of people that I played it for, they

01:53:30.440 said, man, we can really help you with this song, but you've got to take that line out

01:53:33.560 or we can't take it to radio.

01:53:35.540 So I'm not, I'm not taking the line out.

01:53:39.360 And then he told me it was too right wing.

01:53:41.060 I heard things like it was too right wing.

01:53:42.820 And I was like, what, you know, and I've been doing this for 40 years and, and, you

01:53:48.060 know, have, have you, have you read the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen's streets of Minneapolis,

01:53:55.200 Minneapolis, a city of flame, fire and ice near death occupiers boots, King Trump's private

01:54:02.460 army for the DHS guns belted to their coats, come to Minneapolis to enforce the law or so

01:54:08.100 their story goes.

01:54:09.080 I mean, you want to talk about political.

01:54:11.520 Holy cow. 0.89

01:54:12.480 And I'll bet you nobody in the industry had a problem with that.

01:54:15.620 No, straight to number one, because, and there, and there's a reason for it.

01:54:19.100 And so a guy like me, who's an independent guy like yourself, who built your thing very

01:54:23.600 independently through some of the same stuff you've gone through.

01:54:26.420 Right.

01:54:27.120 I have to, I have to find platforms that will play the song and, you know, conservative

01:54:32.820 platforms, of course.

01:54:34.320 So I have to go find random things that aren't in the music business to prop me up to, to at

01:54:40.240 least get it heard.

01:54:41.600 I'm going out and playing it live for people.

01:54:43.580 They're standing on their feet, but I can't get arrested as far as getting it played on the,

01:54:47.440 on the normal music industry platforms.

01:54:49.740 So that is the fight.

01:54:51.000 But you got to remember that the sixties hippie culture was built on Rolling Stone magazine,

01:54:56.980 billboard magazine, all these left narrative magazines that propped up all those songs of

01:55:02.880 that culture and got us to where we are right now.

01:55:05.540 And we need the same thing on our end.

01:55:08.140 So I'm so grateful for the opportunity to talk about it because we just don't have it.

01:55:11.940 We don't have it on the right side.

01:55:13.280 I can't believe that you're not getting any radio play on this.

01:55:19.260 No, I mean, some random friends who are reluctantly playing it, you know, because they're worried

01:55:25.360 about, and I totally get it.

01:55:27.480 Like normally Glenn, I would write the song and I would try to give it to an artist that

01:55:31.960 I love.

01:55:32.440 Like a couple of years ago, I wrote a song for Aaron Lewis called am I the only one that did

01:55:36.260 really well during the COVID era.

01:55:37.760 And I would, I would give the song to somebody that I thought could sing it, but nobody,

01:55:43.580 nobody wants their buses to stop going down the road and they're poised to get, you know,

01:55:48.160 they don't want to, they still worried about being canceled.

01:55:49.920 So I said, you know, at this late stage in my career, I've been doing this for 40 years

01:55:54.300 for everybody else.

01:55:56.020 My grandkids and my kids said, Dan, you should put this out.

01:55:58.620 This is all you talk about, you know, and, and you are, you are a voice.

01:56:02.000 You've given your voice to everybody else all these years.

01:56:04.000 It's time for you to speak up with yours.

01:56:05.600 So I said, you know what, I'll do it.

01:56:07.400 So I did it.

01:56:08.040 And here I am.

01:56:08.720 And I'm so grateful for this opportunity, Glenn.

01:56:11.120 Really?

01:56:12.180 It's hard to find.

01:56:13.200 We can't.

01:56:14.540 Yeah.

01:56:15.080 This is, this is crazy.

01:56:16.180 And I was just talking to a, uh, a songwriter myself yesterday and he said, he was talking

01:56:22.480 about the same thing.

01:56:23.480 And he said, the only thing that can save, uh, and make an impression is iTunes reports

01:56:31.420 what is actually selling.

01:56:33.280 And if I remember right, wasn't, didn't Cashbox do that years and years and years ago?

01:56:37.960 Yeah.

01:56:38.680 Yeah.

01:56:39.260 And that's really just iTunes.

01:56:41.220 Go ahead.

01:56:42.660 I was just going to say iTunes is really all that you have left to truly monitor what is

01:56:48.060 actually being sold to the public.

01:56:49.620 It's the only format left.

01:56:51.400 Everything else is streamed now.

01:56:52.600 So you can't, you can't really gauge what really is truly the biggest, hottest song out

01:56:57.500 there.

01:56:57.760 Um, and he was saying, you know, Glenn, your audience, you've got this massive audience.

01:57:05.140 If everybody is 99 cents for a song on iTunes, if you go spend 99, I don't know anything that's

01:57:13.040 99 cents anymore.

01:57:14.680 Um, I think even the 99 cent store is now like the $5 store.

01:57:19.480 Um, but, uh, 99 cents go buy, go buy this song on YouTube.

01:57:26.300 It's, it's already what number three on iTunes country, number 11 in all genre.

01:57:31.680 This, this should be easy to make number one.

01:57:34.500 And I'm telling you, if you can continue to do it over and over and over again, money doesn't

01:57:40.900 talk.

01:57:41.440 It screams.

01:57:43.600 And when, right.

01:57:46.260 When, when an industry sees this is happening over and over and over again, we're missing

01:57:52.300 the boat.

01:57:53.240 They will change.

01:57:54.780 It's going to be hell and, and high water to, to pay the price.

01:57:58.840 But for 99 cents, everybody in the audience can do, can make that happen.

01:58:03.320 Make that a reality.

01:58:04.520 Absolutely.

01:58:04.940 And we, and we just asked to share because again, we, you know, we're all grassroots and

01:58:08.440 we're, you know, that we can't get through the gate.

01:58:10.820 And when we do get through the gate, like we did, oh boy, do they get mad.

01:58:14.480 They want to shut it down as quickly as they can.

01:58:16.780 And they did, they did with the Bruce Springsteen song.

01:58:19.460 They, they shut it right down.

01:58:21.020 But as you saw, the Bruce Springsteen song didn't stay.

01:58:23.700 It fell off.

01:58:24.480 Nobody cared because they don't care because it's not what America thinks.

01:58:28.180 And, and none of these people, none of these people that are protesting in Minneapolis or are,

01:58:32.140 if they were protesting, holding American flags for a new America, I might give them the time of day, but they're not even doing that.

01:58:39.080 They're just protesting.

01:58:40.080 They're protesting against a way of life that there, there is no other, there is no other.

01:58:46.640 And you, I mean, you talk about it every day and, and it's, it's, it's a blind protest.

01:58:51.540 And, and the only way that Americans can get through is, is through our free speech of stuff like songwriting, our creativity, songwriting and songs are so important in the culture.

01:59:01.720 As you know, the politics is downstream from the culture and the music shapes everything with these kids.

01:59:07.980 And as an older guy that's been around forever, I'm just trying to, if anything else, if I can inspire these younger artists to start writing what they see and writing the truth, we will have these platforms.

01:59:18.520 We will have magazines that represent, you know, and shows that represent the conservative side of the world.

01:59:24.200 That is the bigger side of the world.

01:59:26.260 It's, it's, you know, of, of America.

01:59:28.220 It's, it's what people really, I mean, we saw what the halftime show, right?

01:59:32.980 I mean, we saw what it really was.

01:59:36.860 We saw what people really wanted to see.

01:59:39.220 I mean, what Kid Rock did with Cody Johnson's song.

01:59:42.640 I mean, that just gave it all new life, all new life.

01:59:47.300 It was, it was brilliant.

01:59:48.600 And, and, and it, and it goes to show that, you know, this is what America wants.

01:59:53.320 And we're not saying we don't want other cultures.

01:59:56.000 We're just saying, Hey, we got to start somewhere first.

01:59:59.000 We got, we got to start with, we got to be the best America, not the second best.

02:00:02.800 Somebody else.

02:00:03.460 And, and that's what we've lost sight of.

02:00:05.900 We're just trying to be the second best to everything else.

02:00:08.180 And it's never going to work.

02:00:09.380 It never has.

02:00:10.760 And, uh, man, my, my, just my hats off to, for the opportunity to talk about it.

02:00:14.940 Cause so many artists want to say something, Glenn, and they can't, because, you know,

02:00:18.840 they're going to lose their, they're going to lose their gigs.

02:00:20.960 They're going to lose their record.

02:00:22.060 They're going to get compromised.

02:00:23.080 Can I ask you, Jeffrey, let me, let me ask you.

02:00:25.760 You've been in, in Nashville for a very long time, by the way, you live in one of my favorite

02:00:30.060 cities and all of the entire country, Franklin, Tennessee, but, uh, you've seen this and it

02:00:37.620 seems to me last time I was in Nashville, it seems like it's changing and the culture

02:00:42.360 is changing.

02:00:42.840 The music is even changing where country music used to, it used to stand for something and

02:00:51.360 it, and it, it, without even stating it ever, it just seemed to have boundaries that it wouldn't

02:00:58.120 go where pop music would go.

02:01:00.520 And that seems to be going.

02:01:02.040 And now you're telling me that nobody will pay, play a song.

02:01:04.620 That's a great song.

02:01:05.800 That's right in line with what country music fans listen to, but it says Charlie Kirk in

02:01:10.900 one line and they won't play it because they're afraid that scares the hell out of it.

02:01:15.580 And it represents, it represents the American lifestyle.

02:01:18.580 It always has.

02:01:19.140 And if you look back at, you know, I had a career that has gone on from the late eighties

02:01:22.820 until now, you know, for, for groups like Montgomery Gentry songs, like my town is something

02:01:27.080 to be proud of.

02:01:28.120 Those are songs that are about America.

02:01:30.220 They're about faith.

02:01:31.280 They're about family.

02:01:32.460 My lyric has never changed in 40 years.

02:01:35.240 I'm writing the same song idea that I've been writing my whole career, but now.

02:01:40.900 It's, it's, it's, it's hands off and, and they're trying to expand.

02:01:45.780 They want to expand.

02:01:46.640 They want to be all inclusive to everything.

02:01:48.680 And, and, and Nashville, you know, as you know, it's tripled in size.

02:01:52.000 It's, it's, it's a beautiful city.

02:01:53.480 It's an amazing city and there's amazing talent here, but there's a definite shift in,

02:01:59.920 in the direction of what they're trying to paint with the, uh, the, with the music.

02:02:05.840 And, uh, we, it's a, it's a sad thing because if, and also if you look at American culture

02:02:12.220 in a hundred years, the music, all the music of the world was shaped by America, all the 0.70

02:02:18.000 different genres of music have been shaped by America.

02:02:20.660 And I'm, I'm a guy that studies these things and because I'm such a music fan and I think

02:02:24.960 music speaks so much to so many things.

02:02:27.380 And if you look back to, you know, Woody Guthrie back in the day and his protest songs,

02:02:32.460 you know what I mean?

02:02:32.860 Like, why is it not okay to write a song about Charlie Kirk, but, but Bruce Springsteen can

02:02:39.000 put out a song about, you know, stop Trump and stop ice.

02:02:42.700 It just, it's, that's not free speech.

02:02:45.080 You got to let it all be out there.

02:02:46.800 And that's all I'm saying.

02:02:48.040 Give us a chance and, and, and give us, give us an equal platform, or at least just give

02:02:52.140 us a chance for people to hear it.

02:02:53.820 Cause I'm seeing the reaction in the live performances.

02:02:56.340 People are on their feet screaming and people want to hear it.

02:03:00.080 If you haven't heard it, go seek it out, find it.

02:03:03.160 It's called a voice, Jeffrey Steele.

02:03:05.660 Uh, once you listen to it, call your local, uh, country music station and ask to just request

02:03:11.700 it and call them every day and request the song.

02:03:14.440 Um, you know, it, it, and, and Glenn, there's an amazing, there's amazing video that a company

02:03:19.300 is it too.

02:03:19.860 That's worth, uh, checking out too.

02:03:22.040 Um, which you can find it the same, just jeffreysteel.com will take you to all the, you know, the links

02:03:26.440 where you can get it at.

02:03:27.580 But, uh, there's an amazing video that we made with people that were heroes that have come

02:03:32.220 through my life in the last 20 years, Afghan vets, uh, a lady with Parkinson's, all these

02:03:37.360 different people that have, that I've crossed paths with through my journey with, with

02:03:40.760 Christ, um, that have, that have been put in front of my life to, to put my music in

02:03:45.340 front of.

02:03:45.760 So I brought them all into this video that we made for the song and it's so powerful.

02:03:50.200 The video went to number two, right, right out the shoot.

02:03:53.040 Uh, it's still one of the most played videos out there.

02:03:55.700 Um, so we're just, we're just banging away, trying to just get people to listen and just

02:03:59.740 trying to, you know, light the fires.

02:04:03.020 Jeffreysteel.com, jeffreysteel.com and 99 cents.

02:04:06.020 Go buy it on iTunes.

02:04:07.660 Send a message.

02:04:08.380 Thank you, Glenn, so much.

02:04:09.200 Get on iTunes.

02:04:10.280 You bet.

02:04:10.780 Jeffrey, thank you so much.

02:04:11.760 We'll talk again.

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02:06:19.580 Okay.

02:06:20.520 I think there's three things that we have to come away with, uh, today.

02:06:24.340 One, I don't care if it is Valentine's Day.

02:06:26.580 Don't see Wuthering Heights.

02:06:27.740 It's an abomination.

02:06:29.160 Uh, they made, they took one of the most beautiful stories of all time and made it absolutely

02:06:33.440 ugly in every possible way.

02:06:35.320 They could, um, do watch the torch, the podcast that comes out tomorrow with Emma Nissen.

02:06:41.180 It is a completely different, something that I've done.

02:06:43.820 It was filmed up at my ranch.

02:06:45.540 Um, and, uh, Emma is an up and coming music artist and she's fabulous. 1.00

02:06:49.660 Uh, and I, I really want you to check that out.

02:06:52.840 Uh, that's out everywhere.

02:06:54.020 You get your podcast tomorrow, but it's available for torch members today.

02:06:57.460 And the third thing here's Tom, uh, or here's Mike Lee on, uh, Nicki Minaj quickly.

02:07:03.280 Nicki Minaj.

02:07:04.280 Thank you for your support of the Save America Act.

02:07:07.800 Uh, Barb's to the rescue. 0.97

02:07:09.520 Bees in the trap. 0.96

02:07:11.740 Okay.

02:07:12.160 No matter how many times, uh, Mike Lee says something about Nicki Minaj, he will never be cool.

02:07:17.960 That's number three.

02:07:18.880 Bye.

02:07:19.120 Bye.

02:07:19.360 Bye.

02:07:19.380 Bye.

02:07:19.680 Bye.

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The Glenn Beck Program - February 13, 2026

Why Glenn Beck Wants to Kiss EPA's Lee Zeldin ｜ Guests： Lee Zeldin & Jeffrey Steele ｜ 2⧸13⧸26

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