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00:05:22.820 Well, hello, Stu.

00:05:23.520 Glenn, how are you?

00:05:28.320 Fabulous.

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00:05:32.740 Yeah, thank you.

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00:05:34.660 Target has announced that Brian Cornell is stepping down as the CEO of the retail giant after 11 years and the value of the stock plummeting.

00:05:44.580 It's down, I think, 61% since its all-time high.

00:05:49.200 But its all-time high was COVID when the government said, you can only shop at Target.

00:05:54.640 It's the only safe place.

00:05:55.860 That and Home Depot, the only safe place on the planet.

00:05:59.320 So, of course, they went through the roof then and they're down.

00:06:02.260 But they're down, what, 28% since the start of the year.

00:06:07.000 Not real good.

00:06:08.600 Now, of course, everybody on the right is saying, that's because they were involved with DEI.

00:06:15.360 And then everybody on the left is like, that's because they got rid of DEI.

00:06:19.880 Well, you can't have both.

00:06:22.920 You can't have both.

00:06:24.020 So, I don't know what it is.

00:06:26.400 All I know is, oh, when did they start doing that DEI thing?

00:06:30.800 Around 2022?

00:06:33.420 Something like that?

00:06:34.100 I feel like that's when it at least became a story.

00:06:36.460 It was right around 2022, 2023.

00:06:38.580 And they may have been doing it before then.

00:06:40.920 And I know that I talk to women. 1.00

00:06:43.540 I talk to my wife.

00:06:44.520 And she was like, no, Target is the only place I can go and get everything in one stop.

00:06:51.160 I don't care.

00:06:52.820 I don't care if the cashier is Beelzebub. 0.97

00:06:56.480 Gotta be $41.95.

00:06:58.680 I mean, it was like, I mean, you couldn't get people to stop going to Target.

00:07:02.860 Now, I don't know why.

00:07:03.940 What has happened?

00:07:06.280 What's happened?

00:07:07.020 I mean, I don't shop at Target, so I don't know. 0.51

00:07:09.660 Have you heard your wife all of a sudden saying, you know, Target really kind of sucks right now?

00:07:13.860 No.

00:07:14.260 I found it a lot easier to go to seven different stores.

00:07:18.620 It's, you know, I assume, I think you're right in that we tend to just tie every news story to the thing we've been talking about.

00:07:28.120 You know, that's something that everybody seems to do.

00:07:30.780 And they're managing, you know, hundreds of millions and billions of dollars of merchandise over thousands of stores.

00:07:37.020 Like, they're probably more than just whether they had a rainbow shirt or not.

00:07:40.320 It's probably bigger than that.

00:07:42.420 I mean, I would love for that to be true.

00:07:45.280 I just don't want to, you know, dance on the grave unless I know that's true.

00:07:48.840 I don't know that's true.

00:07:50.220 Right.

00:07:50.440 I mean, because if you look at their, I'm looking at their stock chart right now.

00:07:54.240 So, you know, yes, it peaked in 2021.

00:07:57.420 That was, yeah, I feel like 2023 maybe it was.

00:08:01.200 There was a fall after that, but it rose back up through 2024.

00:08:05.680 Right.

00:08:05.820 It just has, it just kind of like crashed after 2025.

00:08:09.260 Now, that might have been weak holiday sales.

00:08:10.920 Like, I don't know.

00:08:12.120 I don't follow it on a day-to-day basis to know exactly why.

00:08:15.440 When did they get rid of DEI?

00:08:16.940 Because maybe the crash, the last time the crash came because everybody on the right was like, I'm not going to shop there.

00:08:24.820 And that lasted a couple of months.

00:08:26.000 And then their stock rebounded.

00:08:27.700 But now maybe, when did they get rid of DEI?

00:08:30.140 Because maybe they got rid of DEI and now everybody on the left is like, I'm not going to shop there.

00:08:34.180 And everybody will forget about and they'll go shop there.

00:08:36.660 But maybe that was just too much of a fall for them to take.

00:08:41.420 I'm looking for the date here.

00:08:44.060 This is why you just don't get involved in politics.

00:08:46.460 Politics change all the time.

00:08:47.840 You know, anybody who's looking at the, I mean, celebratory numbers of the Democrats right now.

00:08:54.800 And now they are just imploding.

00:08:57.480 Be careful because it's going to come back around.

00:09:01.060 It always does.

00:09:02.240 I remember, you know, 2008, Barack Obama and everybody else was like, the Republicans will never win ever again.

00:09:10.620 The Republicans are so out of touch.

00:09:12.840 They will never, ever, ever win.

00:09:15.820 Well, look at it now.

00:09:17.680 I mean, it just comes back.

00:09:19.680 Now, I don't know if it's going to come.

00:09:20.780 I've never, the Republicans, I don't think ever did the damage that the Democrats are doing to themselves right now.

00:09:29.620 You know, holding press conferences with burning cars.

00:09:32.700 You know, this is mostly peaceful.

00:09:34.620 And then shootouts behind them.

00:09:36.720 And crime on the streets, great.

00:09:40.820 Anybody who's done that kind of damage.

00:09:43.260 And that's the damage that they're doing right now.

00:09:45.440 Oh, and they're saying, they're actually saying this.

00:09:48.280 It's a mostly peaceful protest behind me.

00:09:52.040 Pay no attention to the cars or the bullets because it's very, very safe out here.

00:09:56.540 You know what we care about is we care about redistricting because we know that's exactly where the people are, redistricting.

00:10:05.980 Well, well, guess again.

00:10:08.040 So, this is interesting, Glenn.

00:10:11.580 So, it was 2023 was the conservative pushback on all of the kind of craziness going on at Target.

00:10:19.160 And that did seem to lead to a dip in the stock price, but it recovered.

00:10:22.840 Yeah.

00:10:23.340 2020.

00:10:23.960 So, there was a new boycott by the left, a 40-day boycott that they started in March, it looks like,

00:10:33.040 to try, because they were upset that they got rid of the DEI.

00:10:38.360 This is, I mean, your summary of this is so apt because it's just like, don't get involved in this stuff.

00:10:43.760 Just freaking sell things.

00:10:45.060 Just stay out.

00:10:45.580 Just make stuff and sell it.

00:10:47.660 Just leave it alone.

00:10:49.220 Leave it alone.

00:10:50.000 Because, I mean, it is hard.

00:10:51.200 I do, I see, you know, we've had so many of these controversies over the years.

00:10:56.500 And you do see how hard it must be as a company to deal with this nonsense.

00:11:02.360 Because you get targeted, you know, these things happen to you.

00:11:05.980 And if you're not an ideological thank you company that has a belief in something,

00:11:12.080 and you're just kind of floating out there and being like trying to react to whatever way the wind is blowing,

00:11:16.240 it's got to be really hard to manage.

00:11:18.120 You know, it's not easy to do.

00:11:21.220 That being said, that's why you don't get into it.

00:11:24.020 Right?

00:11:24.160 Like, you got to know that, look, you're an American company.

00:11:27.840 You reflect American values, what your consumers want, and then you leave it.

00:11:32.160 Keep it nice and simple after that.

00:11:34.440 You don't need to make it.

00:11:35.100 Just know who you are.

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00:12:32.660 Anyway.

00:12:34.460 Did you see the thing on Cracker Barrel as well while we're here on Companies?

00:12:39.020 Yeah.

00:12:39.700 Cracker Barrel has changed their logo.

00:12:43.080 And did they really?

00:12:45.960 I mean, they got rid of the guy sitting next to the Cracker Barrel.

00:12:50.240 But other than that, it's the same logo.

00:12:53.380 I'm pretty sure.

00:12:54.700 You know?

00:12:55.120 I wouldn't have noticed a difference.

00:12:56.740 I would have noticed the guy and the barrel gone.

00:13:00.440 But if that was just there, I would have liked that.

00:13:03.540 No, that's not a change.

00:13:04.740 They augmented it some.

00:13:06.080 They deleted some things in it.

00:13:07.740 But, oh, my gosh, this is trending on social media like crazy.

00:13:11.100 Everybody's like, they've sold out.

00:13:12.900 They've sold out because they got rid of the barrel?

00:13:15.780 Really?

00:13:17.020 Seriously?

00:13:17.920 There it is.

00:13:19.580 Yeah.

00:13:19.880 I mean, it's a little different.

00:13:21.280 Maybe the font's a little different.

00:13:23.780 There's not much of a difference.

00:13:25.520 Yeah.

00:13:25.700 There's not much of a difference.

00:13:27.140 Yeah.

00:13:27.620 But play the news report on this.

00:13:30.700 Honestly, the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive that people like what we're doing.

00:13:37.380 I'll give you another soundbite.

00:13:38.760 I actually happened to be in Orlando last week with all of our managers.

00:13:41.580 We bring them together every other year.

00:13:44.860 And the number one question that I got asked, Michael, was how can I get a remodel?

00:13:49.060 When can I get a remodel?

00:13:50.120 How do I get on the list?

00:13:51.240 Oh, really?

00:13:51.540 So because the feedback and the buzz is so good, not only from our customers, but from our team members.

00:13:56.880 They want to work in a wonderful restaurant.

00:13:59.240 So we're doing everything for our guests and our team members.

00:14:02.340 Okay, stop.

00:14:02.820 This is a lie.

00:14:03.580 This is a lie.

00:14:04.360 I don't believe anybody.

00:14:05.940 I don't believe anybody.

00:14:07.580 Customers.

00:14:08.060 Maybe the managers and people who are really, really deep into Cracker Barrel.

00:14:12.300 But I don't believe any customer is ever like, you know, I'm just going to ask the manager,

00:14:19.920 when are you going to come up with a new logo?

00:14:21.480 Because I want the t-shirt.

00:14:22.900 I mean, nobody is doing that.

00:14:24.740 Nobody is doing that.

00:14:26.460 So I don't buy that at all.

00:14:27.960 But you know what I think this is?

00:14:30.060 You know, I think people are, maybe, if they are, if they are upset about the guy sitting next to the barrel, the Cracker Barrel.

00:14:37.340 I mean, first of all, nobody knows what a Cracker Barrel is anymore.

00:14:39.820 But the guy sitting next to a Cracker Barrel, I think that could be, have you gone into a McDonald's lately?

00:14:51.140 That's not McDonald's.

00:14:52.160 It's just not McDonald's.

00:14:54.880 I mean, I like it, but it's not McDonald's.

00:14:58.040 And, you know, with everything changing, I think there are some people, and Cracker Barrel is one of these things.

00:15:03.120 It's nostalgic.

00:15:04.760 I mean, it's meant to be nostalgic.

00:15:07.260 Cracker Barrels weren't really around when I was a kid.

00:15:11.060 So it's meant to be nostalgic, and the whole thing is nostalgia and a lifestyle, an American lifestyle.

00:15:22.120 And so with Cracker Barrel, I can see people getting upset and going, hey, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:15:27.420 Let's not change this, too.

00:15:29.540 Can we just leave things alone for just a while?

00:15:32.840 Because everything else in life is changing.

00:15:35.720 And I do believe that maybe Cracker Barrel is in this carve-out of, leave it alone.

00:15:42.600 Leave it alone.

00:15:44.940 But everything else is becoming, did you see the, what is the, what's the logo now that, or the, is it McDonald's?

00:15:56.200 It's just having the M on the side of the, I mean, it's very small.

00:16:01.100 You seen that?

00:16:01.560 Yeah, a lot of the, like, that's been, I've seen that complaint around, too, that, like, you know, there was a time where, you know, all the characters were all over the building, and the colors were all over the building, and it was this exciting, fun place for kids to go.

00:16:13.820 And now it's just this sort of, like, bland, minimalist.

00:16:17.480 So, but you know what that is?

00:16:19.440 You know what that is?

00:16:21.060 Millennials, not millennials, Z in particular, they do not like brands. 0.54

00:16:27.880 They don't like corporate brands.

00:16:30.020 That time is over.

00:16:31.220 You remember when, I mean, it wasn't too long ago that if it was a brand, I mean, do you remember when the Ralph Lauren polo pony was little, and then it became, like, half of the shirt was the polo pony, and you're like, okay, Ralph, slow down, calm down just a little bit.

00:16:47.540 Logos were so overdone that now youth, they don't, they don't like that corporate thing.

00:16:56.700 They don't like it.

00:16:57.640 So, I can see that for the youth, times are changing.

00:17:01.720 You know, I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

00:17:03.140 We are living in a time that is as dramatic as it was when the car came in.

00:17:11.480 The horse and buggy was gone.

00:17:13.580 Electricity started.

00:17:15.780 You know, refrigeration was there.

00:17:18.380 That is the kind of change we're living in.

00:17:20.680 And we're the ones who are like, you know, I used to plow those fields by hand, and anybody who doesn't strap it to the back of a horse, they don't know what life is.

00:17:34.400 That's who we are.

00:17:36.660 Because everything is changing.

00:17:39.480 All right, I want to talk to you a little bit about Beth Badaf and beyond in just a second, because we have the CEO, the new CEO on, and he is having a delicious fight with the governor of California.

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00:19:10.000 Okay, so yesterday, Bed Bath & Beyond came out with a statement from their new executive chairman,

00:19:31.260 and he said,

00:19:32.240 We will not open or operate retail stores in California.

00:19:36.200 This decision isn't about politics.

00:19:37.880 It's about reality.

00:19:39.840 California has created one of the most over-regulated, expensive, and risky environments for business in America.

00:19:47.180 It's a system that makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep the doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.

00:19:53.920 What part of that isn't true so far?

00:19:56.000 I can't wait to talk to this guy.

00:19:57.140 The result, higher taxes, higher fees, higher wages, and many businesses simply cannot sustain,

00:20:05.680 and endless regulations that strangle growth.

00:20:09.600 Even the state of, I can't read this, it's so blurry.

00:20:16.360 Oh, even the state, when they announce budget surplus, it's built on the back of ordinary citizens who are paying too much and businesses who are squeezed out until they break.

00:20:28.840 At Bed Bath & Beyond, our responsibility is to our customers and shareholders, and we will not participate in a system that undermines both.

00:20:37.320 Instead, we're investing in California strategy that works, 24-48 hour delivery, and in many cases, same-day service.

00:20:44.180 Californians will continue to get products they love through Bed Bath & Beyond.com, but without the inflated costs created by an unsustainable model.

00:20:54.840 We're taking a stand because it's time for common sense.

00:20:59.260 Businesses deserve the chance to succeed.

00:21:01.520 Employees deserve jobs that last, and customers deserve fair prices.

00:21:08.140 California's system delivers the opposite.

00:21:10.240 That's why Bed Bath & Beyond will serve California customers directly through BedBathBeyond.com on our terms, with the best interest at heart.

00:21:18.800 Well, that didn't.

00:21:20.080 That didn't go well.

00:21:21.440 That didn't go well, at least for Governor Newsom.

00:21:24.060 So he issues this.

00:21:26.100 After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, like most Americans, we thought Bed Bath & Beyond no longer existed.

00:21:33.480 We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again as they try to open a second store.

00:21:38.200 Then, Bed Bath & Beyond, again, the CEO responds,

00:21:44.540 Dear Governor Newsom, I thought your post would suggest we bring business leaders together to understand how to improve the four pillars and friction of business and find a way to make it better.

00:21:55.840 One, streamline regulation.

00:21:58.180 Consistent, simplified compliance rules across state and local levels.

00:22:01.540 Two, balance labor environment that's good for employees and employers.

00:22:06.640 Three, litigation reform.

00:22:08.080 Reducing abusive lawsuits while keeping protection for workers.

00:22:11.920 Four, competitive tax and cost structure.

00:22:14.960 Incentives to come as opposed to dissentives to leave.

00:22:19.280 Also, we bought the IP two years ago.

00:22:22.160 We built BedBathAndBeyond.com into a billion-dollar online business.

00:22:25.960 We're targeting opening 300 small to mid-sized neighborhood stores throughout the Kirkland's investment.

00:22:32.000 You're a smart man, and I know the post that you just posted was posted out of frustration.

00:22:38.700 Really?

00:22:39.820 Really?

00:22:40.300 I couldn't have done it.

00:22:41.320 I couldn't have done it.

00:22:42.380 Nope.

00:22:44.120 I posted,

00:22:46.100 Preach it, Marcus!

00:22:46.960 Since I was a kid growing up in Seattle, I wanted to work and live in California, but now as an adult and a businessman, I realize I will never be able to do it.

00:22:56.120 Your message makes me sad, as I have always seen California as a place for dreams and dreamers.

00:23:01.220 Perhaps sometime in the future, reason will return to the Golden State.

00:23:05.940 I was lying there.

00:23:07.160 It's not going to happen.

00:23:08.300 We're not going to happen.

00:23:09.000 It's not going to happen.

00:23:09.980 No, we should maybe dive in at some point today, Glenn, of how many different Gavin Newsoms there are.

00:23:18.160 Like, every three weeks, this guy's unveiling a new personality.

00:23:21.500 It's so bizarre.

00:23:24.580 I mean, this angry social media guy, it was like two months ago, he was sitting with Charlie Kirk and praising him.

00:23:32.460 Like, it's bizarre.

00:23:34.680 Anything to win.

00:23:36.020 Yeah.

00:23:36.340 Anything to win.

00:23:39.980 This is Glenn Beck.

00:23:43.900 Marcus Limonis is joining us next from Chairman of Bed, Bath & Beyond.

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00:25:03.440 Marcus Limonis, he is the chairman, executive chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond, and he's currently in a, some sort of a fight, if you will.

00:25:31.260 I don't think he's fighting it.

00:25:32.480 He's, I think he's reacting like a gentleman and a businessman with his responses to Governor Newsom.

00:25:39.700 But he's in this argument with Governor Newsom because he said yesterday, Bed Bath & Beyond just cannot do business in California anymore.

00:25:48.220 It's just too expensive.

00:25:49.620 It's, it's just too over-regulated and no longer makes sense for Bed Bath & Beyond.

00:25:54.660 Welcome to the program, Marcus.

00:25:57.580 Good morning.

00:25:58.220 How are you?

00:25:59.580 I'm very good.

00:26:00.300 I'm very good.

00:26:01.260 Um, I just want to point out before we go, because I, I think this is important to say, because you started yesterday saying, this is not about politics.

00:26:11.740 And I just want to point out that you're not a Trump supporter.

00:26:16.080 Um, you know, in 2017, you came out and I'm not going to go through it because you went back and forth and corrected and everything else.

00:26:22.460 But, you know, you criticized what Donald Trump said, uh, in Charlottesville when it was thought that he had said, you know, Hey, and the Nazis are pretty good too, which we now know because the full audio and video is out. 0.53

00:26:37.980 And we can show that that's not what he was talking about at all, but you came out as did a whole buttload of other CEOs and said, you know, if that's what you believe, then I, you know, please, uh, we, we don't necessarily want you shopping here.

00:26:53.560 So it's not that you are doing this because you're a big Trump supporter.

00:26:59.160 I, when I saw your name attached to this, I thought, no, no, this is about business because he's not on either side here on this.

00:27:07.740 Yeah, I'm not on either side, but I will say, yeah, it's kind of accurate, um, from a historical standpoint, it's not accurate from a modern day standpoint.

00:27:16.060 I think that's time has gone on and the facts have been revealed and things have played out and moves have been made by this administration that I think advanced business, uh, and advanced the American, uh, uh,

00:27:29.160 citizen in a way that I think it puts us back on track. I would say that I feel very differently today than I used to. And that's really not an emotional reaction. That's an intelligent reaction of just looking at what the administration is doing to try to, uh, deregulate business, not to the disadvantage of a, of a worker and not to the disadvantage of anybody, but to the advantage of capitalism in our country and to the advantage of investing in American business.

00:27:58.120 And, you know, just as a reminder, Glenn, and you and I met a long, long time ago, uh, uh, when I had the profit at CNBC that, that, you know, my other business is camping world.

00:28:08.280 And I've been through hell and back trying to defend the flag, uh, from the same kind of ideology that I'm seeing out of California, which is your flags are too big.

00:28:18.900 So they're, they're, they're not approved. And, uh, you know, anybody does a little research, they'll see that, you know, cities have sued me.

00:28:25.860 Cities have threatened to take me to jail and the flag still hasn't come down. So what you'll find with me is that I try to be really pragmatic.

00:28:32.200 I also happen to be, uh, a resident of Chicago. And if anybody wants a preview to the movie of what's going to happen in New York city, come, come to my apartment on Michigan Avenue.

00:28:42.760 And I'll give you a preview to what's happened and how socialism, uh, is, is just crushing not only my personal property, but other businesses around me.

00:28:50.980 So I would say as, as one gets smarter and one gets older and one learns more and one listens, uh, you know, you evolve as a human.

00:28:57.840 And, and, uh, I want to make sure that, that we're clear about that.

00:29:02.260 I have to tell you, I thought it doesn't change my point of view that this is about business, but I'm so glad you cleared that up because.

00:29:10.060 You know, that that's, that's all people should be striving for is when there are new facts available, you will actually say, Oh, wait a minute.

00:29:19.620 I didn't see that. I didn't know that. Or, you know, things are changing. I was wrong. And that that's so rare. So thank you for, for that.

00:29:28.500 Yeah. So, you know, let me give you, let me give you another slam, uh, from the left or from, you know, the people on Twitter and even Gavin Newsom.

00:29:38.560 Oh, this is, you were out of business and this is just a business move to get your name out there.

00:29:44.160 Yeah. That's the only reason why you're taking California on.

00:29:47.560 Well, let's talk about that. So number one, um, you know, I took over a company called overstock about a year and a half ago.

00:29:55.800 And overstock the business has been out there a long time. Uh, and they bought the intellectual property in the fall of 23 from the bankrupt estate of bed, bath and beyond.

00:30:06.220 And the reason that I took it over is that the company had lost its way. It was losing a lot of money.

00:30:10.460 And I made a commitment to the shareholders that we would get back to profitability.

00:30:14.480 And as part of that bed, bath and beyond is a significant underpinning of that.

00:30:18.740 Um, and so I needed to remind, uh, both governor Newsom and other folks who, uh, you know, were celebrating the fact that bed, bath and beyond had gone out of business.

00:30:29.460 We're celebrating the fact that bed, bath and beyond had filed bankruptcy. And it is true. It's a fact that it happened.

00:30:34.920 As I told Hannity last night, it happened. Uh, the reality of it is, is that, uh, America's built on, uh, the modern day comeback.

00:30:42.420 And we've invested hundreds of millions of dollars in bed, bath. We've run a billion dollar online business.

00:30:48.140 We bought a business called Kirkland's, uh, that's out of Jackson, Tennessee, a family business.

00:30:53.140 And we're using those 300 stores to convert four hundred, 14 of them are in California.

00:30:58.220 I was disappointed to see governor Newsom, um, in my opinion, just from a level of professionalism, instead of saying, you know what?

00:31:05.260 I don't agree with your points. And I think you're doing this for the wrong reasons.

00:31:08.940 And whatever he wanted to say, however, comma, I'd love to figure out how you and a bunch of other business leaders can tell me, uh, as the governor of the fourth largest economy in the world, which he likes to remind us every single day, um, how to make it the third largest economy.

00:31:23.200 And what I could do, what, what things are out there that I'm willing to compromise on, or that I'm willing to help understand that will drive investment back into my state that will drive capital, uh, back into my state that will fill commercial real estate.

00:31:37.060 That's empty back into my state to appreciate, uh, commercial properties, residential properties, and to drive value.

00:31:43.120 Because as a governor of a state, my job is to protect my people. I get it. Fine.

00:31:47.600 Uh, but also to create positive cashflow for my state, which means I generate more than I, than I, uh, than I spend, but I don't want to do it on the backs of just creating another, you know, nonsensical tax.

00:32:00.620 I didn't get that. And that's really what has made me, uh, convinced that governor Newsom is not doing things for the benefit of California is doing things because he thinks that his so-called base, uh, is going to rally around his nonsense.

00:32:18.100 So can you, uh, have you heard from other CEOs in the last 24 hours? You heard from anybody else in California? You don't have to name names, but.

00:32:26.340 Yeah, I won't. I have. I've heard, I've heard from very, very significant tech leaders in the state of California, uh, asking if there's a way for them to set up a meeting with governor Newsom and myself. Of course, the answer is yes, but they all acknowledge, uh, the silliness behind, uh, uh, avoiding capitalism and rejecting capitalism as it's, it's this dirty word and everybody that wants to make money or who's experienced success is a bad person.

00:32:55.300 And that seems to be the theme, uh, that's coming out of the governor's office, particularly with his, I guess it's his intern run, uh, uh, press room Twitter account or whatever it's called these days.

00:33:08.800 So this is not a final decision with you. He could do something to change your mind.

00:33:15.200 I think if governor Newsom was, was, was really thinking about a political run and running a state that he believes, um, is the superior state in the country, he would invite myself.

00:33:28.520 Maybe not me. Maybe I'm not qualified to be in a room with him, uh, but other CEOs to say, Hey, I'm hearing this and I want to learn and I want to change much. Like I said to you at the beginning of our conversation, what facts do I not have? And how can you convince me how I can do better, how I can learn more? That's the sign of a good leader. That's a leader that I want to follow.

00:33:49.060 And that's, I think, even if you just take a look at our current presidents, I think he's got a different tone in a second term than he does his first term. And I couldn't be convinced. Otherwise it feels far more collaborative. And that's what I'm looking for.

00:34:01.780 Um, the, um, let me play the opposite, uh, side here for a second and say what Trump is doing. I, I see the regulation. I see what he's doing to business and it is, thank God it is a, it's, I can finally breathe again as a businessman. Um, however, if I'm in your business, I would assume you get a lot of, um, material, a lot of, a lot of your products from China. How are the, how are the tariffs affecting you?

00:34:29.040 Well, we've diversified the sourcing of our products. And the one thing that, that when I came in, um, made it a bit of a mandate and it's a balance between providing value to our shareholders and doing what I think is right. You know, I come from the RV world where we make everything in Elkhart, Indiana, and we employ, you know, tens of thousands of people that, that make products in this country, but there are parts and pieces that come from overseas.

00:34:53.760 And the reality of it is, is that until manufacturing in the U S is, is set up and can handle the capacity that in the short term, there, there is an alternative sourcing. And that applies to furniture and lighting and certain textiles coming from around the globe. And the tariffs are not great. Um, and I don't think that Trump would even try to defend that. They're great. It's a rebalancing act.

00:35:15.580 But, but, but Glenn, here's the thing that I, I, I mentioned on big money the other day. If you're really thinking about the triangulation of how Trump is approaching, uh, rebalancing everything, whether it is using energy as the leverage to bring Ukraine and, and Russia to the table, or using tariffs to bring other world leaders to the table.

00:35:38.100 It's all really done being done, to recalibrate America's position, both politically and financially in a way that, that, that, that maintains our dominance.

00:35:51.020 You know, I think that is, I think you are spot on and you're seeing that with the way he handled Ukraine. You know, he went in tough with the tariffs over in Europe and with NATO, he was tough with them.

00:36:02.740 And then he then said, you want to support Ukraine. You can buy this stuff from us, but you have to do it, but we'll provide it to you. And now look at all of the world leaders are at the table. America is leading again, just not spending all the money and doing all the work.

00:36:20.480 We are in the actual leadership position, which is remarkable. And I think he's doing that in, in every, uh, in every category.

00:36:29.660 Listen, I think, I think the one thing that this administration can acknowledge is that the national debt is at a level that nobody believes it should be at.

00:36:38.440 And the deficit's at a level that nobody believes it should be at. And it's a, it's a very complicated, but, but not overly complicated math equation.

00:36:46.900 We have a certain amount of money leaving and we have a, not enough money coming in. And the way that you rejigger that is to find the balance. And nobody, nobody that I know, including myself is going to argue that the tariff execution in the last six months has been perfect.

00:37:01.660 Like, I don't even think this administration would acknowledge it's been perfect and herky jerky on the markets. It's been herky jerky for business leaders. Uh, and at some point we all hope and pray that it finds its footing at some point. And, and I'm not going to, nobody should try to convince anybody that the consumer isn't going to be slightly pinched.

00:37:19.660 But the, but the balancing act of being slightly pinched on the tariff side is what sort of relief could happen on the variable interest rate side. And that's why you see this other piece being triangulated around where's the monetary policy and how could that be, you know, modified to provide the relief to offset.

00:37:36.120 Let me ask you, are you, as a pretty influential business leader, are you, uh, what, what's your outlook look, look like for the first half of next year? People are kind of holding back, holding their breath, not sure what to do. Are we headed towards better times or same kind of times or worse times? Do you think?

00:37:57.860 I think we're headed towards, unfortunately, probably a little bit more of the same. What may be extracted from that is a little bit of the volatility. Uh, the consumer does have, you know, a significant amount of debt and they do have a significant amount of pressure on them with the interest rates. The balance on the interest rates are you can't just rip them down by two points tomorrow. That's going to create chaos. You have to stair, step it down in, you know, like in retail or in any business, you test and you measure and you test and you measure.

00:38:27.860 Right. And I think, I think what Trump has been saying and what Besson's been saying is we just got to get some relief for consumers. Uh, one point, Glenn, that I want to make, uh, inflation during the COVID period was a function of too much money in the system, too much free money in the system and, and demand outpacing supply. In this particular instance, we don't have a demand outpacing supply problem. We have a reset of the cost of goods problem. And, and it's a different type of inflation.

00:38:57.860 And some people have said to me, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. There's only one type of inflation. And the truth is that's not right. Inflation driven by demand outpacing supply, um, is a runaway train inflation because you're resetting and recalibrating prices. 0.97

00:39:12.860 When supply and demand are relatively tight in nature, um, is, is an adjustment period. It's transitory. And, and you have to really look at the difference between the two.

00:39:24.660 And I think the Fed needs to understand the difference between those two. Again, that's why business leaders should be far more involved.

00:39:32.840 Marcus, it's great to talk to you again. And I have to tell you, I think that's the first time anybody said this inflation is transitory that I've agreed with. Um, really great analysis on that. Thank you so much. Marcus Limonis, uh, from Bed Bath and beyond. All right, let me take a quick break. Let me tell you about the burner launcher. Sometimes you find yourself thinking about the things in life that really, really matter. Your family, your safety.

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00:48:07.780 i'm very good so you're uh you're a member of the z generation yeah right on the line i was born in

00:48:17.020 94 so sometimes i call myself a millennial sometimes a gen z depends on okay all right all right so what's

00:48:24.920 on your mind so i actually am from tennessee um i live in texas now married military um for 10 years

00:48:34.540 and um i just wanted to talk about some of the things that i'm disappointed in um when it's come to

00:48:43.580 my constant support for trump since 2016 and um glenn my parents took me when i was in eighth grade

00:48:54.040 this was in 2008 to the protest in dc um protesting obamacare so i even had to sign the contract that i

00:49:03.320 wouldn't become a liberal when i went to college yeah yeah okay all right so you've been you've been

00:49:11.340 you've been deep in got it i yes and then even as an adult you know a young adult i followed you

00:49:17.300 listen to you my husband and i both but i think there's some concerns that i have um with trump and

00:49:24.080 how i'm kind of feeling betrayed you know when i was in graduate school the moment that my professors

00:49:29.600 found out you know i was pro-life and i was studying political science american government

00:49:34.400 in graduate school the moment they found out that i was pro-life i voted for trump they actually tried

00:49:40.640 to take my degree away from me oh my gosh yes they kept failing my exit exam um and they had no reason

00:49:50.540 why they were failing my exit exam to get my master's eventually the decision did get appealed

00:49:56.680 based on there was no credibility to their decision um and then and that was hard i mean really my all

00:50:04.120 of my cohort kind of turned on me my professors didn't want to speak to me anymore um and then once

00:50:10.720 i went into research i started working in austin um went into research for the military you're a glutton

00:50:19.040 for punishment aren't you right the moment i said you know here comes the new election right the

00:50:27.660 the most recent one and i'm saying you know i think i am going to vote for trump i was completely ripped

00:50:35.260 by all of my colleagues publicly everything changed um i started noting noticing bias and so eventually i did

00:50:43.360 leave and um got another really great job working with a more christian company but i think here's

00:50:50.740 some of my concerns is you know i went through i had to fight for my degree right i fought to get my

00:50:58.220 degree i fought to have a really good job i was working my dream job in research for the for dod research

00:51:05.640 um and i got punished over and over for supporting somebody that i really believed would make this

00:51:12.780 country great truly believe that in my heart but as somebody that is now seeing you know ai taking over

00:51:21.380 our military with all these billion dollar contracts you've got leaders being inducted into the military

00:51:28.160 as lieutenant colonels that work for big ai companies you've got children in gaza you know i'm gen z

00:51:36.720 millennial so i'm looking at instagram at the end of the day right so i'm scrolling and i'm seeing what's

00:51:42.800 happening over there and i'm like how is it that my husband and i are making good money you know doing

00:51:51.100 good work for our community for our country and yet it's costing us about 12 13 1400 a month to feed our

00:52:01.400 kids when we go out on a date it's about 150 bucks you know just to have a good meal go to a good

00:52:09.220 restaurant oh and then we've got to pay somebody you know to watch our kids we can't buy a house and

00:52:15.760 trust me we've tried um because we have credit card debt that they keep raising the interest they

00:52:24.100 get i get emails all the time hey there's going to be a new change in your credit card raising the

00:52:29.820 apr i think it started out at like two percent it's 18 on my credit cards now um can't qualify to buy a

00:52:37.740 house i've got too much student loan debt which the republican party i feel like almost makes fun of me

00:52:44.140 for coming out of appalachia from east tennessee being a first gen college graduate it's almost 0.99

00:52:52.500 kind of like i'd get made fun of for choosing that path because oh you know going to college is stupid 0.85

00:52:59.940 going into debt well i was 17 when i signed that dotted line and i promise you coming from the small 0.93

00:53:06.360 town of mountain city tennessee if i were ever going to make anything of myself i had to sign

00:53:13.280 and my parents encouraged it because they had nothing to give me nothing to offer me um i had

00:53:19.700 no support so when i signed on that dotted line i really believed that that degree was going to

00:53:27.780 get me a good job i was going to be able to buy a house one day raise a family and here i am at 30

00:53:34.460 i'm 30 now thinking in debt not able to buy a house because the mortgage would be about

00:53:42.360 fifteen hundred dollars more than what i pay in rent so i don't actually really own anything

00:53:49.020 if i buy a decent car you know the interest rate right now is 10 11 percent but if i buy a youth car

00:53:58.240 it's really no different and it's going to give me problems down the road so i'm trying to raise my

00:54:04.560 kids in a god-fearing home um but i feel like the republican party and i just aren't really relatable

00:54:14.220 anymore that although i don't believe in the liberal ideas that you know you touch on about not letting

00:54:23.280 people you know be who they are and making you know criticizing our police and our military and

00:54:29.780 wanting open borders i don't believe in any of that but why is it that i'm starting to relate to

00:54:36.580 some of the things that liberals are saying when it comes to the quality of life where i feel like

00:54:41.720 the republicans just don't even want to hear me out on that anymore

00:54:45.360 can you be specific on what the quality of life is that you're hearing from the left that you agree with

00:54:54.480 yeah so um two things really pop up and the first one is how much money we're spending in other

00:55:02.200 countries right so when october 7th happened in israel i fully supported their right to defend

00:55:09.300 themselves but do you know how hard it is to see billions of dollars of our taxpayer dollars that

00:55:16.500 and it's a lot of money i mean i'm 30 years old and i get 30 000 taken out in taxes here in texas

00:55:22.140 30 000 a year and that's by myself um and i owe i actually this is the first time i've ever owed

00:55:29.440 taxes in my life um but then i see all this stuff going on in gaza i'm a mother i'm like what are we

00:55:35.780 what are we doing like what's the end game why isn't that money being invested back here um and then

00:55:43.380 the second thing is like a living wage you know i work luckily because i have a master's degree i'm not

00:55:50.060 an entrepreneur my dad tried that didn't work for him i always felt like my acts of service would be

00:55:57.180 getting a graduate degree in political science advocating work in non-profit settings health

00:56:03.120 systems things like that so i'm lucky that i have a really good wage and i would argue that i you know

00:56:10.140 paid the piper i did the work i got a master's degree etc that cost me a lot of money by the way but

00:56:16.460 you know i work with people that are still making the minimum wage still in texas seven dollars an hour

00:56:23.260 right and i see how much it costs just for me to go to a cheap grocery store like aldi and try to feed

00:56:30.340 my family and my kids and then to hear that somebody in this country is still making 300 a week

00:56:37.160 on one job and then they're taking up a second job um i'm wondering like why is it republicans don't

00:56:46.620 ever want to take an interest in the conditions of people that are working and the ceo that you just

00:56:53.740 had on yeah the consumer doesn't buy your products anymore because we don't have any money to spend

00:56:58.220 everything's expensive rent is expensive i don't believe in government regulation but

00:57:04.540 when rent when landlords are allowed to charge three thousand dollars a month for an apartment

00:57:12.280 in a zip code where people are still making seven bucks an hour i'm just like well at what point do

00:57:18.560 we ask the government to step in because obviously all of this is in the interest of money and guess

00:57:24.640 what my generation doesn't have it to give and we would like to have it we're working hard to have it

00:57:32.460 we thought we did the right thing by going to college and you know doing making those decisions

00:57:39.000 at a young age and i just turned 30 so i've you know fresh not really fresh out of college but been

00:57:45.960 in the workforce for about you know seven years and i'm telling you i literally still can't afford

00:57:53.900 to have a decent and when i say decent that means a home with bedrooms for my kids good food in the fridge

00:58:01.760 a decent car to drive to work with my kids in the car decent experience in life without having to

00:58:09.740 swipe a credit card um okay can i may i just may i just i would let you go on but i'm going to run

00:58:17.660 out of time and i really want to talk to you about this i just want to take you through but let me

00:58:21.560 take one minute and then i want to come back and and i want to make sure i've heard you

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00:59:42.340 uh we're talking to angela uh in tennessee and angela i want to make sure that i that i have

01:00:02.940 exactly what you said um uh that i heard you right first of all this is what i'm hearing you say

01:00:11.220 i'm really really tired i'm tired uh i've been punished uh for voting for somebody for for standing

01:00:19.940 up for somebody uh and now ai is coming in and changing my husband's business our life um you're

01:00:27.760 concerned about you know children and what's happening in gaza um you you make good money and

01:00:35.600 you think you should be able to afford things and you're not uh because the money just doesn't cover

01:00:40.520 it you can't go out on a date without just hemorrhaging you can't buy a house your credit

01:00:45.320 card debt which started it to is now at 18 percent um you think that people on the right or republicans 0.99

01:00:52.460 make fun of you because you went to college because you know going to college it was stupid why did you 0.97

01:00:57.860 go to college rack up that debt um and you feel now that you worked really hard you came from nothing 0.99

01:01:05.020 and nothing's improving um you feel like you thought you could buy a house by now and you can't

01:01:12.520 you don't own anything um you're trying just to raise your kids um and you don't feel like anybody

01:01:19.960 on the right is listening to you they're not they just they're not relatable to you at all and you're

01:01:25.680 starting to believe that the left has a better answer because they're against spending money elsewhere

01:01:31.740 um they're talking about a living wage um and you don't believe in big government but rent control

01:01:38.340 is also starting to make sense to you um do i do i have that right if i covered everything

01:01:45.840 absolutely that's that's how you feel you know the epstein files and feeling betrayed by that yeah

01:01:56.480 i think that covers all of it okay let me add that in the epstein file so make sure i get to

01:02:03.480 epstein files um first of all i want you to know you're not alone angela i think there are millions

01:02:13.040 of people your age under your age over your age that feel exactly the same way in many ways

01:02:20.820 uh and i it's really hard because i cannot relate to uh the not being able to afford a house you know

01:02:30.420 i'm older than you are and i have a very i'm very blessed to have my job um and so i can't relate to

01:02:37.420 that but i will i do want to relate to this i am so tired of all of this i am so tired of this you

01:02:45.020 know when you were a kid and you were going to that i was in the middle of my life fighting

01:02:49.920 for a country that i thought was being lost and i really didn't think it was going to be this hard

01:02:55.300 to turn this thing around so i can relate to you being tired not in the same way um i can relate to

01:03:01.300 you being feeling like you're punished for uh you know standing up for somebody that you believe in

01:03:08.160 uh it's uh that is unfortunately part of the day i don't dismiss it because i have been penalized

01:03:22.040 greatly for um for what i believe and what i say it's part of the gig and and you're that's not part of

01:03:32.140 your gig that is part of mine that's not part of yours however it's a symptom of the time where we

01:03:40.360 have made absolutely everything political and we've got to get out of that to be able to stop

01:03:46.880 feeling punished one thing that you did say there on i feel punished for for standing up for somebody

01:03:54.060 it's a really important thing and i say this from time to time and i mean it especially about

01:04:00.120 churches and stuff never join a church because of a person unless it's jesus because people are

01:04:05.440 going to let you down every time every time um and i know what it's been like to stand up for trump

01:04:11.720 because you're not because nobody's arguing about policies they're arguing about donald trump

01:04:16.660 right you can't you can't have a logical conversation on politics you're you're not talking to anybody

01:04:24.320 that wants to talk about politics everybody wants to talk about donald trump and so it kind of

01:04:29.540 forces you into that position and i feel for you on that um but always stand for something not

01:04:37.760 someone when it comes to ai again i feel your pain uh it's going to get much much worse much worse for

01:04:46.900 everybody and this is something that i've been warning against since the 1990s and nobody wants to pay

01:04:53.200 attention and still people are not paying attention they're thinking as people always do and especially

01:04:58.360 if you're in your situation where you are you have the bills breathing down your neck all the time

01:05:03.220 you can't think about tomorrow you have to stay thinking about today but tomorrow with ai is much much

01:05:12.560 worse and things are going to have to change that's a different subject it won't be rent control

01:05:20.260 it will be i don't know what it's going to be but we're going to people are not going to have a lot

01:05:27.180 of jobs and so we're going to have to figure that out because people at the top very top are going to

01:05:31.700 get very rich and everybody else including people like me are going to go what how do i what i don't

01:05:37.380 have a job okay um good money doesn't cover it you're right we're in a situation right now where

01:05:47.540 um inflation because we spent way too much money and it's only going to get worse because nobody

01:05:55.640 seems to be caring about the debt the real debt is the real problem in this nation at 37 trillion

01:06:03.340 dollars we're still spending way too much money and we have no more safety net there's no more tricks

01:06:09.660 in the bag to pull out uh it's kind of like the wizard of oz remember when he says uh you know

01:06:15.020 there's nothing else i can pull out i can't give you a heart i can't send you home that's kind of like

01:06:19.640 the federal reserve and the federal government now there's we're all out of tricks in the bag now the

01:06:25.080 hard stuff comes um and you can't buy a house this is probably the most frustrating thing for people

01:06:32.640 your age i can't buy a house and you can't i don't know how people afford i i go to a drive-in

01:06:41.500 and you know they'll say 41 bucks and i'm like it's my wife and i what do you mean 41 that's insanity

01:06:47.820 and i think of it all the time how does anyone who makes a decent wage let alone a bad wage a decent

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01:08:29.800 we've been talking to Angela in Tennessee she is 30 31 and she feels exactly like millions of

01:08:56.480 people in america she is absolutely not alone um she has children she has a good job her husband

01:09:03.280 has a good job she struggled through college because she was a conservative um but she did it 0.99

01:09:08.620 because she was born with nothing and she knew i could change my life and now that college degree

01:09:14.540 doesn't mean much and she also is dealing with ai and she's she's uh you know uh also dealing with

01:09:22.720 with massive debt she's got credit card debt 18 she can't buy a house she feels very very alone

01:09:30.060 um and she's just trying to raise her kids but she doesn't think anybody really relates to her

01:09:35.940 anymore and she's starting to believe that maybe the gop is not the answer uh first of all let me just

01:09:41.780 say this no party is the answer no party is the answer period um but the left is starting to say you

01:09:49.400 know maybe we should stop spending money elsewhere well that's not true um that's what they'll have

01:09:54.460 you believe and that's honestly what the debt republicans will have you believe they'll say

01:09:58.080 that you know we should we got to rein in this debt when they're out when they're in they spend

01:10:02.100 um you know look at how the uh democrats were spending your money usa id you don't like it

01:10:08.160 spending in israel how did you feel about the overthrow of three different governments including

01:10:14.160 the arab spring uh and ukraine uh and several others all on your tax dollars you didn't even

01:10:21.280 know about it and it was done for political purposes uh so you know spending your money we all agree on

01:10:28.040 none of the politicians are actually serious about doing it shouldn't say none very few

01:10:32.960 she wants a living wage um and she's starting to think maybe rent control is the the answer 1.00

01:10:39.240 angela none of these and none of these answers that i can give you i think are going to make you

01:10:47.060 feel good in the short term okay um because everything is changing and we have to change

01:10:53.760 uh who we are and our expectations uh you know my father was born in 1926 didn't have refrigeration

01:11:03.360 nothing very very poor didn't have shoes then the depression hit and up until

01:11:09.080 uh 1945 you know things were not good in america like really not good uh in america nothing can

01:11:18.120 compare to what that was like by the time my dad was 25 we were just starting to get out of the

01:11:26.120 depression he couldn't serve in the war so he didn't get the gi bill he couldn't serve because uh

01:11:31.960 you know he had flat feet he wanted to go in to serve in the marines but he couldn't do it um and

01:11:38.200 so he didn't get any of those advantages and then the guys came home and for the first five years

01:11:43.040 after the guys came home it was not good but then the the um you know gi bill started to kick in

01:11:49.780 they got college degrees things started to look good and america was number one in manufacturing

01:11:55.420 and everybody thought that was going to go on forever and you know in the 1950s 1960s

01:12:01.720 early 1970s you could afford to buy a home not everybody but you could afford to buy a home

01:12:07.300 when i remember when my dad wanted to get a loan for uh a house in the 1980s the interest rate was

01:12:13.720 18 percent 18 percent why because the government had gone insane in the 1970s the 1970s had just

01:12:22.520 reversed everything that we had done in the 1960s the car companies were going out of business and

01:12:27.300 because we just we just lost our mind the houses doubled in price because we doubled the income we

01:12:33.280 now had double income because we wanted to make sure that women could work and so when women worked 1.00

01:12:39.680 everybody was like well we can raise the price of everything because now there's two incomes

01:12:43.360 i mean there's there's there's an equal and opposite reaction to every action always that's a rule of life

01:12:50.840 um but those days are over uh at least for a while and i think maybe for a long while um you know the

01:13:00.020 stats and that's not gonna make you feel good the stats are still the stat of gen z actually doing

01:13:06.540 better now the wealth accumulation can you give me that stat yeah and you know this is not something

01:13:12.660 yeah when it comes to uh everybody's individual circumstances obviously it's much not it it's much

01:13:19.100 different but this the the i was stunned by this stat it was one of the more stunning stats i've seen

01:13:24.520 the last probably five years but basically it was uh you know gen z and millennial um uh families

01:13:32.540 are or individuals per capita are earning more than previous generations and have more wealth than

01:13:38.500 previous generations by a pretty significant margin over gen x and even baby boomers at the same time

01:13:45.360 in their life now you know a lot of different factors put into that of course yeah a lot of

01:13:50.540 different and that's not true for everybody and it's you know it doesn't feel that way i don't think

01:13:54.700 it feels that way to anyone part of that is social media everybody's comparing themselves here's what i

01:14:01.140 want you to do uh angela is it's not going to make you feel better but you have to change your frame

01:14:06.380 of mind um because this is not a political thing this is a this is really a spiritual battle

01:14:12.900 um you have to measure yourself not by what you you have don't measure your worth by what you have

01:14:20.340 compared to others because that that just is going to fuel despair you need to start measuring by

01:14:25.380 resilience adaptability and progress your progress not facebook compared to progress but actual progress

01:14:35.120 where were you last year to this year and then don't measure it just on the accumulation of things

01:14:41.460 it's really super hard but this is a very hard you are the generation you you and gen z really is

01:14:49.480 the generation is the hero generation you were the ones that now like my father in the depression

01:14:56.140 and a little bit earlier than my father they were the ones who fought the wars uh and lived through

01:15:02.540 depression and pulled themselves up and died for things that many of them didn't even know really what

01:15:08.160 they were dying for they changed the world so measure your progress and then understand that

01:15:15.160 small moves compound you know i know you're up to your eyeballs in credit there are ways to help you

01:15:22.040 get out of credit but when you can eliminate debt and this is something i remember i must have been

01:15:26.580 six years old when my parents cut their credit cards up and threw them in the fire because our 0.59

01:15:33.120 parents learned my parents learned this lesson then that these things are just suck holes they're 0.71

01:15:38.220 gonna they're gonna destroy you and they made us swear we would never take out credit cards and for a

01:15:42.680 long time i didn't have a credit card because of that now we're learning that lesson yet again

01:15:48.360 unfortunately um but eliminate debt put away have for a year you have a goal of putting away a thousand

01:15:55.600 dollars that just the discipline of that will compound um people wait for the perfect moments

01:16:04.120 i know i have done this throughout my life where i wait for the perfect moment don't prepare through

01:16:10.560 the imperfect ones because that perfect moment will come but not if you're not prepared for it it'll

01:16:17.480 come and then you won't be able to do anything about it your time is coming that's where your hope

01:16:22.760 hope in god and hope that things work out for the better they do your time is coming just know what

01:16:30.540 has value and what has value is anything of meaning okay not milestones i'm 30 i should be here that

01:16:38.920 means nothing at 40 people are gonna find this strange maybe at 40 on my 40th birthday i said to look

01:16:47.140 to my wife and i said i haven't accomplished a damn thing in my life i haven't done anything

01:16:51.240 i had not started talk radio or i just started talk radio um and i was i was just scraping by i mean

01:16:59.080 he was living in an 800 square foot apartment in my in at 40 i'm living like that okay uh and was it

01:17:07.040 800 feet square feet stew was it that big if you're lucky yeah it was you know 20 something and he was

01:17:13.960 living in a better apartment than i was so uh and at 40 i said i haven't accomplished anything

01:17:20.640 by 50 i had started two television shows a successful talk radio show i by the time i was

01:17:29.760 50 i think i had 15 new york times bestsellers uh all in a 10-year period by 50 i was very very tired

01:17:37.620 but it happens when your time comes it happens if you've done the hard things to be prepared for

01:17:45.640 those things um and you know things are not going to magically fix themselves but the people who keep

01:17:52.420 walking through the desert are the ones that get to the oasis just keep walking through the desert

01:17:58.640 angela i know none of this makes you feel better but the answer for what we have in front of us none of

01:18:08.880 them are easy none of them are easy um they're all gonna suck we have to be there for one another

01:18:16.460 uh not lower our standards but change what we find value in and i will tell you at 60 uh now 62

01:18:26.960 my kids my oldest or my youngest kids just moved out of the house and went to college and now that i am

01:18:32.920 alone uh in quite honestly a big empty house my life feels very empty i chose to work thinking

01:18:42.120 that a well my job is really important and b uh you know i want to give them all the things i didn't

01:18:49.600 have as a kid none of that is meaningful at all none of that is meaningful do they call their dad

01:18:56.000 um you know do do we have all of those great memories together i sat on the couch with my

01:19:02.200 my son and daughter at christmas time and tanya was looking through her phone at all of these times

01:19:07.940 and i realized i'm not in most of those pictures i was working i'm not in most of those pictures

01:19:13.340 and that about killed me so value does not come from stuff and i know that doesn't help

01:19:22.940 but does anything i say to you here imprint on you

01:19:28.980 it does yeah it really does

01:19:33.920 thank you i i wish i i wish i had a magic bullet but there is no magic bullet there's none but i think

01:19:45.940 the only one is jesus right like leaning on him yeah i mean the closer i feel like i get to jesus the

01:19:55.780 more i feel at peace with the way things are going um and you're right where real value is

01:20:03.020 yeah you know where real value is you were gonna say you what

01:20:08.460 i you know we just had to stop tithing 10 because we just had other bills to pay and it

01:20:16.940 it hurt me you know don't and don't do that may i may i suggest you don't do that

01:20:23.020 i don't yeah we we turned back on that decision um good for you you know started you know doing other

01:20:30.940 things to be able to give back at 10 for the both of us even though it's honestly a mortgage payment

01:20:37.740 because you're right jenzy and millennials are making um good money but i do think it's not all

01:20:44.940 of them yeah keeping the core you unfortunately you unfortunately i was in the generation that

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01:21:03.560 didn't get it because they wrecked our childhoods they wrecked our country in the 60s they wrecked our 0.52

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01:22:01.540 stuff i don't even understand i mean i i can't i don't know how to work my remote control many times

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01:23:59.400 so for anybody who is feeling like our last caller is feeling uh in that and you're tempted by you

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01:25:23.560 it is there are other solutions there you go they generally come from the left again uh and i don't

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01:25:36.840 and your time will come i promise you your time is coming

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01:29:13.760 So Chip Roy is with us.

01:29:16.340 I'm going to give you the bad news first.

01:29:18.760 Chip Roy is leaving the house.

01:29:21.900 Not good news.

01:29:23.500 Chip is probably the best fighter out there, and I hate the fact that he is leaving the house.

01:29:29.680 Now, I guess the good news is, and I say I guess because, you know, the guy who is running against him for AG of Texas, Aaron Reitz, he announced his candidacy on my show.

01:29:45.560 But, Chip, I guess I'm second fiddle.

01:29:48.560 I don't know.

01:29:49.380 I don't know.

01:29:51.020 But Chip Roy is here.

01:29:52.640 Hello, Chip.

01:29:53.120 How are you?

01:29:54.900 I'm doing great, Glenn.

01:29:56.140 Great to be on the show.

01:29:57.120 And just deeply appreciate your friendship and all you do for this country.

01:30:03.320 Likewise.

01:30:04.020 You're a good man.

01:30:05.480 And I'm really, honestly, I'm very, are you certain we can have somebody as good as you in Congress?

01:30:11.860 Do you know of anybody that can run for your seat?

01:30:14.280 That can win?

01:30:15.760 Well, all I can say is this.

01:30:17.520 Stay tuned.

01:30:18.540 I think there's going to be some shifting around and some things that will be interesting coming out in the next couple days.

01:30:25.400 But the bottom line is this.

01:30:26.600 The people of Texas are going to make a good decision.

01:30:29.680 They'll make a good decision about AG.

01:30:31.300 They'll make a good decision about Texas 21.

01:30:33.360 When I ran for Texas 21, Glenn, there were 18 candidates in the primary.

01:30:38.960 Okay?

01:30:39.700 So you get out.

01:30:40.980 You go work.

01:30:41.820 You beat the pavement.

01:30:42.740 You go earn the votes.

01:30:43.960 That's what you do.

01:30:44.820 That's what I'm going to do statewide.

01:30:46.120 You've got a proven track record.

01:30:48.080 Former federal prosecutor.

01:30:49.980 An undeniably strong conservative voting record with perfect or high 90 scores of virtually every single group that looks at this stuff.

01:30:58.600 You know it.

01:30:59.280 Everybody knows it.

01:31:00.100 But whenever there's a difference of opinion here and there, it's usually about how you do things, not about the what.

01:31:06.420 But, and look, as I'm saying in my launch, I'm unafraid to fight, but I'm unafraid to win.

01:31:13.900 You've got to find the path to winning.

01:31:15.860 And that's the goal, and that's what I'm going to do as AG.

01:31:18.340 So what is the path for winning?

01:31:21.600 Because both of you worked for Ken Paxton, who is now going to be running for Senate.

01:31:26.520 Both candidates worked for Ken Paxton.

01:31:29.160 You both have good track records.

01:31:31.000 What's the path to winning here?

01:31:33.700 Well, look, again, let all this play out a little bit over time and see what's going on.

01:31:38.660 But let me just say for the state of the AG's race, I come into this with significant trusted and proven name ID across the state of Texas.

01:31:47.080 It is very high.

01:31:48.540 Our polling is very good, internally and externally.

01:31:53.160 Our relationships run deep.

01:31:55.600 My track record is strong.

01:31:57.900 The grassroots that I'm friends with and have been for 20 years out there fighting in the trenches with them, they're strongly supportive.

01:32:05.320 I've been in a courtroom.

01:32:06.840 I've been a federal prosecutor putting bad guys in jail.

01:32:09.380 I did it right up the road from where you are.

01:32:11.400 I was in McKinney, Texas.

01:32:12.520 I prosecuted in Plano and Sherman.

01:32:14.040 I put drug runners and illegal aliens and violent criminals in jail.

01:32:19.060 I've been in the AG's office.

01:32:21.060 I have fought those fights.

01:32:22.840 We have been a part of the litigation to go into the Supreme Court.

01:32:25.840 I know these issues well.

01:32:27.280 I was the chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution.

01:32:29.560 I've been elected four times.

01:32:30.940 I've proven that I can win tough elections against Democrats like Wendy Davis, who I stomped by seven points and was proud to even outperform the great President Trump that year in Texas 21 by beating Wendy Davis.

01:32:44.180 In other words, I'm unafraid to win.

01:32:47.040 Deliver.

01:32:47.540 Deliver on the big, beautiful bill.

01:32:48.980 Work with the president to do it, even though you and I and others had concerns, right?

01:32:53.260 You've got to lead.

01:32:54.400 You've got to take it, land the plane, and then wake up tomorrow and fight some more.

01:32:57.840 So what are your main – what are the things that you think you can improve on are the things – what are your main priorities if you're Texas AG?

01:33:07.440 Well, look, I think there are a lot of issues that you and I both care a lot about, right?

01:33:11.280 There are things like making sure you're there to secure the border and deal with invasions when we don't have someone like Donald Trump in the White House, right?

01:33:18.540 He has returned it to common sense.

01:33:20.900 But imagine what it looks like when the next time we have a radical president.

01:33:24.900 You've got to have someone there willing to challenge it and fight it.

01:33:27.180 You've got to have someone there willing to take on Sharia law and the crazy advancement of some of the radical Islam communities like the Epic City issue and those things. 0.99

01:33:36.160 You've got to have somebody –

01:33:36.860 Hang on just a second.

01:33:37.800 Wait, wait, wait.

01:33:38.320 You know, Epic City, everybody talks about Epic City.

01:33:40.880 Houston's worse.

01:33:42.420 Houston has an enormous, enormous Islamist section of Houston.

01:33:49.180 I mean, Texas is the last place you would think that they would come, but they're here in droves. 0.83

01:33:54.660 And I'm not talking about Islamic people. 0.99

01:33:56.740 I'm talking about Islamists. 1.00

01:33:59.260 Exactly.

01:33:59.800 Thank you for that differentiation.

01:34:01.140 And you need someone like me who has been the chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution, who is a reverent defender of our First Amendment rights and religious liberty,

01:34:08.600 but who recognizes that that is not a pathway to allowing Sharia law and the Islamists to advance what is a political movement under the basically cloak of religious liberty.

01:34:23.960 Someone's got to be very smart to do that.

01:34:25.800 That is very much a priority for me.

01:34:27.860 It is a priority for me to take on Chinese Communist Party, those who take up Texas lands, big corporations that come in and step all over the little guys, 1.00

01:34:37.160 the monopolistic insurance companies and hospital corporations that are out there stomping on your ability to afford health care.

01:34:42.660 And everybody in the listeners, we have so much we need to do to defend the Texas of our dreams, the Texas of our forefathers.

01:34:49.400 And, again, you've got to have somebody who's unafraid to win.

01:34:52.460 You've got to find someone who can go in, pick the fight, and then go get it done.

01:34:55.880 I have to tell you, I mean, I don't endorse people, Chip.

01:35:02.840 I just, I don't.

01:35:03.660 I've learned my lesson on that one.

01:35:05.840 But I can tell you this.

01:35:07.980 This is not an endorsement, but, I mean, I'd vote for you for dog catcher. 0.99

01:35:11.980 I think you're, I just think you have proven yourself over and over and over again to be truly a deep conservative, constitutional conservative,

01:35:22.920 and that makes a difference.

01:35:23.980 Well, go ahead.

01:35:27.220 Oh, no, I think election integrity is where I wanted to go.

01:35:30.120 I will just say one quick thing, which is, I know, like, scores in D.C., I mean, it is what it is, like scorecards.

01:35:36.180 But when you look at my score, Heritage Action, 100%.

01:35:38.960 Club for Growth, 100%.

01:35:40.380 Freedom Index, 100%.

01:35:41.880 American Energy Alliance, 100%.

01:35:43.820 Turning Point, 96%.

01:35:45.440 I don't know what they did there.

01:35:46.900 They were probably wrong.

01:35:47.700 I was probably right on that other one.

01:35:49.100 Republican Liberty Caucus, 100%.

01:35:51.180 American First Insight, A+.

01:35:53.020 Susan B. Anthony, A+, Gun Owners of America, A+.

01:35:56.780 Look, I've had to put my reputation on the line.

01:36:00.740 And then when you get to election integrity, introducing the SAVE Act, getting out there and leading it, getting it passed out of the House, putting pressure on the Democrats, 0.82

01:36:08.200 giving us a good election issue because Chuck Schumer's too stupid to do the right thing to advance the SAVE Act, which simply says only American citizens should vote in American elections.

01:36:17.360 Now I'm working with experts in Washington. 0.92

01:36:19.860 We're going to have what we're going to have, a super SAVE or an improved SAVE Act coming out in September, where we're going to go even further.

01:36:25.660 And I've got a press conference on Friday, is that tomorrow?

01:36:28.780 I think it is, yeah.

01:36:29.640 Tomorrow.

01:36:30.200 Yes.

01:36:30.540 In San Antonio with Tea Party and Jenny Beth Martin and those guys going around the country talking about the deed for election integrity.

01:36:36.680 We're going to lead on this and we're going to win on it.

01:36:39.760 Can the president do something about, you know, he's talking about getting rid of, you know, mail-in ballots.

01:36:44.560 Can he actually do that at a federal level?

01:36:47.040 And doesn't the Constitution say specifically on this it's up to the states?

01:36:52.200 Well, look, it depends a little bit on the way Congress has traditionally drafted their laws, right?

01:36:57.140 And it allows the president some authority there in how we carry out and execute on some of this.

01:37:01.340 But, yes, most of these things are done at the state level.

01:37:04.540 But Congress has given a great deal of authority on what we can do as it pertains to our elections, right?

01:37:10.320 That's the basis for the SAVE Act.

01:37:11.780 We're not going to go in and tell the states that they have to do X, Y, or Z.

01:37:15.120 But if you're voting for Congress or the Senate or the presidency, we certainly can have an impact on that.

01:37:20.800 And then the president, in carrying out and executing federal laws, has some latitude there on how they do those things.

01:37:27.700 But, yeah, we've got to move hard to get legislation passed.

01:37:31.620 And that means fighting in Congress on must-pass bills to force Democrats' hands.

01:37:36.360 I think that if we took the SAVE Act and other similar reforms and tagged it to must-pass pieces of legislation, I think Democrats would crumble.

01:37:45.660 I think we could get seven Democrats who would have to say, look, we can't stand in the way of a common-sense provision for only American citizens to vote and then not fund, for example, our veterans or whatever it is.

01:37:58.440 Put it on must-pass legislation and fight.

01:38:00.500 And that's what the American people want us to do.

01:38:03.720 Where are we on?

01:38:04.720 You know, I saw, I thought, a disturbing stat Stu and I were talking about earlier.

01:38:08.520 You know, the number of people that were exported or sent back home, what was it, Stu, like 500 people this month?

01:38:18.420 It was some ridiculous number.

01:38:19.940 It was a slight increase, but it was not the increase you'd just expect from certainly the media attention that makes it seem like we're showing up at every Home Depot events.

01:38:26.500 Like 400 to 500 or something like that.

01:38:28.900 And it's like, wow, we should be doing this en masse, but it's not happening.

01:38:33.880 Why?

01:38:35.240 Well, so first of all, I have great faith in Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and what they're trying to do and working with DHS.

01:38:41.640 And I think they're doing all that they know how that they can do.

01:38:44.220 We're also now just getting the benefits of the big, beautiful bill to get some of the, and again, you and I had our pros and our cons with that.

01:38:50.680 But one of the pros was additional resources for ICE and border security.

01:38:54.060 They're now doing that.

01:38:55.360 They're recruiting, getting people in place.

01:38:57.400 But this is also why we need permanent reform, reform like H.R. 2, reform to our asylum laws, reform to our parole laws, so they can't be abused.

01:39:05.380 And we've got to have aggressive...

01:39:05.860 Well, tell me what you can do as, tell me what you can do as AG.

01:39:08.960 If you're in Texas, what are the things that you can do additionally as AG?

01:39:13.700 Aggressively work with local law enforcement under 287G programs to be able to work with ICE and work with the feds to execute the law in concert with the governor's office, but also importantly, defending the laws when they're under assault, because that's what you do, obviously, is the AG in the courtroom.

01:39:28.920 But also being really aggressive on how we view the law as a respect to invasion, with respect to other interpretations of the law.

01:39:37.340 And then importantly, and I think critically, we have to, as states, we've got to have significant action to undermine these leftist DAs and leftist judges that are standing in the way of an administration like President Trump to deliver.

01:39:56.520 And we get so caught up, and understandably so, in figuring out how to manage the law and going into court and the rule of law, all of stuff that is front and center for me.

01:40:04.940 But you've got to take a step back and say, we're Texas, okay?

01:40:08.040 We do not have to allow unelected judges who misinterpret laws or express their authority, make it to where we have people on our own streets getting killed, or taxpayers having to fund massive levels of English as a second language and undermining our public schools, or whatever, pick your issue.

01:40:26.520 So you've got to have an AG that's aggressive.

01:40:28.620 And again, Ken Paxton has been aggressive.

01:40:30.740 Greg Abbott was aggressive.

01:40:31.920 But I've got to take that legacy forward and double down and be even more aggressive.

01:40:36.240 And I think if you know anything about me, it's that I do not shy away from these fights.

01:40:40.800 I will take them as far as you can possibly take them, and I don't think anybody can question that.

01:40:45.720 You know, I think the first time you were on, I asked you the question I usually ask everybody who is going to Congress, how's your soul?

01:40:54.640 And you gave me a great answer, and your soul was in good shape, and I've watched you, and it feels to me like it's still in good shape.

01:41:03.960 But let me give you an exit question here now as you're exiting the House.

01:41:09.460 It was Senator Hatch from Utah that told me just before he was leaving, you know, I've never seen anybody serve here in Washington and leave a better man.

01:41:20.400 And I'm not sure I have.

01:41:22.200 But have you left worse than you were, better than you were, or is it just a draw?

01:41:29.080 You survived.

01:41:31.200 Look, I view Washington as something that shouldn't affect your soul.

01:41:36.200 When I went to Washington, and I said publicly, and it might have been on your show, that at the end of the day, like, I don't fear politics.

01:41:44.840 I fear the Lord.

01:41:46.260 And Lord knows I'm going to have plenty to answer to when I get there.

01:41:50.020 I do the best every day like everybody else, and then I repent, and then I get back in and read Scripture and do all the things you're supposed to do,

01:41:57.380 because that's what we do as people who have all fallen short of the glory of God, right?

01:42:02.400 We have all sinned, and we all need that redemption.

01:42:05.540 And I know that.

01:42:06.560 I recognize that.

01:42:07.500 And I think that has stayed consistent, and I'm proud of what I've done in Washington.

01:42:11.240 And if you ask about where my soul stands, well, the Lord is going to be the judge of that.

01:42:15.860 But I know that I turn it all over to him.

01:42:17.940 I know my faults.

01:42:19.040 I know that I want to be home with my family.

01:42:21.600 My kids are 14 and 15.

01:42:23.220 I want to keep fighting the fight, but I'd like to do it from here in Texas.

01:42:27.320 And the last point I'll make about this, my soul was enriched by the people of Texas when they came together in the wake of those floods

01:42:34.960 and the common faith of the people in Kerrville and throughout the hill country who came together and grieved and were saddened,

01:42:43.380 but then came together under the cross and under our faith to advance something bigger so that the world knows what strength looks like,

01:42:51.220 so the world knows that when those little girls are singing hymns, leaving Camp Mystic, that our souls are intact.

01:42:58.020 That's what I want to fight for.

01:42:59.560 That's the Texas that I want for my kids and my grandkids.

01:43:03.140 And I'm going to leave everything on the field trying to deliver it.

01:43:05.940 That's chiproy.com, chiproy.com.

01:43:10.240 Chip, as always, great to talk to you.

01:43:13.080 Congratulations on this next page of your life.

01:43:18.260 Good luck.

01:43:18.980 Well, God bless you, Glenn.

01:43:20.320 Thank you for all you do.

01:43:21.500 Thank you.

01:43:21.840 You got it.

01:43:23.960 You know, the thing I like about Chip is when he was saying that, you would hear some politicians say what he just said at the very end,

01:43:29.920 and you'd roll your eyes like, okay, all right.

01:43:32.400 That's really who this guy is.

01:43:34.240 I mean, that's why I like him.

01:43:35.360 I think that's why so many people like him, because he is the real deal.

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01:45:19.940 Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, the founding and senior pastor, Jack Hibbs is going to be joining us here in just a second.

01:45:26.240 He has been standing up against the government in California like, I mean, he's a pit bull.

01:45:34.540 He is a pit bull.

01:45:35.680 When it came to COVID, oh, he took them on.

01:45:38.220 He is now talking about a very dangerous bill.

01:45:41.020 He says it's very dangerous.

01:45:42.180 I don't know it.

01:45:42.860 I haven't read it myself.

01:45:43.680 I want to get the information from him on this.

01:45:46.820 But he says if this bill passes, you have to grab your kid and leave California for your child's protection.

01:45:55.680 Wow, that is.

01:45:58.180 That's quite a warning.

01:45:59.820 He didn't say that during COVID.

01:46:01.340 He didn't say that during any other thing.

01:46:03.320 He's saying that now.

01:46:04.560 If this passes and the governor signs it, get you and your children out of California.

01:46:10.020 We're going to talk to Jack Hibbs about that here in just a second.

01:46:14.620 How do you feel about Chip Roy leaving the House?

01:46:18.200 Yeah, I feel the same way you do.

01:46:19.760 I mean, if he winds up being the attorney general, I think it'll be a very good one.

01:46:22.740 But you hate to lose him in the House.

01:46:25.860 I will say.

01:46:27.040 Go ahead.

01:46:28.640 Uh-uh.

01:46:29.380 Go ahead.

01:46:29.700 I was going to say, this is something you've brought up to me before in the past.

01:46:33.200 But when people give you a bunch of very similar numbers and then one's at a step.

01:46:36.960 Or like, I'm actually the number two or three person.

01:46:40.360 Or number three person.

01:46:41.600 You always think of, oh, who's number one?

01:46:43.300 When he went through that whole list of things, he said Turning Point only has him at a 96.

01:46:47.460 So I went to go see why they had him at a 96 only.

01:46:52.740 And it's like a couple of votes that were like 396 to 5.

01:46:57.980 And he was one of the five that voted against it.

01:47:02.160 There are three or four bills that kind of fall into that category.

01:47:06.120 But he's got a great voting record.

01:47:07.580 And he cares about the Constitution.

01:47:08.680 Again, he said those things.

01:47:10.440 Because we've talked to him about it.

01:47:11.540 He said those things were about timing or how that was done.

01:47:16.540 He said, I wasn't against those policies.

01:47:18.580 I was against how it was done.

01:47:21.840 And so when you have a 95, I think I can cut you some slack on that one.

01:47:28.580 Again, every other one had him at 100.

01:47:30.440 There's no reason to focus on the 96.

01:47:32.320 But that's exactly what I did while he was talking.

01:47:34.060 Did you notice what he said when I talked to him about getting somebody for his house seat?

01:47:43.960 Did you notice his answer was, you should wait for a couple of days.

01:47:48.660 Let's see how this all plays out.

01:47:51.240 You know that?

01:47:51.700 Maybe there's somebody.

01:47:52.420 Twice.

01:47:52.980 Yeah.

01:47:53.300 Maybe there's somebody around the corner that he knows about.

01:47:55.460 I think it's redistricting.

01:47:58.340 Oh, okay.

01:48:00.280 That's true.

01:48:01.420 Very true.

01:48:02.140 I mean, well, that's happening, right?

01:48:03.160 We know that's happening.

01:48:04.440 Yeah.

01:48:05.720 I'll bet you it's redistricting.

01:48:07.060 Maybe it's Jasmine Crockett because she might lose her seat. 1.00

01:48:10.080 So maybe she can move in. 0.98

01:48:11.640 We can get her back in the Congress.

01:48:13.140 I want her in the Congress, Glenn.

01:48:14.500 I want her talking more often.

01:48:17.060 Now, I don't want her voting.

01:48:18.840 I don't want her really to win her election.

01:48:20.460 I want her as a presidential candidate for the Democrats. 1.00

01:48:22.800 Yeah, I want her constantly running for office. 1.00

01:48:25.200 That's really where I've landed on this.

01:48:26.860 I want Jasmine Crockett running and then losing over and over and over again.

01:48:31.180 That's my desire for our future.

01:48:34.120 Unbelievable.

01:48:35.120 All right, Jack Tibbs, next.

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01:50:09.080 You know, sometimes I really wish that the commercial breaks,

01:50:24.440 what's happened during the commercial breaks, could be heard on the air,

01:50:28.000 and then there's days like today that I don't.

01:50:29.800 I mean, it was a full-fledged cracker barrel brawl.

01:50:33.480 I mean, it was a mostly peaceful brawl in the way that the CNN riots are mostly peaceful.

01:50:39.780 It was pretty ugly.

01:50:41.100 And we're going to be out of time, so we're going to pick that up tomorrow.

01:50:45.300 Come for me again with your knife, Stu.

01:50:48.520 I'm on the side of the cracker barrel.

01:50:51.620 Anyway, Jack Hibbs is with us.

01:50:53.920 He's from Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills.

01:50:56.680 He's the founding senior pastor, author of Called to Take a Bold Stand,

01:51:00.880 and he's been doing that for a while now.

01:51:04.600 He's really been doing that.

01:51:05.960 The book comes out next month, September 16th.

01:51:10.600 Welcome to the program, Jack.

01:51:11.800 How are you?

01:51:13.520 Glenn, thank you.

01:51:14.720 And thanks for the plug regarding the book.

01:51:16.800 I just didn't have any idea that Gavin Newsom would help me get this book to the front of the line

01:51:22.380 with all the antics in Sacramento.

01:51:25.580 I know.

01:51:26.280 It is crazy.

01:51:27.360 You have been, you know, we were just talking to Chip Roy, who's now running for Texas Attorney General.

01:51:33.760 He was in Congress during COVID, and the guy was a pit bull.

01:51:38.560 And Stu and I were saying, you know, imagine if he would have been governor.

01:51:41.380 When this was going on, you know, in California with COVID,

01:51:46.200 you were probably one of the major people standing that really made a difference.

01:51:53.040 I mean, that power didn't scare you at all.

01:51:57.580 Yeah, no.

01:51:58.500 Listen, I mean, we had to stand, Glenn, and you know this.

01:52:02.540 Jesus said, I've set before you an open door that no man can shut.

01:52:06.520 He spoke that to the churches in the book of Revelation,

01:52:10.740 and I, frankly, I had no authority to shut the doors of the church.

01:52:15.220 It's his church.

01:52:16.060 And so we just, we kept preaching, we kept teaching, and lo and behold, for well over two years,

01:52:22.520 we were the most populated church for a two-year period of time.

01:52:27.700 Glenn, we were seeing anywhere from 13,000 to 15,000 adults on a Sunday morning

01:52:33.080 because people didn't have their churches open.

01:52:35.860 So they came to our church, and we were grateful to teach them.

01:52:38.940 All right, you're on today because you said something yesterday that I found astounding.

01:52:45.400 It's about something called AB495.

01:52:47.480 I'm going to have to have you explain that here in a second.

01:52:49.580 But you went online, and you said, if this passes and he signs it in,

01:52:54.580 you as a Californian, you have to take your kids and move out of the state.

01:53:00.260 That's quite a statement.

01:53:03.280 Yeah, listen, it made me sick to say it.

01:53:05.540 It's 100% true.

01:53:06.620 It's the last thing a pastor wants to say to his congregation, but it's that bad.

01:53:11.840 As I explained the bill in a moment to you, it is that bad, and it's not my opinion.

01:53:16.680 I've been counseled by legal on how bad it is.

01:53:19.900 And so when I said to the congregation, yeah, if you've got a kid in school, you've got to get out.

01:53:25.020 If Newsom does not veto this bill, you've got to get your kid out of California for their own safety.

01:53:32.040 It's that bad.

01:53:33.040 Okay, so the left, the media, is saying, no, he's making all this up and stuff.

01:53:39.480 Explain what's in the bill, and let me play pushback on a couple of places.

01:53:44.260 Yeah, absolutely.

01:53:46.020 So number one, it's Assembly Bill 495, and here's the deal.

01:53:50.460 It's known as the Compassion Bill.

01:53:52.460 It's a bill that Celeste Rodriguez and the entire Democrat legislature of California crafted, and now these are my words, these words are my own, the next words.

01:54:04.840 It's a bill designed to stop the bad orange man because it's all about ICE and its operations in California.

01:54:14.760 And here it is.

01:54:16.380 If an illegal alien is abducted by ICE and their child is in a state school or a private school or even a daycare center,

01:54:28.180 then this bill would allow an individual, listen, any individual can go to the website, print out the affidavit from their home.

01:54:40.160 They're going to be asked a question.

01:54:42.420 Did you attempt to reach the parents or the custodians or guardians of this child?

01:54:47.460 Yes or no.

01:54:49.860 Whatever they check, then they sign their name.

01:54:53.700 They write their name.

01:54:55.180 No address is required.

01:54:57.660 There's no driver's license required.

01:55:00.080 There is no Social Security number required.

01:55:01.940 There's no phone number required.

01:55:04.720 The person checks the box, signs the name, and then writes down the child's name that they are withdrawing from the school

01:55:12.160 for the child's own safety under the whole ruse that their parents or parent was captured by ICE.

01:55:22.660 Here's the crazy thing, Beck, Glenn, is that in California, the California Education Code, we already have this.

01:55:30.720 It's California Education Code 234.7.

01:55:34.080 In the event of a child not being able to be picked up or taken into the care of a family member,

01:55:39.640 be it by accident, by death, whatever, we already have this law.

01:55:44.140 So the reason we are freaking out about this law and making it loud is the fact that who is that person who downloads

01:55:51.840 and prints out that affidavit?

01:55:54.160 It can be anybody.

01:55:55.860 The bill literally states they don't have to be a relation.

01:56:00.140 It can be anyone who's possessing this affidavit that is downloadable and printable at your own home.

01:56:06.460 So theoretically, Glenn, somebody could be down the street from your grandkids or from your children,

01:56:13.840 and they can see that you go to work at a certain time of day.

01:56:17.040 They know that your kid goes to a certain school.

01:56:19.700 They can go to that school with that affidavit, extract your child out.

01:56:24.400 Here's the punchline.

01:56:26.680 Because it's an affidavit, the school cannot refuse the requester of that child.

01:56:32.380 When you, Glenn, go back to pick up your child at the end of the day,

01:56:36.900 the school is under no obligation to tell you who it was or where they went.

01:56:43.220 And that's why we've got, and I'm not going to name the names yet,

01:56:46.200 but we've got great legal minds that are nationally recognized that have reviewed this bill.

01:56:52.020 And, Glenn, this is so important.

01:56:53.840 They said in almost everything we do, the devil is in the details, the fine print.

01:56:58.440 They said, not this one, this bill is so vague that it would be hard to defend a parent trying to get their child

01:57:10.440 or find their child because it is so loosely and so broadly written, so vague.

01:57:15.580 And, Glenn, we've been told that is the worst thing that you can have happen in California's government

01:57:20.000 because our legal system, the judges, you name it.

01:57:23.020 It is a dangerous bill, Assembly Bill 495.

01:57:30.980 How well do people in California know this bill?

01:57:36.020 Well, I've got to tell you, Tuesday we called an impromptu rally at the state capitol

01:57:40.820 and we had 6,500 plus people show up.

01:57:44.720 So, the sergeant of arms told us that's the largest gathering regarding legislation of concern in 30 years.

01:57:53.980 So, yeah, good question, Glenn.

01:57:55.740 Thank you.

01:57:57.360 I'm grateful to agencies like Newsmax and Fox and KFI Radio here in Los Angeles.

01:58:05.120 But was CBS there?

01:58:06.520 Was NBC there?

01:58:08.200 No.

01:58:08.760 So, it's all been grassroots when people are finding out about it and reading about it, the routing.

01:58:17.260 I mean, they are getting involved.

01:58:18.420 Here's the cool thing, Glenn.

01:58:19.780 People showed up.

01:58:21.360 They were respectful, but they were loud.

01:58:23.400 They were smiling, but they made their point.

01:58:26.640 We had a series of speakers, attorneys, and lawmakers.

01:58:30.200 And bottom line is this.

01:58:32.400 The bill has now been placed in suspension, which means they pulled it from its progress.

01:58:39.180 They're going to reconsider the bill.

01:58:41.560 It doesn't mean they're stopping it.

01:58:43.020 They're reconsidering the bill.

01:58:44.760 They're going to review the bill.

01:58:46.300 It could either die in suspension.

01:58:48.660 By August 29th, it will either die in suspension or they'll advance it to the Senate.

01:58:54.300 And then the Senate will rubber stamp it because they're all Democrats. 0.97

01:58:57.140 I'm sorry if I'm offending any of your listeners right now.

01:59:01.360 California is a Democrat stronghold.

01:59:04.000 They have a supermajority.

01:59:05.320 They don't even put things to our vote anymore.

01:59:07.820 It's no longer we the people in California.

01:59:10.040 They rubber stamp things through.

01:59:11.760 They get it to Newsom.

01:59:13.140 And here's what I'm concerned about. 0.81

01:59:14.760 I hope it dies in suspension, Glenn, for this reason.

01:59:18.860 They're getting so much heat.

01:59:20.300 We've had four Democrat senators tell us this publicity, that crowd on Tuesday is killing us.

01:59:30.160 Hey, that's good news.

01:59:31.840 But I don't want it to go to Newsom's desk because you know what that slide dog will do?

01:59:36.700 He may veto it and then come out and say, see how big of a moderate I am?

01:59:41.940 I put this bad bill away, so vote for me in 2028.

01:59:46.360 Glenn, we're going to make sure that the Democrats of California and Newsom at the front of the line wears the scarlet letters of AB495.

01:59:57.140 What are your plans now in the next two weeks?

02:00:00.520 Next two weeks, we've got people praying.

02:00:02.860 We've got a website called realimpact.us.

02:00:07.460 Please, everybody go to it.

02:00:09.220 You can get your marching orders there.

02:00:10.960 Realimpact.us.

02:00:13.740 It's going to show you the progress of the bill.

02:00:15.700 It's going to show you who to call.

02:00:17.360 What state senator is your state senator?

02:00:20.000 Give them a call.

02:00:21.100 Tell them.

02:00:22.080 Oppose it. 1.00

02:00:23.060 Kill it. 1.00

02:00:24.100 We just didn't rally, Glenn. 0.92

02:00:26.940 We gave people that day after the public speakers.

02:00:30.800 We then immediately held a 30-minute class at the state Capitol steps.

02:00:37.420 This is where you go to your legislator.

02:00:39.620 This is how you lobby them, and let's go.

02:00:43.440 And hundreds and hundreds of people went to their state legislator on Tuesday and demanded that their senator and their assembly person speak up against the bill.

02:00:54.180 It was absolutely epic.

02:00:55.520 Again, largest crowd in 30 years at the California State Capitol.

02:00:59.840 Well, Jack, thank you for everything that you're doing.

02:01:05.820 I can't imagine what it's like to live in California, where it seems like every day they're doing something else to injure the people and the families of California.

02:01:17.680 It's why I live in Texas.

02:01:18.920 I'm moving to Florida.

02:01:20.820 I'd live in either one of those states.

02:01:22.720 But, man, I could never live in California.

02:01:24.760 And I've always wanted to live in California.

02:01:26.360 It was a beautiful, beautiful state.

02:01:28.940 And now it's just – it's an insane asylum.

02:01:33.840 Yeah.

02:01:34.520 Glenn, it is.

02:01:35.320 And, you know, in fact, just flying up there, you know the state well, flying up there.

02:01:40.000 So we left John Wayne Airport, absolutely gorgeous.

02:01:43.560 We flew up the Central Valley.

02:01:45.700 Incredible crop fields, growing beautiful.

02:01:47.900 I could see Half Dome and El Capitan to my right.

02:01:51.200 We could see the fog along the California coastline to the left.

02:01:54.880 Coming into Sacramento, again, everything's beautiful, growing fantastic until you get close enough to the ground to see the devastation that Newsom has allowed to happen to our cities, to our towns.

02:02:07.440 And even though we're still growing crops in California, that is in spite of his wickedness to cut off water to our growers, to make life here as miserable as possible.

02:02:18.280 And this guy wants to run for president.

02:02:21.720 People need to wake up, Glenn, nationally and rally with us because if you don't like California people, you need to help us because Newsom is coming for America.

02:02:32.780 And he's the worst possible thing.

02:02:34.480 But, Glenn, I'm concerned because he's tall, dark, and handsome, so to speak, right?

02:02:38.840 He's got the hair.

02:02:40.160 He's got the voice.

02:02:41.180 He sounds like Batman.

02:02:42.380 He's cool looking until you listen to his policies.

02:02:45.800 The guy's diabolical, and we must stop this advancement of wickedness.

02:02:51.360 I will tell you, I don't think the rest of America is falling for him.

02:02:54.740 But then again, I didn't think that he could have a socialist and Islamist run and win in New York.

02:03:00.960 So what do I know?

02:03:01.840 Jack, thank you so much again, everything that you do.

02:03:05.120 You can go to jackhibbs.com.

02:03:07.060 What is the other website you just gave me?

02:03:10.340 Yeah, Real Impact, like real reality, Real Impact, like a punch, impact.us.

02:03:17.320 Real Impact.us.

02:03:19.760 Thank you very much, Jack.

02:03:20.760 Appreciate it.

02:03:21.640 All right, back in just a second.

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02:05:23.440 Well, look, we'll ultimately let the President of the United States determine where we are after 30 days of this emergency order.

02:05:35.000 I think that we're going to make a lot of progress over the next 20 days.

02:05:38.180 I think that we're nine days into this thing.

02:05:40.140 But if the President of the United States thinks that he has to extend this order to ensure that people have access to public safety,

02:05:45.500 then that's exactly what he'll do.

02:05:46.940 If he thinks he doesn't have to do that, obviously he'll make that determination.

02:05:49.700 But what we're going to do is try to empower these guys to do as good of a job as possible to bring public safety and order back to Washington, D.C.

02:05:57.800 This is the national, cultural, and political capital of the world's greatest nation.

02:06:03.760 And you talk to people, black, brown, white, so many of them are afraid to bring their kids into its public spaces.

02:06:11.080 It's a shame.

02:06:12.120 It's a blight.

02:06:12.820 It actually should make every American ashamed that the world's leading superpower, our national capital, was unsafe for families to walk around at night.

02:06:23.080 That is a disgrace.

02:06:24.820 We don't think that it's acceptable.

02:06:26.580 And thank God we have the presidential leadership to change it.

02:06:29.020 And that's exactly what we're trying to do.

02:06:30.760 It's J.D. Vance talking about what's going on in Washington, D.C.

02:06:35.180 And he's right.

02:06:36.960 There's no reason we have to accept that.

02:06:39.120 There's no reason that has to be the truth about our capital city.

02:06:44.740 We kind of just have accepted it for a long time.

02:06:47.180 At least a lot of people have.

02:06:48.260 And you kind of sit back and say, well, are they going to do anything about this?

02:06:51.380 Local leadership didn't want to do anything.

02:06:53.680 And this is the one place where the federal government really can do something about this city.

02:06:56.940 And so far they are.

02:06:58.160 J.D. Vance also went over some of the early results of these strategies.

02:07:01.680 We're going to say come and say thank you to the National Guard folks, to the cops, for actually keeping this place safe.

02:07:09.980 If you look at what's happened in Washington, D.C. in just the past nine days, we've seen a 35% reduction in violent crime.

02:07:16.820 We've seen over a 50% reduction in robberies. 0.99

02:07:19.760 We are seeing really substantial effects because these guys were busting their ass. 0.97

02:07:23.720 So I'm going to come here, highlight what they're doing, say thank you in person, obviously pass out a few furthers. 0.96

02:07:29.280 But most of all, just invest in the American people.

02:07:31.940 Look, we don't have to live like this.

02:07:34.000 You'll have to excuse the lunatic protesters for trying to talk over that.

02:07:37.380 But what he said was a 35% reduction in violent crime so far.

02:07:43.080 That's really good progress.

02:07:44.540 You know, it seems like one of those things where if people just care and put some attention toward the problem,

02:07:50.840 it's a problem that can actually be helped and maybe even solved.

02:07:56.780 This is Glenn Beck.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 21, 2025

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