The Glenn Beck Program - Why Trump MUST Crack Down on DC Crime ｜ 8⧸11⧸25

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00:02:14.080 Hello, America.

00:02:15.800 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:02:17.640 It is Monday.

00:02:19.280 We have a lot to discuss.

00:02:20.860 The president is going to hold a press conference here in about an hour talking about fascism.

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00:02:37.080 Is it fascism?

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00:04:00.840 Welcome to Monday.

00:04:02.620 We say hello to Jason Buttrill, who is in.

00:04:06.380 He's our chief researcher and all-around general good guy.

00:04:10.680 And he is here filling in for Stu.

00:04:13.160 When the hell does Stu come back?

00:04:15.800 Right.

00:04:16.440 When?

00:04:17.360 Tomorrow?

00:04:18.140 He's back tomorrow?

00:04:19.080 What kind of vacation schedule does this guy have? 0.98

00:04:22.000 It's ridiculous. 0.90

00:04:25.080 Anyway, so, Jason. 0.74

00:04:27.920 Yes, sir.

00:04:28.400 The president is trying to clean up crime and crime.

00:04:35.480 So, people understand.

00:04:36.380 You're hearing, you know, Washington, D.C. say crime stats are down.

00:04:40.980 Yep.

00:04:41.700 But since when?

00:04:43.360 Since when?

00:04:43.980 They're down compared to when?

00:04:47.400 Crime is now.

00:04:48.460 It is more safe to walk the streets in Mexico City.

00:04:55.900 than it is in Washington, D.C.

00:04:58.580 It is more safe to walk the streets of Bogota, Colombia, than Washington, D.C. 0.69

00:05:07.200 Insane.

00:05:08.480 Yeah, the crime stats, you're right.

00:05:10.440 You have to look at it in terms of, like, from when to when.

00:05:13.800 And this reminds me of when you asked me to look at inflation,

00:05:17.660 when they were saying that inflation was coming down towards the end of the Biden administration.

00:05:21.740 Right.

00:05:22.240 And they were like, this is great.

00:05:23.640 Like, no, everything is working.

00:05:25.820 Well, you can't get used to, you know, what they want us to get used to.

00:05:31.600 They want us.

00:05:32.200 They want the norm.

00:05:33.400 Right.

00:05:33.760 They want the norm to be absolutely insane.

00:05:36.080 They want the norm.

00:05:37.100 They are expecting us to look at the Biden administration as the norm instead of as a blip.

00:05:45.100 OK, that is a blip.

00:05:47.020 Everything went through the roof.

00:05:48.920 Crime, everything else.

00:05:50.100 So now when it comes down, it's still within the Biden administration crime stats.

00:05:56.480 And nothing is going to change unless you start changing the way people are.

00:06:03.640 People start to view the law.

00:06:06.060 Right.

00:06:06.700 You have to view the law as, oh, they're serious about it.

00:06:09.940 And Washington, D.C. is not serious about crime, especially when it comes to the youth.

00:06:15.140 The district attorney in Washington, D.C. believes that, you know, everybody makes a mistake.

00:06:21.100 We were all teenagers once and we make mistakes.

00:06:23.520 I don't know.

00:06:24.200 Me and my gang never walked around beating up women in the streets. 0.51

00:06:31.020 It's an apple dumpling game.

00:06:32.260 Yeah.

00:06:32.700 Yeah.

00:06:33.220 OK.

00:06:33.820 All right.

00:06:34.520 All right.

00:06:35.660 All right.

00:06:36.340 But yeah, if you look at if you look at the full like if you look at the full graph, there was a decline from 23 to 24, which was around a 30 plus percent decline.

00:06:49.780 And that's what that's that's what they want us to say.

00:06:52.120 This is great.

00:06:52.700 And that is great that it went down.

00:06:54.440 Right.

00:06:54.580 But if you pull the map out, let's just say you pull it out to, like, say, 2010 ish and then you go all the way through the years.

00:07:00.880 We are still higher than it was when or about the about the same level that it was right when Biden got into office.

00:07:09.000 So we're celebrating a little bit of a jump down or a climb down from probably the worst crime Washington, D.C. has ever had.

00:07:19.940 But it's still higher than it was right when Biden was coming to office.

00:07:27.980 Let me say a name and see if you recognize this name.

00:07:34.960 Edward Corristine.

00:07:37.820 No.

00:07:39.000 Should I?

00:07:40.560 Sarah.

00:07:41.240 Edward Corristine.

00:07:42.780 Any want to take a guess?

00:07:45.320 No.

00:07:46.260 We've talked about him recently.

00:07:49.300 He should be.

00:07:50.580 This is a name that everyone should know.

00:07:54.560 Name the guy who shot the UnitedHealthcare worker.

00:07:59.140 Can you name him?

00:08:00.160 Luigi Mangione.

00:08:01.580 Look at that.

00:08:02.660 Look at that.

00:08:03.340 Luigi Mangione.

00:08:04.180 Do you remember the name of the shooter of President Trump?

00:08:09.000 Thomas Crooks.

00:08:10.740 Okay.

00:08:12.160 Again, Edward Corristine.

00:08:16.180 Was he in The Godfather?

00:08:18.060 It kind of sounds like it.

00:08:19.040 No.

00:08:19.560 No.

00:08:20.340 No.

00:08:20.960 Okay.

00:08:21.600 It's three o'clock in the morning.

00:08:24.740 Washington, D.C.

00:08:25.940 A woman is being brutalized by this group of 10 kids.

00:08:38.160 Uh, they, they, they tried to carjack her. 0.99

00:08:45.180 Somebody sees this going on.

00:08:48.160 He runs to protect the woman.

00:08:50.440 He pushes her into the vehicle and then confronts the aggressors and moves them away from her so she can get away.

00:08:59.660 And he's beaten to a pulp.

00:09:01.940 Do you recognize the story?

00:09:04.260 Yeah.

00:09:05.220 What is it?

00:09:06.320 It's the recent Doge guy.

00:09:08.200 Yes.

00:09:09.100 It's the reason why this is happening now.

00:09:12.880 Because there was a good guy that at three o'clock in the morning, a Doge kid that everybody mocked, a Doge kid who saw crime against a woman against 10.

00:09:26.880 And he stood up to them and tried to rescue her and was almost beaten to death.

00:09:32.560 And no one can remember his name a week later.

00:09:36.040 What does that say about us?

00:09:41.320 In Sarah and I's defense, his nickname is so powerful.

00:09:45.080 Oh yeah, that's why everybody, okay, yeah. 0.98

00:09:47.100 All right, if I said, who's big balls? 0.98

00:09:49.600 Yeah, I would know. 0.99

00:09:51.580 If I said that, you'd know exactly who I was talking about.

00:09:56.220 Right.

00:09:57.380 But that's his real name.

00:09:59.980 I mean, we have Mangione.

00:10:02.620 They're practically, I mean, what's his name?

00:10:05.640 And the mayor for New York has said, I look forward to walking down Mangione Avenue someday.

00:10:15.120 This kid, that shows you our priorities as a press, as media, and honestly, as us.

00:10:25.720 Why did we not consume this story more?

00:10:29.420 Why did we not look to that kid and hold him up as a hero?

00:10:34.180 I'm asking that of myself.

00:10:38.220 Why was that story just on and gone?

00:10:40.860 One day, gone.

00:10:42.980 Where Mangione went on and on and on and on.

00:10:46.520 Are we just that attracted to the darkness?

00:10:50.180 Is that who we've become?

00:10:52.380 I think it's also sex appeal.

00:10:53.940 Isn't Mangione super cute, apparently?

00:10:57.100 Have you seen this kid?

00:10:57.960 I know his name, so.

00:11:00.300 I think he's super hot.

00:11:02.420 No, I don't know.

00:11:04.080 I mean, I've only seen a picture of him bloodied, but he doesn't look like a bad looking kid.

00:11:08.860 I just think that's part of why Mangione became so big so fast.

00:11:13.900 That's even more terrifying.

00:11:15.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:11:16.320 That's even more terrifying.

00:11:17.760 Look at, we have become a society that has erased all heroes and is no longer looking for them.

00:11:30.640 We have made our president into a superhero.

00:11:33.920 I'm Donald Trump, and only I can save the world.

00:11:38.120 And a lot of people believe that.

00:11:40.100 A lot of people put him in that category, and there are times that even I believe that.

00:11:44.360 Like, he's the only guy that can get the job done.

00:11:47.680 Instead, we have never been that society.

00:11:53.580 Why was Superman designed?

00:11:58.440 Do you know who designed Superman, who came up with Superman?

00:12:01.020 What's his name?

00:12:04.940 He's on the show.

00:12:05.640 He writes the little books.

00:12:06.720 He's on the show all the time.

00:12:08.920 Meltzer.

00:12:09.320 Brian, not Brian Meltzer.

00:12:12.920 Brad Meltzer, yeah.

00:12:14.380 So Brad Meltzer and I, we first got to know each other years and years and years ago.

00:12:21.020 And we became friends.

00:12:23.200 And he calls me up, and he says, Glenn, the Superman house is about to be torn down in Ohio.

00:12:27.980 And I'm like, what?

00:12:28.980 And so we raised the money to save the Superman house.

00:12:32.420 Now, what the Superman house is, and forgive me, I'm not a Superman fan, so I'm going to butcher this story.

00:12:37.940 I don't know the names of, look it up, who designed Superman.

00:12:43.020 He was a young kid with a brother.

00:12:47.040 They were Jewish.

00:12:48.740 It was during the war.

00:12:50.060 They were in the 30s, maybe.

00:12:53.860 And they're hearing about the Jews being rounded up, yada, yada, yada.

00:12:57.980 And who can save the day?

00:13:01.520 Who is strong enough to make sure everybody is safe?

00:13:06.200 And so he's drawing Superman on the wall of his bedroom for his brother.

00:13:11.820 It's still on that wall in that bedroom, okay?

00:13:16.820 Jerry Siegel.

00:13:18.100 Okay.

00:13:18.840 So he does it for his brother because at the time, things seemed so far out of control that the average man couldn't stop it.

00:13:33.220 So you needed a Superman to do it.

00:13:36.960 But that was a child story.

00:13:38.900 That was a kid telling his younger brother, it's going to be okay because Superman is here.

00:13:45.100 But we're not children.

00:13:47.580 We're not children.

00:13:50.100 You don't need Superman.

00:13:53.260 You need Clark Kent.

00:13:54.760 You need a kid like Big Balls. 1.00

00:14:05.060 You need that kid.

00:14:07.040 That kid can change the world.

00:14:08.960 Can you imagine how different life would be in America if people just would not film things but do what he did and actually step in?

00:14:19.700 He didn't take out his phone and like, I'm filming you.

00:14:23.260 He did something I'm not sure I would do.

00:14:27.220 I mean, I would do it if I had a gun.

00:14:30.020 If I had to burn a launcher, I would have absolutely used it.

00:14:33.020 If I had a gun.

00:14:34.740 But I'm going to get the snot beat out of me.

00:14:38.080 But he knew that.

00:14:40.160 Because he was one against ten.

00:14:43.580 He knew that.

00:14:45.500 So what is it he knew that maybe we don't value enough?

00:14:53.260 We have so devalued men that it's not your responsibility to stand up for a woman.

00:15:04.760 You'll film it.

00:15:07.080 I mean, look at when they knocked that woman out in Cleveland.

00:15:13.120 People just, they just continued to pile on.

00:15:16.200 There was no one, no one that was like, hey, hey.

00:15:22.300 There was no one in that crowd.

00:15:25.280 Now, maybe there were, but nobody wanted to be the one.

00:15:28.700 They'd film it, but they didn't want to be the one because they didn't want to get pummeled.

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00:17:15.600 Okay, so there are several things that are happening in today's world that are breaking us down.

00:17:35.800 And we have to actively work in the opposite direction of those forces.

00:17:43.620 Okay, it's not good enough just to talk about them, just to recognize them.

00:17:47.900 We actually have to get engaged and do the opposite, not just fight against it.

00:17:55.640 I think this is the secret of where I am right now, where I'm headed.

00:18:01.260 I'm kind of, if you've been listening, I'm in this big life change right now.

00:18:04.540 And it's not good enough just to talk about it.

00:18:07.960 It's not good enough because I feel like we're getting to the place to where we're just admiring the problem.

00:18:13.860 We all know the problem.

00:18:14.860 We all know the problem.

00:18:15.880 So what are we going to do about it?

00:18:17.420 Because we can't just fight against.

00:18:19.480 We have to be for something.

00:18:21.460 So the recent data, most recent data, shows that parents and teenagers view social media as the single biggest threat to mental health today.

00:18:32.200 I agree with that.

00:18:33.880 But that's not necessarily the biggest problem in our society.

00:18:37.520 I think it's compounded by several things.

00:18:39.840 But let's just talk about social media here.

00:18:42.740 Teens focus more on the relentless bullying and the academic pressure that they're under.

00:18:50.240 And we are talking about a generation that is struggling in silence right now.

00:18:57.980 And I want to talk to you about the struggle of the youth.

00:19:03.940 But I want to talk directly to them here in a second.

00:19:07.120 Social media is not just bringing in distraction.

00:19:10.200 It's actually bringing in pain that we're all feeling right now.

00:19:14.800 We're seeing it.

00:19:15.860 That's what's happening.

00:19:16.760 That's why suicide is so high.

00:19:18.120 It's bringing in pain.

00:19:19.140 It is a constant parade of filtered images, peer comparison, digital validation chips that are just, you know, you're like, it's just eroding self-esteem.

00:19:34.180 Meanwhile, the grades, the expectations, the bullying, online, offline are no longer just a teenage rite of passage.

00:19:46.100 They are now the final cracks in a dam that is about to break.

00:19:52.460 No generation in history has ever lived the way this generation is living.

00:19:59.400 So while I want to talk to the youth about, give me a break on some things, we also have to look at them and say, we need to give them a break in some ways.

00:20:13.420 In the old days, we had community.

00:20:17.160 We raised our youth.

00:20:19.900 My grandparents played as much of a role in my life as my parents did.

00:20:25.280 And we respected our elders.

00:20:27.400 And my grandparents' friends also played a role.

00:20:30.840 My parents' friends played a role.

00:20:32.920 I'd be in the grocery store and they'd go, aren't you the Beck kid?

00:20:36.580 Uh, yes.

00:20:40.160 I know your mom and dad.

00:20:41.480 I don't think they'd be cool with this.

00:20:43.760 And you'd be like, oh, okay.

00:20:45.800 Okay.

00:20:46.040 That doesn't happen anymore.

00:20:47.420 That doesn't happen.

00:20:49.980 We can only flourish as a society when community, stability, and self-understanding are present.

00:20:59.100 Our ancestors, they lived quite well without screens, uh, you know, they, because they belong to families and neighborhoods and traditions.

00:21:08.280 Look at what Michelle Obama said.

00:21:11.160 We're going to have to change our families, our traditions, but I have to change everything.

00:21:17.800 Okay.

00:21:19.000 We've changed our families and our neighborhoods and our traditions, and they're still being degraded.

00:21:24.540 People are still working to destroy the family and destroy our traditions.

00:21:30.320 We can't because those are the things that when we were kids, those things held us back into place.

00:21:38.300 When the world didn't make sense, at least we had the family and traditions and our neighborhoods and our real friends, but they were supported.

00:21:48.180 Now we've taken all of those traditions and I, I, I want to talk about in a second, I want to talk about capitalism because that is a huge tradition that if we don't understand the role capitalism plays.

00:22:05.260 I read a, an article, gosh, it was in the nineties.

00:22:08.540 And it said, what happens to a society that is built on ownership when there is no ownership?

00:22:16.260 And I couldn't even understand that.

00:22:19.440 And it was talking about someday people won't own cars because there'll be fleets of cars, basically Uber.

00:22:25.360 So you won't get a driver's license.

00:22:27.460 You won't, you will rent everything.

00:22:30.220 How is that going to change the psyche?

00:22:32.460 Well, we're beginning to see it.

00:22:34.200 And then you add people who are trying to turn capitalism because they believe in communism.

00:22:41.440 I want to address that in 60 seconds.

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00:24:34.280 So I started the show off with Donald Trump is going to be speaking to the nation here in about 30 minutes.

00:24:40.820 Because usually he's late, so maybe in an hour.

00:24:44.400 But he's going to be talking about what he's doing in Washington, D.C.

00:24:47.800 And we're going to give you all the facts on that. 0.63

00:24:49.720 Because, I mean, the first thing that everybody in the media is talking about, you're the fascists.

00:24:53.480 No, he can't do that in Los Angeles.

00:24:55.320 But the District of Columbia is federal mandate.

00:25:01.860 So the ones really in charge of the District of Columbia is the federal government.

00:25:07.360 He can do many things that he can't do anywhere else in Washington, D.C.

00:25:13.620 But, of course, they just use this to claim he's a fascist.

00:25:17.220 No, it's District of Columbia.

00:25:19.820 But I'll get into that later.

00:25:22.040 So we're talking about crime and why the teens are becoming worse and worse.

00:25:30.380 Why?

00:25:33.980 Why?

00:25:35.000 How can I say this?

00:25:37.360 Let me switch this around.

00:25:40.140 Because we look at it at my age and go, how could you do that?

00:25:45.700 Let me look at it from I've been raised in the last 16 years.

00:25:51.160 And my family went through hell in 2008.

00:25:57.620 And they've never really gotten back on their feet.

00:26:01.500 So I was raised in a family that is broken, in a society that is broken.

00:26:11.060 I went to school.

00:26:12.120 They told me, the system is against you.

00:26:14.420 They taught me how to be, how to hate people, how to hate people of other races, how to blame things on everybody else and on the system, how never to take responsibility and how you've watched your whole life.

00:26:29.360 If nobody gets punished, the bad guys don't go to actual jail, you know, at the top level.

00:26:33.940 And you know what?

00:26:35.080 Here in a local level, nobody seems to go to jail for it anyway.

00:26:39.160 I mean, think about it was 3% of those criminals that used a gun in violent crime in Washington, D.C.

00:26:48.500 3% went to jail.

00:26:52.440 Three.

00:26:53.660 Now, if it was a bunch of white guys carrying guns and not even using them in Washington, D.C., what do you think the percentage would be that they went to jail?

00:27:03.040 I would say probably closer to 100%.

00:27:06.580 It's the law.

00:27:07.700 And they don't screw around with it, right?

00:27:09.660 We got gun violence.

00:27:10.680 We got to get tough on gun violence.

00:27:12.160 Why aren't they not getting tough on gun violence?

00:27:14.840 Nobody's trying to solve this problem.

00:27:16.900 This is why a Batman always arises.

00:27:21.860 And we have to be very careful because I've told you we are entering the time of Gotham, that the problems seem overwhelming.

00:27:29.600 Superman, I told you about that just about 20 minutes ago.

00:27:32.900 Batman, a defender who sees that the system is completely broken.

00:27:37.660 There is no justice.

00:27:38.520 So he steps in to do it.

00:27:40.680 But there's also the other angle, the Punisher.

00:27:44.580 The Punisher is really more on the left.

00:27:48.960 We have the – we have – my fear is that we start to believe in a Batman figure on the right, and they believe in a Punisher.

00:27:59.440 That's really dangerous.

00:28:01.260 That's not America.

00:28:02.540 That's really, really, really dangerous.

00:28:05.360 So what is – what's happening to us as a society?

00:28:11.240 Well, you have taken away every responsibility.

00:28:19.980 You know why your kids are depressed?

00:28:22.140 And I'm saying this about myself and my own family.

00:28:26.420 So I'm not pointing fingers at anybody, pointing them to me.

00:28:32.960 You know when I have low self-esteem?

00:28:35.980 When I feel that I'm not productive.

00:28:39.800 When I'm not productive.

00:28:41.800 When I'm not doing something of consequence.

00:28:43.960 When I'm sitting around the house, you know, doing whatever, playing games, reading frivolous stuff, watching TV, if I do that for more than a couple of days, I start to feel, like, really nasty about myself.

00:29:01.580 I'm like, oh, you know, not worth anything.

00:29:04.480 That's the problem.

00:29:05.500 We have – by devaluing capitalism – what is capitalism?

00:29:13.720 In a nutshell, what capitalism is, is the right for you to work hard, to have a better idea, to produce that better idea, and then be rewarded for it.

00:29:30.960 That's capitalism.

00:29:32.000 Now, it's been conflated with consumerism and corruption and crony capitalism, but the essence is, you don't have to have a title.

00:29:44.280 Everywhere else in the world, still, go over in England.

00:29:47.600 Try to make it on your own.

00:29:49.560 Really?

00:29:50.220 Do you have the right English accent?

00:29:52.220 Do you use the Queen's English?

00:29:53.740 Where did you go to school?

00:29:55.020 Who are your parents?

00:29:56.680 That happens all over the world.

00:29:58.480 It doesn't happen here.

00:29:59.320 Because in our system of the free market, you have the right to have an idea and then work hard and produce it.

00:30:10.680 But in a society where we have removed all personal responsibility, you're not responsible for anything.

00:30:22.020 You took out a loan?

00:30:23.700 Well, somebody else has got to pay for that.

00:30:25.740 Well, no, wait, wait, wait.

00:30:27.440 You were there during the decision.

00:30:29.120 You and your parents signed those papers.

00:30:31.720 Now, you may have been misguided, but also, honestly, it's like anybody my age who is like,

00:30:37.740 I can't believe they're going to touch Social Security.

00:30:40.400 I planned on that.

00:30:42.160 Well, you may have because you had to.

00:30:45.480 There's a difference.

00:30:46.480 If you had to because I could never get ahead and I paid into the system, I get it because you paid into the system. 1.00

00:30:55.120 But for anybody who says that and they don't have to rely on it, it's, what are you, stupid? 1.00

00:31:04.580 I mean, we all knew this thing is coming. 1.00

00:31:06.460 We all know it's a scam.

00:31:07.720 All of us know it's a scam.

00:31:09.380 The closer we get to retirement age, the more we need that scam to stay in place because they bled us dry everywhere else.

00:31:18.000 We want what we paid in for.

00:31:24.700 It's the same thing here with capitalism.

00:31:29.500 When you take away the personal responsibility, the right to succeed, and the right to fail.

00:31:39.880 You notice they only talk about the right to fail.

00:31:43.100 They only say, you're not going to fail.

00:31:44.740 You're going to fail if you go that way.

00:31:46.180 You're not going to fail with us because we're not going to let you fail.

00:31:49.400 Failure is a part of life.

00:31:51.300 The reason why our kids are so tender is we've never let them fail.

00:31:54.200 We've never said, you know what, you played your best.

00:31:59.500 Did you go out and play your best?

00:32:01.560 Great.

00:32:02.180 The other team smoked you because they were better.

00:32:06.500 Oh, no, you were a superstar out there.

00:32:10.180 No, you dropped the ball.

00:32:12.080 No, I'm not going to harp on that.

00:32:13.580 I'm not going to beat that into you.

00:32:14.840 I'm not going to be one of those parents who are like, you dropped the ball.

00:32:17.240 I'm not that.

00:32:18.480 But I'm going to tell you the truth.

00:32:21.500 Because the truth will set you free.

00:32:24.660 I didn't get the role.

00:32:25.860 You know why?

00:32:26.440 Because she's better.

00:32:28.400 He's better.

00:32:29.820 Now, what are you going to do to get better at those things so that doesn't happen again?

00:32:34.680 But if you just say, you know what, the system was rigged against you.

00:32:39.240 The system may be rigged against you.

00:32:41.260 That is also part of life.

00:32:45.260 Somebody else gets the job that you're perfectly qualified for.

00:32:48.860 And it may just be because of the way they look, because they have a friend who has a friend

00:32:53.560 in the business, whatever it is, that's part of life.

00:32:58.460 And you need to be resilient enough to understand that.

00:33:02.200 Instead, all of our problems are the system's fault.

00:33:05.120 And that takes away all pressure to take action other than to the streets.

00:33:16.440 Nobody believes nine to five is worth, I mean, kids expect adulthood to be more fun.

00:33:23.300 Yeah, I did too when I was a kid. 0.98

00:33:27.400 And then I grew up and I'm like, oh, crap. 0.96

00:33:30.820 This is even worse. 0.99

00:33:33.080 Your childhood is as good as it gets usually.

00:33:36.560 I mean, unless you're in a really abusive childhood.

00:33:38.620 That's as good as it gets.

00:33:39.880 You know, and still, your whole life is just set up to what?

00:33:46.120 Recover from childhood.

00:33:47.960 Because there were so many things that things that happened and you misinterpreted or somebody

00:33:51.680 did something and you're like, oh, I got to, that's going to leave a mark for the rest

00:33:54.720 of my life.

00:33:55.860 We're all just, that's adulthood.

00:33:57.660 Trying to, trying to put our childhood into perspective.

00:34:02.060 And hopefully, you know, if you have common sense, you have faith, you can do that in

00:34:11.000 pretty short order.

00:34:12.380 It takes time and it's hard, but you can put that into short order.

00:34:16.060 But it keeps cropping up.

00:34:18.180 Mine does.

00:34:18.960 I'm in the full throes of absolute, just like crazy town right now with things that are,

00:34:25.280 I thought I had gotten rid of.

00:34:27.100 And I got to dig them up again and start dealing with them again.

00:34:32.060 Because I apparently didn't heal enough on a few things.

00:34:38.480 And then the left romanticizes not working.

00:34:42.040 Cuba.

00:34:44.540 Cuba.

00:34:45.580 You want to live like Cuba? 1.00

00:34:47.880 They romanticize communism.

00:34:50.560 You know anything about communism?

00:34:52.000 No.

00:34:52.440 Because they don't teach you anything about communism.

00:34:54.520 They just say it's better.

00:34:55.580 And, you know, ignore their hardships over in Cuba.

00:35:02.240 It's just better.

00:35:04.420 Instead of focusing on the hardships over there and saying, you'd rather have this than that,

00:35:11.180 wouldn't you?

00:35:12.560 They don't focus on the hardships over there.

00:35:15.280 They only focus on your hardship here.

00:35:22.020 And by doing that, you're only creating something, people that have just this giant hole within them.

00:35:29.640 Just this emptiness.

00:35:31.440 Because they're not working.

00:35:32.560 Is your kid sleeping later and later, playing games all the time on, you know, on a gaming machine and bummed out all the time, kind of just withdrawing?

00:35:51.600 You know why?

00:35:52.500 They think that's normal because that's what everybody does right now.

00:35:57.320 But that's the cause of the problem.

00:36:02.080 Nobody said, you know what?

00:36:04.300 Go pick up a shovel.

00:36:06.880 How's that?

00:36:09.020 I told my son he's in a time between, you know, classes.

00:36:14.380 And he's like, I don't feel well.

00:36:16.880 I just, you know, I'm kind of, and I'm like, I get it.

00:36:19.120 I get it.

00:36:20.680 Here's an idea.

00:36:21.540 Go work at a pizza parlor.

00:36:24.780 Dad, that's not going to solve.

00:36:26.500 Yes, it is, son.

00:36:27.700 Yes, it is.

00:36:28.780 Get up every morning and work until you're butt tired.

00:36:34.040 And I guarantee you, mentally, you will feel better.

00:36:39.080 You will feel better.

00:36:41.340 You're going to probably complain.

00:36:43.340 But you know what?

00:36:45.400 Everybody did that.

00:36:47.080 In my day, we all did that.

00:36:49.480 That's part of life.

00:36:50.620 That is the value, the true value of work.

00:36:55.780 Idle hands, devil's workshop.

00:36:58.660 Why?

00:37:00.280 It's not because you just get yourself in trouble, but because you start to be introspective.

00:37:07.400 And you start to look at all of the things that you don't have, that you want, that, and you just fuel this emptiness over and over and over again.

00:37:17.140 Here's a stat that will blow your mind.

00:37:20.380 Life satisfaction.

00:37:22.680 Life satisfaction.

00:37:24.060 Are you satisfied with your life?

00:37:25.880 How much does marriage has no value? 0.59

00:37:33.420 Marriage has no value.

00:37:34.480 Family, no value.

00:37:36.740 How much in life satisfaction does marriage change life satisfaction? 0.84

00:37:42.840 Five hundred and forty-five percent.

00:37:49.380 A five hundred and forty-five percent increase in life satisfaction with marriage.

00:37:57.840 By the way, jobs, job satisfaction, 145 percent increase.

00:38:10.820 We're devaluing the things that give us meaning in our life.

00:38:14.880 First thing you need to say to your kids, go to work, get a job, get a job.

00:38:23.020 Get a job.

00:38:26.580 Because you're never going to feel better until you, I mean, Peterson said it best, until you make your bed and clean your room.

00:38:34.520 Clean your room, make your bed.

00:38:35.920 Now, step two, get the hell out of the house and get a job.

00:38:42.600 When you have a job, you can come back, you can do whatever, we'll help you anyway.

00:38:48.620 Get a job.

00:38:51.620 Oh, but that might.

00:38:52.460 Yeah, it might.

00:38:53.620 It might.

00:38:54.460 But I'll tell you, coddling them, one more thing before I go, and I'm just going to touch on this, we'll talk about it later.

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00:39:08.960 Adult pacifiers.

00:39:11.420 That's an oxymoron.

00:39:14.740 And it's being accepted by kids as reasonable.

00:39:19.860 No, it's not.

00:39:22.080 Back in just a minute.

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00:41:25.980 Jason and I are just talking about how we're both struggling with this, with our families, and quite honestly, with our wives a bit.

00:41:32.600 Because our wives and, you know, a good marriage is always balance. 1.00

00:41:36.740 But our wives are both like, you can't be such a hard ass. 1.00

00:41:41.140 And I'm like, oh, I think if we're not, we're in real trouble. 0.98

00:41:48.440 Jason and I will continue this, because we're both talking as dads here, and we cannot be the only ones that are going through this.

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00:44:24.700 Any minute now, the president is going to speak, vowing Liberation Day, that D.C. is going to be liberated today from its crime.

00:44:36.400 A lot of people say, this is fascism.

00:44:39.940 No, no, it's really not.

00:44:41.660 There are things that he can do and cannot do.

00:44:43.580 We'll get into that here in just a second.

00:44:45.000 And a continuation of our conversation about our kids and what our kids are growing up experiencing and how is parents how to deal with that coming up in just a minute.

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00:46:12.020 All right, because we are waiting for the president to speak, let me just talk a little bit about what he's going to come out and talk about.

00:46:23.360 Crime is out of control.

00:46:24.780 We talked about this last hour.

00:46:26.700 The stats on crime, Jason Buttrell, chief researcher, is with me today.

00:46:31.720 The stats on crime in Washington, D.C. are off the charts.

00:46:36.040 Off the charts.

00:46:37.000 And if you look over a period that goes back to, like, say, 2010, there was a reduction around 2023.

00:46:45.840 But the reduction just gets us back down to basically right when Donald Trump left office.

00:46:50.960 So if you look at it as a whole, it's still insane.

00:46:53.280 The White House actually just did a comparison of the 2024 murder rates per 100,000 people.

00:46:59.640 Washington, D.C., at 27.54, is larger than Bogota at 15.1.

00:47:05.900 Jeez.

00:47:06.340 Mexico City, 10.6.

00:47:09.740 Islamabad, 9.2.

00:47:13.160 Lima, 7.6.

00:47:14.540 Ottawa, 2.17.

00:47:15.740 Paris, 1.64.

00:47:17.980 What are we at?

00:47:18.940 In D.C.?

00:47:20.020 27.54.

00:47:23.060 Yeah.

00:47:23.980 Double.

00:47:24.760 Almost three times as much as Islamabad?

00:47:28.000 Islamabad.

00:47:28.760 Oh, my gosh.

00:47:30.720 Yeah, kind of bad.

00:47:31.680 Kind of bad.

00:47:32.160 It's nuts.

00:47:32.520 So, you know, when they say it's going down, yes, but going down to where from when?

00:47:40.040 You have to look at it's just been out of control for a long time.

00:47:43.120 And a lot of stuff we were talking about last hour, if you missed it, go to the podcast and listen to our number one of the podcast.

00:47:50.160 Because we were talking about, you know, kids and what's happening today and why our kids are turning out the way they're turning out.

00:47:58.560 And we need to turn a corner on this.

00:48:00.700 But we'll get back into that here in a second.

00:48:03.880 The Washington, D.C.

00:48:07.680 Is different.

00:48:09.280 It is a federal district.

00:48:10.780 They don't have a governor.

00:48:12.280 OK.

00:48:12.880 The president is kind of the governor in some ways.

00:48:16.460 It's not.

00:48:17.260 But in some ways, the Congress can overrule things.

00:48:23.500 In 1973, Congress passed the Home Rule Act.

00:48:26.900 It granted D.C. the ability to elect a mayor and a city council.

00:48:31.900 But but Congress can still override all the local laws at any time and even manage the city's budget.

00:48:37.200 Well, that would be good.

00:48:38.100 They'd be good at that.

00:48:39.660 But they didn't even have a mayor until 1973.

00:48:42.560 Did you know that?

00:48:43.460 So this is not an American city like you understand it.

00:48:47.040 This is a failed American experiment. 0.68

00:48:49.840 Quite honestly, 1973 is when everything changed.

00:48:53.020 When I went to Washington, D.C., in 1982, maybe, and I was working at WPGC in Washington.

00:49:00.880 I was, I don't know, 18 years old.

00:49:03.000 And the license plates back then said, District of Columbia, no tax, no taxation without representation.

00:49:13.080 And they were trying to become a state.

00:49:16.540 They were trying to say, we pay federal taxes.

00:49:20.020 We want statehood.

00:49:21.360 OK, so this has been an ongoing battle since the very, very beginning.

00:49:27.340 And Washington, D.C., when it comes to policing, it's very complex.

00:49:31.900 You have the Metropolitan Police, which handles the the everyday policing under the D.C. mayor and chief of police.

00:49:40.200 But the park police handle the National Mall and other national park areas in the city, which is a good portion of the city.

00:49:49.040 Then the U.S. Capitol Police, which is not under D.C. rule, Capitol Police, they're supposed to patrol the Capitol complex and the surrounding areas.

00:49:58.820 Then the Secret Service is in charge of the White House and any of those areas.

00:50:03.440 Then you have the FBI, the ATF, the U.S. Marshals that investigate crime in the D.C. area along with the police.

00:50:12.660 So it's it's not an American city as you understand it.

00:50:17.180 If Donald Trump was going to say, I'm just going to take over.

00:50:21.000 Well, then, you know, maybe maybe you would have a point if it was Chicago.

00:50:25.780 But that's not what's happening here.

00:50:28.260 There is no governor.

00:50:29.260 So we can call out the National Guard.

00:50:31.800 Now, there are things that he can and cannot do.

00:50:36.200 Here's what the president is allowed to do.

00:50:38.640 And we'll hear what he wants to do.

00:50:39.920 He can deploy the National Guard for law enforcement for support for emergencies, crowd controls and to execute federal laws.

00:50:48.520 Under the Home Rule Act, the president can assume control of the Metro police, but only for 48 hours during special conditions of an emergency nature.

00:50:59.060 And the time period can be extended.

00:51:01.700 So he may choose to do that and say it's a national emergency or it's a city emergency and then just keep extending it every 48 hours.

00:51:11.880 He could invoke the Insurrection Act.

00:51:14.520 And that way he can deploy military forces to enforce federal law, suppress any kind of insurrection or restore order when civilian authorities can't.

00:51:22.840 But I don't think he's going to do that because he would have done that in Portland or Seattle or any of the other crazy places.

00:51:28.720 Increase the presence of federal law enforcement in D.C., including the FBI, U.S. Marshals, Capitol Police and DEA so he can increase the presence of them.

00:51:38.280 It also allows him to form an interagency task force under federal authority to conduct operations in D.C.

00:51:45.660 My guess is that's what he's going to do.

00:51:48.700 He's going to put an interagency task force on the streets that can conduct operations in the District of Columbia.

00:51:58.600 That seems the broadest and the one that would give him the most authority without any kind of time restrictions on it.

00:52:07.680 Here's what the president cannot do.

00:52:10.480 And I want you to know before he speaks, if he suggests any of these, I will speak out against him because the president cannot do these things.

00:52:21.580 He can't take indefinite control of the Metro PD.

00:52:24.480 He can do it for 48 hours and then he has to renew it every 48 hours.

00:52:28.620 I just don't see that as a workable thing.

00:52:31.140 But but he can't take indefinite control of the Metro PD.

00:52:34.820 He cannot repeal the Home Rule Act.

00:52:39.060 Only Congress can alter it or repeal it.

00:52:43.260 He cannot use active duty military forces beyond the D.C.

00:52:48.320 National Guard in certain roles for domestic law enforcement unless authorized by Congress or under specific exemptions like the Insurrection Act.

00:52:59.780 OK, so no active duty can go on.

00:53:03.040 National Guard can, but only in certain roles.

00:53:07.140 And he also cannot make any changes to D.C.'s local criminal laws or police policies.

00:53:12.740 Only Congress can make those changes.

00:53:15.000 So if you're talking about a fascist, those that would be the mark of a fascist.

00:53:18.860 If he says we're going to do that.

00:53:19.900 If he says we want to change the criminal laws, he is absolutely in in within his jurisdiction, if you will, to say, I'm going to pass some new criminal laws.

00:53:32.560 But Congress has to do them.

00:53:33.920 He can't just sign executive orders and do those.

00:53:36.340 He has to have Congress to do those.

00:53:39.900 And that last thing on the EO.

00:53:42.060 I'm not really sure.

00:53:43.420 I'm not a big fan of executive orders.

00:53:45.880 I don't know how far those things have been expanded in the last 25 years, but I would hope that it is not going to because that should be challenged.

00:53:57.300 And and I don't know how that would work out.

00:54:01.960 I what I would love to see him do. 0.51

00:54:04.900 I know he can't overrule overrun the home rule act, but I would love to see him use that bully pulpit to bully pulpit the crap out of the home rule act.

00:54:14.960 To really do a full court press and get rid of it, because in my opinion, it's an abomination.

00:54:19.900 It's not what the framers had in mind.

00:54:22.900 It should not be there.

00:54:24.800 And I think the only I mean, there's multiple reasons why you can say why we have the home rule act.

00:54:29.540 It's not supposed to be that way.

00:54:30.380 It's supposed to be a way to where Congress, which is a joke because I think Congress gave it up because why they're doing the thing that they always do, which is skirt responsibility.

00:54:40.100 Disagree. I was alive at the time. Disagree.

00:54:43.600 When they got it, what did the license plates change to immediately?

00:54:48.460 What was it?

00:54:49.060 No taxation without representation.

00:54:51.660 That was a move towards statehood.

00:54:54.440 That was a progressive.

00:54:56.500 OK, give us home.

00:54:57.680 Agreed.

00:54:58.380 And then then we need to have a governor. 0.99

00:55:01.420 We need to have a state.

00:55:02.860 We need to have representation in Washington, D.C.

00:55:05.460 This has all been a move to make Washington, D.C., a a state when our founders thought that was absolutely the wrong thing to do.

00:55:15.480 We cannot have our capital in a state.

00:55:18.960 It has to be a district run by the government, the federal government.

00:55:22.740 But they basically already have it.

00:55:24.100 They have the benefits without it actually being a state, because in the 1960s, they were given three electoral votes.

00:55:29.420 You want to guess how many times that the District of Columbia has gone towards Republicans and Republicans have gotten?

00:55:36.700 I'm going to take a guess.

00:55:37.680 Zero, zero, zero, zero.

00:55:40.300 Right.

00:55:40.940 Right.

00:55:41.080 Just insane.

00:55:41.920 Yeah.

00:55:42.560 So it's this is not fascism.

00:55:47.060 You need to understand that.

00:55:49.100 Right.

00:55:49.360 You need to understand home rule change.

00:55:53.200 1973.

00:55:53.840 Just remember that home rule.

00:55:56.500 1973.

00:55:57.800 That gave them the ability to have a mayor and a city council.

00:56:02.340 They never had one until 1973.

00:56:05.960 This is a failed American experiment. 0.68

00:56:09.880 It has become more and more leftist.

00:56:13.020 And the more leftist it gets, the more out of control that city gets.

00:56:18.040 Congress should abolish home rule.

00:56:20.720 It should go back to Congress and the president running that city. 0.99

00:56:25.480 They're very capable of doing it.

00:56:29.020 And the only reason to have home rule is to make it a state. 0.96

00:56:33.820 That's the only reason.

00:56:35.780 I mean, and honestly, look at that.

00:56:38.460 Look at look at the mayors.

00:56:40.100 Anybody remember Marion Barry?

00:56:42.840 Marion Barry was caught smoking crack.

00:56:47.380 And they reelected him.

00:56:49.180 I mean, he went to prison, I think.

00:56:52.080 And then he got out of prison.

00:56:53.680 He's like, yeah, remember me?

00:56:54.620 I'm the crack guy.

00:56:55.780 Yeah.

00:56:56.700 Elect me again.

00:56:57.580 And they did.

00:56:59.040 I mean, it's an insane city. 0.86

00:57:02.340 It's an insane city.

00:57:04.400 And our capital cannot.

00:57:06.280 I remember, you know, when I was living in Washington, D.C., I was a kid.

00:57:10.360 18 years old.

00:57:11.680 All by myself.

00:57:12.480 I had never been west of Boise or east of Boise, Idaho.

00:57:20.200 And I move across the country and I move to Washington, D.C.

00:57:26.560 It was the freakiest place I had ever been.

00:57:30.080 I'd never seen an east coast city.

00:57:31.840 I had never.

00:57:32.540 I mean, yeah.

00:57:33.940 But I remember I got up every morning and I would go to the Lincoln Memorial and I would sit on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, watch the sunrise and in the summer.

00:57:43.100 And they would hose that thing down, fire hoses, and they'd hose that thing down. 0.92

00:57:49.700 I don't think that's been washed in, I don't know, maybe since 1983.

00:57:54.480 And I could walk the whole mall in the middle of the night.

00:57:58.120 I could walk up to the Capitol doors and these beautiful relief doors that tell the story of America.

00:58:06.280 You can't even walk up the stairs to those doors.

00:58:09.980 You are no longer allowed to even see those doors, okay, because of security.

00:58:16.220 And what is that security giving you?

00:58:19.200 That security is giving you maybe some security inside the Capitol, but everybody else, you're on your own.

00:58:26.320 Well, that's my city as well.

00:58:29.200 I am so proud of this audience.

00:58:31.200 I remember when we went and we did Restoring Honor there.

00:58:35.480 And the National Park Service called the office and said, could you please ask Mr. Beck to please ask his audience to stop calling us?

00:58:50.200 You know why this audience was calling?

00:58:54.040 Because people had gone up and they had seen how badly it was being run and how the Park Service wasn't mowing all the lawns and everything else.

00:59:04.720 So this audience volunteered over and over and over again saying, can we just come up and mow the lawn?

00:59:13.380 Can we just, we'll clean it all up.

00:59:15.580 We just want to mow the lawns in Washington, D.C.

00:59:18.520 And the Park Service was like, we can't let people just come out on the lawn.

00:59:22.100 And I'm like, you know what?

00:59:23.040 You should.

00:59:24.260 You should.

00:59:24.800 If the people can fix it and you can't, let the people fix it.

00:59:28.720 It's their own, it's their own place.

00:59:31.320 You can't do things in Washington, D.C.

00:59:35.060 And it's really not for your safety.

00:59:37.320 They'll say it's for your safety, but it's not.

00:59:39.580 And it has separated the people from that city.

00:59:44.500 And now you go walking down the street.

00:59:47.400 Good luck.

00:59:48.160 I go walking down the street with my wife at night because I have armed security with me.

00:59:55.600 I'm not walking down that street by myself, nor would you.

01:00:00.040 You want to go to Washington, D.C. and see the founding documents?

01:00:02.900 Good luck with that.

01:00:05.580 All right.

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01:01:18.220 Trump has said that with the crime rates, quote, we could run D.C., there'll be no more Mr. Nice Guy.

01:01:45.340 Oh, boy.

01:01:46.840 See, this is what, I mean, this is what half the country goes, yes.

01:01:51.040 And the other half goes, oh, wait a minute, that scares the crap out of me.

01:01:56.400 And sometimes I go, yes, but it kind of scares the crap out of me.

01:02:02.200 He says, we're thinking about doing it, to be honest with you.

01:02:04.780 We want a capital that's run flawlessly, and it wouldn't be hard for us to do it.

01:02:09.160 Yeah, here's the thing, President Trump.

01:02:11.920 I think you could do it.

01:02:13.520 I think you could do it well.

01:02:15.900 But that's not in the Constitution.

01:02:19.540 That's not your job.

01:02:21.160 You want to repeal home rule, go have Congress repeal home rule, and then you guys can do it.

01:02:26.680 But what comes after you?

01:02:29.200 You know what I mean?

01:02:30.540 The next guy, you think Joe Biden could have run that city?

01:02:33.460 Oh, my.

01:02:36.660 I mean, I think the whole thing would have been renamed District of BLM.

01:02:40.920 I mean, it would have been, it wouldn't have been good.

01:02:45.200 It wouldn't have been good.

01:02:47.000 We just have to fix things with principles.

01:02:49.920 And when we fix things with principles, then, you know, then we can, we all have to worry about who's coming in next because we'll all know the principles.

01:03:02.040 By the way, did you hear about the mysterious, quote, US or UK scientists have discovered a massive blob of rock underneath the Appalachian Mountains that is slowly oozing its way to New York?

01:03:16.720 It's a geothermal upwelling, has been a long puzzling feature of North America, but it is a subterranean slime ball, 125 feet underground, extends 220 miles across New England.

01:03:33.580 And it's now going towards New York City.

01:03:39.140 Now, when I say it's moving towards New York City, what do you think?

01:03:44.020 Right?

01:03:44.480 What do you think?

01:03:44.880 You think, oh, well, when does it get there?

01:03:48.080 Well, a little slower than you might think.

01:03:51.320 It'll reach New York City in 10 million years.

01:03:55.740 So this is one of those stories you're like, why even tell me about it?

01:04:01.260 Okay.

01:04:02.180 I'm only telling you about it because I have a theory.

01:04:04.780 I saw it in Ghostbusters.

01:04:09.740 I saw the green slime.

01:04:12.300 I know.

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01:04:30.680 Yeah.

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01:04:32.060 Vigo.

01:04:32.760 Vigo.

01:04:33.120 Yeah.

01:04:33.460 I'm here for you, Vigo.

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01:06:35.780 So Donald Trump is going to unveil his plan on D.C. crime and homelessness.

01:06:39.960 He says he's going to move the homeless out, but where is he going to move them? 1.00

01:06:44.040 You know, we have had a complete breakdown of our society.

01:06:48.000 And it's really weird because as we've been focused on the we movement, you know, that movement towards communism, you know, we're all shared.

01:06:57.720 This is a shared experience, and we share everything.

01:07:01.600 The exact opposite has been taking hold.

01:07:05.000 So when we talk about the we movement, we talk about communism, what does that do?

01:07:12.140 It shares responsibility and relieves the individual of their responsibility, okay?

01:07:19.680 And so you can blame the system, and the system should take care of all of us.

01:07:24.780 But at the same time that we mentality is there, we're also going hyper-individualism.

01:07:33.420 So I don't care about anything about you.

01:07:37.720 It's me, me, me, me, me, me, and I'll get all of my individuals met or individual needs met online through AI, et cetera, et cetera.

01:07:48.980 I don't want just a cool car.

01:07:51.380 I want a one-of-a-kind, designed-by-me kind.

01:07:54.700 And we're going hyper-individualistic and hyper-social, as in socialism, hyper-we at the same time.

01:08:06.820 The we part is starting to fall apart in some areas.

01:08:10.680 But our kids, it doesn't mean anything to them because they've never – nobody's made the case for capitalism, and they are all – we talked about this last hour.

01:08:22.000 They are all – they have all just these gaping holes in them, and nobody knows – contend we all know what to do.

01:08:32.220 None of us are willing to do it.

01:08:34.440 Does that make sense to you, Jason?

01:08:35.800 Yeah, and I don't really know how to combat it because – let me just tell you, my wife sent me this TikTok, and I know.

01:08:45.340 I'm not on TikTok.

01:08:46.400 I'm trying to get them not to be on it.

01:08:47.900 Yeah, it's a losing battle.

01:08:48.860 It's a losing battle.

01:08:49.700 They're all on it.

01:08:50.300 But she sent this to me, and it said, do your kids exhibit this behavior?

01:08:55.940 And it listed a bunch of different things.

01:08:57.800 It listed staying up later and later at night, sleeping more throughout the day, playing video games nonstop when they're awake, has no social interaction except through these platforms like Xbox, PlayStation, whatever.

01:09:14.720 They're speaking through those.

01:09:16.040 Then when they're not on those social platforms, they're on other social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, all that.

01:09:26.260 Does that describe your child's behavior?

01:09:28.960 Yes.

01:09:29.500 I was like, yes, yes, yes, yes.

01:09:32.120 And it said, this is not necessarily a problem that you are doing with your children.

01:09:36.540 It's a problem with self-worth, and that scared the crap out of me because it was saying that the more behavior your child represents of this, the less they think about themselves.

01:09:49.100 I agree 100%.

01:09:50.680 But did they say what the cause is?

01:09:53.360 I mean, everything that – when you just described that we mentality, the more social mentality going towards socialism, that seems to be the case to me.

01:10:07.680 So the cause of that is everything you described.

01:10:11.180 They're staying up later and later, sleeping during the day when everybody is functioning and doing things.

01:10:17.000 Nothing good happens at night.

01:10:19.660 And so they're staying up later and later.

01:10:21.740 They're getting online.

01:10:22.840 They're playing games.

01:10:23.880 Then they're going to social media.

01:10:25.520 That's their whole life.

01:10:27.020 That is the cause of their low self-esteem.

01:10:32.320 I am convinced, and as a dad – I want to talk to you as a dad because, I mean, I can't be alone in this.

01:10:43.060 As a dad, my wife and I are constantly – and we are really good at being one.

01:10:49.400 But my wife thinks that I am a little – can we tape the president, please?

01:10:54.920 Can we tape it so we have it?

01:10:56.860 I am a little – my wife would think, you're being old-fashioned.

01:11:04.720 It's not the world today.

01:11:05.840 You're being old-fashioned.

01:11:06.640 And I'm like, yeah, but, you know, the values and the principles never change.

01:11:13.000 They never change.

01:11:13.780 So you can call me old-fashioned, but there are some things that are old-fashioned, you know, like the Ten Commandments.

01:11:19.900 That's really old school.

01:11:21.320 And they're still valid.

01:11:24.040 They're still valid.

01:11:25.120 Because I say to my wife, if behavior doesn't change, it's because of that cycle.

01:11:37.900 And the only way to break that cycle is to get a job.

01:11:44.300 Okay?

01:11:44.860 Get a job.

01:11:45.700 And then you don't have – you're just beat tired by the time you get home, so you can't stay up.

01:11:53.640 And you've got to get there the next morning.

01:11:55.440 And you must keep the job.

01:11:59.760 And, you know, and I'm like – or just everybody – or there's not a dime coming to anybody in the family.

01:12:06.280 Not a dime.

01:12:06.900 Not a penny.

01:12:07.580 I'm not going to – I will help.

01:12:08.820 College.

01:12:09.340 I'll do all of that.

01:12:10.340 And not if you're going to be in that cycle.

01:12:13.540 And she's like, you're going to chase them away.

01:12:18.240 And hear me out on this.

01:12:23.100 I believe that that is exactly what God did to all of us.

01:12:28.700 We're his children.

01:12:29.600 And he taught us the best he can, put us down, gave us parents.

01:12:35.040 They were flawed.

01:12:36.140 They did the best they could.

01:12:38.640 And in the end, it's why – it's why you don't – you shouldn't fight or – I shouldn't say this.

01:12:47.980 Put into perspective, if you have teenagers, why they're becoming monsters. 0.99

01:12:52.480 Why are your kids that were sane all of a sudden treating you like you're garbage? 1.00

01:13:00.320 And it seems that they've gone insane. 1.00

01:13:02.960 The reason is they have.

01:13:06.080 And I believe God put that in for that age to push them away from the family.

01:13:14.000 They have this innate thing because they all do it.

01:13:16.440 It's like clockwork.

01:13:17.260 They all do it.

01:13:18.480 They hit this certain age and they're like, you don't know anything. 1.00

01:13:21.780 You guys are just stupid. 1.00

01:13:24.280 Roll the eyes. 1.00

01:13:25.800 I can't live like this anymore.

01:13:28.080 I got to – good.

01:13:30.000 And you go up with it for three, four years.

01:13:33.200 And by the time you get to the third or fourth year and they're like, I'm moving out.

01:13:35.960 And you're like, oh, thank God.

01:13:37.400 Right?

01:13:38.460 I think this is something that God – otherwise families would stay together forever.

01:13:44.140 And I think man would perish.

01:13:46.240 Because there is something to going out on your own, having to survive, finding your own way, finding your own spouse.

01:13:55.820 Now, I'm different.

01:13:57.620 I moved away when I was 18 years old across the country.

01:14:00.500 And I didn't have – we didn't even have money for – I mean, this is in days of long distance.

01:14:04.020 I couldn't even call my family.

01:14:05.480 And my family couldn't afford to call me.

01:14:07.800 So I was away on my own.

01:14:10.140 And when you are like that and you have to stand on your own two feet, you find yourself – you don't find yourself in college.

01:14:18.880 You find yourself when you have to stand up and be – you either live or die.

01:14:25.540 And, you know, I think a lot of people will say, well, you can't do that because, you know, that'll just drive them deeper into depression or whatever.

01:14:34.360 I know that.

01:14:35.700 But God knew that as well when he sent all of us here.

01:14:38.500 You can only do your best.

01:14:42.520 And then at some point, you have to say, you're on your own.

01:14:49.300 You're on your own.

01:14:50.780 And I'm always here.

01:14:52.360 The door is always open.

01:14:53.960 I will always welcome you home.

01:14:55.800 But you're on your own.

01:14:57.780 You have to do this on your own.

01:15:00.940 Otherwise, you cripple them. 0.51

01:15:03.240 They live in that state where they haven't earned anything.

01:15:06.600 They haven't done anything.

01:15:07.860 They're trapped in that cycle.

01:15:11.040 And the other side, if I may play my own devil's advocate here, because this is what is in my head. 0.88

01:15:15.680 Well, then, okay, well, then they're going to get so down, they're going to kill themselves.

01:15:18.960 The Lord also has dealt with that.

01:15:23.180 He knew that some of his kids wouldn't make it.

01:15:27.600 But he's never coming in to do all the work yourself.

01:15:38.880 He's just saying, don't do that.

01:15:40.360 Don't do that.

01:15:41.440 This is the path.

01:15:42.400 This is the path.

01:15:43.200 This is the path.

01:15:43.940 This is the path.

01:15:44.660 Let me show you the path.

01:15:45.580 But he never takes you, picks you up, and puts you on that path.

01:15:48.820 You have to find that path.

01:15:50.620 And some of us won't find that path.

01:15:53.680 And I know this sounds horribly monstrous, but I think it's the only thing, because we have coddled them and coddled them and coddled them.

01:16:04.800 We've tried to protect them from everything.

01:16:06.720 And I want you to know, I am not, I have no qualifications for telling you any of this.

01:16:12.800 So take it for just one guy's opinion, trying to figure out his family like you're trying to figure out yours.

01:16:19.460 But I am, at this point, I'm not convinced that we do anybody any favors by saying, well, that could cause more problems.

01:16:31.520 Have you done your job as a parent?

01:16:34.560 My answer, no.

01:16:36.720 I did my best.

01:16:38.140 I failed over and over and over again.

01:16:40.340 But I did my best.

01:16:42.880 I did better than my parents did with me.

01:16:46.100 That was my goal.

01:16:47.580 Well, how come my kids sometimes are struggling so hard in ways that I never struggled?

01:16:51.380 Because society dropped the ball.

01:16:54.760 Because while my parents weren't the best, the rest of the community was there to help police and help parent.

01:17:02.280 Now that doesn't exist.

01:17:03.820 The rest of the community is pulling your kid into a vortex so you can only do what you can do.

01:17:11.720 And you have to live with what you did.

01:17:14.220 And you have to always be.

01:17:16.080 You can always come home.

01:17:17.580 You can always come home.

01:17:19.520 I am always here.

01:17:20.600 There are certain conditions.

01:17:22.760 You have to do these things.

01:17:25.180 Because these things have value.

01:17:27.940 No kid values work because many times we haven't forced them to.

01:17:35.120 We haven't forced them to do the hard things because we wanted to protect them.

01:17:39.440 And we're destroying them.

01:17:43.540 I'm sure there are tons of psychiatrists and psychologists out there going,

01:17:47.040 Dear God, don't listen to this guy.

01:17:50.480 And I could be wrong.

01:17:52.480 But there is.

01:17:53.160 You can't blame other things for your own choices.

01:18:01.440 And we must let our kids make their own choices.

01:18:04.840 And tell them, it's not capitalism's fault.

01:18:07.640 It's not my fault.

01:18:08.760 It's not your fault.

01:18:10.860 My life is not a result of my parents.

01:18:13.920 I overcame that.

01:18:17.780 And you need to do that.

01:18:19.320 If your kids don't go, I'm not going to ever be a parent like you were a parent.

01:18:24.920 I don't know. 0.83

01:18:25.700 You've got a freak kid.

01:18:27.000 Or you're just a super parent.

01:18:29.120 Because most kids at some point will say that.

01:18:32.120 And they mean it.

01:18:33.820 And as my dad said when I said that to him, he said, good.

01:18:37.720 Good.

01:18:39.120 Please be better than me.

01:18:41.000 Please.

01:18:41.400 Just know, if your goal is to not be me, the only example you have of a dad is me.

01:18:49.840 So you better go find another example and learn from that example on how to be a better dad.

01:18:56.480 Or I promise you, you will be exactly the same kind of dad that I was.

01:19:03.400 Back in just a minute.

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01:20:24.880 This is Glenn Beck.

01:20:42.320 All right.

01:20:48.660 We pick up the president.

01:20:51.160 He just was speaking about placing D.C. police under federal control.

01:20:57.020 Here it is.

01:20:58.180 Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act.

01:21:07.520 You know what that is?

01:21:09.380 And placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.

01:21:15.160 And you'll be meeting the people that will be directly involved with that.

01:21:20.820 Very good people.

01:21:22.220 But they're tough.

01:21:24.340 And they know what's happening.

01:21:26.360 And they've done it before.

01:21:28.180 In addition, I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order of public safety in Washington, D.C.

01:21:36.120 And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly.

01:21:39.300 And you people are victims of it, too.

01:21:41.260 You know, you're reporters.

01:21:42.300 And I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side. 0.99

01:21:45.340 But you don't want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed.

01:21:51.140 And you all know people and friends of yours that that happened.

01:21:54.280 And so you can be any anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets.

01:21:59.780 You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something.

01:22:08.700 And you don't have that now.

01:22:10.180 The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City.

01:22:17.560 Some of the places that you hear about as being the worst places on Earth, much higher.

01:22:23.940 Twice as bad as Islamabad.

01:22:26.040 The number of car thefts has doubled over the past five years.

01:22:30.900 And the number of carjackings has more than tripled.

01:22:34.360 Murders in 2023 reached the highest rate probably ever.

01:22:39.040 They say 25 years, but they don't know what that means because it just goes back 25 years.

01:22:43.640 Okay, stop.

01:22:44.280 So the way the media is going to spin this is I want to look up Section 740, Jason, if you can do that.

01:22:51.560 But the way they're going to spin this is the rates were already falling.

01:22:56.440 The murder rates and the crime rates were already falling.

01:22:58.920 Yeah, they are.

01:23:00.300 But they are still, I mean, 2023 was the worst.

01:23:04.940 And then they came down and they're about 2020 values.

01:23:07.980 But even 2016 crime rates were bad.

01:23:11.500 So he's invoking home rule.

01:23:16.920 Let's see if he has the authority to do that the way he's talking about it.

01:23:21.540 I'm sure they have well crafted this.

01:23:24.240 We told you earlier in this hour what he can and cannot do.

01:23:28.380 We'll look into it a little bit more here during the break and come back.

01:23:32.640 Also, more on capitalism and our kids' personal responsibility and hard work.

01:23:40.960 What does it all mean?

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01:26:04.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:26:12.000 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

01:26:13.700 We're just looking at what the president wants to do in Washington, D.C.

01:26:18.380 You're going to hear all kinds of talk about it.

01:26:20.780 You're probably going to hear fascism.

01:26:22.260 You're going to hear about the dropping murder rates in D.C.

01:26:26.040 And that is true.

01:26:27.700 Not the fascism part, but the dropping murder rates is true. 0.98

01:26:32.420 They cut 1,000 people a year off the murder rolls in the last couple of years,

01:26:37.840 but it still leaves you with about 3,000 murders

01:26:40.260 when per 100,000 in the rest of the country,

01:26:43.420 it's 300 murders.

01:26:46.000 So, you know, if you're okay with 10 times the murder rate, okay.

01:26:49.860 I guess that's good for you.

01:26:51.380 Not good for me, in my opinion, but we'll get into that.

01:26:54.440 Also, I want to talk a little bit more about

01:26:57.060 the hole that we're all experiencing

01:26:59.880 and our systems, our families are failing

01:27:05.420 because they think the system has failed them.

01:27:09.040 And no, the system hasn't.

01:27:12.000 We just are not doing the system.

01:27:13.940 And we'll talk about that here in just a second.

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01:28:36.080 All right.

01:28:37.880 I want to talk to you.

01:28:39.220 We've been talking today about the system

01:28:42.320 and what is happening to our kids.

01:28:45.740 What is, what's happening to our world?

01:28:48.380 And Jason and I, I think we were kind of, you know,

01:28:51.680 at this place where

01:28:53.220 when I was a kid,

01:28:58.400 I was lucky enough,

01:29:00.640 my mom and my dad never said,

01:29:02.660 you can't make it.

01:29:03.600 My dad believed in the power of positive thinking.

01:29:05.800 Um, and he believed in words create a force and they do what you think becomes what you speak becomes.

01:29:17.280 You say it enough and it becomes.

01:29:20.120 Um, and so my,

01:29:21.700 my father was always like,

01:29:23.000 you're going to make it.

01:29:23.920 Whatever you set your mind to,

01:29:25.640 if you do the work

01:29:27.220 and you can visualize it,

01:29:29.560 it will happen.

01:29:31.080 I've been talking to some people about some things and they were like,

01:29:33.580 Glenn,

01:29:34.200 we know your record.

01:29:35.040 If you see it,

01:29:36.220 it's done.

01:29:37.380 And it is truly,

01:29:38.920 that is one of my superpowers that my dad gave me was visualize it.

01:29:43.660 If you can see it done,

01:29:45.500 it will be done.

01:29:47.180 You have to put all the work into it,

01:29:48.520 but it will be done.

01:29:49.740 When your vision is murky or cloudy,

01:29:53.160 you're not going to,

01:29:54.040 you're going to create more murky and cloud.

01:29:55.720 You have to have a super clear vision on things.

01:29:58.900 Um,

01:29:59.540 but I know that everybody around me,

01:30:02.940 my,

01:30:03.180 my dad said,

01:30:03.920 you should just have a backup son because, 0.97

01:30:06.120 uh,

01:30:06.600 radio is not a really good industry to get into for success.

01:30:11.320 And I know,

01:30:12.160 I mean,

01:30:13.060 the odds of you being a talk radio national guy,

01:30:16.880 there's what five of us,

01:30:18.540 six of us,

01:30:19.340 not even that,

01:30:20.420 maybe four of us left.

01:30:22.080 Um,

01:30:22.720 the odds Hollywood looks like easy to get into compared to this.

01:30:28.460 And my dad was right.

01:30:30.040 Now everybody else in my life said, 0.89

01:30:31.940 you'll never make it loser. 0.99

01:30:33.780 You'll never make it. 0.99

01:30:34.920 But I,

01:30:35.800 I set out because I knew what I could accomplish.

01:30:40.320 And I also,

01:30:41.760 I also wanted to prove people wrong.

01:30:45.240 And I'm not sure that,

01:30:46.880 that's a very American thing.

01:30:49.220 You know,

01:30:49.760 when you set out to go,

01:30:51.420 really,

01:30:52.240 you think I can't do that?

01:30:53.840 Oh,

01:30:54.080 I will.

01:30:55.200 I mean,

01:30:55.400 how many people cross the mountains?

01:30:56.940 Cause somebody in their life was like,

01:30:58.340 you're never going to cross those mountains.

01:31:00.940 Oh yeah.

01:31:02.920 It's a very,

01:31:03.760 maybe it's childish,

01:31:04.500 but it's also a very American thing to do.

01:31:07.120 And when we take that,

01:31:08.980 what's left,

01:31:09.580 Jason,

01:31:10.000 if your kids don't have that,

01:31:13.500 I'm going to prove it.

01:31:15.460 I,

01:31:15.760 I,

01:31:16.240 I can prove it.

01:31:17.760 You become what?

01:31:18.900 Europe?

01:31:19.680 An average,

01:31:20.920 who cares country?

01:31:22.860 Pretty much.

01:31:23.460 Yeah.

01:31:23.640 Like Europe. 0.51

01:31:24.580 Like Europe. 0.51

01:31:24.980 Exactly.

01:31:25.460 They don't believe they can change things because they've been conditioned to believe the system won't allow it.

01:31:32.300 And they've allowed a system to be created around them.

01:31:36.140 Now we were the first to break that and nobody's really broken that except us.

01:31:42.340 Nobody went the,

01:31:43.360 you know,

01:31:43.720 the full Monty like the United States did.

01:31:46.120 And that's what,

01:31:47.740 that's what built people in my generation and all the generations before.

01:31:53.820 But we don't have that foundation being taught or even extolled by anybody.

01:32:02.320 I mean,

01:32:03.160 now the slogans are,

01:32:04.600 you know,

01:32:04.940 capitalism is just greedy.

01:32:07.360 Capitalism,

01:32:07.980 you know,

01:32:08.660 exploits. 0.93

01:32:10.360 Capitalism is the reason why you're miserable. 0.67

01:32:12.580 No, 0.93

01:32:13.320 no, 0.99

01:32:13.660 you're miserable because you're thinking about your misery. 0.93

01:32:17.860 I mean, 0.95

01:32:18.560 it,

01:32:18.920 it's an easy thing to say when you've never had to live without it.

01:32:22.540 And our kids have never had to live without it.

01:32:25.920 Capitalism is not just an economic system.

01:32:29.560 It is a moral revolution.

01:32:32.320 And I don't think we frame it that way enough.

01:32:35.920 You know,

01:32:36.180 for the first time in human history,

01:32:37.920 your destiny was not locked into who,

01:32:40.980 what family you were born into.

01:32:43.140 Did you,

01:32:43.920 did you come from wealth and wild success?

01:32:46.140 Oh no.

01:32:46.680 Yeah,

01:32:47.220 I didn't.

01:32:48.500 I mean,

01:32:48.920 I,

01:32:49.220 I mean,

01:32:49.600 honestly,

01:32:50.560 I've looked into my genealogy. 0.99

01:32:53.120 It is a loser city. 0.99

01:32:55.560 I am the king of the loser people. 0.97

01:32:57.940 There's not a single person that did anything in my genealogy at all.

01:33:03.480 Me included.

01:33:04.840 I,

01:33:05.100 but I'm like the king of all of the people.

01:33:07.760 Nobody,

01:33:08.480 nobody.

01:33:09.340 I mean,

01:33:09.760 really one of the relatives that I hang on to my,

01:33:12.720 my great,

01:33:13.460 great grandfather and great,

01:33:14.620 great uncle,

01:33:15.180 you know what they did?

01:33:16.760 And they were captured by the South in the civil war after a week of

01:33:21.040 fighting.

01:33:22.380 And one of them died in Andersonville.

01:33:24.600 I mean,

01:33:25.200 that's how you,

01:33:26.100 I mean,

01:33:26.440 that's how low you got to go.

01:33:27.340 You're like,

01:33:27.740 yeah,

01:33:28.300 but what am I?

01:33:30.000 Two of my relatives were fighting for the North.

01:33:32.600 Of course,

01:33:32.900 got captured in the first week and one of them died in prison,

01:33:35.220 but they are on the right side.

01:33:37.500 That's how low it is.

01:33:40.040 How could somebody like me make it?

01:33:42.900 You listen to this show.

01:33:44.300 You can't figure it out,

01:33:46.080 right?

01:33:47.380 It's America.

01:33:48.640 It's America.

01:33:50.160 Hard work,

01:33:51.920 vision,

01:33:52.840 and honestly,

01:33:54.300 luck.

01:33:55.180 They all come.

01:33:56.520 But for the first time,

01:33:59.040 America gave that opportunity.

01:34:01.880 You didn't need a king's permission to own land.

01:34:05.600 Over in England,

01:34:06.860 all of that's king's land.

01:34:08.900 And then it was granted to the lords and the ladies.

01:34:12.020 And if they ever wanted to sell it,

01:34:14.360 they could sell it.

01:34:16.140 It used to be that it had to go back to the king.

01:34:19.220 But here,

01:34:20.980 you don't need to be nobility.

01:34:22.380 You had to be noble to be able to open a business overseas.

01:34:26.060 You didn't have to be born into privilege to invent,

01:34:29.280 to create,

01:34:30.520 to rise.

01:34:31.380 You know why everybody over in England had such bad teeth for so long?

01:34:35.460 Because if anybody would have invented the toothbrush and toothpaste,

01:34:40.280 a lord or lady would have gotten all of the royalties for it. 0.99

01:34:44.100 You're just a peasant. 0.86

01:34:45.520 You're like,

01:34:45.920 you know what?

01:34:46.480 I,

01:34:46.840 I'd like some minty breath next time I kiss you.

01:34:51.520 You're not going to get the royalties from it.

01:34:53.380 You're not going to get anything except a minty kiss,

01:34:55.820 which quite honestly would be enough for me to invent the toothbrush.

01:34:58.820 But that's just me speaking from today's point of view.

01:35:05.440 Capitalism was the one that just broke all of the chains of feudalism and said to the world,

01:35:10.980 if you have an idea,

01:35:12.440 if you have a dream,

01:35:14.320 try it.

01:35:15.540 May not succeed,

01:35:16.920 but try it.

01:35:18.540 It never promised you success.

01:35:20.820 It gave you something much more valuable,

01:35:23.400 and that is the chance.

01:35:25.980 Who is striving for the chance?

01:35:31.440 There have been no rich people except those who were born noble or into wealth.

01:35:38.620 There's nobody that has become rich that wasn't looking for a chance.

01:35:45.220 They weren't doing,

01:35:46.200 you didn't win it by lottery,

01:35:47.420 and you certainly didn't do it for long through theft.

01:35:52.600 I mean,

01:35:53.560 you,

01:35:53.920 for almost the entirety of world history,

01:35:58.480 people lived in gut grinding poverty.

01:36:03.180 You didn't live past 30 years.

01:36:05.940 There was no,

01:36:06.540 there was no middle class.

01:36:08.080 That's a function of capitalism.

01:36:10.180 No middle class, 1.00

01:36:11.680 no social mobility.

01:36:13.140 You didn't go from the lower class to the upper class.

01:36:16.120 Didn't happen.

01:36:17.340 Only capitalism did that.

01:36:19.920 Now,

01:36:20.180 has it been distorted and perverted?

01:36:22.200 Yes.

01:36:22.760 By whom?

01:36:24.080 The people who want to treat you like a serf.

01:36:27.520 The people who are like, 0.97

01:36:28.740 they don't know.

01:36:30.480 I know better than them. 1.00

01:36:32.220 They're too stupid to rule themselves. 1.00

01:36:34.580 The same people that have enslaved the rest of the world for all of humanity are now winning the argument that this isn't good. 1.00

01:36:46.540 You know what?

01:36:47.060 You need somebody like me to make all the decisions for you and then take all the money in the end.

01:36:52.780 Wow.

01:36:54.880 I mean,

01:36:56.340 this is a very short window of time.

01:36:59.060 Child labor used to be a necessity. 1.00

01:37:02.460 It was a necessity.

01:37:05.780 You would be out on your ear when you were 12 or 13.

01:37:09.480 Nobody could.

01:37:09.960 You had to fend for yourself.

01:37:13.520 You don't anymore.

01:37:14.740 You don't.

01:37:15.300 Why?

01:37:16.280 Because of capitalism.

01:37:18.220 All of the inventions that we take for granted,

01:37:20.740 the light bulb,

01:37:22.460 antibiotics,

01:37:23.620 the internet,

01:37:24.860 it all came into the world

01:37:26.560 because people were free to dream

01:37:29.560 and do.

01:37:32.400 Are we encouraging our kids

01:37:34.380 to dream and do?

01:37:35.860 If you were a 20-something, 0.99

01:37:38.500 forget about all of this crap that everybody's telling you. 0.99

01:37:42.320 Dream and do it. 0.98

01:37:44.540 What's stopping you?

01:37:45.820 Honestly,

01:37:46.500 what's stopping you besides fear?

01:37:49.400 What is stopping you?

01:37:52.140 I got to,

01:37:53.340 you know,

01:37:53.680 I'm making massive changes in my life

01:37:55.920 and I got to a place to where,

01:38:00.060 you know,

01:38:00.280 my wife and I prayed on it and everything else,

01:38:02.100 but before we pray on it,

01:38:03.200 we always try to make the decision

01:38:04.980 and then bring it to dad

01:38:06.880 and say,

01:38:07.380 hey,

01:38:07.460 what do you think of this?

01:38:08.220 Because I know as a dad,

01:38:09.540 I don't want my kids to come at me.

01:38:11.280 What should I do now,

01:38:12.840 dad?

01:38:14.140 I don't know.

01:38:15.000 Think it through.

01:38:15.840 What do you think is the best thing?

01:38:17.280 And then I could go,

01:38:18.140 oh,

01:38:18.760 no,

01:38:19.020 no,

01:38:19.140 great idea.

01:38:19.880 Have you thought about this?

01:38:22.320 So I approach God the same way.

01:38:25.420 Why do you think,

01:38:26.320 dad?

01:38:27.420 And he'll be like,

01:38:28.040 boy,

01:38:29.140 I can't believe you're still alive.

01:38:30.660 Out of all of the natural selection,

01:38:32.620 I didn't think you would have survived.

01:38:34.100 Do you know about your great,

01:38:35.620 great grandparents?

01:38:36.980 Anyway,

01:38:37.860 I'm making these changes in my life.

01:38:44.680 And before we brought it to God,

01:38:47.340 Tanya said,

01:38:48.000 what do you think?

01:38:49.520 And I said,

01:38:50.360 I keep making the list in my head,

01:38:51.900 pros and cons,

01:38:52.500 and all of the negatives,

01:38:53.680 they're all based in fear.

01:38:55.020 They're all based in fear.

01:38:56.640 And she just looked at me and I went,

01:38:57.760 I know,

01:38:58.160 I know,

01:38:58.380 I know.

01:38:58.640 That's the worst reason to have.

01:39:02.400 If it's fear-based,

01:39:03.420 get rid of that.

01:39:04.180 Don't make a decision ever based in fear.

01:39:06.180 Ever,

01:39:06.700 ever,

01:39:07.260 ever.

01:39:07.620 You will make a bad decision.

01:39:11.100 Make a decision based in love,

01:39:12.960 or in hope,

01:39:14.920 based in fact,

01:39:16.420 not just like,

01:39:17.200 you know what? 0.97

01:39:18.280 I hope my butt starts growing flowers, 1.00

01:39:21.020 because then my farts won't smell so bad. 0.98

01:39:24.800 That ain't going to happen.

01:39:26.440 Okay.

01:39:26.840 Real hope based in something.

01:39:32.160 That,

01:39:33.000 when you have that,

01:39:34.440 you can change the world.

01:39:36.440 And it's a ripple effect.

01:39:38.420 When,

01:39:39.000 when a guy in Ohio figured out how to mass produce steel,

01:39:42.580 it built railroads in India,

01:39:46.140 not just here in India.

01:39:47.760 When a woman in America developed a new vaccine, 0.97

01:39:51.720 children in Africa lived to see adulthood.

01:39:55.800 Capitalism doesn't just create wealth.

01:39:57.900 It spreads it over oceans and continents and through generations.

01:40:05.620 The inequalities of capitalism.

01:40:08.540 They point to that as if that's proof it's broken,

01:40:11.460 but the truth under capitalism,

01:40:13.360 the poor today live better than the Kings of the past. 0.99

01:40:17.120 Do you know there was a,

01:40:19.600 well,

01:40:19.880 let me just go here.

01:40:21.120 Cause I'm going to run out of time.

01:40:23.060 King Louis didn't have air conditioning.

01:40:25.100 You know where that was invented?

01:40:26.880 San Antonio.

01:40:28.620 You know where it was first put in a movie theater.

01:40:31.800 Do you know why?

01:40:32.940 Have you been to a building in San Antonio,

01:40:37.140 Texas in the summer? 1.00

01:40:38.280 You want to kill yourself. 1.00

01:40:40.820 I'd, 1.00

01:40:41.420 I would really,

01:40:42.540 if that's how I would live,

01:40:43.760 I'd be like,

01:40:44.360 can we make the life expectancy only 30?

01:40:46.780 Cause I don't think I can do this another 30 years.

01:40:49.260 I mean,

01:40:50.000 for the love of Pete,

01:40:51.360 it came because people went,

01:40:53.880 there's got to be a better way.

01:40:55.540 And you didn't need a King.

01:40:57.060 The King didn't have air conditioning.

01:40:59.100 Queen Victoria didn't have any antibiotics. 0.91

01:41:02.540 You know,

01:41:03.640 you,

01:41:03.860 you through just opening up a faucet,

01:41:06.060 you couldn't have clean water arrive at your home.

01:41:10.120 And that's not the work of a dictator.

01:41:12.540 That is the work of millions of people thinking,

01:41:17.000 dreaming,

01:41:17.680 trading,

01:41:18.320 freely,

01:41:18.920 innovating,

01:41:19.980 competing,

01:41:20.600 and not for the glory of the state,

01:41:23.480 but the hope of what?

01:41:24.960 Why do they say people come here to build a better life for themselves and their families?

01:41:31.300 Why can you use that as,

01:41:33.500 you know what?

01:41:34.240 You just against the legals.

01:41:35.740 All they're trying to do is make a better life for themselves and their family.

01:41:39.080 Wait,

01:41:39.260 are you saying they can't do it here,

01:41:40.780 but they can't do it there,

01:41:42.100 but somehow or another under this system,

01:41:43.920 which is oppressing you,

01:41:45.840 they can make it.

01:41:47.440 What do they have that you don't have?

01:41:49.200 Oh,

01:41:49.520 I know.

01:41:50.040 Work ethic,

01:41:51.720 a dream,

01:41:52.900 a desire.

01:41:54.160 They've seen the other side.

01:41:55.680 They don't want to live like that.

01:41:59.820 Capital isn't perfect,

01:42:01.360 but it is human,

01:42:02.640 and anything human can be corrupted.

01:42:05.620 But compared to every other system in the world,

01:42:09.840 it has taken more people out of poverty,

01:42:12.360 rewarded more hard work,

01:42:14.100 and transformed more nobodies

01:42:17.420 than any other system.

01:42:19.920 the world has even imagined.

01:42:22.460 And I say that

01:42:23.980 as the king

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01:43:53.320 Do you know who Madam C.J. Walker was?

01:44:06.380 No.

01:44:06.880 Never heard that name?

01:44:07.680 No.

01:44:08.560 Never heard the name Oprah Winfrey?

01:44:10.420 Yeah,

01:44:10.660 of course.

01:44:10.920 Okay.

01:44:11.480 Oprah Winfrey,

01:44:12.100 the first famous black millionaire,

01:44:14.960 made it on her own.

01:44:16.540 Yada,

01:44:16.900 yada.

01:44:17.420 No.

01:44:18.080 No.

01:44:18.980 No.

01:44:21.260 That's just Oprah. 0.92

01:44:22.660 Now,

01:44:23.400 she did come from nothing and built an empire. 1.00

01:44:26.340 She did.

01:44:27.300 But when you come from nothing,

01:44:29.280 how about this one?

01:44:31.480 A daughter of former slaves,

01:44:34.720 who both parents died when she was seven,

01:44:39.100 and then had to work as a black woman as a laundress. 1.00

01:44:43.520 You want to talk about coming from nothing and having absolutely no advantages?

01:44:52.880 She came up with hair care products for African Americans.

01:44:59.000 She was like,

01:44:59.760 you know, 0.54

01:45:01.080 African Americans want their hair to look different, 1.00

01:45:03.460 you know,

01:45:04.180 than just the way it is naturally.

01:45:06.360 I came up with this product.

01:45:08.640 She was the first self-made female millionaire in the world.

01:45:16.820 She was orphaned at seven.

01:45:19.200 Her parents were born into slavery.

01:45:23.220 What?

01:45:26.760 What is it?

01:45:27.480 Your problem is what's holding you back?

01:45:29.220 I'm sorry.

01:45:29.580 I have a hard time hearing you.

01:45:31.460 I,

01:45:31.580 I,

01:45:31.760 I'm really having a,

01:45:33.740 cause I'm just,

01:45:34.380 I'm just looking at CJ Walker and I'm like,

01:45:36.220 what,

01:45:36.500 what,

01:45:36.740 what?

01:45:37.020 I'm sorry.

01:45:38.380 Oh,

01:45:38.620 your parents were slaves.

01:45:39.620 Oh no,

01:45:39.920 your parents weren't slaves.

01:45:41.940 Oh,

01:45:43.220 you were,

01:45:43.900 but you were,

01:45:44.560 oh no,

01:45:44.940 you weren't an orphan at seven.

01:45:46.840 Wow.

01:45:47.360 And you don't even know what an orphan at seven in 1873 as a black woman was like.

01:45:55.040 I don't even know.

01:45:56.140 I don't want to imagine it,

01:45:57.620 but I'm pretty sure it wasn't your life.

01:46:00.200 So again,

01:46:00.860 I'm,

01:46:01.140 I'm trying to figure out what is it that is holding you back that didn't hold back the

01:46:08.860 first black female.

01:46:12.360 I'm sorry. 0.67

01:46:13.000 I don't even have to say black.

01:46:14.660 The first self-made female millionaire in the history of the world.

01:46:22.740 What is it that's holding you back again?

01:46:25.900 Back in a minute.

01:46:38.860 This is Glenn Beck.

01:46:44.580 Here's the thing about that product of the USA label that you see on so much meat.

01:46:49.260 It,

01:46:49.620 no,

01:46:50.240 if I may quote,

01:46:51.340 uh,

01:46:51.620 the princess pride,

01:46:52.440 I do not think it means what you think it means.

01:46:54.680 It doesn't,

01:46:55.420 it doesn't mean what you think it means.

01:46:57.380 Billions of pounds of meat are imported into this country every year.

01:47:01.500 And a lot of it wears that label,

01:47:04.360 even though it was raised and processed half a world away,

01:47:07.360 it's a loophole that they're driving cattle trucks through.

01:47:12.040 It's one more way to make American ranchers, 0.63

01:47:15.040 uh,

01:47:15.680 live the life they have to.

01:47:17.000 I mean,

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01:48:23.880 Jason Buttrell is with me today.

01:48:26.160 He joins me filling in for Stu,

01:48:27.860 who is going to be returning tomorrow from a never ending vacation.

01:48:32.380 How many vacation days do I give this guy?

01:48:34.300 It's crazy.

01:48:35.460 Anyway,

01:48:35.980 he'll be back tomorrow.

01:48:38.740 Yeah.

01:48:38.900 Glenn,

01:48:39.100 you were talking about something that really hit home for me.

01:48:41.740 You were talking about just the power of just words and like speaking things into existence.

01:48:46.980 Like I am good enough to do this.

01:48:49.120 I'm I,

01:48:49.820 or if on the other hand, 1.00

01:48:51.100 I'm an idiot or I'm stupid and how detrimental that can be. 1.00

01:48:54.620 And it reminded me, 1.00

01:48:55.560 have you been listening to the telepathy tapes?

01:48:58.580 I love the telepathy tapes.

01:49:01.040 Is your mind blown?

01:49:02.120 Like,

01:49:02.180 Oh my gosh.

01:49:03.460 I haven't listened to it in about a year.

01:49:04.680 So I is on season two.

01:49:05.960 Cause I think I just listened to the first season or the first two seasons or something.

01:49:09.080 I stopped cause I ran out of seasons and they said they were coming back with another season.

01:49:13.040 So I don't know where I stopped,

01:49:14.160 but I'm not,

01:49:14.660 it's amazing.

01:49:15.280 It's insane.

01:49:16.080 It's insanely amazing.

01:49:17.540 The last one I was listening to,

01:49:19.940 she was talking about how there's materialist scientists that only believe in like,

01:49:24.900 you know,

01:49:25.080 matter and what you can like,

01:49:26.700 you know,

01:49:26.880 basically a way,

01:49:28.080 but she was saying this kind of thing and telepathy and the possibility of it is completely

01:49:32.640 changing how some scientists are even viewing just the power of thought and just how thinking

01:49:38.480 It is the most,

01:49:40.260 but it is the strongest power man has is the power of the,

01:49:44.260 it is how Donald Trump changes the world.

01:49:48.100 He speaks it into reality.

01:49:50.960 He speaks it into,

01:49:52.500 you know what we're going to do?

01:49:53.460 We're going to do this.

01:49:54.820 And then they do that.

01:49:56.220 But there is something about,

01:49:58.340 and he's a,

01:49:59.200 he's,

01:49:59.860 he grew up with,

01:50:01.400 uh,

01:50:01.880 what's his name?

01:50:02.840 Norman Vincent Peale.

01:50:03.780 So he understands,

01:50:05.240 I've talked to him about,

01:50:06.760 uh,

01:50:07.760 the assassination and I've asked him,

01:50:09.920 Hey,

01:50:10.400 are you concerned?

01:50:11.480 I mean,

01:50:11.700 have we taken steps to protect you?

01:50:13.400 And he's like,

01:50:13.740 I don't even want to talk about it.

01:50:14.980 I don't want to talk about it.

01:50:15.640 Don't speak it into existence.

01:50:17.620 Um,

01:50:18.280 he lets other people do that kind of thinking for him.

01:50:20.760 He stays focused on what he needs to,

01:50:22.940 but I mean,

01:50:23.760 this is the,

01:50:24.460 this is the most ancient of ideas in the beginning.

01:50:29.420 There was the word,

01:50:31.460 right?

01:50:33.140 Do you know what that word for word actually is in the original translation?

01:50:39.880 Logos in the beginning,

01:50:42.020 there was logos.

01:50:44.260 What is logos?

01:50:46.620 You know,

01:50:47.780 thought,

01:50:48.240 uh,

01:50:50.180 no,

01:50:50.760 it's kind of,

01:50:51.800 it's,

01:50:52.200 it is,

01:50:53.040 it is thought and,

01:50:57.540 uh,

01:50:58.680 spoken action.

01:51:01.100 It is,

01:51:02.080 it's the living word.

01:51:04.200 It is a word when it's,

01:51:06.840 when it's spoken,

01:51:08.520 it happens.

01:51:09.500 It's,

01:51:10.040 it's God.

01:51:11.320 Okay.

01:51:12.260 And so it's,

01:51:13.460 the original scripture is,

01:51:15.280 is basically describing God as thought speaking into being.

01:51:22.880 You know what I mean?

01:51:24.020 It is,

01:51:24.880 it's,

01:51:25.740 it's,

01:51:26.000 it's why I've always said the power of I am.

01:51:32.900 I'm really struggling right now.

01:51:35.080 I need to change that because I'm creating some of the struggles that I'm having.

01:51:39.560 I am in a really exciting place right now where I am discovering new things.

01:51:44.640 That's what I should be saying.

01:51:46.080 Instead of,

01:51:46.620 I'm really struggling.

01:51:47.960 I am in this really exciting place where I'm discovering new things.

01:51:52.780 Cause that's true.

01:51:55.020 It's true.

01:51:55.840 I may not like the process I'm in right now,

01:51:58.980 but I know for a fact,

01:52:00.720 cause I've done it so many times in my life.

01:52:02.380 I know for a fact when I'm stripped down and,

01:52:07.380 and have to reinvent or I'm stripped down,

01:52:11.040 not because I have to,

01:52:12.020 but because I have to,

01:52:13.480 cause it just,

01:52:15.680 just is in me.

01:52:17.520 When that happens,

01:52:18.800 I don't like that process because it's gut wrenching,

01:52:22.780 but I know at the end,

01:52:25.380 something really great is on the other side.

01:52:28.740 But why do I say,

01:52:30.700 I'm sorry,

01:52:31.440 but this is,

01:52:32.360 uh,

01:52:33.500 this is my couch.

01:52:34.880 And right now you are my doctor. 1.00

01:52:36.580 So shut up, 1.00

01:52:38.140 take notes and just listen. 0.99

01:52:40.140 Um,

01:52:40.560 but,

01:52:41.300 uh,

01:52:42.720 I,

01:52:43.740 I've,

01:52:44.200 I've seen it happen over and over and over again.

01:52:49.420 And yet I still create my own condition of worry and concern by,

01:52:56.840 I'm really struggling with some things right now.

01:53:00.420 I'm not,

01:53:01.220 I am finding myself growing closer to God every day.

01:53:05.220 One of my concerns is I got to get closer to God.

01:53:08.260 I got to get closer to God.

01:53:09.160 Instead of saying,

01:53:09.660 I got to get closer to God.

01:53:10.620 I got it.

01:53:11.060 I am getting closer to God every day because I know I have to.

01:53:15.860 So I am.

01:53:16.920 So why wouldn't I say I am on the road of rediscovering the closest relationship I've ever had with God?

01:53:23.480 Why do we as humans always flip that to the negative instead of saying the other?

01:53:31.320 And I really think that those who have that ability to flip it as honestly,

01:53:37.420 this is one of the things I'm really struggling with right now.

01:53:40.660 One of the things I'm discovering is how to do my job and to flip it around.

01:53:48.500 Instead of talking about the problems of socialism that we're facing right now,

01:53:53.020 which we've done a million times today,

01:53:56.220 I,

01:53:57.080 I was looking at all the things that I can talk about.

01:54:00.180 And I saw several stories about socialism and thought,

01:54:03.860 okay,

01:54:04.100 instead of just talking about the same problems that we all know about,

01:54:07.540 oh,

01:54:07.700 mom,

01:54:07.920 Donnie's going to win.

01:54:08.800 Yeah,

01:54:09.000 yeah,

01:54:09.160 we got it.

01:54:09.840 We got it.

01:54:10.800 You know,

01:54:11.080 they got a socialist guy who's also running in Minnesota.

01:54:13.720 Yeah,

01:54:13.900 yeah,

01:54:14.120 yeah,

01:54:14.320 yeah,

01:54:14.500 we got it.

01:54:15.980 Instead,

01:54:16.520 why don't I flip that around and go,

01:54:18.280 do you know what capitalism is?

01:54:19.740 Do you really realize how,

01:54:23.520 and you're stuck on what?

01:54:27.300 CJ Walker,

01:54:28.400 she was slave. 0.99

01:54:29.780 Her parents were slaves. 0.87

01:54:30.700 She was orphaned at seven and she became the first female millionaire in the world

01:54:34.900 because she had an idea,

01:54:36.980 an idea.

01:54:38.380 And what did she do?

01:54:40.100 She pursued that idea.

01:54:41.940 She spoke.

01:54:42.480 She didn't care. 0.98

01:54:43.740 You're black. 1.00

01:54:44.580 You can't do that. 1.00

01:54:45.320 She didn't care.

01:54:46.780 She didn't care.

01:54:47.860 We've done such an injustice to so many people.

01:54:51.180 You know,

01:54:51.420 the cream of wheat guy.

01:54:52.700 I can't remember his name right now,

01:54:54.380 but see,

01:54:55.940 see what they've done.

01:54:56.700 See what capitalism stuff.

01:54:58.180 You know,

01:54:58.460 that guy was,

01:54:59.240 that guy ran the best hotel,

01:55:01.600 sorry,

01:55:01.960 the best restaurant in the best hotel in Chicago.

01:55:04.580 It might've been the Palmer house in Chicago in the 1920s and thirties.

01:55:11.200 He was a black guy.

01:55:13.040 You know, 0.87

01:55:13.700 he looks the way he looks because he insisted.

01:55:18.180 On making sure that it looked like his face every single time.

01:55:23.180 He,

01:55:23.940 they went to him because he ran,

01:55:26.960 he was well known for running the best restaurant in Chicago.

01:55:32.360 Hey,

01:55:32.940 do you want to be the face of this?

01:55:34.200 Cause we could use,

01:55:35.200 you know,

01:55:35.480 we could leverage this. 1.00

01:55:36.680 They raped him. 1.00

01:55:37.900 No, 1.00

01:55:38.340 they paid him handsomely.

01:55:39.840 And he was happy about it.

01:55:41.920 And his family was happy about it.

01:55:44.560 Aunt Jemima,

01:55:45.720 she was paid handsomely.

01:55:48.020 She,

01:55:48.340 her family was happy about it until a bunch of do good white people showed up and like, 0.82

01:55:52.920 you know what?

01:55:53.460 This is wrong.

01:55:54.540 We're going to correct the errors of that people made when they were so bigoted.

01:55:58.720 You have no idea.

01:56:00.780 The Aunt Jemima people like,

01:56:01.660 what are you doing to our family?

01:56:03.120 What are you doing?

01:56:04.140 Why are you taking,

01:56:04.960 why are you destroying that for us?

01:56:09.080 You just have to,

01:56:10.300 you have,

01:56:10.820 we have to got to change the way we think.

01:56:13.900 Especially trying to like explain socialism and capitalism as concepts to like kids these

01:56:22.780 days.

01:56:23.200 I just have to tell you this because it's not easy to do.

01:56:27.540 It's also not easy to be,

01:56:28.920 have be like my kid and have a,

01:56:31.700 both a government and a movie assignment while they're in college.

01:56:35.520 But I took advantage of this Glenn,

01:56:37.840 not too long ago,

01:56:38.920 they were doing the same thing.

01:56:40.180 They were talking about concepts,

01:56:41.440 socialism,

01:56:41.920 capitalism.

01:56:42.280 I was trying to describe it.

01:56:44.120 Couldn't really do it.

01:56:45.280 But then later that night we had to watch the matrix because,

01:56:48.920 you had to watch the matrix.

01:56:50.000 We had to,

01:56:50.340 because that was like the review that he had to do of,

01:56:52.640 of the movie.

01:56:53.140 That's a college.

01:56:54.160 I went to college the wrong time.

01:56:56.960 He also did.

01:56:57.880 Watch a movie.

01:56:58.820 Okay.

01:56:59.680 Guess so.

01:57:01.700 But we were watching the movie and there's this one point where they,

01:57:06.180 Morpheus takes Neo into the matrix and he's trying to teach him how to unleash himself

01:57:09.900 and fight.

01:57:10.400 And there was this one point where he was talking about how the matrix puts these restrictions,

01:57:15.100 puts these guidelines,

01:57:16.580 basically tells you what you can or cannot do.

01:57:19.260 And there's one point where Neo just cannot get it.

01:57:22.460 And finally,

01:57:23.960 Neo pauses the matrix and he says,

01:57:27.260 Morpheus pauses the matrix and says,

01:57:29.700 you don't live under these restrictions anymore.

01:57:32.160 It's not about what you,

01:57:33.580 it's all about what you think.

01:57:35.440 And then he goes,

01:57:36.080 do you really think you're breathing right now?

01:57:38.480 And then Neo looks up at the,

01:57:39.920 up at Morpheus and is like,

01:57:41.080 huh?

01:57:41.860 Immediately I paused it.

01:57:43.060 And I was like,

01:57:44.000 that's it.

01:57:44.500 This is it.

01:57:45.160 This is it.

01:57:45.980 This is what I've been trying to tell you.

01:57:47.680 It was a monarchical system back during the revolutionary war.

01:57:50.620 We created a completely different revolutionary system.

01:57:52.740 It was an experiment.

01:57:53.800 What was that experiment?

01:57:54.640 You're seeing it being fought now between socialism and collectivism.

01:57:58.000 They put the restrictions.

01:57:59.560 They tell you what to think.

01:58:01.400 This system,

01:58:02.260 the reason why it's so revolutionary,

01:58:04.360 so different,

01:58:05.980 worth fighting for is because now it's all in your head.

01:58:10.260 You put those restrictions.

01:58:12.520 It's in your mind.

01:58:14.120 And so my son won't say his name.

01:58:16.540 I said,

01:58:16.880 do you think you're really breathing right now?

01:58:19.280 And he looked up at the sky and was like,

01:58:22.880 huh?

01:58:23.600 Then we press play.

01:58:24.640 I kept watching.

01:58:26.700 I think it works though.

01:58:28.040 You know what?

01:58:29.020 You're exactly right.

01:58:30.560 You're exactly right.

01:58:32.880 They control.

01:58:34.020 And every student should know this.

01:58:37.120 Get out a piece of paper and pencil,

01:58:39.440 write this down because it's going to be on the test.

01:58:43.380 Oh,

01:58:43.700 thank you for that little box.

01:58:45.920 Oh,

01:58:46.120 I'm not here to,

01:58:46.920 I'm not here to discover and think and learn how to think.

01:58:50.540 I'm here to memorize for a test that you can do.

01:58:54.540 You can give me a test to see if I follow all the rules,

01:58:57.920 even if those little tests mean nothing because they're nothing but dates and names and they don't mean anything.

01:59:04.920 I don't even know what the story is.

01:59:06.780 I will promptly forget everything that is on that test.

01:59:10.500 The minute I finish that test,

01:59:12.620 I'm not going to use it ever again.

01:59:16.020 That's what they've done.

01:59:17.860 That's what they've done.

01:59:19.660 That's the box you need to get out.

01:59:22.120 Let me just,

01:59:22.660 let me just say this.

01:59:26.460 What people,

01:59:28.220 what human beings truly want,

01:59:30.800 I'm so empty inside,

01:59:32.260 nothing has meaning.

01:59:33.380 What you are yearning for is fulfilling work.

01:59:37.340 Strong friendships,

01:59:38.660 real friendships.

01:59:39.960 Might be only four in your life,

01:59:41.540 might be two in your life,

01:59:42.340 might be one person in your life that is truly a friend.

01:59:45.420 And a partner capitalism does not prevent any of these.

01:59:52.100 You know,

01:59:52.660 it prevents those and other things.

01:59:54.900 Fear risk aversion.

01:59:57.960 I don't know.

01:59:58.800 I don't know if I want to trade that for,

02:00:00.520 for this.

02:00:01.560 I,

02:00:01.920 I don't know.

02:00:03.080 I,

02:00:03.460 you're afraid to risk.

02:00:06.420 You're trapped in fear.

02:00:08.420 And if those two don't get you,

02:00:11.220 you just have the lack of will to put the effort into it.

02:00:15.820 It's not going to work out right away.

02:00:17.820 No,

02:00:18.100 life is not McDonald's.

02:00:19.540 It's not.

02:00:20.460 Thank God.

02:00:21.400 It's not McDonald's.

02:00:23.880 Building anything of meaning,

02:00:26.620 building your self-esteem requires that you show up.

02:00:32.160 You got to show up.

02:00:33.760 First of all,

02:00:34.780 by the way,

02:00:35.200 if you just take a job and you show up,

02:00:38.200 you will be the manager within months.

02:00:41.420 I swear to God,

02:00:43.100 just show up and just do what they ask you to do.

02:00:46.840 That's it.

02:00:47.740 Just do that.

02:00:48.560 Do it right.

02:00:49.520 You will rule the world.

02:00:50.820 You'll be president of the United States by the time you're 35.

02:00:53.480 I'm convinced of it.

02:00:56.220 Show up,

02:00:57.640 learn the rules,

02:00:59.900 take smart risks,

02:01:02.200 risks,

02:01:03.540 engage with people,

02:01:05.600 even when it is awkward.

02:01:09.840 And your whole life will change.

02:01:12.180 Back in a minute.

02:01:15.660 Most dangerous ideas are not being debated anymore.

02:01:18.400 They're just being assumed they are correct.

02:01:20.500 In schools,

02:01:21.020 on social media,

02:01:21.820 even in some workplaces,

02:01:23.280 the narrative isn't up for discussion.

02:01:25.500 It's pretty much handed to you.

02:01:26.620 It's wrapped in pretty words and stamp fact.

02:01:28.460 You know,

02:01:29.980 the truth is something that you actually work for.

02:01:32.720 You test,

02:01:33.640 you challenge.

02:01:35.160 This is why PragerU exists,

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02:01:50.820 It's not about,

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02:03:52.300 Welcome to the program.

02:03:53.660 Boy, I got to tell you, the president, the president's brilliant.

02:03:57.820 Really, really quite brilliant.

02:04:00.800 He was just in this press conference and it is packed.

02:04:05.840 They are, it's like a tank of sharks.

02:04:09.380 It's like, just trying to eat.

02:04:12.920 And it's the, they're saying that is the most crowded briefing room has been.

02:04:19.660 And he's just been up there for an hour just taking questions.

02:04:23.200 I mean, he has, look, he has cut the press out in many ways.

02:04:27.620 He doesn't meet with, you know, for special interviews, et cetera, et cetera.

02:04:31.540 He just, whenever he's around the press, he just stops and talks.

02:04:34.880 And people can see him talk.

02:04:38.840 And, you know what, I've missed a lot of it because I've been yapping myself, but we're going to have more on this later in the day and then tomorrow as well.

02:04:47.400 But, you know, they were just like, you know, can we, you're building a big, beautiful ballroom.

02:04:53.780 Can we build a bigger press room?

02:04:55.660 And he's like, no, I don't want you guys comfortable.

02:04:58.120 And then he smiled.

02:05:00.540 He was telling the truth, but he actually delivered it in a very Reagan-esque sort of way.

02:05:05.060 This week, we probably will have more on this also later this week.

02:05:10.960 He's going to Alaska to meet with Vladimir Putin.

02:05:15.700 And, you know, the naysayers are like, oh, see, that's a win for Vladimir Putin because they think Alaska's theirs.

02:05:21.540 Yeah, well, it's not now, is it?

02:05:23.960 So, I mean, you could flip this around and go, that's kind of shoving it in his face.

02:05:30.340 Oh, you know what?

02:05:31.300 Why don't you come to the state of Alaska and meet with me, the president of all 50 states?

02:05:37.920 We have 50 of them.

02:05:38.740 Did you know that?

02:05:39.300 One of them is Alaska.

02:05:41.260 It's not yours anymore.

02:05:43.480 I mean, I don't know why everybody has to say, oh, see, he's giving him a win.

02:05:47.120 No, he's rubbing his nose in it.

02:05:48.820 You can look at it that way just as easily.

02:05:52.380 All right.

02:05:53.200 We'll see you tomorrow.

02:05:54.100 Stay safe.

02:05:55.060 God save the republic.

02:06:00.340 This is Glenn Beck.

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